Maria Zakharova, an official representative for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that the Russian special operation in Ukraine was not directed against the civilian population and did not aim to overthrow the current government in the country. The goal of the operation is to defend the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine and eliminate the military threat to Russia, which comes from Ukraine against the background of NATO’s influence on the post-Soviet state. “The goals of the operation do not include either the occupation of Ukraine, or the destruction…
