The euro on the exchange exceeded 90 rubles. This happened against the backdrop of an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Council for National Security. Earlier, President Vladimir Putin said that the purpose of the meeting is to determine the status of the LPR and the DPR after the request of their leaders to recognize the independence of the republics. With the appropriate requests, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik turned the day before.

Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted telephone conversations with French President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts. The Russian leader told both that he intends to sign a decree on the recognition of self -proclaimed DPR and LPR in the near future. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. They noted that Macron and Sholts “expressed disappointment with such a development” of events.

In the DPR, state-level emergencies were announced in connection with the stop of the pumping station of the first rise of the South Donbass water supply and the termination of centralized drinking water supply. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to the agency, more than 21 thousand residents of Dokuchaevsk and Elena, over 50 social facilities, including hospitals, were left without water. On February 18, the DPR and LPR announced the decision to evacuate residents to the Rostov region.

CIT also writes about the transfer of engineering equipment, previously not involved in concentration. In particular, in the Krasnodar Territory, military trucks with metal structures were noticed, which the researcher Tom Bullock identified as an average collapsible SARM bridge. “It can be used to restore blown bridges through the Dnieper or Chongar Strait leading from Crimea to the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions,” CIT writes.

The heads of self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics asked President of Russia Vladimir Putin to recognize their independence, Interfax reports . “On behalf of the whole people of the DPR, we ask you to recognize the DPR as an independent, democratic, legal and social state. We also ask to consider the possibility of concluding a friendship and cooperation agreement between the DPR and Russia, providing for cooperation in the field of defense, ”said DPR head Denis Pushilin.

In Lugansk, an explosion thundered in the parking lot of the LPR representative office in a joint center for the control and coordination of the ceasefire and stabilization of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine (SCCC). According to RIA Novosti, the car was blown up. At the same time, the head of the representative office of the LPR and the driver were injured, the national police reported the self -proclaimed republic.

The Ministry of Finance has introduced a bill to regulate the cryptocurrency market to the government. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Finance. According to the project, it is still prohibited to use cryptocurrencies as a means of payment in the Russian Federation. Cryptocurrencies act only as an instrument for investment.

The Nenets District Court replaced the father of the FBK lawyer Ivan Zhdanov to Yuri Zhdanov, a conditional term for real with serving a sentence in a correctional colony due to violation of the non -departure and “discrediting authorities”. The Rain television channel drew attention to the court’s message.

Putin and Biden accepted Macron's proposal to hold a meeting between them on security issues in Europe, the Champs Elysees said . The summit’s agenda will be prepared by US Secretary of State Blinken and the head of the Foreign Ministry Lavrov.

The head of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik signed a decree on the voluntary mobilization of men over 55 years old. It is published on the website of the LPR administration. “To carry out a call for military service of male citizens age older than 55 years in a voluntary basis,” the order says. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Lugansk and Donetsk report that the military commandant’s office began to take from the streets of male recruitment.

The source of RBC in the FSB claims that the shell was in the border transition on the Shcherbakovo farm in the Rostov region, this is the Mariupol direction. Updated : Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov commented on the charges of the Russian Federation of shelling the border point in the Rostov region. “We are not conducting these shelling, we have nothing to do with them.

News The State Duma approved a "useless and dangerous" draft law against torture 21 February 2022 The relevant State Duma Committee returned the bill on torture by its author, Senator Lyudmila Narisova, since there are no reviews of the government and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. It is reported by TASS. The bill was prepared by Narosova along with the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova.

The FSB message that the Ukrainian shell entered the territory of Russia and destroyed the household of Russian border guards in the Rostov region, contains inconsistencies, analysts from Conflict Intelligence Team report . The incident, according to the FSB, occurred in the area of ​​the Shcherbakovo farm. According to CIT, the Shcherbakovo farm is located at least 37 km from the contact line in the Donbass.

Russia recognized the independence of the DPR and LPR. This was said by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his appeal to citizens, more like a historical excursion. Immediately after this, the president signed the corresponding decree. “Modern Ukraine was completely and completely created by Bolshevik Russia,” Putin said in a circulation whose text was partially published on the Kremlin website. According to Putin, Vladimir Lenin was the "author and architect" of modern Ukraine.

On the territory of the Saratov region, emergency mode is introduced in connection with the organization of the placement of evacuated residents of the LPR and the DPR. This was reported by Interfax by the press secretary of the head of the region Nina Popova on Monday. “The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection is instructed to ensure the residence of refugees arriving in the region.