MOSCOW, 8 Apr. The press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, called the significant losses among Russian military personnel during a special operation in Ukraine a huge tragedy. He made the corresponding statement on the air of the British television channel Sky News. «Yes, we have significant losses among the military. This is a huge tragedy,» Peskov said. He also noted that one of the goals of the special operation in Ukraine is to prevent the threat of a third world war, including including against NATO countries with nuclear weapons. Diplomatic conflict resolution The special operation in Ukraine, Peskov said, could end diplomatically. Further developments depend on the Ukrainian position and agreement with Russian conditions. The press secretary of the head of state stressed that official Moscow is ready to create comfortable conditions for continuing negotiations with Kiev. Russia, Peskov emphasized, hopes that the special operation in Ukraine «in the coming days, in the foreseeable future» will achieve its goals. «We really hope that in the coming days, in the foreseeable future, this operation will achieve its goals or end through negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations,» he said. Peskov noted that the Russian military is doing everything possible to complete the operation. At the same time, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday, Ukraine yesterday presented its draft agreement with Russia, which is a departure from the provisions fixed at the meeting in Istanbul. But Russia will continue negotiations with Ukraine, despite all the provocations, the Foreign Minister noted.The Ministry of Defense spoke about the action of intimidation of neo-Nazis in KharkovCrimes of the Ukrainian national battalionsIn Russia, Peskov said, there are many witnesses of what is happening in Mariupol and Bucha, who spoke about the terrible actions of the Ukrainian national battalions. Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities and the media distributed a video allegedly filmed in the city of Bucha, Kiev region where the bodies of the dead lie on the road. Many Internet users questioned the veracity of Kyiv's accusations against Moscow. The Ministry of Defense stated that all photographs and videos published by the Kiev regime, allegedly testifying to some kind of «crimes» by Russian military personnel in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, are «another provocation.» Peskov also assured that Russia from the very beginning never struck civilian targets in Ukraine. He once again noted that the statement spread in Ukraine and the West about the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol by Russia is a fake.»Nonhumans, worse than terrorists.» What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forcesCrime investigationRussia is interested in an objective investigation of all crimes in Ukraine, Peskov said. «We are interested in an independent and objective investigation of all crimes,» the spokesman said. at the war crimes trial, absent. «No, we don't see any possibility of that,» Peskov replied to a question «whether Putin is worried that he will end up in a war crimes court.» .jpg» />The Russian Ministry of Defense showed new facts of Bandera atrocities in the 1940sSpecial military operationRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to 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, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine.
The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In the DPR, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk; there are battles for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the rule of Kyiv. Over the past 24 hours, more than 18 thousand people, including more than 2.8 thousand children, were evacuated to Russia from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR.