Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/MO)
The Russian ambassador in Belgrade, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, stated on Feb. 8 that the war in Ukraine would not spill over outside of that country’s borders.
Botsan-Kharchenko told BETA that Russia’s goals were defined on Feb. 24 last year and pertained solely to the protection of Russian people in the Donbas region.
“Western propaganda is announcing the spilling over of the war outside of Ukraine’s borders, which will certainly not happen. Russia was forced to launch the special military operation in Ukraine due to the several years of futile attempts at implementing the Minsk agreements, and the West’s rejection of requests for an agreement on international and European security. In such conditions, Russia and President Vladimir Putin had but one solution – the special military operation,” the ambassador stated.
He added that, after the referenda, the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions became part of Russia, and that Russia’s only goal was the de-Nazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, with the aim of permanently removing the threat to the safety of the Russian Federation. “There is no plan to expand the war outside Ukraine,” Botsan-Kharchenko pointed out.
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