Ukrainian servicemen MOSCOW, Mar 20 Ukrainian nationalists forcibly detain 6,838 foreign citizens in the country, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of Russia's National Defense Control Center, said on Sunday. than in two dozen other blockaded large settlements, as well as 6,838 foreign citizens from 18 states,» he said. territorial sea, the crews of seventy ships from 15 foreign states remain blocked. 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. from Mariupol on March 21
