The US ambassador to the United Nations said there should no longer be any doubt that Russia intends to disintegrate Ukraine "and completely erase it from the world map".

According to Euronews, Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council that America is seeing increasing signs that Russia is laying the groundwork to try to annex all of Ukraine's eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson regions. and Zaporizhzhia, including the installation of "illegal representative officials" in Russian-controlled areas with the aim of holding fake referendums or decrees to join Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov "has even stated that this is Russia's war goal," she said.

Lavrov told an Arab summit in Cairo on Sunday that Moscow's main goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its "unacceptable regime".

Apparently suggesting that Moscow's war aims extend beyond Ukraine's industrial Donbas region in the east that includes Donetsk and Luhansk, Lavrov said: "We will certainly help the Ukrainian people get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and antihistorical".

Meanwhile, Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, told the Security Council on Friday that "Denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine will be fully carried out."

"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 the way they want," he said.

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