British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called "highly likely" Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that no decisions related to the recognition of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in the State Duma have been made.

The head of the Crimean Parliament Committee on Public Diplomacy and Interethnic Relations, Yuri Gempel, called the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the return of the peninsula a bluff.