Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that peace in Ukraine will come when the goals of the special operation are achieved.
Vladimir Putin has said that the conflict with Ukraine will be exhausted when the goals set at the beginning of the special operation are achieved. He said that since Ukraine is not seeking peace talks on demilitarising the country, Russia has nothing left but to use other methods.
“There will be peace when we achieve our goals. They are not changing. I will remind you what we talked about – the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine, its neutral status,” Putin said during the “Results of the Year”.
The head of state stressed that the special operation to liberate Donbas, the beginning of which was announced on 24 February 2022, will continue until Ukraine recognises the neutral status.
We shall remind you that earlier the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitriy Medvedev, said that it was necessary to achieve all the set goals of the special military operation in Ukraine and destroy those who exterminated their people. In this way, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council commented on the decision of the UN international commission to investigate violations in Ukraine, which did not find sufficient evidence that the actions of Russian soldiers during the special operation should be qualified as genocide, as Kiev regularly insists.