The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in MoscowMOSCOW, March 5Countries that condone sending mercenaries to Ukraine are becoming accomplices in war crimes, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Some member countries condone the dispatch of mercenaries, including from “former military personnel”, to participate in hostilities on the side of nationalist formations,” said Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the department. «Thus, the authorities of these countries become accomplices in war crimes,» she stressed.In Germany, they said that right-wing extremists had left for Ukraine. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on 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.» With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. At the same time, as the President of Russia emphasized, there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine. In the last days of February, Vladimir Zelensky called for the formation of a foreign legion, which would include volunteers from other states. The Russian Defense Ministry called on foreign citizens to think seven times whether to go to fight for the Kyiv nationalist regime, and President Vladimir Putin said that nationalists and foreign mercenaries, including those from the Middle East, are hiding behind civilians like a human shield: there are photographs that show how they place heavy military equipment in residential areas of cities.Situation development — in the online report >>
Mercenaries in Ukraine attack Russian convoys, Defense Ministry says
