No end to Ukraine conflict until all Russian conditions met: Moscow envoy to Iran
Yusef Jalali
Press TV, Tehran
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict rages on for almost two weeks, Russian ambassador to Iran, Levan Dzhagaryan, held a press conference to expound on the latest developments of Russia's military operation in Ukraine.
The Russian diplomat criticized the international community’s outcry over the Ukraine crisis and censured its inaction towards wars on Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military campaign in Ukraine over concerns about military activities close to Russia's borders by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as NATO, an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries plus the US and Canada. Ukraine and Russia are now holding talks in Belarus for a way out of the deadly conflict.
Regarding to Moscow's conditions in the peace talks, Russian diplomat says demilitarization of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in eastern Ukraine, collectively known as Donbas are among the main conditions Moscow has stated to end the war.
The two regions broke away from Ukraine in 2014 after refusing to recognize a Western-backed Ukrainian government that had overthrown a democratically-elected Russia-friendly administration.
The Russian ambassador reiterated Moscow's claim that it is not after occupying Ukraine. He blamed the crisis on US and NATO intervention in Ukraine that left Russia no other way but to take a military action, an action which the envoy says if had not been taken, the region would have collapsed into a bigger war.
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