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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov NEW DELHI, Apr 1 Russia appreciates India's objective position on the situation with Ukraine, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. «Our Western colleagues would now like to reduce any important international issues to the crisis in Ukraine. You know our position. We do not hide anything and we appreciate that India perceives this situation from different angles , not one-sided,» he said at the beginning of the meeting with his Indian counterpart Subramanyam Jaishankar. 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, and as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.