USAWASHINGTON, Mar 30 The US will continue to be a problem for Russia after the situation in Ukraine is resolved, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Roberts told RIA Novosti. and don't wait for it to show itself again. «Russia should not sign agreements if they do not include Ukraine's recognition that Crimea and Donbass are not part of Ukraine,» Roberts said. Roberts believes that Russia will have to decide whether to trust Kiev, which has refused to implement the Minsk agreements. «There were guarantors of the Minsk agreements, they did nothing. Why repeat the mistake again?» — Roberts said. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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 and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
