SenegalMOSCOW, Mar 4 Senegal's MFA summoned Ukraine's ambassador to protest recruitment of their citizens to participate in hostilities. The communiqué says that this is about the publication on Facebook of the Ukrainian embassy in Dakar, in which Senegalese volunteers were called to participate in the armed conflict in Ukraine. . According to him, 36 citizens of Senegal filled out the questionnaire for registration as «volunteers». The Senegalese Foreign Ministry called on Ukrainian diplomats to immediately remove the material posted on social networks. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev 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, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
