Lavrov: We barely had time, Kyiv was about to step on Donbass

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that during the military operations in Ukraine, Russia discovered data that Kyiv planned to start an offensive in the Donbass, TASS reports.

According to him, Russia warned the offensive of Kyiv in the Donbass, scheduled for March 8 and recalled that Moscow had already explained, “why could not be inactive anymore.”

“What we found in the positions of the Ukrainian army during a special military operation confirms that we barely managed to do it because on March 8 we planned” Plan B. “A huge group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, deployed by mid -February The lines of contact with the Donbass planned to force these territories to the gross violation of the Minsk agreements, resolutions of the UN Security Council, ”said the Russian Foreign Minister.