Mark Trevelyan – Reuters July 20, 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow’s military “tasks” in Ukraine now went beyond the eastern Donbas region, in the clearest acknowledgment yet that its war goals have expanded in the past five months.
In an interview with state news agency RIA Novosti, Lavrov said geographical realities had changed since Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held peace talks in Turkey in late March that failed to produce any breakthrough.
At that time, he said, the focus was on the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), self-styled breakaway entities in eastern Ukraine from which Russia has said it aims to drive out Ukrainian government forces.
“Now the geography is different, it’s far from being just the DPR and LPR, it’s also Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and a number of other territories,” he said, referring to territories well beyond the Donbas that Russian forces have wholly or partly seized.
“This process is continuing logically and persistently,” he said, adding that Russia might need to push even deeper.
If the West, out of “impotent rage” or desire to aggravate the situation further, kept pumping Ukraine with long-range weapons such as the U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), “that means the geographical tasks will extend still further from the current line”, Lavrov said.
Russia could not allow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “or whoever replaces him” to threaten its territory or that of the DPR and LPR with the longer-range systems, he said – referring casually, and without any evidence, to the possibility that the Ukrainian leader might not remain in power.
The foreign minister is the most senior figure to speak openly of Russia’s war goals in territorial terms, nearly five months after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion with a denial that Russia intended to occupy its neighbour.
Putin said then that his aim was to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine – a statement dismissed by Kyiv and the West as a pretext for an imperial-style war of expansion.
After being beaten back in an initial attempt to take the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Russia’s defence ministry said on March 25 that the first phase of its “special military operation” was complete and it would now focus on “achieving the main goal, the liberation of Donbas”.
Nearly four months later, it has taken Luhansk, one of two regions that make up the Donbas, but remains far from capturing all of the other, Donetsk. In the past few weeks it has ramped up missile strikes on cities across Ukraine.
Writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Catherine Evans
Of course the Jewish Commie objectives go beyond Donbas.
Its all a staged coordinated setup (between NATO/Soviet Russia) to prolong the war & slaughter Aryan Ukrainians in accordance with Judeo-Communist Russia’s ‘World Without Nazism’ military operation.
The Jews & Commies fear the pro-white nationalist-fascists & masses of Ukraine (Azov/Right Sector/S14 etc). Russia is a neo-Bolshevik State dominated by a syndicate of Jewish Oligarchs. So they started this war to: 1) prevent these ‘white fascists’ from focusing on obtaining political power & deposing the internal enemy (Jews) within Ukraine; & 2) divert/force them to fight/die to defend their nation from an external enemy (Commie Russia). The goal of the war for the Zionist-Communists is to preserve Jewish control of Ukraine while disabling/debilitating the white fascist enemy via their dispersal & reduction in war. Clever stratagem, but now its been exposed, thanks to me.
Best news I’ve heard on a looooo…no time.
Here’s hoping & 🙏 that Russia’s advance goes all the way across Europe… to The Atlantic!👍
This was inevitable. Ukraine east of the Dneiper would always be used by NATO as a launch pad for crossborder subversion, terrorism and attacks. At the very least, the new border should be along the Dneiper only diverting to take in Odessa.
And why SHOULDN’T I trust a former slut of the KGB and representative of the most murderous ideology in history?
Russia has no other option and surely Zelensky has to go.
“After being beaten back in an initial attempt to take the Ukrainian capital Kiev”.
More fake news lies. Russian forces were outside Kiev on day 3 of the SMO, but this force was nowhere near big enough to take Kiev. The purpose of this Russian deployment was to hold down significant numbers of UKrainian Nazis in Kiev. This was a brilliant strategy, but not as brilliant as nuking Kiev.
Russia will now advance all the way across UKraine.
Putin cary the war to USA !
USA is the only that wants europa destroyed
since 1917 + 1933
A lot of Commies on here Rixon.
Anonymous: West.
All this was perfectly predictable once it became apparent that russia had no feasible option other than take out the rabid mutt next door, jews about to arm it with nuke warheads.
In retrospect i may look like a predictive genius (spoiler: i am not), i.e.,:
• 2005, big online quarrel with a fellow torontonian of ukr extraction about election of yukshevich (orange revolution), i said they are ditching RUS, swapping for TALMUD. He, even though a fellow sympathizer of national socialism had no qualms about preference for jews over russians—hey dalton, what say you now buddy? [again, hp can confirm i ain’t making it up]
• 2007, gw bush points so-called missile shield located in poland/czechia at russia and claims that it is meant to intercept iranian icbm headed for amurrka (Bush said “the Cold War is over” and that Moscow has nothing to fear from the plan. He called the antimissile system a “purely defensive measure” aimed not at Russia but at “true threats.”, worth reading in hindsight). I set up some geodesics to show that any missiles out of iran headed for north america would have gone over the pole and the best intercept would have been over the canadian arctic, not these feebleminded central european slavs,
• 2014 when nuland was passing her homemade matzos in kiev maidan, i knew with 100% certainty that it was another salvo in jew war on russia, no different from jacob schiff (top rothschild agent then, like soros today) funding and instigating japanese attack on russian pacific fleet in 1905 in preamble to bolshevik kabbalist takedown of the romanov christian dynasty—same/same
• feb 2022 was a perfectly inevitable outcome and within days, russia demonstrated its military virtuosity over what was maybe one of the top 3 militaries in the world (at the time i had no idea just what an excellent fighting force ukes
arewere—i do now)• Judea Declares War On Russia and Christianity … what a laugh, Antichrist overplayed his hand and the messianic tikkun olam swallows a half-century setback at least.
if Putin wished to briefly consider my advice, don’t stop in ukr, carry it to the serpent’s head, annihilate israel, eliminate (fsb death squads) at least top 1,000 nightcrawler vampires globally—and you can forget american worries, americans have no fight with you, they’ll be busy with domestic spring cleaning.
am i wrong?
(no forecasting genius required, just careful weighing of facts, mene, mene, tekel upharzin, forget crystal ball, just take time to unravel rubik’s cube)
THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL !
franky boy mafiafriend
@ PETER PETHERINGTON
since europa gets only this alternatives :
annihilated from bothsides nukes or
ruled by jew commifascist corporative USZIO or
ruled by jew communist russian gulag system or
ruled by jew islamic kalifat or
ruled by jew(rothschild)chinese digital dictatur
@ LOBRO
YES you are wrong . Putin is a jew +
he is in the clutches of the worldjews !
he will never go against israel . he is
their GOLEM !
Maxwell theorem. x.y.z.
Missiles will reach the United States of America in short flight time. It is a flat plane and no angular velocity to over come. Let United Stated attack North Korea, they will rain down missiles in no time.
x.y.z. coordinates, no angles involved. Round earth, my ASS.
One have to STUPID!!!!! TO ACCEPT A BALL EARTH.
Mystic and Yogi
Putin over the atlantic + bering strait !
> A lot of Commies on here Rixon.
There’s no such thing as a ‘commie’ — it’s all in your head.
> One have to STUPID!!!!! TO ACCEPT A BALL EARTH.
According to the latest alt news, we’re all inside a simulation whatnot, so it doesn’t matter whether it’s a ball or an elephant’s back. Get with the game dude. Don’t forget — nessie is next.
Lobro, of course I remember just like I remember thinking (on day 1) that the Mossad(cia) was sniping both sides.