Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba confirms the operation and urges the world to arrest the Russian president
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba confirmed on Thursday that Russia had launched a military operation to invade Ukraine “on a large scale” and urged the world to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The peaceful Ukrainian cities are on strike. This is a war of aggression. Ukraine will defend and win. The world can and must stop Putin. The time to act is now », he said in a message on his official Twitter profile.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced this Thursday “a military operation” in the Donbas region after the request for military aid by the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and in the middle of the emergency Security Council that is being held In New York.
“The Donbas people’s republics turned to Russia with a request for help. In this regard, I decided to conduct a special military operation. Their goal is to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years,” Putin said in a message broadcast on state television.
In this sense, Putin has said that from Russia they will strive “for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as to bring to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation”, as stated the TASS news agency.
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