Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said If Ukraine gets long-range weaponry from Western nations, the geographical missions of Russian special operations would shift.
“The President said very clearly, as you quoted him - denazification, demilitarization in the sense that there are no threats to our security, military threats from the territory of Ukraine, this task remains,” the minister said in an interview with Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT.
According to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, Lavrov said that Russia is now focusing on the southern Ukrainian provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, as well as a "number of other territories."
He also said that Russia's "objectives" will broaden if Kyiv's Western supporters equip Ukraine with long-range missiles.
“We cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Zelenskyy will control or whoever replaces him to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territory of those republics that have declared their independence, those who want their future decide for yourself,” he said.
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