
MOSCOW, Mar 26 Commenting on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine is a thankless task, they demand silence, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Therefore, I will not comment on anything here, so as not to create problems for the negotiators and not to arouse any excessive hopes or, conversely, waves of emotions that such comments can create,» Medvedev 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.» 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 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR forces are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. Kuleba. At the moment, the negotiators continue to contact via videoconferencing. The Russian delegation, as in face-to-face meetings, is headed by Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.

