TaiwanBEJING, Feb 25Taiwan will join international economic sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine, continue to closely coordinate with the United States and other countries to take appropriate measures, the island's foreign ministry website said. «The government deeply regrets that Russia, instead of resolving disputes through peaceful diplomatic negotiations preferred to use force and intimidation. In order to force Russia to stop its military aggression against Ukraine and resume peaceful dialogue between all interested parties as soon as possible, the government of Taiwan announces that it will join international economic sanctions against Russia,» the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website. .It is noted that Taiwan will continue to closely coordinate with the United States and other like-minded states to take appropriate measures to rid Ukraine of the «horrors of war» as soon as possible, as well as restore peace and stability in the region and around the world. I, what kind of sanctions are we talking about. On Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided on a special military operation to demilitarize 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.
