MOSCOW, March 3 Russian President Vladimir Putin drew the attention of French President Emmanuel Macron to the fact that years of genocide against civilians in Donbass, the Kremlin press service reports. military operation in Ukraine in the early morning of 24 February. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting 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 those responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. threatens. 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 President of Russia emphasized. Europe does not see the Nazis in Ukraine On the morning of March 3, more than 1.6 thousand objects were hit, 62 aircraft, 606 tanks and other enemy armored vehicles were destroyed. The territory around the mothballed Chernobyl and operating Zaporozhye nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 2, 498 Russian soldiers were killed and 1,597 were injured during the operation. The loss of the Ukrainian military, according to the Russian defense department, exceeded 2,870 people killed and about 3,700 wounded.
