Russian Foreign Minister Sergey LavrovMOSCOW, 15 Mar. Russia is stopping the war that the Kyiv regime has been waging for eight years against the population of Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba asked him to convey a message to Lavrov about the need political settlement around Ukraine.
Russia is ending the war started by Ukraine, said Nebenzya «(Iranian Foreign Minister) conveyed the wishes of Mr. Kuleba that it is necessary to stop the war as soon as possible. I can assure you that this is exactly what we are doing. We are stopping the war, which the Kyiv regime has been fought against the population of Donbass for years.This war must stop, especially now that we see once again the true face of the Kiev radicals, who yesterday attacked the center of Donetsk city from the Tochka-U system with cluster munitions, killing 20 and injuring even more civilians,» Lavrov said. According to him, all these facts are being hushed up in the West, where «they continue to whip up hysteria, spreading frank fakes.» The minister added that Russia handed over to Iran materials with information about what the Ukrainian government is like. 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 emphasized.
