BERLIN, February 24 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to immediately stop the Russian special operation on the demilitarization of Ukraine and the withdrawal of troops. «I want to call on Russian President Putin to immediately stop the military attack … and completely withdraw his troops from the territory of Ukraine,» Scholz told reporters. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said 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.
