Russian President Vladimir Putin. Archival photoSt. Petersburg, 27 Apr. More and more neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries are appearing in Ukraine, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a meeting of the Council of Legislators. «The day before yesterday, at the board of the Prosecutor General's Office, he spoke about the need to form a detailed and irrefutable evidence base for all monstrous crimes, violations of norms international humanitarian law from neo-Nazis, foreign mercenaries, and there are more and more of them in Ukraine,» Putin said. 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 Kyiv 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 Donbas. .jpg» />Secret manuals of the US Army were found at the Azov base near Mariupol
