Russian President intervened on television at 5:30 in the morning and, in the minutes that followed, explosions and sirens were heard in several Ukrainian cities.
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Russian president appeared on the television screens at 5:30 am, Moscow time, Thursday, February 24, for an intervention of fifty-six minutes whose essentials held in a few words: “I decided To launch a special military operation. “Shortly after this sentence had been pronounced, explosions and sirens began to sound in the cities of Ukraine, far beyond the Donbass Front Line. Air strikes have been reported throughout the country, followed by the entry of armored ones in several points of the border that separates the two countries.
During his twenty-two years of reign at the head of Russia, Vladimir Putin, arrived in power in favor of the conflict in Chechnya, will have led several wars. None has been announced with as much sharpness as the extensive operation launched at dawn against Ukraine, a war of aggression against a “brother country”, conducted by air and earth. None may leave a trace as deep on the European continent.
“The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years, are intimidated and genocide from the Kiev regime,” said Putin. And, for that, we will endeavor. to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, as well as to bring to justice those who have committed many bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation. Our plans do not understand the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We Do not impose anything by force to person. “
In this speech, the Russian President has invoked “Article 51 of Part 7 of the Charter of the United Nations”, which evokes the right to self-defense, but also “the call for help” that He would have sent the separatist entities of the Donbass. He also addressed to the Ukrainian military, asking them to “file arms” and considerate: “All the responsibility of a possible blood bath will be fully on the awareness of the regime governing the Ukrainian territory.”
“High Precision Weapons”
To the Westerners and “those who would like to be tempted to mingle with these events”, he also launched: “Whoever intends to put on our way or threatening our country and our people must know that the Russian answer will be immediate and will have consequences ever seen in its history. “The Russian President has established an unclear link between this warning and the Soviet victory” sacred “on Nazism.
The first targets identified on the Ukrainian soil have been airports, in at least twelve cities, including those located in the west of the country. Many videos, in Kiev and elsewhere, have shown these infrastructures on fire or affected by missiles . Military aerodromes have also been targeted.
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