Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyMOSCOW, Mar 7 Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized Western leaders for they did not respond to Russia's warning about possible strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities. «Tomorrow, Russia officially announced the shelling of our territory, our defense complex enterprises … And today I did not hear a reaction from any world leader, not a single Western politician, reaction on this announcement,» Zelensky said at a briefing. On Sunday, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that Russian long-range high-precision weapons and military equipment of Ukraine are being disabled. According to him, Kyiv «forces» employees of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine to restore damaged military equipment. He stressed that in order to avoid a threat to the lives of employees of enterprises of the Ukrainian defense industry, they are warned in advance about planned strikes on such objects. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. 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.
