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The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation . Archival photoMOSCOW, May 4.Today, representatives of Kyiv ask for one thing, then they refuse, so there is no need to focus on the statements of the Kyiv regime, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the prospects for negotiations with Ukraine. «Listen to them ( statements by representatives of Kyiv — ed.) and no one will comment every day. There is a situation on the ground, they are dealing with it. There is, of course, a negotiation track, which was organized at the request of the Ukrainian side. But we know this — that today they ask for one thing, then from they refuse it, then they accuse that they didn’t get something,” Zakharova said on Sputnik radio. , Lavrov said. According to her, this is a «classic of behavior» of the Kyiv regime. «Therefore, one should not be guided by everything that comes from there,» the representative of the Foreign Ministry concluded. Russia began 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 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.