The building of the Russian Embassy in North MacedoniaBELGRADE, Mar 12The Motherland of Macedonia movement held a mass rally on Saturday in support of Russia and a special operation in Ukraine in front of the Russian Embassy in Skopje. Those gathered at the building of the Russian diplomatic mission in the center of Skopje came with Russian and Macedonian flags and banners of support. They opposed the accession of North Macedonia to anti-Russian sanctions, condemned the persecution of Russian culture in the West and the aggressive policy of the United States, and critically assessed the accession of the republic to NATO. />A rally in support of Russia was held in Bosnia and HerzegovinaBefore the speeches, those gathered observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of 2014 in Ukraine. «Support from the Macedonians to Russia and the fraternal Russian people. As representatives of the Macedonian people, part of a large family of Slavic peoples, we want to send an unambiguous message for the sake of a just world to Ukraine and respect for the rights of all its inhabitants,» the organizers read out an appeal from an impromptu stage. The protesters posted photos and videos on social networks. «The silence of the Western community about the crimes against humanity by the Ukrainian «Right Sector»*, trained and funded by Western instructors, which killed 14,000 civilians, of which 1,000 children, in the past eight years is terrible in Donetsk and Lugansk. The Orange Revolution in Ukraine was identical to the «motley revolution» in Macedonia carried out by the West,» party members pointed out and added that both «revolutions» were arranged in the interests of others. One speaker also sharply condemned the creation of laboratories in Ukraine for the production of biological weapons, anti-fascist slogans were voiced, calls for the eradication of neo-Nazism. 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. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed. *An extremist organization banned in Russia. video conversations with Ukraine
