NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. File photoBRUSSELS, Feb 24NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that Russia, «by launching an operation in Ukraine, closed the door to negotiations.» «We tried for weeks and months to contact Russia. But Russia never took these negotiations seriously. While we were trying to find a political solution, they planned it invasion. They were building up their presence and just launched an invasion… Russia has closed the door to a political solution. We regret this, but this is the reality,» Stoltenberg said at a press conference following a meeting of the bloc's permanent representatives at Brussels headquarters.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/21ed17624858644dd6647d61cc80272a.jpg" />France called for initiating negotiations on non-expansion of NATO. He added that «Ukrainians will face the most serious consequences, but this applies to everyone, so we are strengthening our presence in the east of the alliance.» Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that he had decided on a special military operation against 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.» The President of the Russian Federation stated that the entire responsibility for the bloodshed would be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine, and called on the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine. According to the agency, military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry clarified that nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation in Donbass is in the online report >>
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