Russia to continue 'military operation' in Ukraine even in case of peace agreement

Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday that his country will pursue the goals of its "military operation" even in case of achieving a peace agreement with Ukraine.

Speaking in a live interview with international TV channels in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov said the military infrastructure, threatening Russia, must be destroyed.

"Demilitarization -- in the sense of destroying the military infrastructure that threatens us -- will be brought to an end, even if we sign a peace agreement. It will necessarily have to include such a clause.

He said that another goal, "denazification -- the fight against the Nazi ideology of the Third Reich --" will be continued as well.

Lavrov called the laws signed by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the "Nazist" laws which, he said, include excluding Russians from the country's indigenous people and prohibiting the use of the Russian language in the country.

He added that special forces in Ukraine, comprising the "supporters of the Nazi ideology that include Azov, Pravy sector, and Aydar units" behave "as looters" by plundering the settlements and stealing cars from civilians.

Lavrov also said "neo-Nazis" do not let foreigners leave the country, and that a foreign citizen was killed in the city of Kharkiv, where there are no Russian troops.

The question of how to continue to live in Ukraine and who to choose to lead this country should be decided by the Ukrainian people themselves, or rather, all the people living in a multinational Ukraine.

"The real murderers are fighting on the side of the Kyiv regime," the minister blasted.