Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 21Consultations with the leaders of the State Duma factions on the initiative of the Communist Party deputies on the need to recognize the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics will be held next week, Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the lower house of parliament, wrote on his Telegram channel. Vladimir Putin to consider this issue, as well as hold talks with the leadership of the republics to create a legal basis for interstate relations and regulate all aspects of cooperation.
"In this regard, it would be right to hold consultations with the leaders of the factions next week and discuss this initiative. Then, following the results, to consider the issue at the Council of the State Duma", Volodin wrote.
Kiev ignores the Minsk agreements, and NATO wants to occupy Ukraine, this could turn into a tragedy, he added. «We must not allow this. One thing is clear: solutions to ensure the security of our citizens and compatriots in the DPR and LPR must be sought,» Volodin said. 
Ukraine predicted Zelensky's reaction in the event of a war with RussiaOn Thursday, the head of the Duma faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov said that the recognition of the LPR and DPR as independent republics is a step towards ensuring the safety of citizens living there. In turn, Yury Afonin, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti that the situation with the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR is overdue and the faction is counting on a serious consideration of the initiative. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that he does not consider it possible to say something about the recognition of the LPR and DPR before the vote on it in the State Duma.The deputy of the Rada showed empty shelves in the store after Zelensky's words about the war De-escalation is being discussed at a meeting of the contact group, based on the Minsk agreements, which imply a ceasefire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact and a constitutional reform. At the same time, Kiev has now concentrated half of the army’s personnel on the border with the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR and is shelling the militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. number of exercises in the Black Sea. Moscow believes that the West is trying to create a grouping of troops near the Russian borders.