Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 21The G7 finance ministers and central banks said they have «provided and promised» more than $24 billion in support to Ukraine for the current year.»Together with the international community, we have provided and promised significant additional support, the amount of which exceeds $24 billion, for 2022 and beyond, both in material and financial terms,» the ministers of finance and chairmen of the Central Bank said in a statement. According to the document, Kyiv from 2014 to 2021 received more than US$60 billion in economic support. «We are ready to do more if necessary,» the statement said. Russia launched a special 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.
