The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, May 6NATO stands for an early cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, but is doing everything to prevent this from happening, Alexei Zaitsev, deputy director of the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said at a briefing in Moscow.» The two-faced policy of the NATO and EU countries continues to arouse indignation, verbally advocating an early cessation of hostilities, they are doing everything to prevent this,» he said. «Arms deliveries to Ukraine are increasing, the scale of which is estimated at billions of dollars,» Zaitsev added. 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 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. What Washington and Brussels are up to in Europe
