Ukrainian servicemen unload military aid from the United States at Boryspil airport, 5 February 2022MOSCOW, 2 Mar. There are no guarantees that there will be no incidents with NATO in the light of arms supplies to Ukraine, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko. «Risks, of course, arise,» he said, commenting on the risk of a collision between Russia and NATO members. «We are extremely concerned about those programs for the supply of weapons. Everything in this situation is very dangerous, there are no guarantees that there will be no incidents,» the diplomat added on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. He also pointed out that there are no guarantees that these incidents will not escalate in a completely unnecessary direction. According to Grushko, they hear in Moscow about NATO statements about the lack of intentions to intervene militarily in the situation in Ukraine, which is «a manifestation of reasonableness.» «This shows that there is at least some sanity left in NATO's actions,» the Russian diplomat added.US troops will not be involved in the conflict in Ukraine, Biden saidRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.Eight countries called for accelerating the admission of Ukraine to the EU On Wednesday morning, more than 1.5 thousand objects were hit: airfields, command posts, radar stations, and so on. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The Russian Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over all of Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General promised Zelensky to strengthen support for UkraineAccording to the Russian Defense Ministry, there are dead and wounded among Russian troops , but the losses among the Ukrainian troops and nationalists are many times higher. Exact figures have not yet been released. The Russian military department reports a number of cases of voluntary laying down of arms by Ukrainian troops — they are guaranteed safety and return to their families. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian security forces are deploying multiple rocket launchers right in the residential areas of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Putin called this a terrorist tactic.Situation developments in the online report >>
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