How Russia media is reporting the Ukraine invasion

Thanks to Putin, Navalny wrote, “hundreds of Ukrainians and Russian citizens may die now, and in the future, this number may reach tens of thousands. Yes, he will not allow Ukraine to develop, he will drag it into the swamp, but Russia will pay the same price.”

Putin and his United Russia party “are the enemies of Russia and its main threat, not Ukraine and not the West,” Navalny warned. “Putin kills and wants to kill more.”

Argumenty i Fakty, a newspaper owned by the city government of Moscow, reported that the deployment of troops was based on “a defence cooperation agreement” with the rebel-controlled states, but acknowledged that the move would be considered “an act of aggression” by the US and its Nato allies.

“There will be room for diplomacy,” said the paper, “but there will be no discussion of any negotiations on security in Europe” – a reference to Putin’s demands for a legal guarantee about Nato’s eastward expansion.

The state-owned Tass News Agency reported comments by Kremlin spokesperson Dimitry Peskov that a threatened “severance of diplomatic relations” by the government in Kyiv “would be an extremely unwelcome scenario, which will only make everything still more difficult not only for the states but also for their peoples”.

The agency also reported a statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the Kremlin hoped the UN would “adhere to the basic principles the organisation rests upon in accordance with the decisions made by the member states”.

“Our colleagues at the UN Secretariat apparently must abide by the decisions adopted by that organisation – decisions that are crucial to the implementation of the UN Charter’s principles and goals and decisions that were made unanimously on the basis of consensus, in other words, by all UN member states without an exception,” Lavrov told state TV channel Rossiya-24.

His intervention was interpreted as a warning that the body cannot act without the consent of Russia, which is a permanent member of the 15-strong UN Security Council.

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