Russian Foreign Minister Sergei LavrovMOSCOW, March 24 During a telephone conversation with Swiss President Ignazio Cassis, the situation in Ukraine.
"The main attention was paid to the situation in Ukraine and around it, the tasks of solving acute humanitarian problems, including measures to protect the civilian population. S.V. Lavrov informed his interlocutor in detail about the genesis of the crisis, outlined the principled Russian position regarding the causes and goals of the special military operation, the assessment of the negotiation process between Russian and Ukrainian representatives" that the parties agreed to «maintain a dialogue, including taking into account the readiness indicated by Switzerland to make a feasible contribution to achieving a realistic result.» 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 Russian president emphasized. in resolving the crisis in Ukraine