MOSCOW, March 3 telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron. «… President Macron takes the initiative, has spoken in person more than once, including his recent visit, but he often talks on the phone with President Putin. Now, when we communicate, in my opinion, there is another telephone conversation going on,» the minister said in an interview with Russian and foreign media. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
