Lavrov says special operation goals haven’t changed, Ukraine can’t be terrorist state
According to the minister, Russia can’t allow Ukrainian citizens who consider themselves Russian or Russian-speaking to be deprived of this right
MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday said the special military operation goals remained unchanged and that Ukraine shouldn’t be a terrorist state that’s allowed everything.
"As for the limits of the goals that we set during our special military operation, the President [of Russia Vladimir Putin] has outlined these goals, they remain unchanged. They will be achieved. Ukraine shouldn’t be a terrorist state that terrorizes its own citizens," he said on the "60 Minutes" program on Rossiya-1 television.
"It should not be a country that’s allowed everything, and whose impunity crosses all boundaries and leads to murders of journalists, political figures, and deputies of the Verkhovnaya Rada," the minister said.
According to the minister, Russia can’t allow Ukrainian citizens who consider themselves Russian or Russian-speaking to be deprived of this right.
"It’s not only about the residents of Donbass, but about how Ukrainian nationalists treat peaceful citizens, as it is now happening in those areas of the Kharkov Region, and parts of the Zaporozhye Region, that they entered after our special military operation participants regrouped," he said.