Presidential Palace in BelgradeBELGRADE, Feb. 25 partners due to external pressure in connection with Ukraine for an indefinite period, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. On Friday, he presented to citizens point by point the conclusions of the third meeting of the UN Security Council of Serbia in recent days.
Serbia will not support Western sanctions against Russia, Vučić said «Based on the principle of Serbia's military neutrality and given the terrible pressure that Serbia has been subjected to lately, it is necessary that all planned exercises of the Serbian army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs with foreign partners be interrupted and suspended until further time,» — Vučić said in an address. On Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced 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.» 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 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 the civilian population was not in danger. Approximately two hours later, the Ministry of Defense added that the Ukrainian border guards «do not offer any resistance», Ukrainian air defense systems were suppressed, and the military infrastructure of military air bases was disabled. The military department denied the information of foreign media about the alleged downing of a Russian plane over Ukraine in the military department. Popadiuk
