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: On the evening of February 21 and into the early hours of February 22, Russia officially recognized the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) . Immediately following this, Putin ordered Russian "peacekeeping" troops into these territories.

: Some videos purportedly showed Ukrainian saboteurs or shelling in Russian-held territory to provide a pretext for the invasion. video_2022-02-22_00-06-10.mp4

The video titled video_2022-02-22_00-06-10.mp4 corresponds to a critical period of escalation just two days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. While the filename follows a standard format used by messaging apps like Telegram, the specific timestamp (February 22, 2022, at approximately midnight) marks the immediate aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official recognition of the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. : On the evening of February 21 and

During this period, several videos were circulated by Russian state media and proxy forces that were later identified by Western intelligence and open-source investigators as staged "false flag" operations. The video titled video_2022-02-22_00-06-10

: Germany halted the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and the US and UK began announcing initial sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs.

unanimously authorized the use of military force abroad, providing the legal domestic framework for the invasion that followed 48 hours later.