Russia Will Expand Goals in Ukraine Over West's Weapon Transfers: Lavrov

The Trends Journal has called for immediate peace negotiations

Russia’s top diplomat signaled Wednesday that Moscow will expand its goals in Ukraine due to Kyiv’s increased weapon capacity due to Western intervention.

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, said in an interview with state media that Russia’s military is no longer “only” focused on the eastern part of Ukraine. He implied that Moscow’s strategy has changed after Western intervention with longer-range weapons, the BBC reported.

He told Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT, that Moscow cannot allow the remaining region of Ukraine controlled by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces to “possess weapons that would pose a direct threat to our territory.”

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“The geography is different now,” he said. He now named Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as new objectives, the report said.

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Kherson is considered valuable real estate and is a shipbuilding center. The New York Times reported that the area has been a Russian staging ground in recent weeks.

There are reports that Ukraine could be staging a counteroffensive there.

John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said the window of opportunity for Ukraine could be closing before the Kremlin annexes that territory.

Natalia Humeniuk, the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s southern forces, told the paper that Ukraine’s single goal is to reclaim all its territory.

Lavrov took particular issue with the U.S.’s decision to provide Ukraine with HIMARS. He called out the "impotent anger" and a "desire to make things worse."

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The Trends Journal has long pointed out that the war in Ukraine has evolved into a war of attrition between Kyiv and Moscow and direct conflict between the U.S. and Russia, since the Washington has sent nearly $50 billion to Ukraine since the war began on 24 February.

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TRENDPOST: Anyone who suggests anything but a complete victory for Ukraine is immediately condemned by Kyiv and banned by its most supportive Western allies. Russia is a much bigger power and is pounding Ukraine’s eastern side despite billions in weapons and training from the West.

The Biden administration and Ukraine are in no hurry for a peaceful resolution and has said it wants to see Russia badly damaged and weakened so the military is impotent and cannot invade again. 

China, in the meantime, is watching all of this and benefiting from buying Russian gas and oil at a steep discount while the rest of the world struggles.