The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in MoscowMOSCOW, Mar 16 Sending mercenaries and supplying weapons to Ukraine is hindered from normalizing and is being «rocked» by the situation in the region, Yury Pilipson, director of the Fourth European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. interferes with normalization, shakes the region, leads to degradation in the field of security. We bring these assessments to all partners,» the head of the department said. told what awaits Europe after the end of the special operation in UkraineRussian President Vladimir Putin earlier in a conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed that in Ukraine the appearance of mercenaries from the third x countries, including from Albania and Croatia, Kosovo militants, jihadists. Countries condoning the sending of mercenaries to Ukraine become accomplices in war crimes, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. 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 there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia stressed.
