Lavrov announced the expansion of “geographical coordinates” in the war with Ukraine
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The “geographical” tasks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have changed, now it is not only the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR on the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, but also a “number of states” appointed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with RIA Novosti and RT. The day before, the President of Russia spoke about Kyiv’s unwillingness to restore sharpness.
In an interview, Lavrov threatened that if Western countries continue to supply Ukraine with long-range weapons, then the geographical tasks of the Russian military will expand.
According to him, Russia cannot allow “the part of Ukraine that Zelensky will control” to choose weapons, which is a robbery of “our territory and the territory of those republics that have declared their independence, those that determine their future on their own” .
“As for the special operation and geographical coordinates, its president said very clearly, as you quoted: denatification, demilitarization – in the sense that there is no threat to our security, a military threat from the territory of Ukraine, this task remains,” he said. minister.
“When there was a meeting of negotiators in Istanbul, there was one geography, and our willingness to accept the Ukrainian proposal was based on that geography, on the geography of the end of March 2022,” he continues. “Now the geography is different. and Kherson region, Zaporozhye region and a number of other events, and this process continues, and continues consistently and persistently” (quoted by Kommersant).
Geography of the second day
The Russian invasion began on February 24, including the attack on Kyiv. At the end of March, after a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul, the servicemen became alienated and announced that they were concentrating their efforts on their territories of Donetsk and Lugansk Australia of Ukraine.
The slow advance of Russian troops in recent months continues on the production of Ukraine. The Ukrainian army has retreated from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk, but is holding back the future to Seversk, Bakhmut and Slavyansk.
Even at the beginning of the invasion, the authorities managed to partially capture the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and appoint their own administration there. The occupying authorities announced their intention to hold referendums on joining Russia. The expected date is September 11, given the voting day in Russia, experts from the Institute for the Study of War wrote.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly stated that Ukraine will regain the regions captured after February 24. After a case of western crime in Ukraine, a Russian citizen approaches the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army. The Russian command proceeds from a dilemma – the deployment of reserves in the Donbass or the development from Ukrainian counterattacks in the southwestern Kherson direction, which happened the day before in the report of the British Ministry of Defense.
“The stated political goal in the near future is to capture the entire Donetsk region. While Russia can still regulate territorial restrictions, their operational pace and increase is likely to be very slow without active pauses for reorganization and rearmament.” , – significant in the analysis based on British intelligence data.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with the BBC that Zelensky gave the General Staff a “specific order” to prepare plans for the de-occupation of all of Ukraine, including territories occupied since 2014.
Kyiv refuses to cancel the agreement with Moscow on Russian ultimatum terms. Russia accuses Ukraine of what is suspected of bringing to criminal responsibility against Western countries.
“The end result does not depend on the mediators, but on the desire of the contracting parties to fulfill the agreements. We see that the Kyiv authorities have no such desire,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said the day before following his visit to Iran.
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