Russian President Vladimir PutinBERLIN, Feb 25German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, at an extraordinary summit of EU foreign ministers in Paris, advocated personal sanctions against Russian President and Foreign Minister Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov, DPA reports, citing the negotiators. According to the agency, such a measure is necessary from the point of view of Germany, since the President of the Russian Federation and the Foreign Minister bear «personal responsibility for an offensive war that violates international law.»Kadyrov called the sanctions «Biden's fables» The minister also told his colleagues that Berlin considers Russia's disconnection from the SWIFT interbank system «acceptable» if the EU countries come to a common opinion that additional pressure can be put on Russia in this way. Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24th. In a televised address to the Russians, President Vladimir Putin said that circumstances “require decisive and immediate action from us, the people’s republics of Donbass have asked for help.” According to the Russian leader, the entire responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine. He urged the Ukrainian military not to carry out the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the Russian Armed Forces do not inflict any strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure is disabled by high-precision means. The civilian population, according to the department, is not in danger. Later, the Ministry of Defense added that the Ukrainian border guards «do not offer any resistance», in some cases the Ukrainian military surrenders and after that they have the opportunity to return to their families. >The Kremlin answered how they relate to possible sanctions against PutinPosted: Olga Markova
