A woman crosses the street in LuganskLUHANSK, Feb. 26 , reported the representative office of the Luhansk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). two local residents,» the statement said. Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, February 24. In a televised address to the Russians, President Vladimir Putin said that circumstances “require decisive and immediate action from us, the people’s republics of Donbass have asked 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 urged the Ukrainian military not to carry out the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the Russian Armed Forces do not inflict any strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure is disabled by high-precision means. Nothing threatens the civilian population, according to the department. Later, the Ministry of Defense added that the Ukrainian border guards «do not offer any resistance», in some cases the Ukrainian military surrenders and after that they have the opportunity to return to their families. On Friday morning, 118 Ukrainian military facilities were disabled , Chernobyl nuclear power plant is taken under control. Ukrainian air defense systems have been suppressed, the military infrastructure of military air bases has been disabled, the Ministry of Defense notes.
