Not Ukraine: Lavrov told what was the purpose of the beginning of the Russian invasion (video)

According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, the so -called "Special operation" is carried out not against the Ukrainian people, but against the "criminal regime". The purpose of the so -called "special military operation" of Russia was not the war with Ukraine, but to fight the "criminal regime".

On January 22, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Ministry) of Russia Sergey Lavrov in New York stated during a meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine. During a speech at the UN headquarters, Lavrov stressed that the Ukrainian people with Russia "stored" brotherly ". " It is no accident that after 2014, almost seven million Ukrainians were found in Russia, "Lavrov said, obviously, noting The presence of close ties between the peoples of the two countries.

He also added that the decision on military operation was necessary because of the "criminal regime" in Ukraine, which, he said, could not give up war against its citizens in the south and southeast of the country. "We were forced to start a military operation against the" criminal regime ", which came from a sense of impunity and did not want, despite our numerous, many years of efforts, to abandon the policy of total discrimination of Russian -speaking Ukrainians," Lavrov said.