The countries of the Euro-Arctic region have suspended cooperation with Russia

The Barents Sea . File photoMOSCOW, Mar 9Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland, as well as the European Union, announced the suspension of Russian-related activities involving the Russian Federation within the framework of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council amid a special Russian operations to demilitarize Ukraine. «Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the European Union have no choice but to suspend activities in which Russia is involved in cooperation within the Barents Euro-Arctic Council,» the statement said. circulated by the government of Norway. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 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», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia stressed. Development of the situation in the online report >>Who is not against us is with us: Russia announced the list of unfriendly countries