Zelensky called on world leaders to impose sanctions against Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyMOSCOW, February 24 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world leaders to impose sanctions against Russian leader Vladimir Putin. «I spoke with Biden, Johnson, Charles-Michel, Duda, Nauseda … I have already called on world leaders to use all possible sanctions against Putin, start large-scale defense assistance, and close the airspace over Ukraine to the aggressor,» he said. The appeal was published on Zelensky's Telegram channel. Russian President Vladimir Putin previously announced that he had decided on a special military operation against 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, to lay down their arms and go home. artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine. According to the agency, military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry clarified that nothing threatens the civilian population.