MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Another 110 servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces voluntarily laid down weapons over the past day, Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a news conference on Monday.

"Another 110 servicemen of the Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily laid down weapons over the past day," he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on February 24 that, amid a strong escalation of the situation in Donbass and in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics, he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aims to demilitarize and denazify the country. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian troops are not targeting Ukrainian cities, but are incapacitating Ukrainian military infrastructure, therefore there are no threats to the civilian population.