Lavrov says Ukrainians will be liberated from neo-Nazi rulers

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in a documentary aired on Saturday that Ukrainians deserve friendly relations with their Slavic brothers and will be liberated from neo-Nazi rulers.

"The Ukrainian people will be liberated from neo-Nazi rulers. It deserves to live in good neighborliness, friendship, prosperity next to its Slavic brothers," he said in the film aired by the Rossiya-24 television channel.

Lavrov has collaborated with a documentary on the Russian television channel24 –entitled ‘Nazism under investigation– where he has stressed that Ukraine’s plans to regain control over Crimea and Donbas will not come to fruition.

In this sense, Lavrov has criticized Zelenski for, he says, ignoring the history of these territories, especially Crimea, and has taken the opportunity to ridicule the president by slipping that while events were taking place on the peninsula he was acting in ‘The Club of the Alegre and Ingenious’, a humor program

On February 24 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. The West subsequently imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia and stepped up the shipment of weapons to Kiev, which are worth billions of dollars.

Russian forces destroy 2,565 Ukrainian drones during special operation

Already more than 900 Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles have been destroyed during Russia’s special military operation, Russian Defense Ministry data shows.

“A total of 333 aircraft, 177 helicopters, 2,565 drones, 390 surface-to-air missile systems, 6,825 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 904 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3,620 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 7,362 pieces of special military vehicle equipment,” the military ministry said in a summary published Saturday.

The Russian MoD’s briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

• The Russian Air Force struck three points of temporary deployment of Polish mercenaries in the Kharkov region, up to two hundred militants were destroyed;



• In the DPR, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than a hundred mercenaries, as well as one tank, two armored combat vehicles, and eight cars;



• As a result of an attempted offensive in the LPR, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, and four armored vehicles were destroyed;








• Near Krasny Liman, LPR, Russian troops conducted a preemptive attack on Ukrainian positions. The Ukrainian regime lost up to 70 militants, one tank, four armored combat vehicles, and two pickups;



• As a result of an unsuccessful attack in the DPR by Ukraine, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, and three infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed;



• During a counterattack attempt in the Zaporozhye region, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored vehicles, and two pickups were destroyed;



• Russian troops hit six enemy control points in the Kharkov region, the LPR, and the DPR, as well as 67 artillery units in firing positions, manpower, and military equipment in 164 districts;



• In the DPR, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station was destroyed. In the Zaporozhye region, a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.