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MOSCOW, February 24 Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with businessmen explained the reason for the special operation: Russia is not left a chance to do otherwise. «We were not left a chance to do otherwise. Security risks created such that it was impossible to respond by other means. All attempts are zero,» the president said. Earlier, he said that he had decided on a special military operation because for Donbass. 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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