UN, February 26 Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya urged US Security Council colleague Linda Thomas -Greenfield does not moralize him about «invasions.» The Russian envoy also called her statement about a kindergarten allegedly bombed by the Russian military in Ukraine a fake. «Of course, it is difficult for us to compete with the United States in the number of incursions to our neighbors. aggressions that the United States has committed in its history. But do you need to read morality to us,» Nebenzya said. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier 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.» 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, lay down their arms and go home.
Nebenzya called the draft UN Security Council resolution on Ukraine anti-RussianLater, 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, military airfields are disabled by high-precision weapons and aviation. The ministry assured that nothing threatens the civilian population. Published: Pavel Stukov
