First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky. File photoUN, June 29The special operation in Ukraine will continue until the goals are achieved, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the United Nations, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
" operation in order to stop the shelling of Donbass by Ukraine and so that from the territory of this country, turned into anti-Russia at the suggestion of a number of Western countries, as well as from its nationalist leadership, the threat to both Russia and the inhabitants of the south and southeast of Ukraine ceased to emanate. And until these goals are achieved, our operation will continue,” Polyansky 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 Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.