NATO Secretary General Jens StoltenbergMOSCOW, Mar 24 with the Russian Federation after the events in Ukraine will no longer be the same, but it is necessary to maintain contacts on a number of topics, including risk reduction. «It is too early to talk about what kind of relations we will have with Russia in the future, but they will not be the same «What we were before… There is no chance that we will have the same relationship as before. But we need to maintain some kind of interaction with Russia on topics such as arms control, as well as risk reduction and deconfliction,» Stoltenberg said on CNN. 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. Johnson's NATO summit
