German President Frank-Walter SteinmeierBERLIN, Apr 8Both military personnel and commanders, as well as those who made political decisions, should be held accountable for possible «war crimes» in Ukraine, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The Russian Federation believes that Ukrainian troops and politicians are preparing provocations and commit war crimes. «Everyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to answer for them (before the court). This includes soldiers, this includes military command. And it goes without saying, and those who bear political responsibility,» Steinmeier said in an interview with Spiegel magazine, answering a question whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov should stand trial in The Hague for possible «war crimes» in Ukraine.
Macron estimated the timing of the end of the conflict in UkraineRussia 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.Arestovich claims that the West provided Kiev with heavy weapons. Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov, said that Moscow was calling on the United States to provide information about military biological activity in Ukraine and prevent a provocation using chemical weapons by the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. Major Igor Konashenkov had previously warned that Ukrainian nationalists might be preparing a provocation using poisonous substances and attributing their actions to Russian forces. In addition, the Russian embassy in Washington noted that Russia «is reliably aware that Ukrainian radical groups under the control of representatives of the American special services have prepared several possible scenarios for the use of toxic chemicals to carry out provocations against civilians» in order to blame Russia for this. The embassy emphasized that this information «cannot but cause serious concern, given that the United States has not yet destroyed the national stockpile of chemical warfare agents.» jpg» />Britain imposed sanctions against Putin's daughters
