Sputnik is live from Moscow where spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova holds her weekly press briefing.
The presser is being held amid the special military operation in Ukraine, launched by Moscow in February. President Putin stressed that the operation was started to stop the genocide in Donbass perpetrated by Kiev, and noted that Russia's goal is the demilitarisation and de-Nazification of Ukraine.
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