WASHINGTON, Mar 2 U.S. troops will not clash with the Russian military in Ukraine, said US President Joe Biden in an address to Congress.
"Our forces do not and will not come into conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine. Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine, but (they are sent — ed.), in order to protect our NATO allies in case Putin decides to continue moving to the West,» Biden said.< /p>Biden recalled that ground forces, air squadrons and warships are mobilized to defend NATO, including Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. «The United States and our allies will defend every inch of NATO territory with all our collective power,» he said. .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on Thursday, February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.»Biden said that the situation in Ukraine «will make Russia weaker.» 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. 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.Special operation in Ukraine: Russia responded to a deadly threat A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, there are dead and wounded among the 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.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
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