State flags of Russia and UkraineANTALYA, Mar 10, Vugar Hasanov. A long queue of accredited journalists to a trilateral meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Russia and Ukraine in Antalya, Turkey, lined up on the territory of the hotel, where negotiations are expected, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Sergei Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba are scheduled for Thursday in Antalya. This is the first meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and Ukraine since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine. 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 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.
