Putin Orders Deployment of Troops to Breakaway Regions in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into two breakaway areas of Ukraine immediately after recognizing their independence, a go that threatened to scuttle negotiations with the West about the upcoming safety of Eastern Europe.

His two decrees had been published on the Russian government’s authorized portal following a televised deal with late Monday in which Mr. Putin laid out grievances about the West’s guidance of Ukraine soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Western arms deliveries to Kyiv towards the backdrop of a enormous Russian troop buildup in the vicinity of its borders.