Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu . File photoANKARA, Mar 27Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held phone talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, discussing the situation in Ukraine.»Today, March 27, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held a telephone conversation with the Minister Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. During the meeting, current events in Ukraine were discussed,» the press service of the Turkish Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti. 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 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. and Russia, said the expert
