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Ukraine war: Russia says ‘liberation’ of Donbas its key priority

The “liberation” of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region is an “unconditional priority” for Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said in an interview.

Defending Russia’s ongoing military operation more than three months after it invaded, he said again it was aimed at “demilitarising” its neighbour.

He repeated the Kremlin’s widely ridiculed line that Russia is fighting a “neo-Nazi regime”.

And he denied speculation that Russian President Vladimir Putin was ill.

The man who has dominated Russia for more than two decades turns 70 in October.

Noting that President Putin regularly appeared in public, Mr Lavrov told TF1: “I don’t think that sane people can see in this person signs of some kind of illness or ailment.”

Source: BBC

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