New Delhi, Feb 26 (UNI) Russia on Saturday ordered its military to launch an offensive from all directions on Ukraine alleging the Ukrainian side refused to negotiate as agreed a day before. "Yesterday, after statements by the Kiev regime about readiness for negotiations, active hostilities in the main areas of the operation were suspended. After the Ukrainian side refused to negotiate, today all units were ordered to develop an offensive in all directions in accordance with the plan of the operation," said Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov. Groups of DPR and LPR troops with the fire support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are developing the success of the offensive against the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he added. The spokesperson claimed that LPR troops have expanded the offensive line and advanced to a depth of up to 46 kilometers and captured the settlements of Shchastia and Muratovo. "The troops of the Donetsk People's Republic, advancing in the direction of Petrovskoe, advanced another 10 kilometers and captured the settlements of Starognatovka, Oktyabrskaya and Pavlopol," he said. Russian Defence Ministry also claimed that Ukraine's involvement in arming the civilian population for hostilities "will inevitably lead to accidents and casualties." Ukraine had alleged that Russia has been targeting civilian settlements at many places. "Our intelligence data continue to record the deployment of rocket and artillery units by Ukrainian nationalists in residential areas not only in Kiev, but also in other Ukrainian cities," said Konashenkov. The Kiev regime massively and uncontrollably distributes automatic small arms, grenade launchers and ammunition to residents of Ukrainian settlements, he added. Further, Russia has alleged that the United States' UAV is likely to have guided 16 Ukrainian boats attacking the Russian Black Sea Fleet. "On the evening of February 25, during the evacuation of 82 Ukrainian servicemen who voluntarily laid down their arms from Snake Island, 16 boats of the Ukrainian Navy, using "swarm tactics", tried to attack the ships of the Black Sea Fleet," Konashenkov said. UNI ASU GNK