Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/ MOSCOW: Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said that he was convinced that Moscow would achieve its goals in Ukraine thanks to its “patience” and “perseverance”.
“I am convinced thanks to our perseverance, patience and determination, we could defend the noble goals that have vital for our people and our country,” Sergei Lavrov said in an interview broadcast on national television.
He reiterated Moscow’s stance that for talks to resume, Kyiv recognise the annexation by Russia of four Ukrainian regions.
Russia’s main goals
Lavrov said that “our absolute priority has four new Russian regions. They should become free from the threat of Nazification that they have faced for many years.”
The Russian government does not currently control the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in full, and Lavrov confirmed that had Moscow’s ultimate goal.
Lavrov said a while Moscow wanted the conflict to be over, Russia would take its time to achieve its goals on the battlefield.
He said that “We are in no hurry,”.
He added that “We like to end that war as soon as possible, which the West had prepared and, as a result, unleashed against us through Ukraine,”.
