Russia does not demand that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky surrender, it demands that he give an order to release all civilians and stop resistance, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset.
To the question “Do you want Vladimir Zelensky to surrender? Is this a condition for the world?” The Russian minister replied that “we do not demand that he give up”: “We demand that he give an order to release all civilians and stop resistance,” reports Lavrov RIA Novosti.
“Our goal does not include a change in the regime in Ukraine. This is an American specialty. They are doing this all over the world,” the Russian minister says, adding: “We want to ensure the safety of people in the east of Ukraine so that neither militarization threatens them , neither the Nazification of this country, and the security threats of the Russian Federation came from the territory of Ukraine. “