"My father, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, the lieutenant, said:" War is the worst thing, what happened in my life. "But then people around are happy, holding a Mina Mina? Do they think at that moment about what a war is? Is this a real patriotism? What is patriotism? I saw that the understanding of patriotism is more and more merged with military theme. 2022 no longer looks amazing by the fact that patriotism finally became a military man.

Satellite pictures of the first day of Russia's invasion throughout Ukraine show serious destruction in military infrastructure and Ukrainian military airports as a result of missile shelling and airstrikes. The photographs also show the movement of Russian units in Ukraine on February 24. The correspondent of the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty Maryan Kushnir also photographed the damaged Russian armored vehicle, including Grad launcher near Kharkov. His photos were taken on February 25. .

Germany-who until the last moment refused to supply weapons to Ukraine-decided to send a thousand units of anti-tank weapons and 500 landsmanships of Stinger to this country. This was announced by German Chancellor Olaf Sholts. He wrote on Twitter that the position of the German authorities changed after a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Our duty is to do everything in our power to help Ukraine protect himself from Putin’s advancing army,” wrote Scholz.

With a famous, in order not to say historical, the point of view everything goes well, even very well. For example, I did not expect such an explosive turn for the better, at least during my life. Of course: how do you think about what it can do with it is “very good.”, How many lives, God forbid, will take away, I don’t want to talk about certain pluses. I really do not want to. But - it is necessary, because living one minute is also not a matter.

Dmitry Peskov Ukraine abandoned negotiations with Russia to resolve the conflict. The military operation of Moscow on Ukrainian territory was continued on February 25. This was stated by the Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the suspension of invasion after Kyiv proposed to start negotiations.

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The USA, Canada and the key countries of the European Union, including Germany, France and Italy, agreed on the exclusion of Russian banks from the SWIFT interbank payments system. This is stated in the statement on the White House website. For excluded from the system of banks, it means that payments in them from abroad and abroad will be complicated-they will have to be carried out in other ways, for example, a fax or television.

Monument to the victims of the massacre in Khojaly, Baku In Azerbaijan, events were held today dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the massacre of Azerbaijani residents of the city of Khojaly in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. In Baku, a procession was held, led by President Ilham Aliyev. He laid a wreath and flowers to the monument to the victims of the tragedy. Memory shares were held in other cities and countries. For example, in Moscow, people brought flowers to the Azerbaijan embassy.

Russia has turned into a rogue country? What support to expect Ukraine from the United States? With the American publicist David Satter and human rights activist Yuri Yarym-Agaev, we discuss the American reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"We do not climb into politics." Frontrona Belgorod argues about the war February 26, 2022 Sergey Khazov-Cassia Russian military equipment for Belgorod (archive photo) "My mother is an ambulance paramedic in X [border village on the border with the Kharkov region of Ukraine]. She called us on the 24th at 6:15 in the morning and said:" Tanya, it began. Collect documents, things.

The USA, Canada and the key countries of the European Union, including Germany, France and Italy, agreed on the exclusion of Russian banks from the SWIFT interbank payments system. This is stated in the statement on the White House website. For excluded from the system of banks, it means that payments in them from abroad and abroad will be complicated-they will have to be carried out in other ways, for example, a fax or television.

Mumin Shakirov and his guests summarize the results of the 8th week of 2022 On the night of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of the so -called "special military operation" in Ukraine with the aim of "protecting the inhabitants of Donbass." In other words, Russia, without declaring a war, began to shell the civil and military facilities of a neighboring state with winged and ballistic missiles. At the same time, the land operation of the Russian armed forces began.

And against Prime Minister Garibashvili, who refused to maintain sanctions

In Kyiv, a shell hit a residential building on Lobanovsky Avenue on the outskirts of the city. The apartments on three floors were destroyed - from the 18th - to the 20th - in the part of the building. According to rescuers, there are no victims. Most of the inhabitants at the time of the attack were in the shelter. According to the Ukrainian side, the rocket was Russian.