Goals.

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From DEBKAfile and thanks to same. Hot off the presses. Lavrov the Russian Foreign Minister issues yet one more warning.

DNR = Donetsk People's republic. LNR = Luhansk People's Republic.

"Russia broadens territorial goals after Ukraine army gets long-range US arms"

 Jul 20, 2022.

“'Russia’s geographic goals in Ukraine have changed,' said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavorv at a news conference on Wednesday, July 20. 'Now [our] geography is different. It is not only the DNR and LNR, it is also the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories,' he said and explained that this change was due to 'weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territory of those [eastern Ukrainian] republics that have announced their independence.'  FM Lavrov added: 'If Western countries supply long-range weapons to Ukraine, [these goals] will move even further.'”

FORGET MERELY THE DONBASS REGION! THE RUSSIAN ALSO CONCERNED WITH FURTHER OCCUPIED UKRAINIAN TERRITORY! THREAT FROM AMERICAN SUPPLIED HIMARS WEAPON SYSTEM A GRAVE MATTER FROM THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE!

And even the most casual observer can reasonably ask the question: "what exactly where the Russian goals and objectives from 24 Feb. onward."

I can reasonably suggest the patented answer would be either: 1. Maximalist. 2. Minimalist. With regard to the former a complete and 100 % replacement of the Ukrainian government with a puppet regime in total compliance with all edicts and dictates as issued by Moscow. Maybe even annexation into the Russian Federation. With regard to the latter the Donbass area militarily secured 100 % with some additional territorial gain, complete subjugation of the Donbass to Moscow rule, and eventual annexation into the Russian Federation.

Yankee HIMARS indeed must be causing worrisome damage to the Russian. If not so they would not have mentioned the "long-range" weapons so bluntly.

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