C-Span carried this talk and provided the translation Russian President Putin Statement on Ukraine,

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced after a Security Council meeting that Russia would recognize the independence of the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Since we, in the USA, are being inundated by anti-Russian propaganda from our “intelligece” agencies and the corporate new media (as if there were any difference between the two), it wouldn’t hurt to consider the possibility that there is a point of view that you are not hearing. C-SPAN certainly can’e be branded as an outlet controlled by the Russian government.