Motherland Monument in KyivMOSCOW, March 15 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that negotiations with Ukraine are aimed at ensuring its neutral status. «Negotiations that are now ongoing are to ensure the neutral military status of Ukraine in the context of security guarantees for all participants in this process, in the context of the demilitarization of Ukraine, so that no threats to the Russian Federation ever come from its territory , and in the context, of course, of ending the country's policy of nazification, which is enshrined in a number of legislative acts, including the need to abolish all discriminatory restrictions that have been imposed on the Russian language, Russian education, culture, Russian media,» he said. at a press conference in Moscow. 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 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.
