Russia expands its Ukraine goals, now seeks to oust Zelenskyy's 'absoluely unacceptable regime'.
Source: msn
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking to envoys at an Arab League summit in Cairo late Sunday, said Moscow is targeting the "absolutely unacceptable regime" of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Russian troops swept into Ukraine on Feb. 24 and rolled toward Kyiv before bogging down on the outskirts of the capital. The Kremlin then hit reset, focusing its efforts on the industrial Donbas.
We will definitely help the Ukrainian people to free themselves from the regime that is absolutely anti-people and anti-history, Lavrov said.
Zelenskyy was unbowed, pleading to win "this war for independence" and to keep Ukraine on a course towards full membership in the EU and becoming one of the most modern states in the world.
Read more: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking to envoys at an Arab League summit in Cairo late Sunday, said Moscow is targeting the "absolutely unacceptable regime" of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
As if Putin's endgame as ever changed. Russia will march into Kyiv as soon as it get the chance. The only rational strategy is the total defeat of Moscow's barbarians.
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Bayard
(30,274 posts)I think only the Ukranian people get to decide that. Arrogant bastard.

Evolve Dammit
(21,817 posts)Lovie777
(23,738 posts)in areas in Ukraine.
relayerbob
(7,449 posts)Make it a big public event.
It's always HIMARS time.
Lonestarblue
(13,560 posts)Who will be next? Moldova, where Putin already installed Russian troops against the will of the people?
NATO could end Putins ambitions, but leaders are too afraid of himand he knows that.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Justice matters.
(10,075 posts)"Regime change in Baghdad" without any accountability. (War Crime unpunished.)
turbinetree
(27,735 posts)the eye......and just lying your Russian ( Orc's ) fucking ass off.......this tells me that the small man complex Putin is losing his war....didn't your country have a election whereby your asshole boss won by 98% of the vote.....and what is really remarkable is that your team blackmailed google and apple to take down a voting app , and you and your bunch was asked by some asshole in Florida to interfere in a election here....yeah your legitimate alright....your nothing more than kleptocratic's.....fascist authoritarians.....and Zelensky is basically telling you to go pound sand....
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-apple-google-voting-app-navalny/
ashredux
(2,959 posts)Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)Then again, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D and Plan E didn't work out too well either. So they are back to Plan A.
Mr Lavrov is a fucking strategic genius!
maxsolomon
(39,127 posts)Basically, any Ukraine Govt after 2014 is illegitimate, therefore Zelenskyy is illegitimate. Yanukovitch is the legitimate President, never mind he was corrupt to the bone. Never mind he won the election with massive Russian interference.
I think that Putin at least, really believes this. Odd that he's turning the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine to rubble in response.
This War is far from over.
WTF does "anti-people and anti-history" even mean? Probably means something in Russian.
David__77
(24,859 posts)Shipping weapons doesnt change that basic fact.
Gore1FL
(22,981 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,424 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,783 posts)There's highway in Russia called M2. Carpet bomb everything within 7 miles of any part of it. Start at the Northern terminus. Use a GBU-43b to start things off then use the cheaper stuff moving on.
scum = putin = filth
CentralMass
(16,994 posts)will not stop.
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)Screw you Putin
Penn Voter
(247 posts)You and the Russians don't decide who the Ukrainian president should be. Your thugs, masquerading as military, who have raped, pillaged, and murdered Ukrainian civilians can go back to Russia and praise Putrid. He thinks he is the second coming of Peter the Great. He is more like Vlad the Inhaler! As for you Lavrov, you can go back what you do best - sticking your head up Putrid's ass.
paulkienitz
(1,514 posts)No wonder they get along so well with Trumpies.
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)I tested higher....
I am ripping them for appearing below average in intelligence.
Takes one to know one may apply at your peril?
You raid the country and call the regime unacceptable in oral or written comments MONTHS later?
Yeah you need ridiculed for AT LEAST that?
I await the results of Waddle Dump's Oval Office Russian visit stunt where he insisted on no record, yeah that still seems like boldface treason activity or whatever softer wordage you prefer?
^I want him executed for that, alone, meanwhile, all his other crimes against humanity going less checked?
^I want him executed so I never have to hear fresh takes from the super asshole; not worried about his re-election.
Smug life long criminals and all these non-stop money grubbing elites, I mean the worst of the worst, if they were all executed, that would be a great start, and I mean every last one of them on Earth and their spawn, you have to talk all that wealth and actually redistribute it, and I bet the world would be a much much much nicer and better planet, alas no chance in my lifetime, far too many dumb assholes with their offensive FAITH/Mysterious ways excuses for every fucking awful thing that goes down, I don't know how anyone can take that stuff seriously, with all the starving, and daily death going down, don't just look at your own country, there is non-stop turmoil, but look at the REAL reasons, and if you don't want to vomit, you are probably nasty.
Hardly anyone will read this, but that is how I am feeling at the moment.
-B
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