Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov stated that Russia intends to continue the war against Ukraine at least until it occupies the entire Luhansk and Donetsk regions. He said this in interview French TV channel TF1.
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“The obvious task is to push the Ukrainian army and battalions outside the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. [Захват] Donetsk and Luhansk regions, recognized by the Russian Federation as independent states, is an absolute priority,” Lavrov said.
He also made it clear that Russia is not going to return the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to Ukraine.
“As for the rest of the territories where people live who do not want to break ties with Russia, the population of these regions will decide. I don’t think they will be happy to return to the power of a regime that has proven its complete Russophobic essence. The people themselves should decide,” he said. Lavrov.
- The Luhansk region is now 95% under Russian occupation. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 29 that Russia sent huge forces to seize Severodonetsk, because this is a fundamental task for the occupying contingent. “They don’t care how many lives they have to pay,” Zelensky said.
- Russia also occupied the southern part of the Donetsk region and recently entered one of the northernmost cities in the region – Estuary. But the largest cities in the north of the Donetsk region are Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, etc. remain under Ukrainian control.
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