Due to significant losses, Russia lacks the military capacity to implement its initial plans in Ukraine. However, Russian propaganda continues to seek justification for Russia's occupation of part of Ukrainian territories.. Such a statement was published on the Canadian Armed Forces Twitter to expose the lie of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the supply of long-range weapons to Ukraine is forcing Russia to occupy even more Ukrainian territories..

“Due to significant losses of personnel and equipment, Russia probably no longer has the military capacity to realize its ambitions in Ukraine,” the Canadian Armed Forces said in a statement.. “Now she is forced to scale down her strategic goals, while at the same time providing a new public rationale for the achieved partial territorial control.”.

The messages were published in response to the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov that the alleged supply of long-range weapons to Ukraine in the West is forcing Russia to expand the “geographical objectives of the war” and seize even more territory of Ukraine. In Canada, this was actually called manipulation, because Russia occupied the territories of the south of Ukraine long before the supply of the weapons mentioned by Lavrov.

“Russia claimed that in response to Western military aid given to Ukraine, it was forced to expand its goals beyond the liberation of Donbass in eastern Ukraine to include other large parts of the country.. Russian troops have also occupied part of southern Ukraine since February, which preceded the recent delivery of Western aid to Ukraine, which Moscow is using as an excuse to expand military targets,” the Canadians noted..

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Recall that on July 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened that the Russian Federation would begin to occupy even more new territories if the West supplied Ukraine with long-range weapons.. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, such statements by the Russian side indicate that Russia does not want peace talks..

Lavrov's statement was also reacted to in the United States.. In particular, the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, noted that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had previously stated that the Russians would limit themselves to Donbass in their "