MOSCOW, 25 Feb. Lithuanian basketball club Zalgiris refuses on principle to play Euroleague matches against CSKA Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg, a source familiar with the situation said. , and with Zenit on April 8 in St. Petersburg. Zalgiris does not want to play the remaining matches with CSKA and Zenit under any conditions, the Lithuanian club is ready to receive technical defeats. The Euroleague is trying to convince Zalgiris and organize the games,» the agency's interlocutor said. 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 circumstances «require us decisive and immediate action, 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 called on the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, lay down their arms and go home .
