Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the possibility of war with Ukraine, calling such a scenario apocalyptic. “I think that such an apocalyptic scenario is hardly possible, and I hope that it will never come to that,” Putin said in an interview with the Rossiya-1 TV channel. At the same time, according to…

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko volunteered to become an intermediary between the Ukrainian military and separatists in Donbass to end the fighting in Debaltseve. He proposed "to withdraw all the servicemen of Ukraine from there under our guarantees that they will never fight again." “If someone is strained by the weapons that Ukrainian military personnel possess today, ...

“The withdrawal of troops from Debaltseve is carried out in a planned and organized manner,” the commander of the Donbass battalion said on his Facebook page. “All the fairy tales about control over Logvinovo turned out to be fairy tales - the pumpkin did not turn into a carriage. We do not control the Debaltsevo-Artemovsk highway precisely because of Logvinovo.…