Viktor Yanukovych MOSCOW, Mar 14 Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said he treated to Vladimir Zelensky — both as a person and as an artist. «Yes, there were (personal contacts — ed.). I treated him well both as a person and as an artist,» he said in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to Yanukovych, immediately after the presidential election, he congratulated Zelensky on his victory. «I understood very well that it would be very difficult to work at such a level with his experience. I really wanted to support and help,» he added. . 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 there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.
