WATCH LIVE: U.N. Security Council convenes emergency meeting on crisis in Ukraine
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, sought to project calm, telling the country:"We are not afraid of anyone or anything. We don't owe anyone anything. And we won't give anything to anyone."
"I consider it necessary to take a long-overdue decision: To immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic," Putin said. Recognizing the separatist regions' independence is likely to be popular in Russia, where many share Putin's worldview. Russian state media released images of people in Donetsk launching fireworks, waving large Russian flags and playing Russia's national anthem.
Macron's office said both leaders had"accepted the principle of such a summit," to be followed by a broader meeting that would include other"relevant stakeholders to discuss security and strategic stability in Europe." Over 14,000 people have been killed since conflict erupted in the eastern industrial heartland of in 2014, shortly after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
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