Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested on Monday that Russia’s so-called “special military operation” launched by President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 24 is intended to prevent a war in Ukraine. “The goal of Russia’s special military operation is to stop any war that could take place on Ukrainian territory or that could start from there,” Lavrov said in a statement, according to Britain’s Russian Embassy. Lavrov was pushing the Kremlin’s line that the invasion launched by Putin is a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and detain leaders it claims are neo-Nazis. Ukraine and the West argue this is a false pretext used in an attempt to justify the invasion. His comments come after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Reuters on Monday that Russia could “end war immediately” if Ukraine agreed to sign a neutrality agreement that would prohibit it from entering NATO. Peskov also said Ukraine …