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RUSSIA will expand its territorial ambitions in Ukraine if the country receives more high-tech Western weaponry, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today.
Mr Lavrov said it was no longer only “interested” in the Donbass, where Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics” immediately preceded its invasion.
It has installed regional governments in other conquered areas including Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, where Russia-imposed rulers have hinted they will be formally annexed to the Russian state.
Mr Lavrov named these as “geographical objectives” in his remarks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly questioned Ukraine’s right to independent existence, referring to it as “malorussia” — “little Russia,” a medieval term for what is now Ukraine — and saying the Ukrainian nation was an invention of Lenin’s.
Russia claimed to have killed 60 Ukrainian soldiers in a “precision strike” near Odessa, while Ukraine said it had badly damaged a bridge over the Dnipro river near Kherson, hampering Russian troop movements.
