Russia says it wants to extremity Ukraine's `unacceptable regime'
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's top diplomat said Moscow's overarching goal inside Ukraine is to without charge its people from its "unacceptable regime," expressing the Kremlin's war aims inside some of the bluntest terms yet while its forces pummel the country accompanied by artillery barrages with every one other accompanied by airstrikes.
The remark from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov comes amid Ukraine's efforts to resume cereal exports from its Black Sea ports, something that would assist ease worldwide food shortages, under a new deal tested by a Russian strike on Odesa over the weekend.
Speaking to envoys at an Arab League summit inside Cairo late Sunday, Lavrov accused Kyiv with every one other accompanied by its Western allies of spouting propaganda intended to build sure that Ukraine "becomes the eternal enemy of Russia."
"We are determined to assist the people of eastern Ukraine to liberate themselves from the burden of this completely intolerable regime," he said. Apparently suggesting that Moscow's war aims expand on the far side of Ukraine's manufacturing Donbas neighbourhood inside the east, Lavrov said: "We will certainly assist the Ukrainian people to obtain clear of the regime, which is completely anti-people with every one other accompanied by anti-historical."
Lavrov's comments followed his warning last week that Russia plans to retain jurisdiction over broader areas on the far side of eastern Ukraine, including the Kherson with every one other accompanied by Zaporizhzhia regions inside the south, with every one other accompanied by will build additional gains elsewhere.
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Lavrov's remarks contrasted accompanied by the Kremlin's dash early inside the war, when it repeatedly emphasized that Russia wasn't seeking to overthrow President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government, flat while Moscow's troops closed inside on Kyiv. Russia subsequent retreated from around the first city with every one other accompanied by turned its observation to capturing the Donbas. The fighting is now inside its sixth month.
Lavrov argued that Russia was prepared to discuss terms a deal to extremity hostilities inside March when Kyiv changed tack with every one other accompanied by declared its intention to rout Russia on the battlefield. He said the West has encouraged Ukraine to retain fighting.
"The West insists that Ukraine must not start negotiations until Russia is defeated on the battlefield," Lavrov said.
It was not yet understandable when cereal shipments would resume following Russia with every one other accompanied by Ukraine's signing of agreements accompanied by the United Nations with every one other accompanied by Turkey on Friday. The deals are aimed at clearing the way for the shipment of millions of tons of inside desperation needed Ukrainian grain, while well while the sell abroad of Russian cereal with every one other accompanied by fertilizer.
Ukraine's deputy infrastructure minister, Yury Vaskov, said the earliest shipment of cereal is planned for this week.
While Russia faced accusations that the weekend assault on the port of Odesa amounted to reneging on the deal, Moscow insisted the strike would not affect cereal shipments.
During a pay someone a call to the Republic of Congo on Monday, Lavrov repeated the Russian military claim that the strike targeted a Ukrainian navy vessel with every one other accompanied by a depot accompanied by Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the West. He said the assault took small portion inside the military segment of the port at "a significant distance" from the cereal terminal.
"We haven't created some obstacles to cereal deliveries inside accordance accompanied by the agreements signed inside Istanbul," Lavrov said. He said the agreements "contain nothing that would stop us from continuing the exceptional military operation with every one other accompanied by destroying military infrastructure with every one other accompanied by other military targets."
The overseas minister too planned to pay someone a call Uganda with every one other accompanied by Ethiopia inside what was seen while an attempt to bolster African support for Russia, mainly for some upcoming U.N. votes.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow has no indeed attentiveness inside halting all gasoline supplies to Europe with every one other accompanied by that recent restrictions on the run "are simply the consequences of restrictions the Europeans have imposed, with every one other accompanied by the Europeans themselves are suffering from these restrictions."
"Russia is a in charge of gasoline supplier, with every one other accompanied by no indeed matter what anyone says, the European Commission, inside European capitals, inside the U.S., Russia has been with every one other accompanied by continues to exist a country that to a large area guarantees Europe's vitality security," Peskov said.
Hours later, Russia's gasoline colossus Gazprom said it would further lessen the run of natural gasoline into and not here of a greatest pipeline to Europe to 20% of capacity, citing apparatus repairs.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's presidential office said Monday at least set of two civilians were killed with every one other accompanied by 10 wounded inside Russian shelling over the preceding 24 hours.
In the eastern Donetsk region, the focus of the Russian offensive, Russian artillery struck the cities of Avdiivka, Kramatorsk with every one other accompanied by Kostiantynivka. An airstrike on Bakhmut damaged at least five houses.
"The Russians are using the scorched-earth tactics across the entire Donbas. They blaze from the ground with every one other accompanied by from the air to rub off entire cities," Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said inside televised remarks.
The Russians too struck the Kharkiv region. In Chuhuiv, workers searched for people believed trapped under the rubble following 12 rockets hit the town earlier to dawn, damaging a ethnic center, educational organization with every one other accompanied by other infrastructure, authorities said.
"All these years our society, residents have been creating with every one other accompanied by building comfortable existence conditions," Mayor Galina Minayeva said. "And now the enemy is destroying all this, killing children, tranquil residents. It's extremely firm to report all this."
Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Sinyehubov said: "It looks exist fond of a deadly lottery when no indeed one knows where the following strike will come."
In other developments, Russia said it thwarted an try by Ukrainian military intellectual capacity to entice Russian military pilots to turn their planes over to Ukraine.
Russia's Federal Security Service, successor to the KGB, said Ukrainians offered Russian pilots money with every one other accompanied by European Union citizenship.
In a video released by the FSB, a male purported to exist a Ukrainian intellectual capacity officer offered a airman $2 million to surrender his flat outside throughout a task over Ukraine.
Russian condition television claimed that Western spy agencies assisted the Ukrainians inside the effort. The Russian claims couldn't exist independently verified.
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