{"id":1282460,"date":"2025-08-19T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lavrov-said-that-russia-allegedly-did-not-seek-to-seize-crimea-and-donbas\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:03:15","slug":"lavrov-said-that-russia-allegedly-did-not-seek-to-seize-crimea-and-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/lavrov-said-that-russia-allegedly-did-not-seek-to-seize-crimea-and-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov said that Russia allegedly did not seek to seize Crimea and Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow allegedly did not set itself the goal of seizing Ukrainian territories, but unleashed a full-scale war to &#8220;protect the Russian people.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He made this statement on the air of the propaganda TV channel &#8220;Russia-24&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It was not about seizing territories. Neither Crimea, nor Donbas, nor the so-called Novorossiya were an end in themselves. Our task is to protect the people, the Russian people, who have lived on these lands for centuries,&#8221; Lavrov said.<\/p>\n<p> He also added that these territories were allegedly &#8220;developed by the Russians,&#8221; who &#8220;shed blood for them,&#8221; built cities and infrastructure, mentioning Odessa and Mykolaiv in particular.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-ne-proty-perehovoriv-ale-lyshe-na-vlasnykh-umovakh-lavrov\/\">Moscow does not rule out the possibility of negotiations with Ukraine, but insists on its own demands.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow allegedly did not set itself the goal of seizing Ukrainian territories, but unleashed a full-scale war to &#8220;protect the Russian people.&#8221; He made this statement on the air of the propaganda TV channel &#8220;Russia-24&#8221;. &#8220;It was not about seizing territories. Neither Crimea, nor Donbas, nor the so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":673623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76885],"class_list":["post-1282460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}