China News Agency, Moscow, July 20 (Tian Bing and Liu Jingyao) Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said in an interview with Russian media on the 20th that if Ukraine obtains long-range weapons from Western countries, the mission area of ​​the Russian military special military operation will occur. Variety.

　　In an interview with RT TV and "Russia Today" that day, Lavrov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin made it very clear that the goals of the Russian military operation include "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine, that is, to ensure that Russia's security will not be affected. Military threats from Ukraine, the mission remains.

He said that the West is sending more and more long-range weapons to Ukraine, such as the "Haimas" multiple rocket launchers, and the geographical targets of the Russian military's special military operations will even be moved further from the current boundaries.

He stressed that Russia will not allow Ukraine to have weapons that pose a direct threat to Russia and those "republics" that "want to decide their own future".

　　Lavrov said that in the current situation, Russia and Ukraine peace talks do not make any sense.

The West will not allow Ukraine to escape the current situation through diplomatic channels.

By supplying Kyiv with weapons, the United States and Britain are trying to bring Russia into conflict with Europe and profit from it.

He said that in fact Ukraine was prevented from taking any constructive steps by the West, they were emboldened by Western-supplied weapons and forced to use them more and more riskily, while foreign instructors and experts servicing these weapons systems were there, which It's no secret.

　　Lavrov also pointed out that although the West has always interfered with the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian side has repeatedly stated that there can be no winner in a nuclear war, and it will never initiate a nuclear war on its own initiative.

"This is Russia's consistent position, and the Russian side will stick to it."

　　In response to the Western economic sanctions against Russia, Lavrov said that it may not be in Europe's interests to completely cut off all relations with Russia and switch to liquefied natural gas, which the United States is trying to "forcibly promote".

Russia's current task is to fundamentally abandon the previous economic chain and focus on building a new economic chain in order to restore the economic level.

These new economic initiatives include a north-south corridor from St. Petersburg to the Indian Ocean and from India to Vladivostok.

　　In addition, with regard to the Ukrainian grain issue, Lavrov disclosed that in the recent talks between representatives of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations in Istanbul, the parties reached an agreement on the basic principles of Ukrainian grain exports, but when the Russian side proposed to formulate the first item of the package plan In the second part, it was rejected by the Ukrainian side.

He said that Russia has sent a "signal" to the UN Secretary-General, calling for a clause on Russian food to be included in the "Istanbul Agreement".

(Finish)