MOSCOW, March 4 economy, said the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. 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. In response, Western countries have imposed another anti-Russian sanctions since 2014. As the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said earlier, the Western sanctions are very serious, Russia was preparing for them in advance. He added that they require analysis and coordination of departments in order to develop response measures that are in the interests of the Russian Federation. DPR and LPRRussia and Ukraine will be connected by bonds of friendship in the future, Matvienko said
