T-64 tank abandoned by Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kherson regionMOSCOW, Mar 16 Slovenia and Croatia of lethal weapons to Ukraine are a gamble, its authors must understand against whom it will be used, Yury Pilipson, director of the Fourth European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. regime of lethal weapons. The authors of this adventure should be aware of who the weapons will be used against,» Pilipson 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 the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
