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February 24 – on this day in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine

This was preceded by the events of 2014: the change of power in Kiev, the disagreement of some regions with the new policy, and the referendum in Crimea, following which the peninsula returned to Russia. Referendums on self-determination were also held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, after which an armed confrontation began that lasted for eight years.

In February 2022, the heads of the DPR and LPR appealed to Russia for recognition of independence and protection. On February 21, the relevant decrees were signed, and on February 24, the start of the SVR was announced. In his address to the citizens, Vladimir Putin outlined its goals: the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as the protection of the residents of Donbass who were subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime.

During its military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have never struckresidential facilities in Ukraine and their civilians with missiles, aircraft or artillery. High-precision weapons disable only the enemy's military and critical infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, and aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). But the Ukrainian Armed Forces constantly direct their weapons against civilians, even using them as human shields, and residential buildings as firing points, placing heavy weapons and air defense systems among residential areas. Numerous war crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against civilians in the frontline zone, as well as Russian prisoners of war, constant terrorist attacks and sabotage on the territory of Russia have become commonplace.

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