Russia will not artificially adjust the deadline for the completion of the military special operation in Ukraine until Victory Day on May 9. This was said by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset.
“Our military will not artificially adjust its actions to any date, including Victory Day,” Lavrov said, adding that the pace of the operation in Ukraine depended primarily on the need to minimize any risks to the civilian population and the Russian military.
He acknowledged that “there was a tradition in the Soviet Union to do something big, strong for a holiday.” “the security of the civilian population, the absence of any threats on the territory of Ukraine to them and the Russians. A federation of offensive weapons and a nation that the West is actively trying to downplay,” Lavrov said.
He added that the Russian side was not urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender, but was urging Zelensky to order Ukraine’s “neo-Nazi battalions” to stop the resistance and release all civilians.
“Now Zelensky can also bring peace if he stops issuing criminal orders to his neo-Nazi battalions, forcing them to release all civilians and stop resisting,” he said.
Asked whether this meant that Russia wanted President Zelensky to surrender and whether it was a condition for peace, Lavrov said: “We do not demand that he surrender. We demand that he order the release of all civilians and to stop the resistance “.
Russia’s foreign minister also assured that Russia was not trying to change power in Ukraine. wants to “ensure the security of the people of eastern Ukraine so that they are not threatened by militarization or nazification.”
Source: news.bg.
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