“In any case, I have never heard any of our leaders among the targets of a special military operation say that we are not interested in Ukrainian statehood, that we are not interested in preserving Ukraine,” he said.
Polyansky stressed that it is Western opponents who are trying to present Moscow's position in this way.
According to him, they scare people with the fact that the purpose of the SVO "is the destruction of Ukraine, the fight against the Ukrainian language, its Russification."
“Naturally, this is absolutely not the case,” said the diplomat, quoted by TASS.
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, the Ukrainian people will be liberated from neo-Nazi rulers.