US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Friday that there should be no doubt that Russia is seeking to dismantle Ukraine “and to completely dismantle it from the world map”. Speaking to the UN Security Council, the ambassador said the US has seen signs that Russia is preparing to try to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia. He said Moscow’s attempt to do so could include installing “illegal proxies in Russian-controlled areas, with the aim of holding fake referendums or decrees to join Russia.” Thomas-Greenfield said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “has even stated that this is Russia’s war objective.” Ukraine claims more than 100 Russian soldiers killed in fighting in Kherson region US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that Russia is seeking to break up Ukraine “and completely wipe it off the world map”. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP) Lavrov had told an Arab summit in Cairo on Sunday that Moscow’s primary mission in Ukraine is to liberate its people from its “unacceptable regime”. “We will certainly help the Ukrainian people get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and anti-historical,” Lavrov said, appearing to suggest that Russia’s war aims go beyond Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region in the east. consists of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky told the Security Council on Friday that “the de-Nazification and demilitarization of Ukraine will be fully realized.” “There should be no more threat from this stage to Donbas, nor to Russia, nor to the liberated Ukrainian territories where for the first time in several years people can finally feel that they can live as they want,” he said. . RUSSIA CLAIMS 40 UKRAINIAN PRISONERS KILLED IN STRIKE WITH CHIMARES US, UKRAINE SUCCEEDS IN ‘BALANCED EXECUTION’ US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the US has seen signs that Russia is preparing to try to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) Polyansky also issued a warning to Western countries supplying Ukraine with long-range artillery and MLRS rockets, saying they were shifting “the temporary security line” westward. “And in doing so we further clarify the goals and objectives of our special military operation,” he said. Thomas-Greenfield also highlighted at the meeting evidence of increased atrocities caused by the Russian war. He said this included the reported bombings of schools and hospitals, “murder of aid workers and journalists, targeting of civilians trying to escape, brutal killing of those going about their daily business in Bucha”, a suburb of Kiev. The ambassador said there are indications that Russian forces have “interrogated, forcibly arrested, deported approximately hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children — tearing them from their homes and sending them to remote areas in the east.” UKRAINE READY FOR GRAIN EXPORTS ON FIRST SHIP, ZELENSKY IS AWAITING “SIGNAL” FROM PARTNERS A local resident walks next to a house destroyed by Russian bombing in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. ((AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)) Nearly two million Ukrainian refugees have been resettled in Russia, according to Ukrainian and Russian officials. Ukraine claims the refugees were forced into enemy territory, which is considered a war crime. But Russia sees the trips as humanitarian evacuations of war victims who appreciate a new place to call home. “The United Nations has information that officials from the Russian presidential administration are overseeing and coordinating filtering operations,” Thomas-Greenfield told the council. Polyansky, however, said Ukrainians “choose the country they trust.” He claimed that the heavy artillery supplied to Ukraine “will spill over into Europe” because of “the flourishing corruption among Ukraine’s political and military leadership.” Polyansky said that Western weapons are “carrying anguish and increasing the suffering of the Ukrainian people.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP He told Western ambassadors, “The objectives of our special military operation will be achieved by any means, no matter how much fuel you throw on the fire in the form of weapons.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
