Tue 19 April 2022:
Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow is not seeking “regime change” in Ukraine despite earlier calls from the Kremlin for Ukrainian forces to topple the government in Kyiv.
“We have said it repeatedly … We want the Ukrainians themselves [to] decide how they want to live … We want the people to be free,” Sergey Lavrov told Indian television news channel India Today.
He also confirmed Russia’s offensive in Ukraine had entered a new stage aimed at the “full liberation of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics” and ruled out any use of nuclear weapons, stating that Moscow would only use “conventional” munitions as part of what it calls its “special military operation” in the country.
Earlier on Lavrov said, Russia is considering only the option of using conventional weapons during the military operation in Ukraine at this stage, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Lavrov told India Today that the country is planning to use only conventional weapons when asked if Russia plans to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
The minister also mentioned that Russia had changed the positioning of its forces in Ukraine after the Istanbul talks but this was not valued properly by Kiev.
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