MOSCOW, Feb 24 The West is hysterical about Ukraine, but forgets its responsibility for avoiding dialogue, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel. they do it year after year, for many years, in all their sins, for some reason they forgot to tell now that it was they who closed all the options for the negotiation process,» she said.16:24The aggravation of the situation in the DPR and LPRShoigu instructed the commanders to treat the Ukrainian military with respectIn the morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his address to the people, announced a special military operation in Donbass. He assured that Moscow's plans did not include the occupation of Ukraine, only its demilitarization and denazification, and added that the entire responsibility for the bloodshed would be on the conscience of the Kiev regime. The head of state called the goal of the operation to protect the residents of the DPR and LPR, who had been subjected to genocide for eight years. The Russian Ministry of Defense stressed that they did not inflict any strikes on civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine, only on military infrastructure. The department noted that nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation in Donbass — in the online report >>16:25The aggravation of the situation in the DPR and LPRRussia disabled 74 ground facilities of the military infrastructure of UkrainePublished: Vlada Kopylova