US Department of State Building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 11The US and its allies will not ease sanctions pressure on Russia until President Vladimir Putin reverses course on the Ukraine conflict, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. easing sanctions or other costs that we create and will continue to create for Russia until President Putin changes course,» he 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 there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.
