Biden spoke about the «alternative» to large-scale sanctions against Russia

WASHINGTON Feb 26US President Joe Biden said that an alternative to imposing large-scale Western sanctions against Russia in connection with the events in Ukraine would be the start of a «third world war.» «You have two options: start a third world war and physically go to war with Russia, or ensure that a country that violates international law so badly pays the price for doing so,» Biden told journalist and actor Brian Tyler Cohen on his YouTube channel. He stressed that events in Ukraine will have consequences for Russia not only in the near, but also the far future. «Russia will pay a serious price for this in the short and long term — especially in the long term,» the American president added. />07:12 Biden instructed the State Department to allocate $ 600 million in assistance to Ukraine Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine early on Thursday morning, 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, all 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. The civilian population, according to the department, is not in danger. 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.Situation development — in the online report >> «/wp-content/uploads/cad26fd2a59cb3e6043ce1bf421d2577.jpg» />21:07 Zelensky claims Erdogan agreed on the importance of closing the straitsPosted by: Igor Tonoyan