Lavrov threatened that Russia’s targets would expand even further if the West handed over long-range weapons to Kyiv, according to the agency.
Caused by Sergey Lavrov. Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the geographic targets of Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine are no longer limited to the eastern Donbass region but include a number of other territories, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Lavrov threatened that Russia’s targets would expand even further if the West handed over long-range weapons to Kyiv, according to the agency.
“The geography is different now. It is not only the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, it is also the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia and a number of other territories, and this process continues, in a steady and unrelenting way,” he said in an interview with the Ria-Novosti agency. and the RT network.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Pres Vladimir Putin denied that he intended to seize Ukrainian territory, saying his goal was to demilitarize and “de-Naziize” the country — a statement that Kyiv and the West dismissed as a pretext for an expansionary war.
After being repulsed in its initial attempt to capture Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, the Russian Defense Ministry said on March 25 that the first phase of the special operation had been completed and would now focus on “achieving the main goal, the liberation of Donbas.”
Almost four months later, it has captured Luhansk, one of the two regions that make up Donbas, but is still far from capturing all of the territory of the other Donetsk region.
However, his forces have already seized territory far beyond the Donbass, especially in the southern regions. of Zaporizhia and Kherson, and continue to launch missile strikes on cities across Ukraine.
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