The State Department imposed sanctions against Shoigu and Gerasimov

Russian Defense Minister Sergei ShoiguWASHINGTON, Feb. 26 General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov because of the events in Ukraine, the US Treasury Department said in a statement. : Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, First Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov,» the release says. State Department sanctions usually mean denial of entry into the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin previously said that he 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. />The European Union and the United States imposed sanctions against Putin, Mishustin and LavrovLater, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the Russian Armed Forces do not carry out any missile, air or artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields and aviation are disabled by high-precision weapons . The ministry assured that the civilian population is not in danger.The development of the situation — in the online report >>Published: Pavel Stukov