UNITED NATIONS, April 1. /TASS/. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced that UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths will visit Moscow on April 3 to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

"He [Martin Griffiths] will be flying to Moscow on Sunday. And after that, he will be going to Kiev," Guterres told journalists on Friday.

"Which means that we don’t give up on the perspective of stopping the fighting in Ukraine and everywhere else in the world," he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 said in an early morning televised address that he had launched a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the leaders of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no intention of occupying Ukrainian territories, the sole purpose of the operation, the leader stressed, is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry emphasized that its forces are targeting key military infrastructures and not cities. The civilian population is not at risk, the Defense Ministry assured.