Russia on Friday said that any weapons shipments entering Ukraine would be considered “legitimate targets” as the US is working with its NATO allies to send more arms into the warzone.
“We clearly said that any cargo moving into the Ukrainian territory which we would believe is carrying weapons would be fair game,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with RT.
“This is clear because we are implementing the operation the goal of which is to remove any threat to the Russian Federation coming from the Ukrainian soil,” Lavrov added.
The US and NATO have been sending weapons into Ukraine via the Polish-Ukrainian border. Russia sent a clear message to the Western powers last weekend when it launched missiles at western Ukraine’s Yavoriv military facility, which is just 15 miles from the Polish border.
The Yavoriv facility has previously hosted US and NATO troops for training missions and housed foreigners who volunteered to fight for Ukraine at the time of the Russian missile attack.
Despite the warning from Russia, the US is still pledging new military aid for Ukraine. On Wednesday, President Biden announced a new $800 million weapons package for the Ukrainians, which includes armed drones, and shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
The US and its NATO allies are also considering sending Ukraine more advanced Russian-made weaponry, including S-300 surface-to-air missiles and MiG-29 fighter jets. Lavrov addressed these plans and said that the former Soviet states who have such arms shouldn’t be able to send them to a third country without Russia’s consent.
“I would like to remind the countries who might be playing with this idea that the Soviet- and Russian-made systems of missile defense or any other purpose are there on the basis of intergovernmental agreements had contracts which include the end-user certificate,” Lavrov said. “And the end-user certificate doesn’t allow for that, to send weapons to any third country without our consent. This is a legal obligation.”
But, but, but…if we fly an American flag off the radio antenna you’re gonna bomb us anyways!? It ain’t fair!
It sure is. The shock, awe and complete media silence from the western fascist regimes was palpable after Russia bombed the ukie-Nazi and NATO training centre almost on the Polish border the other day.
Over 200 and counting newly arrived mercenaries ukranians and US and British “instructors” killed by Kalibr cruise missiles. That was the moment they all realized this is not a war against some defenceless third world nation in Africa or Middle East starved for years previously by sanctions.
And as another little don’t F with us message, Russia today took out a large underground ukranian weapon storage with the hypersonic 10 mach Kinshal missile (premiere for such a weapon in a war theatre). An absolute overkill. A bunker buster would’ve done the trick but I think US/NATO and its yapping Baltic and polish lap dogs got the message.
nikki:
You have a good gift for description. I also admire your weapons knowledge…
Yup. One of the few times Russia has done a “demo” rather than just a demolition.
As for the mercenary death toll, this from the Intel Slava Z Telegram channel:
More weapons for Russia to capture or destroy…! If this continues Russia would have no choice but to invade Yavoriv facility…!
The manufacturers wouldn’t care. Just follow the money.
This demonstration has bern quickly minimized, written off as a side-show.
Because it is by far more politically profitable to portray Russian operation unsuccessfull, Russian army incompetent, Russians not supporting the war. All nonsense. Col. Doug Mcgreggor has provided insights that only a well informed military expert can.
What is the point of these distortions?
One is obvious, to encourage Ukrainians to stall negotiatitiins and end the war by accepting Russian terms. But by stalling, they will lose more. As after having to go through a lots of trouble trying to dislodge hard core Nazi militias “defending” majority Russian towns — and seeing just how much are those Russian lives disposable, there could be a great deal of resistance to returning them to Ukraine.
Another reason is the tendency of well meaning analysts who minimize Russian threat in order to take away the reasons for being agressive with Russia. But it is misguided, as it is the weakness that tempts the agressor.
And the last and the most important reason trumpeted by all corporate media that Russian operation is floundering — is to convince the public that American military could crush Russia.
Let people believe it, and as the corporate donors are pressing politicians to “act”, and the swamp Geniuses in power since Clinton era, would once again keep power no matter what happens to anyone, Their careers are on the line, theiy have to create chaos to stay in power.
Chaos=Power!!!
Western Media will not report that the population in Eastern Ukraine had been requesting Moscow to send Russian troops to save them from American-backed invaders and Neo-Fascist militias called Banderites.
Currently the main clashes of the Russian Army are not taking place with regular units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but with nationalist banderite formations, which are directly responsible for the genocide in Donbass and the bloodshed of civilians in the people’s republics.
Banderite forces have been indiscriminately shelling and attacking the Donbass for over 7 years. Where were all the bleeding heart liberals then? Killing ethnic Russians was acceptable, they are subhuman right?
Biden’s claim that the Russian invasion was unprovoked is complete nonsense (Iraq WMD’s anyone?) the fact is that Ukraine precipitated the war by attacking the breakaway eastern provinces in violation of the Minsk peace agreements. The Minsk agreements were in place after Ukraine previously twice precipitated a war by attacking the breakaway eastern provinces causing significant civilian casualties.
So now they’ll rehash Wilson’s tactic of planting an American flag on these shipping vehicles as it crosses into Ukraine. Same old playbook to get Americans charged to declare war on Russia.
No shit…
I don’t want to be a “negative nancy” but wars can get started this way and it feels like there is a very delicate balance that is becoming imbalanced…
Absolutelly! And when one party shows weakness, another exploits it. For as ling adms there was a belief thst Russia will not strike the sacred Lvov region where US and other embassies have relocated — that a center for collection of mercenaries and weapons can function withouth fear. That infortunatelly had to end. From Russian perspective it is an escallation of war and had to be countered.
A day does not go by without yet another Congressional money allroval for wealons.
We (US) already have 100,000 soldiers in Europe. Why? To defend or to provoke?
Nothing like throwing other people’s money at a lost cause
I have not seen anyone mention Russia did not provide weapons like stingers to the Taliban or Iraq insurgents. Lavrov should highlight Russia aided the US in its military actions in these two theaters to help US security, while the US threatens Russian security by insisting missiles be deployed right on Russia’s borders.
From Russian MoD via Moon… Note the attack on the armor repair facility. Russia did say they were going to start concentrating on repair facilities to stop Ukraine from reinforcing their forces with mothballed and repaired armaments as well as other logistical assets such as the fuel depot hit.
Note also the further attack on another mercenary base, killing another 100 mercenaries in one shot. At this rate, the alleged “16,000” mercenaries (unknown how many are actually in Ukraine) are going to get reduced pretty quickly. Concentrating the mercenaries in one place for training inside Ukraine is obviously a completely idiotic approach given Russian ISR (Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance) dominance.
Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People’s Republic, developing
an offensive, took full control of Stepnoye and is pursuing the retreating units of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Up to 25 personnel, 2 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 5 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed.
In Novoselovka Vtoraya direction, the units of the Donetsk Republic have advanced to a depth of 3 kilometers, crossed the Kamenka – Verkhnetoretskoye road, and are fighting with the 1st airborne battalion
of the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
During the night, most of Verkhnetoretskoye settlement was taken
under control, where battles are being fought with the 2nd battalion of
the same brigade. In total, up to 40 personnel, 5 armored personnel
carriers and 4 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed there. Offensive
actions continue.
In the evening of March 19 and in the morning of March 20, high-precision long-range weapons attacked Ukraine’s military infrastructure.
From the waters of the Black Sea, Kalibr sea-based cruise missiles
destroyed workshops for repairing Ukrainian armored vehicles damaged in combat at the Nezhinsky repair plant.
A large fuel storage base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Konstantinovka in Nikolaev region was destroyed by Kalibr sea-based
cruise missiles from the waters of the Caspian Sea, as well as by
Kinzhal aviation missile systems with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles
from the airspace over Crimea territory. This is the main base for
supply Ukrainian armored vehicles with fuel in combat areas in the south of Ukraine.
High-precision air-launched missiles struck the training centre of
the Ukrainian special operations forces near Ovruch settlement of
Zhytomir region, where foreign mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine were based. More than 100 special operations forces servicemen and
mercenaries were killed.
During the night, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 62 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 3 command posts, 1 multiple launch rocket system, 2 missile and artillery weapons depots and 1 fuel depot, as well as 52 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down in the air: 1 Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near Kohannoye, 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Shibennoye, as well as 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile near Chistovodovka north of Izyum.
Russian artillery destroyed 6 Ukrainian Bukovel mobile electronic warfare systems.
In total, 207 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,467 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 148 multiple launch rocket systems, 573 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 1,262 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
#Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
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At what point will this situation become a possible war between the US/NATO and Russia?…
A possible false flag and hence yet another tiresome call for a NFZ (on the already existing Russian NFZ presumably). There was a ukranian plot to kill western embassy personnel (and blame it on Russia) for those countries who moved their embassies to Lvov, botched by the Russian FSB and a ukranian intelligence defector today.
And then of course the fake chemical attack by the US and their local clients that seems to be in the making for the same purpose.
Those infighting ignoramuses who keep calling for NFZ have no idea how these things work and the consequences of it, military experts like the Russian chief of the general staff Gerasimov and his American counterpart who thank G-d talk to eachother on a weekly basis however, do.
Erecting a NFZ on the Russian border is a very retarded idea with humiliating consequences for anyone trying to impose it, and deadly suicidal one for anyone acting to enforce it. Even the despicable character Rubio realized that when he said “Russia is not Iraq”. But talk is cheap and calling for a NFZ is an attempt as good as any to hide impotence. Direct involvement by any aggressor behind the ukranian Nazi junta is a step too far. They know that.
Planting American flags worked in the partitioning of Syria. Lets see how far it goes in Ukraine.
The reality is that both sides are at fault, however one side is actually launching missiles. When there is a bully, one needs to stand up to the bully. One need to be intelligent with the bully.
In this situation there are two bully’s as the West and US did provoke a reaction. This does not make Putin (who is a dictator) or Russia (which is not a democracy) without a major portion of the blame.
Winning over the hearts and minds of the citizens of the world or Ukraine even if they border the Russian Federation is not evil. It actually is what should happen, but the subversive actions of the Western Powers is evil. Persuading through ideas, but not through bribery, threats and politics are not acceptable.
If the citizens of Ukraine want to align with Western ideals, that should be their prerogative even if it offends Putin. The underhanded subversive actions of the West does no favors to the Ukrainian citizens, but neither does Putin and his ilk.
Ukraine shares a border with the Russian Federation, so they have a security interest to maintain friendly relations. Now that Putin has been at war with Ukraine (really since 2014), why would Ukraine ever agree to be a neutral party in relation to the Russian Federation.
In reality the history goes back much farther with Russia (various different governments) subjugating and exterminating Ukrainians. If memories lasted generations in the same way they do in the middle east, there would be an absolute disdain of Russians by Ukrainians. Instead the majority of Ukrainians consider Russians as family.
The problem is that both the West (with the majority of the blame lying with the US and UK governments) and the Russian Federation (with the majority of the blame lying with Putin and his cronies) continue to meddle in the affairs of other countries.
The US has been in a constant state of war my entire lifetime. In US schools, students are taught that the US is the land of the free. In practice the US government does not allow people (inside or outside the US) to have self determination. The US is supposed to be a democracy or a democratic republic, but falls very short of the ideals of the constitution.
The Russian Federation plain and simple is not a democracy, but rather a dictatorship. Russian citizens are not afforded freedom unless the act and do exactly as they are told. Any deviation is met with force.
To me it appears that Putin has a false notion to return Greater Russia back to a specific moment of time in History. History is the past, not the present nor the future. History will very likely judge Putin poorly and not as a great figure due to his actions both as a dictator and due to his war against Ukraine.
How to resolve the conflict, is a difficult proposition. Short of Alien UFO’s dropping out of the sky to impose a No Fly Zone, I don’t see a No Fly Zone being a viable solution.
Related to providing weapon shipments, Russia can’t have it both ways. Russia involved Belarus by using their territory to launch an attack. This would also make all of Belarus a legitimate target in addition to any Russian territory or assets.
Russia has a long history of supplying military weapons into conflicts and are now being hypocrites with the double standard. Likewise the US and Western powers claiming that shipments are not legitimate targets would be hypocrites as there is also a long history of supplying military weapons into conflicts.
With any conflict there are three basic categories for resolution. Discussion, Segregation, and Violence. At this point we are looking at the worse of the three options. At this point as I see it, the best realistic option would be Segregation.
Perhaps, Ukraine agreeing to let the Donbas to have it’s independence, but Ukraine should not be the only entity have to cede territory. The Russian Federation should have to cede the seized territory of Crimea to the new country of Donbas.
The new country of Donbas would have to sign an agreement that they will not join the Russian Federation or NATO for the next 30 years with Putin’s signature that they will not allow it either. Same with Ukraine, where they would sign an agreement that they will not join Russian Federation or NATO for the next 30 years with NATO’s signature.
Regarding neutrality, the new country of Donbas, Ukraine, and Russia would need to sign a neutrality treaty with protection guarantees from several EU nations. No other country would be allowed to base or host troops in either Ukraine or the new country of Donbas for the next 30 years.
The Russian Federation would be required to remove troops from all of Ukraine and the new country of Donbas territory including giving up the base in Crimea with no return for the next 30 years.
This would separate the parties in conflict from 2014, remove Russia from Ukraine, Crimea and Donbas territories. Prevents the inclusion of Ukraine to NATO for 3 decades without slamming the door shut permanently. Prevents the new country of Donbas from joining the Russian Federation for 3 decades. Punishes the Russian Federation for launching the attack by removing them from Crimea entirely, but into the hands of the new country of Donbas to lessen the blow. Creates a buffer-zone between NATO and the Russian Federation.
Regarding Belarus for allowing Russia to attack from their territory, the punishment should be required to sign a neutrality treaty. Not allowed to join either NATO or the Russian Federation. Not allowed to base or host any other countries military for the next 30 years.
Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail and the conflict will end soon. I don’t want anyone to win as all are partially to blame.
How dare you. Banderite forces have been indiscriminately shelling and attacking the Donbass for 8 years, officially over 14,000 dead. And you a typical bleeding heart liberal was nowhere to be seen. Killing ethnic Russians is acceptable, they are subhuman right?
Western Media will not report that the population in Eastern Ukraine had been requesting Moscow to send Russian troops to save them from American-backed invaders and Neo-Fascist militias called Banderites.
Your claims that the Russian invasion is bullying is just nonsense. Biden’s claim that the Russian invasion was unprovoked is complete nonsense (Iraq WMD’s anyone?) the fact is that Ukraine precipitated the war by attacking the breakaway eastern provinces in violation of the Minsk peace agreements. The Minsk agreements were in place after Ukraine previously twice precipitated a war by attacking the breakaway eastern provinces causing significant civilian casualties.
Your claim that both sides are at fault is just ignorant bigotry. Your claim that Russia is not a democracy is ignorant bigotry. It is an act of pure fascism to blame the victims for the many many crimes against humanity committed against the ethnic Russians civilians in the Donbass.
Why do they call Ukrainian forces Banderites? In 1943 Stepan Bandera’s followers massacred 70,000 Poles the majority of whom were unarmed men, women, and children. This mass killing took place in Volyn, Western Ukraine. In the spring and summer of 1943 peasants of Volyn under the leadership of the Galician intelligentsia using bullets, axes and other improvised means assassinated tens of thousands of Poles living in the villages and towns of the region. The political leadership of the OUN had suddenly realised that the Germans might lose the war. So because of the presence of the Polish population the political leadership had simply decided to get rid of that population to prevent Poland’s claim to Volyn. By 1945 the OUN had, in Eastern Galicia, killed 130,000. Many people had their eyes gouged out and were then hacked to death. After WWII the OUN kept fighting against the forces of the USSR and People’s Poland until 1949.
“To initiate a war of aggression,” said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, “is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
From the historical reference in Volyn we can clearly see that Obama / Biden in Ukraine were using the supreme international crime as a means of preventing Russia’s claims to the Donbass. And Poroshenko as one of Obama’s missives gives a speech where for the first time in history a Western leader boasts about targeting woman and children. Poroshenko stated….“We will have our jobs, they will not. We will have our pensions, they will not. We will have care for children, for people and retirees, they will not. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens… theirs will hole up in the basements. Because they are not able to do a thing. This is exactly how we will win this war!”
Keep in mind he is talking about Ukrainians, his fellow countrymen. He openly flouts international law, his militia’s use cluster and phospherous munitions against all conventions. He terrorises civilian populations. This was Obama’s/Biden’s strategy to win this civil war, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
What followed were fraudulent elections where ethnic cleansing and genocide predictably yielded a pro US and pro EU client regime. One can perhaps understand why many Russian speakers in the eastern Ukraine took up arms in 2014 when they saw the flags of the OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) proudly displayed in Kiev after the violent overthrow of the elected government.
BUT PUTIN IS A BULLY RIGHT, YOU IGNORANT FASCIST
I thought You might find tis document from The Stanford University complimentary to Your post:
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The Azov Battalion derived from far right paramilitary Security forces later rolled into the Ukrainian Military as a battalion of so-called freedom fighters. Anyone unfamiliar with the brownshirts –party created by Hitler as the Sturmabteilung (abbreviated as SA) in 1921 as security forces– should familiarize themselves with their history, for many of these members were later voluntarily enrolled into what became the SS.
Its offensive to state that “If the citizens of Ukraine want to align with Western ideals, that should be their prerogative even if it offends Putin.” Just what does he think the civil war is about?
To personalise it about Putin is just fascist and utterly despicable but typical of Western ideals, along with massive propaganda and massive censorship.
I am banned in all MSM, i have been beaten up for my views, sacked from my job, and told to eff off to Russia if i dont like it here. JUST WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?
“JUST WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?”
I’ve been asking myself that question all the time for a few years now.
Bravo on that excellent answer.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered the suspension of 11 political parties with links to Russia. The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country’s parliament.
The Opposition Platform for Life is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has been held under house arrest since May 2021. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s also sanctioned three television stations owned by Medvedchuk. The move came shortly after talks between the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Total abuse of power, politically motivated and a complete disgrace.
Well the rumours are that the Russians have freed him. Could this be the formation of a new Government in Ukraine?
DEMOCRACY in nazzi Ukraine in its FULL bloomin SPLENDOUR, in’t it ..
Rumor has it that a large Russian and Belorussian force is moving toward Brest in Belarus near the Polish border. As as I know, this is not confirmed. However, it makes a lot of sense if it is true.
I believe this presages a new offensive from Belarus, similar to the operation which began from Belarus and involved an armored column coming down and surrounding Kiev. I don’t know why I didn’t anticipate this, since Russia already did it once.
I suspect what will happen is that the combined Russian-Belorussian forces will plow down the Polish border with four objectives:
1) Close the border to further weapons and mercenaries transfers;
2) Seize Lviv, where half of the Ukrainian government fled before the war; Zelensky himself may be here;
3) Prevent the escape of hardline nationalists and neo-Nazis from Lviv, and
4) forestall any NATO troops or CIA mercenary forces from an incursion into Western Ukraine to “Save the Nazis” (as I’m calling that hypothetical campaign which has been mentioned as a possibility by some people.)
In other words, it has been suggested that NATO troops or CIA mercenaries might try to prevent Russia from attacking Western Ukraine under the guise of “solving a humanitarian crisis” related to refugees and at the same time lay the groundwork for a government in exile in western Ukraine. If this new Russian operation occurs, that will eliminate that possibility.
With Russian forces dominating eastern Ukraine, southern Ukraine, Belarus to the north and potentially Western Ukraine if this operation occurs, Ukraine will then be essentially surrounded on all sides.