Russian President Vladimir PutinMOSCOW, Feb 25Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed the situation in Ukraine in connection with a special military operation, the Kremlin press service reports. «Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev. military operation in order to protect civilians in Donbass, as well as to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine,» the message says.Putin responded to Zelensky's proposal to hold talksVladimir Putin, in an address to the Russians, said earlier that Russia would do everything to punish the radicals who seized power in Ukraine for crimes against protesters in Odessa. According to him, “the radicals who seized power organized persecution, real terror against those who opposed anti-constitutional actions. Politicians, journalists, public figures were mocked, they were publicly humiliated. murders.» He also added that «it is impossible without a shudder to remember the terrible tragedy in Odessa, where participants in a peaceful protest were brutally killed, burned alive in the House of Trade Unions.» The President of Russia stated in his address that «the criminals who committed this atrocity have not been punished, no one is looking for them, but we know their names and will do everything to punish them: find them and bring them to justice.» Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine early in the morning on Thursday, 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, lay down their arms and go home.Russia handed over to France evidence of Kiev's crimes in the Donbass. Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized 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. Later, the Ministry of Defense added that the Ukrainian border guards «do not offer any resistance», in some cases the Ukrainian military surrender and then have the opportunity to return to their families. On Friday morning, 118 Ukrainian military facilities were disabled, 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. Judging by the video in Ukrainian social networks and media, various parts of the country, including the outskirts of Kiev, have already taken control of Russian troops. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates has not yet been officially published.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
February 22, 19:08InfographicDonetsk and Lugansk People's RepublicsInfographicViewPosted by: Vladimir Lavrentiev
