French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. File photoPARIS Feb 25French President Emmanuel Macron, in a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, urged him to “immediately end” the military operation in Ukraine, despite the fact that Putin had previously said that this military operation was a necessary measure, since the Russian Federation did not leave a chance to do otherwise.Presidents of the Russian Federation and France had a telephone conversation on Thursday evening. «After a conversation with the president of Ukraine, the president (of France — ed.) called Vladimir Putin and demanded an immediate halt to the Russian military operation, recalling that Russia was subjecting itself to massive sanctions,» Agence France-Presse reports citing on the Elysee Palace. As the Kremlin reported earlier, Putin and Macron «seriously and frankly» exchanged views in connection with the events in Ukraine, Putin gave exhaustive explanations on the situation. On Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided on a special military operation for the demilitarization of 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, lay down their arms and go home. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the Russian Armed Forces do not launch any missile, air or artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure, air defense facilities are disabled by high-precision weapons , military airfields and aviation. The ministry assured that nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation in Donbass is in the online report >>
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