Putin said that the goals of the special operation in Ukraine have not changed

“Nothing has changed, I said in the early morning of the 24th directly in public to the whole country, to the whole world.

I have nothing to add to this.

Nothing has changed,” Putin said.

He noted that the purpose of the special operation is the liberation of Donbass, the protection of the people living there, "the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself."