Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya speaks at the plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly in New YorkUN, 5 Apr. Moscow does not need Ukrainian lands, the Russian military is conducting a special operation to bring real lasting peace to the Donbass, Vasily Nebenzya, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN, said on Tuesday. Earlier, the Ukrainian president spoke via video link within the framework of the UN Security Council meeting. «We have come to you not because of the Ukrainian lands, we have come to bring the long-awaited peace to the bleeding Donbass. Not a truce, but a real lasting peace. And for this we need to eradicate cruelty… cut out the Nazi cancerous tumor. And we will achieve this goal, hopefully sooner than later,» Nebenzya said, addressing Zelensky. » /> The goals of the military operation will be achieved in full, the Kremlin said 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 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. How life is changing in the Donbass
