**RAW VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT [email protected] TO RECEIVE**On Monday (04uly2022) Ukraine's General Staff shared photos and a video of their troops using advanced U.S. M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to attack Russian targets in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast in the south of the country. The weapons systems recently arrived in Ukraine and with their high mobility, exceptional precision, and range of 70km (with existing ammunition) Ukraine’s leaders hope they can help them push back Russian forces in the South and East of the country.Where: Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine When: 04 Jul 2022 Credit: Armed Forces of Ukraine/Cover Images**EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.**
As Ukraine receives long-range weapons from Western countries, Russia’s objectives in Ukraine would change, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was reported as saying in an interview with state media published on Wednesday.
“We cannot allow any weapons in the part of Ukraine controlled by Zelensky — or whoever will replace him — that pose a direct threat to our territory or the territory of the republics that declared independence or those that wish to determine their future independently,” Lavrov said, according to state news outlet RIA Novosti.
Russia’s geographical objectives of the operations in Ukraine would move further away from the current line as the West continues to supply Ukraine with more long-range weaponry, including HIMARS, Lavrov noted.
“There should be no threat to our security, no military threat from Ukraine’s territory, and this objective remains,” Lavrov said. “It is far from being only DPR and LPR, it is also Kherson Region, Zaporizhzhia Region, and a number of other territories, and this process continues. It continues steadily and persistently.”
