Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba MOSCOW, Mar 14 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that he had a conversation with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the parties discussed the tightening of sanctions against Russia. «Telephone conversation with Liz Truss about the next steps to increase sanctions against Russia. The pressure must increase until Russia stops its senseless aggression and the barbaric military crimes. Grateful to the UK for strengthening support for Ukraine,» Kuleba wrote on Twitter. Russia launched a special 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 Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at 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 Russian President emphasized.
