Go to the mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin at the SCO summitSAMARKAND, Sep 16 Russia attracts only contractors for a special operation in Ukraine, is not fighting with a full army, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Friday. «We are fighting with an incomplete army, we are fighting only part of the Russian army, only a contract part,» he said. 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. The ultimate goal of the operation, according to the supreme commander, is «the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself.» will grow at the expense of contractors, the expert suggested
