BERLIN, Mar 6 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during an hour and a half conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed the conversation between the Israeli prime minister and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, German Cabinet spokesman Steffen Hebeshtreit said. Earlier, Bennett met with Putin in Moscow to discuss the Ukrainian crisis. According to the Kremlin press service, Putin and Bennett discussed various aspects of the situation in Ukraine in the context of Russia's special military operation to protect Donbass. After meeting with President Putin in Moscow, the Israeli Prime Minister flew to Germany for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.» German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the evening. The focus of the 90-minute conversation was the results of the conversation that the Prime Minister spent Saturday with Russian President Putin in Moscow,» the statement said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in the early hours of 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 Russian President emphasized.
