Ukraine war: Russia's Lavrov says ready to expand war aims

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By Ben Tobias
BBC News

 

Russia's military focus in Ukraine is no longer "only" the east of the country, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

 

In an interview with Russian state media, he implied Moscow's strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with longer-range weapons.

 

Russia would now have to push Ukrainian forces further from the front line to ensure its own security, he explained.

 

Full story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62231936

 

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[Bkk Brian]

Lets face it, 5 months now and Russia has failed to achieve its operational objectives with its illegal invasion, announcing further areas for annexation over and above Donetsk and Luhansk was always there plan from the beginning. With its rag tag military in tatters and resorting to its barbaric indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets reminiscent of its Syria days the war crimes continue daily unabated.

 

Russians May Face First Hague War Crimes Case by End of Year

 

The International Criminal Court is aiming to put forward its first case over alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine as early as this winter, according to people familiar with the matter.

 

A joint investigations team comprising several European judicial authorities was set up in March to gather evidence of alleged Russian crimes in Ukraine, the office of the prosecutor of the ICC is a participant in the investigative team, whose work is supported by the European Union’s agency for criminal justice cooperation, Eurojust.

 

Separately, the ICC and Ukraine are in talks about Kyiv delivering at least one Russian official -- a prisoner of war -- to the court, according to the people, the Russian official may be willing to testify against senior Russian commanders, the people said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/russians-may-face-first-hague-war-crimes-case-by-end-of-year

 

 

[Tropposurfer]

At the very least that vile Putin is trying to slowly chew off the bottom section of Ukraine, land-lock them, and thereby strange the economy (grain export being shipped and a massive part of the economic engine of the Ukrainian people). He's so bent he can't see he's driving Ukraine straight into the arms of the 'enemy' (as he sees it) the western European conglomerate. Or perhaps this is his plan all the while? By this means he can justify his bizarre empirical despotic ideas of a Great Russian Empire ala Peter the Great or the USSR.

For he needs an 'enemy' to point to to brainwash his people into thinking he's actually fighting for them against this 'great enemy'.

Anyway you slice it he's a nutjob, a dirty cowardly assassin, and a traitor to his own people.  

Edited July 21, 2022 by Tropposurfer