MOSCOW, Mar 19 Russia had no other choice, managed to disrupt the anti-Russian project, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the special operation in Ukraine. Lavrov recalled the proposals on security guarantees transmitted by Moscow to the West, but they refused to talk about Ukraine and NATO. «we had no other choice to protect the Russian people in Ukraine. We recognized the DPR and LPR, signed an agreement on mutual assistance with them, and in response to their request, the president ordered a special military operation to be carried out,» he said during a conversation with the finalists of the track «International» competition «Leaders of Russia.» «I'm sure you know how during this operation the worst fears were confirmed regarding the plans that were nurtured and which were prevented by our military operation — plans to capture that Donbass, and you know about the uncovered facts of a very dangerous military biological program that the Pentagon carried out in many cities of Ukraine,» he stressed. >08:00″This is different»: Europe is building totalitarianismLavrov noted the hysterical and unprecedented reaction of the West to the special operation. «This only proves one thing — the project» anti-Russia «was thwarted by the operation, the purpose of which the president set, firstly, to ensure the safety of people in the Donbass, and secondly, the elimination of threats to the Russian Federation, which accumulated in the form of the militarization of Ukraine and its nazification. When they realized that our line helped to thwart their plans, you see how they broke the chain, by and large,» the minister said.
