Two soldiers in Ukraine The 57th Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has deposited weapons at positions in the Slavyanoserb region. This was reported in the LPR People's Militia.
So the fighters sided with the LPR. According to the ministry, they will be allowed to go home after the fighting.
LPR People's Militia previously said that Ukrainian soldiers were leaving their positions. According to intelligence, the army has left in violation of command orders.
Recall that on the night of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a military special operation in the Donbas.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has left to Nur-Sultan, where he is to meet today with his colleagues – the new Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smail and the Prime Minister – Head of the Kyrgyz Presidential Administration Alykbek Zhaparov. And also attend meetings of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in a narrow format.
The topic of the meeting has nothing to do with what is happening in Ukraine: a plan to expand cooperation in the field of civil aircraft production and a number of other integration issues are on the agenda. Nothing was reported about the changes in these plans. The journalists thought that the prime minister's visit would be canceled due to the changed situation, but it turned out that the delay was caused by a plane failure. After its replacement, media representatives and members of the delegation flew to Kazakhstan. This was followed by a plane with Mikhail Mishustin.
On Thursday morning, the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko also left Russia – she went to Tajikistan, where she is to meet with the leadership of the republic and attend an interparliamentary forum.
Matvienko and Mishustin will be absent from February 24 to 25.
It was previously announced that the President of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, had continued his visit to Cuba the day before, from where he had flown to Nicaragua on February 24.
All the first people of the country, except Vladimir Putin, are therefore outside Russia. None of them abandoned their plans in connection with the military operation in Ukraine and have not yet commented on what is happening.
Recall that Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is second in the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko is third, Volodin is fourth.
Russian Army Special Operations in Donbass it can last several days. This was stated by Oleksiy Leonkov, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine. > “There will also be an operation to block the military groups in the LPR and DPR, an offer to surrender, lay down their arms and go home. Anyone who does not lay down their arms will be destroyed, “said Leonkov. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced the start of the operation in Donbas, called on them not to resist and to go home to the Ukrainians. military.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyj recorded a new speech to the nation against the background of the Russian military operation. At the same time, as the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces informed on social networks, the Ukrainian leader ordered the army to return the blow to the “invaders”. “State defense forces, exercising their right to self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, with dignity reject the enemy's attempts to cross the border,” Commander-in-Chief Ruslan Khomchak said on Facebook.
Zelensky himself called on Ukrainians not to panic, saying that he was negotiating with Western partners to form a coalition, support in the defense sphere and close airspace over Ukraine to Russia.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense's press service said that the Russian armed forces were not conducting any missile, artillery or air strikes on Ukrainian cities.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense's press service said that the Russian armed forces were not launching any missile, artillery or air strikes on Ukrainian cities.
It is said that military infrastructure, military airports, aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and air defense equipment are shelled with high-precision weapons.
“The civilian population of Ukraine does not endanger anything,” notes RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Details of the special operation can be found in our online broadcast.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a new speech on To the Russians on the morning of February 24.
The head of the Russian state announced that he had decided on a special military operation in Donbas.
Russia's plans did not include the occupation of Ukraine, Putin stressed. & Nbsp; According to him, Moscow will strive to demilitarize the neighboring state.
Putin announces a special operation in Ukraine: video
Residents of different areas Donetsk informs about the complete shutdown of mobile communications – for subscribers of the main local operator “Phoenix” it does not work at all. The Internet is constantly breaking through from time to time. Those who use SIM cards of Russian mobile operators can still call, judging by reports in the cottages of locals. They attribute the interference to possible electronic countermeasures. “Something is in the pipeline,” Donetsk residents suggest. She has not yet received an official reply. The President of Russia has won the support of the Federation Council to request the use of Russian troops abroad, assuring that the Russian army has not yet been deployed to Donbas.
Vladimir Zelensky. Source: President of Ukraine's website
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented another video report. Zelensky said he had requested a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but had received no response. “The result is silence,” Zelensky said in Russian, “although there should be silence in the Donbas.”
Vladimir Putin previously expressed hope that the issue of the DLR and LPR could be resolved through negotiations their real borders and the formal ones along which most of the LDNR's territory is controlled by Ukraine) – but Kiev is clearly not ready for that yet. The Federation Council granted the President of Russia permission to use Russian troops abroad. On the evening of February 23, the heads of the Donbas republics, Pushkin and Pasechnik, turned to Putin for help in repelling the Ukrainian aggression. Officially, Russian troops did not enter the Donbas.
Press Secretary to the President of Russia The Federation's Dmitry Peskov said Vladimir Putin had received a call from the heads of the Donetsk People's Republic of Luhansk for help in repelling the massive attacks by Ukraine's armed forces that had been observed in recent days. According to Peskov, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushkin In their call to the Russian leaders, they called on Russia to help protect the lives and health of the civilian population of Donbas and also to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the region. evacuation to Russia. “Given the continuing military aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine … the destruction of civil and industrial infrastructure, schools, hospitals, kindergartens and the worst is the death of the civilian population, including children,” the report said. speeches by DLR and LPR heads.
They stress that the actions of the official Kiev show a reluctance to end the war in Donbas.
According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Washington under no circumstances will he send American troops to Ukraine to stand up to the Russian army.
“I have said this many times: there is no scenario in which President Biden would send American troops to Ukraine to fight Russia,” he stressed. Psaki added that the US President will never send military personnel to Ukraine and will not change this decision under any circumstances. “We will not fight Russia and will not deploy our troops in Ukraine to fight Russia.” , “she explained.
