Russia’s foreign minister says the Kremlin is seeking to seize more land in Ukraine than just the eastern Donbas region. On Wednesday, Sergey Lavrov told a Russian state news agency that peace talks with Ukraine had failed and that Russia now seeks to control a large swath of southern Ukraine. This comes as the Biden administration is warning Russia is preparing to formally annex parts of occupied eastern and southern Ukraine this fall, when it will force residents to move their assets to Russian banks and to apply for Russian citizenship.
Source: democracynow
