Chernobyl NPPMOSCOW, Mar 11 Statements from Kyiv about the threat posed by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after it was taken under control by Russian troops, do not correspond to reality, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a comment. «They do not correspond to reality and are disinformation,» Zakharova said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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.
