MOSCOW, March 11 Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to inform the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko about the situation Ukraine. «I will certainly inform you about the situation in the Ukrainian direction, and above all, about how the negotiations are going now, which are now being held almost on a daily basis,» Putin said at a meeting with Lukashenka. Russia launched a military operation on Ukraine February 24th. 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 President of Russia emphasized. to Ukraine, said Stoltenberg
