
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. File photo ANKARA, May 1. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that there are forces interested in continuing the conflict in Ukraine, they are no longer hiding.» Our president (Tayyip Erdogan — ed.) meets with both leaders. The only goal of our president is to stop the war and bring the two leaders together. We sincerely continue our efforts … Everyone sees that there are those who do not want the war to end. Now these countries are almost not hiding, «the TV channel quoted Cavusoglu as saying A Haber. Russia launched a 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 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 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.

