Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPK)MOSCOW, April 6 The Russian military is doing everything to avoid civilian casualties during the special operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. «The Russian military is doing everything to avoid civilian casualties. They do not strike civilian targets and open humanitarian corridors daily so that people can leave dangerous areas,» she said during a briefing on Wednesday. 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 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.
