The issue of suspending the issuance of visas for Russians was left unanswered at the British Embassy in Moscow. The embassy stressed that they never speculate on the issue of imposing possible sanctions.
Suspension of issuance of visas to the EU proposed earlier in Brussels to consider Belgium. Belgium has proposed imposing sanctions on all Russians in connection with the situation around Ukraine. The only exceptions are humanitarian considerations. RIA News.
Former President of Russia Vladimir Putin called on the Ukrainian military do not follow criminal orders from Kievput down your weapons and go home. Ukrainian border guards left their outposts on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
The forces of the Donetsk People’s Militia, with the support of the Russian army, repelled an attack by Ukrainian units on the night of February 24, 2022. After that, they launched a counteroffensive. The Donetsk People’s Militia repelled the Ukrainian armed formations 3 kilometers from Donetsk, and the Lugansk militias managed to advance one and a half kilometers.
Two Ukrainian Su-24 front-line bombers were shot down in Donbass. Another Ukrainian military aircraft An-26 crashed near Kiev. Also, a number of airfields, including the Dnepropetrovsk airport, where Ukrainian military aviation was based, were subjected to strikes with high-precision weapons. Russia suppresses the military infrastructure and air defense of Ukraine. There are no attacks on cities. The first reports about the transition of Ukrainian military personnel to the side of representatives of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics are beginning to arrive, but they still need to be rechecked and confirmed.