Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a televised addressUN, 5 Apr. Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya told Vladimir Zelensky that his accusations against the Russian military were unsubstantiated. Earlier, Zelensky spoke via video link as part of a UN Security Council meeting. «Madame Chairman… I want to take advantage of the virtual participation in our meeting of the President of Ukraine and address him directly. We leave unsubstantiated and sweeping accusations against Russian military personnel on your conscience, which are not supported by any eyewitness accounts. We talked about this in detail at a press conference yesterday,» Nebenzya said. 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
