Action of supporters of M. Sandu in Chisinau. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 29 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, answering the question whether Moldova should be worried about Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, said that the country should be worried about attempts to delay it in NATO. In an interview with Al Arabiya TV channel, Lavrov was asked if «Moldova should be afraid of something in connection with the special operation of Russia.» «They should worry about their own future, because they are being dragged into NATO, and I don't think it will help the security of Moldova,” the minister replied. “The goals of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine have been announced. They are to protect the civilian population in eastern Ukraine and ensure that there are no threats from the territory of Ukraine to this population and to Russia. That's all,» he explained. 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 Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
