Pushilin's appeal to Putin with a request to recognize the DPR:

‘On behalf of the entire people of the DPR, we ask you to recognize the DPR as an independent, democratic, legal, social state. We also ask you to consider the conclusion of an agreement on friendship and cooperation between the DPR and the Russian Federation Yu, providing for cooperation in the field of defense’

Leonid Pasechnik's appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize the LPR.

Putin began a large meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation with a discussion of the situation in Donbas.

Putin speech:
https://youtu.be/gJIowCeNPds

Source:Telegram Donbass channel

UNCONFIRMED: Video reportedly shows Russian Army Engaging Ukraine military positions In Donbass.
War now seems to have started between Russia and Ukraine
Still investigating, probably a fake.

This morning, Ukrainian soldiers broke through the southern front of the DPR and advanced to the Russian border. According to my information, they did this in order to descend from the place of the breakthrough, which seemed to them the most successful, to the south to the Novoazovsk customs checkpoint of the DPR, which they were supposed to attack from neutral and capture, and then hang the Ukrainian flag on it, immediately take the blind from the OSCE there and declare that Ukraine has returned part of the Russian-Ukrainian border. But something went wrong.

Here is a video from the helmet-mounted action camera of one of the already deceased soldiers.

Source: Telegram Donbass channel

This video uploaded 3 hours ago is located in the Bryansk region of Russia, about 15 miles from the border.

The tanks are driving South off the road towards the Ukrainian border.

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UK says Russia's plan to invade has 'already begun'

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60454795

Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian forces that tried to infiltrate the border and took one Ukrainian POW.

FSB Director Bortnikov

59.3 thousand Ukrainian servicemen, 345 tanks, 2160 armored vehicles, 820 artillery pieces -Russia Minister of Defense Shoigu - are concentrated near the borders of the LDNR.

TRANSLATION

‼️ URGENT ‼️ The DPR is on fire ‼️ Due to shelling, the Gorlovka-Yasinovataya highway is blocked. Correct your route. Our republic is being shelled along all lines of contact. Very loud in Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk. Ukraine is waiting for Putin's decision and is preparing to attack, since Minsk is most likely everything!

Source:Telegram Donbass channel

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on twitter:

"On President Volodymyr Zelensky’s initiative, I officially requested UNSC member states to immediately hold consultations under article 6 of the Budapest memorandum to discuss urgent actions aimed at de-escalation, as well as practical steps to guarantee the security of Ukraine."

The FSB publishes footage of destroyed Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles that entered Russian territory to evacuate saboteurs.

Incident details:

- At about 6 am on Monday, near the village of Myatinskaya in the Rostov Region, Russian border guards discovered the penetration of a group of Ukrainian saboteurs - a total of 5 people;

- for their detention, the help of the military of the Southern Military District was requested, a clash began;

- to evacuate the sabotage group from Ukraine, two infantry fighting vehicles entered the territory of the Russian Federation;

- The Russian military destroyed armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and five saboteurs, there were no casualties among the border guards of the Russian Federation.

Source: Telegram Donbass channel

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to make a televised address to the Russian people on February 21st at 21.00 (Russian Time) according to Russian state news agency TASS.

Putin announced to sign decree on recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk Russian controlled territories.

Putin has informed leaders of France & Germany he intends to recognize Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in near future and sign a decree. Macron, Scholz 'disappointed' by Putin's recognition of Ukraine rebels.

It will be very important to see whether the whole of the two provinces will be recognized, i.e. even territory and cities like Mariupol held by Ukraine.

Source: TASS