The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 13Kyiv is preparing new provocations, Moscow calls on the West not to succumb to them, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Sumy region, where Russian troops were previously stationed. We urge you not to succumb to these and other provocations,» Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday. Matvienko called the data on the use of chemical weapons by Russia in Ukraine a lie 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.
