«Syria, Yemen's Houthis recognise independence of Russia-backed Donetsk, Luhansk» (på engelsk). Middle East Monitor. 22. februar 2022. «Smoke rises from a power plant after shelling outside the town of Schastia, near the eastern Ukraine city of Lugansk, on 22 February 2022, a day after Russia recognised east Ukraine’s separatist republics and ordered the Russian army to send troops there as “peacekeepers.”»