Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday said that Moscow will help the Ukrainian people “get rid of the regime” in Kyiv, suggesting Russia’s war aims have expanded even more.
“We will certainly help the Ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and anti-historical,” Lavrov said in Egypt, referring to the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Earlier in the war, Russia said its focus was to “liberate” the breakaway republics in the eastern Donbas region. But Lavrov said last week that Russia’s goals now extend beyond the Donbas, into the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and “a number of other territories.”
It’s not clear from Lavrov’s comments on Sunday if Moscow has decided to pursue regime change in Ukraine as its official policy. Lavrov previously said that Russia wasn’t looking to depose Zelensky.
Back in March, President Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” but the White House quickly walked back his comments and said the US was not pursuing regime change in Moscow.
Lavrov’s comments are another sign that the war in Ukraine won’t be ending in the foreseeable future. Last week, he said peace talks with Ukraine didn’t make sense as the West was pumping arms into the country and discouraging Kyiv from negotiating.
On Friday, Zelensky rejected the idea of any sort of ceasefire with Russia, saying it would give Moscow a chance to prepare for another offensive. Ukraine still maintains that it will keep fighting until it drives Russia out of all the territory it captured since the invasion started on February 24, which would require a major military offensive.
The US helped overthrow Ukraine’s democraticly elected leader in 2014 to get Ukraine into the EU, so Russia overthrowing this govt is just as fair. What the Ukrainians want matters little to all the relevant parties.
Right, he’s not “expanding” the goals at all. From the beginning the stated goals have been:
1.) Autonomy/independence for Donbas
2.) recognize Crimea part of Russia.
3.) Neutrality (no NATO)
4.) demilitarization and denazification.
Not push into other NATO countries. Pure propaganda by the MSM.
When have “what the Ukrainians want” ever mattered to anybody? France, Poland, Germany, USSR?
Thank God for that, in fact the entire woke/ Nazi infested west need regime change and de-nazification and will get it, 4 regimes in Europe is already down…
Yes, thank God. For the third time in modern history it falls to Russia to save Western Civ. The Neocons and their Krieg Stadt have compassed their own destruction. It will be painful for all of us, –some a lot more than others– but, unless their lunacy goes thermonuclear, it offers the chance mankind may have a future beyond Capitalism.
Indeed – Denazification has always been a orginal goal of the peacekeeping operation. Kiev is a regime that calls Bandera a ‚freedom fighter‘
Lavrov & MOD: Mr. President, things aren’t going as planned.
Putin: Quickly, change the objectives.
Whatever the details or thrust of the original plan, the results speak for themselves. The influence and control of a vast area of productive life has been liberated from the corrupt coup plotters and their Nazi ilk. We can only hope that those who conspired in the 2014 coup to divide the people of Ukraine are met with justice for hell they unleashed!!!!
Soon Lord Voldemort Zelensky will be banished from the world and peace talks can begin.
The people of Ukraine will rue the day they overthrew their DEMOCRATICALLY elected pro Russian leader for a pro Western US puppet.
Zelensky has made a lot of enemies recently. He banned political opposition. He fired important members of his staff. His obsession to hold ground at any cost has convinced a growing number of soldiers that he places no value on their lives. Entire battalions are refusing to obey orders. He has been forced to deploy troops to the front with orders to prevent troops from other units from running away. Ethnic Ukrainians in western areas are volunteering to support Russia.
He would be wise to keep his passport ready for a sudden departure.
I just read that a Ukrainian governor wants to impose a total lock down of a city in southern Ukraine to hunt down people who collaborate with the Russian and pass on intelligence. This most likely happened in Bucha (and other places too), where collaborators were murdered by the Azov Nazis. It goes to show that the Ukrainian population – and not only in the Donbas – see the Russians as liberators. They revolt against the Regime at great risks of their lives.
Kissenger* warned about this war spinning out-of-containment in about two months time (that was 7 weeks ago). I am antiwar. Others are proWar of the Ukraine or Russian flavors. The U.S. administation will say/already says “See we told you so** “. 9.5 million have passed the borders. Eastern Ukraine is being wrecked. The old stay & suffer, their youth flee and crowd other areas of Ukraine. For what? Nonsensical Geopolitics with an exaggeration of antiSlavic chauvinism. Two western Governments*** have fallen (Italy & the U.K). The boat is leaking but it has not sank. Negotiations are still the answer (as wrecking Europe to save Ukrainian aspirations is not working).
*Henry **Russia is just a bad, irrational (because they don’t interpret the world ‘our’ ways) actor. They will always shift their goals consistantly on a cost-benefits calculation ***political alignments (their own legitimate development, goals & aspirattions are being distracted/altered)
Negotiations are the answer, all right. We do not want negotiations. Ukraine will not have negotiations as long as we are in charge in this proxy war.
Perhaps Russia can help America get rid of the dimoRats.
And the republicans.
So you want them to do what? Come kill American civilians who disagree with you?
Not kill Americans but do the same thing America does in quite a few other nations, fund and support opposition groups.
Do you think they aren’t doing that already?
Hope spring eternal!
What a weird, creepy thing to wish for.
Regime change was always the plan, despite Lavrov having said earlier that Russia “wasn’t interested” in regime change. You have to parse Russian words carefully. What Russia is “interested in” is its security – and that can’t happen with any part of Ukraine under control of anyone but Russia. No “rump Ukraine” in NATO or under Polish control (although the latter is not entirely impossible depending on how much Poland wants.) Russia needs enough of Ukraine and a pro-Russian government in order to install strategic weapons to counter the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania. This is why Russia is allowing Belarus to have nukes, as well, which confirms the intent in Ukraine.
One of the original stated objectives of Putin was to “de-nazify” Ukraine. Ukraine’s current U.S. puppet government is infested with and controlled by neo-nazis so it follows that Russia would end its illegal rule over the Ukrainian people. The Donbass and Crimean Ukrainians never voted in the election that put Zelensky in power: he is not representative of the people in all the territory Zelensky and the globalists say they want to again control.
Zelenski swept to power on a peace manifesto. What a complete corrupt liar he is. He is a Jew overseeing a Nazi regime in Europe….Think about that. Just how corrupt and racist we have become.
Trying to reason with messianic, narcissistic and delusional racist maniacs is a futile task. So i dont. I just post the truth and leave the racist bigots to themselves. It is stunning just how many their are.
The Russians need Zelenski to sign the surrender document. No one else can sign it as its an issue of ligitimacy. The US diplomats have indirectly threatened the life of Zelenski, they want him dead they can not allow a legitimate signing of the surrender.
It is stunning how this site uses language cancellation to support massive censorship and brutal oppression of freedom of speech and freedom of association. The cornerstones of freedom and democracy.
“Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by News from Antiwar.com.”
So you cant say that a person from Israel is running a “refer Germany WW2 regime” on this site in plain english.
Sometimes the truth can offend, so we silence them right. I do understand that if you dont censor on behalf of the dictators YOU WILL BE SILENCED. A viscous cycle.
And how long till you ban me? Anti war my arse.
https://journal-neo.org/2022/07/26/us-is-stepping-up-its-efforts-to-squeeze-russia-out-of-armenia/
US stepping up efforts to squeeze Russia out of Armenia.
Will be better if Ukrainian people will put these comedians on trial,Russia only helping to inform who are Zelenski,how much money he has
After short time Zelensky will demand Israel protection
Welcome to the 4th Reich. 26 Jul 2022 The UK imposed sanctions against its own citizen Graham Phillips for covering the situation in Donbass, his assets and home were also seized.
His crime was to report the truth. This is now a common theme among the five eyes countries. State theft of its citizens assets on political grounds (state terrorism), this is not a democracy its a Kakistocracy.
Here in New Zealand i am doing all i can to ensure that Jacinda Ardern goes to the Hague to answer for her many many crimes against the people of New Zealand and the world.
Thanks for sharing this. Unbelievable. Reminds me of reading the Czech Republic arresting their own citizens and charging them with felonies for dare saying anything against their government’s support of this insane war.
It is stunning how this site uses language cancellation to support massive censorship and suppression of freedom of speech and suppression of freedom of association. The cornerstones of freedom and democracy.
“Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by News from Antiwar.com.”
Any real decent conversation about actual freedom, the dehuminasation of us all and any remnants of freedom and democracy lead to cancellation. This is the Western dictatorships modus operandi.
Freedom of speech is the right to offend. It is not the jurisdiction of corporations to OK what can and cant be said, that is what we have “courts of law” for. We are all innocent untill proven guilty and we all have the right to defend ourselves in a court of law. So all you are doing is cancelling freedom and the law. this is FASCISM. Does Antiwar understand the part it plays in support of war? Does Antiwar even care? after all its all about cancelation of any agenda not authorised by the dictators that pretend to be democracies and we are just useful idiots right? I do understand that if you dont do as the dictators require YOU WILL BE CANCELLED.
Shame on Antiwar, shame on the moderators. Shame on us all for allowing this to happen.
Tell me you don’t understand what freedom of speech is without telling me you don’t understand what freedom of speech is.
Antiwar.com will not ever try to tell you “what can and can’t be said.”
But Antiwar.com does get to decides who can use its resources to say what, in the same way and for the same reasons that every drunk off the street doesn’t have the right to sing Auld Lang Syne at 2 a.m. in your living room.
You don’t have to like it. That’s how it is whether you like it or not.
Dont piss in my pocket and tell me its raining. You just reinforced the exact point i was making. Shame on you. Antiwar my arse.
“Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by News from Antiwar.com.”
So you cant say that a person from Israel is running a “refer Germany WW2” regime on this site in plain english.
Sometimes the truth can offend, so we silence them right. Or is that if you dont censor on behalf of the dictators YOU WILL BE SILENCED.
And how long till you ban me? Anti war my arse.
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Well, look on the bright side — at least Antiwar.com won’t sentence you to ten years in prison for referring to the war as a “special military operation.”