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MOSCOW, Feb 26The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed a video of jointly with the National Guard of Ukraine ensuring the security of power units and the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. jointly ensuring the safety of power units, the sarcophagus and the storage of spent nuclear fuel,» the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reports. It is noted that the NPP personnel continue to monitor the radioactive situation and maintain the NPP in the normal mode. It is also specified that the joint work of Russian paratroopers and Ukrainian military personnel is a guarantee that nationalists or other terrorist organizations will not be able to take advantage of the current situation in the country to organize a nuclear provocation. Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine early 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 follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. 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 agency, is not in danger. On Friday morning, 118 Ukrainian military facilities were put out of action, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was 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.