On the night of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a war against Ukraine, calling it a “special military operation in the Donbass” in order to protect people who “have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.” Putin’s claims of genocide have previously been refuted by both the European Union and the United Nations. Western politicians accused the Russian president of lying. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. The US and UK authorities have imposed new sanctions against Russia. DW is following developments on Friday, February 25th (Moscow time).
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky invited Vladimir Putin to negotiate in order to prevent the loss of life. He stated this in a video message posted on Facebook by the office of the Ukrainian leader. “I want to appeal to the President of the Russian Federation once again. Fighting is going on all over Ukraine. Let’s sit down at the negotiating table to stop the death of people,” Zelensky said in Russian.
The head of the German Ministry of Health diagnosed Putin with a personality disorder
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Karl Lauterbach
German Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (Karl Lauterbach) diagnosed Russian President Vladimir Putin with a personality disorder. The actions of the Kremlin leader manifest unacceptable “narcissistic needs for recognition,” a professional doctor said. In fact, the world has “more important things to do than indulge in Putin’s fantasies of greatness,” Lauterbach said.
Medical professionals generally define narcissism as a personality disorder characterized by an extreme need for attention and recognition, often accompanied by narcissism and arrogant behavior.
Correspondent DW: The situation in Kiev is escalating
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Around noon, residents of the Obolon residential area were asked not to leave their homes due to the threat of fighting on the streets, a DW correspondent reports from the capital of Ukraine. Air raid sirens sound hourly. Explosions are heard. From the side of the government campus, the sounds of gunfire are heard. However, a few passers-by on the main streets do not pay any attention to this.
Recipes for making Molotov cocktails are being published on social networks. Ukrainians are urged to use them against enemy military equipment. At the recruiting centers of the territorial defense, even before the announcement of the general mobilization of men of military age, queues of those wishing to receive weapons and fight against the Russian invaders lined up. However, weapons are issued only to those who signed the contract and stayed in the center while waiting for their departure to the place of deployment. It is impossible to take the machine guns home.
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