Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganANKARA, Feb 22 Russia's recognition of the DPR and LPR is unacceptable, Ankara calls on the parties to observe common sense, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said.
"We consider the decision (recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk by Russia — ed.) unacceptable. We call on the parties to observe common sense and international law", the "Anadolu" agency quotes the words of the Turkish leader.
The situation in the Donbass has escalated in recent days, the DPR and LPR announced a lot of shelling from the Ukrainian security officials. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. It primarily concerns women, children and the elderly. As stated by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky will soon order the military to launch an offensive in the Donbass, to implement a plan to invade the DPR and LPR. On February 19, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation on Monday after the meeting of the Security Council and said that he considers it necessary to make a decision to immediately recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. He noted that the world prefers not to notice the horror and genocide in the Donbass, not a single day goes by without shelling, the killing of civilians, the blockade does not stop. As the president stated, in case of further bloodshed in the Donbass, the entire responsibility will be on the Kiev regime. Immediately after the appeal, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees recognizing the LPR and the DPR. In his decrees, Putin instructed to ensure the maintenance of peace in the DPR and LPR by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Morgoev