Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov . File photoMOSCOW, May 29The liberation of Donbass is an unconditional priority in the course of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, and the inhabitants of the remaining territories where it takes place will have to decide their own future, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov «The liberation of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, recognized by the Russian Federation as independent states, is an absolute priority,» Lavrov said in an interview with the French TV channel TF1. the future of the residents of these areas. «They must decide for themselves in what environment they will continue to exist: in the environment created by President Zelensky — the ban on Russian education, the media, culture, the use of the Russian language in everyday life — or in another, where they will be able to raise their children the way they want , not Zelensky and his team,» Lavrov added.
