NATO logo banners in front of the organization's headquarters in BrusselsBERLIN, Mar 25 NATO's flank after the start of the conflict in Ukraine will be continuous, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. will move forward every day,» Scholz said at a press conference following the EU leaders' meeting in Brussels on Friday. NATO's «brain-death» failed, he added that the situation in Ukraine now meant that «the 27 EU states are considering how they … can reduce their dependence on raw material supplies from Russia.» According to Scholz, «this process is irreversible.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» NATO in the situation in UkraineTo do 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at 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 stressed.
