Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi at a joint meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. File photoNUR-SULTAN, Feb. 22Kazakhstan hopes to continue the diplomatic settlement of the situation in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi said.
"Yes, I understand, that the situation is now deteriorating, tension is growing, therefore Kazakhstan is ready and calls on the entire international community to apply diplomatic efforts", Tleuberdi told reporters on the sidelines of the government on Tuesday.
The situation in Donbass has escalated in recent days, the DPR and LPR said about a lot of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces. 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 Saturday, February 19, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization. On Monday, after an extraordinary large meeting of the Security Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation and stated that he considers it necessary to make a decision to immediately recognize the sovereignty of the LPR and DPR, since those who embarked on the path of bloodshed, violence and lawlessness, they did not recognize and do not recognize any other solution to the conflict in Donbass, except for the military one. Immediately after the address, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees recognizing the LPR and the DPR.The development of the situation in the Donbass — in the online report >>
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