Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna RadaMOSCOW, Mar 20 Russia insists on a written response from Kyiv before 5 am on Monday to proposals to rescue civilians in Mariupol and urban infrastructure, said at a briefing on Sunday the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. all the listed, purely humane proposals of the Russian Federation, in the name of saving Mariupol residents and the city's infrastructure,» he 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 Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. militants become «martyrs»
