British Foreign Secretary rules out intention to 'change regime' in Russia with sanctions

With the help of sanctions, London seeks to achieve a permanent end to the conflict in Ukraine, and not regime change in RUSSIA,emphasized British Foreign Minister Truss * Liz Truss

Britain and its allies must continue to put pressure on Russia as long as its troops remain in Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss wrote in an article for the Daily Express.

With the help of sanctions, London is trying to achieve a final end to the conflict, Truss said. “We are not seeking regime change in Moscow,” she assured. "But let me be clear: a weakened Russia  is a consequence of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's decision to launch an unwarranted invasion," Truss added.

Truss believes that the G7 countries should help ensure that Europe gets rid of dependence on Russian oil and gas, and "ensure that they will never again be used as leverage."

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On February 28, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said that London was not seeking a change of power in Russia, but was imposing sanctions in order to "break the regime."

“We are talking about how to stop Russia, which seeks to subdue a democratic country. That was our message throughout the whole time,” he explained.

At the same time, US President Joe Biden , during his speech in Warsaw, said that Putin cannot remain in power after the hostilities in Ukraine. “For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said. Later, a White House spokesman clarified that Biden did not call for a change of power in Russia. The day before, the US president called Putin a war criminal.

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In the Kremlin, Biden's statements were considered "absolutely inadmissible." They have no right to be made by the head of state, “which bombed people all over the world for many years, which dropped an atomic bomb on a country that had already been defeated, and which made absolutely no sense,” said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has also said that "regime change" in Russia is not NATO's goal. "U.S. President [Joe] Biden doesn't want that either, even though he said in his speech yesterday that Putin 'can't stay in power any longer,'" he said.

Russia has been conducting a special military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Putin called the demilitarization and denazification of the country its goal.

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