<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" id="mwAaM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a>: Days after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_concerning_the_events_in_Ukraine" id="mwAaQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Address concerning the events in Ukraine">recognising</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People's_Republic" id="mwAaU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People's_Republic" id="mwAaY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_Donetsk_People's_Republic_and_the_Luhansk_People's_Republic" id="mwAac" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic">independent states</a>, Russian president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" id="mwAag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_conducting_a_special_military_operation" id="mwAak" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="On conducting a special military operation">orders</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" id="mwAao" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">full scale invasion</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" id="mwAas" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.<sup about="#mwt169" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-30"}}' id="cite_ref-30" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_24#cite_note-30" id="mwAaw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 30;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAa0">[30]</span></a></sup>
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