President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZelenskyMOSCOW, Feb 25Volodymyr Zelensky decided to carry out a general mobilization in Ukraine within 90 days, according to the decree of his office. On Thursday, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported on Telegram that Zelensky had submitted a bill on general mobilization to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. «I decide to announce and carry out a general mobilization,» — follows from the decree. According to the decree, mobilization should be carried out within 90 days on the territory of Vinnitsa, Volyn, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporozhye, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lvov, Nikolaev, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv regions, the city of Kiev. 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, all 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. /4188d316644a5fdcb0685584ebbd91ee.jpg» />The head of the World Bank expressed his readiness to provide assistance to UkrainePosted by: Maxim Gorbachev
