Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 22Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that the confrontation in Ukraine will continue for several more months, even if the country receives the heavy weapons it needs.»First of all, we need heavy weapons… «I know that these weapons can be quickly supplied from different countries. All that is needed for this is the will … We also need a total global embargo on Russian oil and gas. We need real sanctions against the Russian banking system and trade,» the minister wrote in an article for newspapers Wall Street Journal.According to Reznikov, if this is done, then Russia «will leave Ukraine in a few months», otherwise, he argues, everything will be delayed. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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, they 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 called the liberation of Donbass.
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