CybersecurityPARIS Feb 24French President Emmanuel Macron, during the Council on Security and Defense, which was held on Thursday morning, decided to put the cybersecurity services on high alert and raised the issue of providing Ukraine with additional assistance, Europe 1 radio station reports. According to the radio, the meeting was attended Prime Minister Jean Castex, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, Defense Minister Florence Parly and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, as well as heads of intelligence services. The event lasted about an hour.
France banned flights over UkraineMakron at the security council asked its participants to identify the interests of France in Russia and Ukraine to assess the consequences of the conflict, and also raised the issue of the security of the French in Ukraine. In addition, the French leader urged to «consider» the possibility of providing means of evacuation from the territory of Ukraine, the newspaper notes. One of the decisions taken at the meeting is to put «all state security services» on high alert. The council members also considered the issue of providing assistance to Ukraine. Now France supplies only economic assistance to finance military needs, but at the Security Council it was decided to “strengthen support for Ukraine by all means.” On Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided on a special military operation of the Russian Federation to demilitarize Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» According to the Russian leader, all responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine. He urged the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home.In Poland, they announced an increase in the number of people crossing the border from Ukraine. Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the Russian Armed Forces do not launch any missile, air or artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields and aviation are disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry assured that the civilian population is not in danger. The situation in Donbass has escalated in recent days, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have reported a lot of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. First of all, the evacuation concerns women, children and the elderly. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky may soon order the military to go on the offensive, to implement a plan to invade the DPR and LPR. On Saturday, February 19, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization, and then turned to Russia with a request to recognize the independence of the republics. On Monday, after the Security Council meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation and stated that he considers it necessary to immediately recognize the sovereignty of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. He noted that the world prefers not to notice the horror and genocide in the Donbass, where not a single day goes by without shelling, the killing of civilians and the blockade do not stop. As the President stated, in case of further bloodshed in the Donbass, the entire responsibility will be on the Kiev regime. Immediately after the appeal, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees recognizing the LPR and the DPR. In his decrees, Putin instructed to ensure the maintenance of peace in the DPR and LPR by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. 02/d530b31fccc2dd0227d98ec9642b2f86.jpg» />France will not use military force to defend UkrainePosted by: Stanislav Wand
