Participants of a rally in support of Russia near the Russian Embassy in YerevanYEREVAN, Mar 14Dozens of Armenian volunteers are ready to go to Donbass to participate in a Russian special military operation, Ruben Tsaturyan, a participant in a rally in support of Russia in front of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan, told reporters on Monday. «We have gathered to express our solidarity with the Russian people, and there are guys here, There are 22 people, but there are many more who are ready to go to Donbass or Crimea right now, stand next to Russian brothers and fight against fascists and international terrorists,» Tsaturyan said. He said that among those who want to go to Donbass there are even representatives of France.A rally in support of the Russian special operation is taking place in Yerevan Tsaturyan handed over a letter to the Russian embassy, which says: «We, the volunteers of Armenia, ask you to transfer us to the zone of the special operation against Ukrainian nationalists and international terrorists. We firmly support the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin and are ready today go to the special operation zone.” 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 the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.
