Vyacheslav VolodinMANAGUA, Feb 25The citizens of Ukraine do not need to be afraid of the Russian operation, it is aimed solely at the demilitarization of Ukraine, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. «The citizens of Ukraine do not need to be afraid of the peacekeeping operation. It is aimed exclusively at demilitarization,» Volodin said, speaking at a meeting of the National Assembly of Nicaragua. He arrived on an official visit to the republic on February 24. The parliamentarian noted that the decision of the Russian president to conduct a peacekeeping operation is designed to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and a full-scale war. «Ukraine must become a free, independent, democratic, peaceful state, freed from the anti-people regime with nationalist ideology, start developing in the interests of its citizens,» he added. Volodin stressed that NATO cannot resolve the issue of the security of its members at the expense of the security of others. «It's time for the United States to stop,» he said. 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.» Putin said 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. attacks 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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