US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, May 3 US President Joe Biden called the crisis in Ukraine a turning point in history that happens once every six to eight generations. «We are at a turning point in history. Actually. It happens about once every six to eight generations,» he said during a trip to a plant in Alabama that produces Javelin anti-tank missile systems for Ukraine. Biden explained that he considers the events in Ukraine to be the «first real battle» between democracy and autocracy in modern conditions. .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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, and on March 25 they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
