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How Russia, And Putin, Are Weaponizing, Losing And Running Out Of … Everything
Moon of Alabama earlier explored how Russia was weaponizing everything. This after Donald Trump had done so many good things for Russia. Then Putin lost everything he ever might have had.
It has been getting worse since.
Now Russia, and Putin himself, are 'running out' of whatever may have been left.
- Russian labs run out of equipment as sanctions begin to bite
Mar 7 2022 – Science Business
- Putin’s depleted army is running out of time
Mar 23 2022 – Spectator
- Russia running out of precision munitions in Ukraine war- Pentagon official
Mar 25 2022 – Reuters
- Pentagon claim: Russia is running out of ammunition.
Mar 25 2022 – Sach Khabrain
- Is the Russian Military Running Out of Soldiers?
Mar 28 2022 – Russia Matters
- Russia May Be Running Out of Missiles
Mar 29 2022 – Newsmax
- Russia Running Out Of Kh-55 Cruise Missiles Which Iran, China Have
Apr 3 2022 – IranIntl
- Putin running out of missiles, jets and tanks because they're made in Ukraine
Apr 4 2022 – Mirror
- Russian billionaires are running out of havens to stash their fortunes
Apr 8 2022 – Sydney Morning Herald
- The Russian army is running out of options
Apr 9 2022 – Spectator
- Is Russia Running Out of Money?
Apr 26 2022 – Trustnodes
- SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV
May 5 2022 – Sun
- ‘Struggling’ Vladimir Putin is running out of missiles, UK says
May 6 2022 – News.au
- Putin under intense pressure and could be running out of missiles, says UK army chief
May 6 2022 – Mirror
- EMBARRASSING: Russia Now Running Out of Missiles to Make War With
May 6 2022 – USSANews
- Putin could be running out of missiles and is waging a 'logistics war' to keep his forces supplied – and his generals now blame one another for the 'disaster' invasion amid fears of being purged
May 6 2022 – Daily Mail
- Russia running out of weapons, can be defeated by Ukraine – UK Secretary
May 9 2022 – Daily Trust
- Putin 'running out of bombs' and resorting to 'indiscriminate' civilian attacks, says UK
May 9 2022 – Daily Star
- Russia is running out of precision-guided munitions and may struggle to replenish their stocks, says UK Defense Ministry
May 9 2022 – New Voice Of Ukraine
- Putin is Running Out of Ideas on What to do Next
May 10 2022 – Bloomberg
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is running out of steam, again
May 16 2022 – Economist
- Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages
May 16 2022 – Jerusalem Post
- 'Russia is running out of manpower' and Putin may have to shrink his war aims more: national security analyst
May 16 2022 – Raw Story
- Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles?
May 17 2022 – Moscow Times
- Vladimir Putin is running out of options to avoid defeat in Ukraine
May 17 2022 – Atlantic Council
- Putin is running out of soldiers and resorts to an “army of grandfathers” who retired 10 years ago
May 17 2022 – CvvNews
- Crippled Russia running out of weapons as embarrassing war ending looms 'Shockingly inept'
May 21 2022 – Express
- Vladimir Putin's 'time is running out' and his behaviour has changed, claims expert
May 21 2022 – Mirror
- VLADIMIR PUTIN IS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS TO AVOID DEFEAT IN UKRAINE
May 22 2022 – Lucorg
- Russia ‘running out of ideas’ in 3-month-old war. Can Ukraine win?
May 24 2022 – Global News
- The Russian Army Is Running Out Of Tanks For The War In Ukraine. These 60-Year-Old T-62s Are Proof.
May 25 2022 – Forbes
- Vladimir Putin’s forces are running out of tanks
May 27 2022 – Telegraph
- Exact date Putin's forces will run out of ammunition in Ukraine, according to expert
May 31 2022 – Mirror
- Time is running out for Russia, German economy minister says
Jun 2 2022 – Reuters
Today, Putin was interviewed by Rossiya 1 TV channel journalist Pavel Zarubin. Putin destroys the propaganda about Ukraine being unable to export its foodstuffs, which is what the interview centers on. Here’s the complete machine translation:
Pavel Zarubin: Mr President, we have just watched your meeting with the head of Senegal, who is also the leader of the African Union. He spoke about this, and in general, it is felt, of course, over the past week, that many countries are extremely concerned not so much about the food crisis – they are afraid of large-scale famine, because world food prices are growing rapidly, oil and gas prices are rising rapidly.
The West, of course, also accuses us of this. In reality, what is the situation at this point, how is it developing? And what, in your opinion, will happen next to the food and energy markets?
Vladimir Putin: Yes, of course, we are now seeing attempts to shift responsibility for what is happening on the global food market and the emerging problems in this market to Russia. I must say that this is an attempt, as people say in our country, to shift these problems from a sick head to a healthy one. Why?
Because, firstly, the unfavorable situation on the world food market began to develop not yesterday or even since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in the Donbas and Ukraine. It began to take shape in February 2020 in the process of combating the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, when the world economy, the world economy sat down, and it was necessary to restore the world economy.
The financial and economic authorities have found nothing better in the United States than to follow the path of injecting large sums of money in support of the population, in support of individual enterprises and sectors of the economy.
In general, we did about the same thing, but I dare to assure you, and the result is obvious: we did it much more carefully, we did it point-by-point, achieved the desired result without all these actions affecting macroeconomic indicators, including the immeasurable growth of inflation.
The situation was quite different in the United States. For two years, incomplete two years, from February 2020 to the end of 2021, the money supply in the United States grew by 5.9 trillion. This is unprecedented work of the printing press. The total money supply grew by 38.6 percent.
Apparently, the financial authorities of the United States proceeded from the fact that the dollar is the world currency, and it, as usual, as in previous times, will dissolve throughout the world economy, and in the States it will be imperceptible. It turned out that this was not the case. As a matter of fact, decent people, and there are such people in the United States, the Minister of Finance recently said that they made a mistake. So this is a mistake by the financial and economic authorities of the United States, it has nothing to do with Russia’s actions in Ukraine, in no way.
And this was the first step, a very serious step towards the development of an unfavorable situation in the food market, because first of all, food prices went up, went uphill. That’s the first thing.
The second reason is the short-sighted policy of European countries, and above all the European Commission, in the energy sector. We see what’s going on there. I personally believe that many political forces in the United States and Europe have begun to speculate on the natural concern of the world’s inhabitants for the state of the climate, for climate change, and have begun to promote this “green agenda”, including in the energy sector.
Everything seems to be fine, but it is not good only when unqualified, groundless recommendations are made on what needs to be done in the energy sector, the possibilities of alternative types of energy are overestimated: solar, wind, I don’t know, any other, hydrogen – this is a prospect, probably, but today this is not in the proper volume, proper quality and at the right prices. And at the same time, they began to belittle the importance of traditional types of energy, including, and above all, hydrocarbons.
What did that lead to? Banks have stopped lending because they are under pressure. Insurance companies have ceased to insure the relevant transactions. Local authorities stopped issuing plots of land to expand production, reduced the construction of specialized transport, including pipeline.
All this has led to underinvestment in the global energy sector, and as a result – higher prices. Please, last year there was not enough wind load, the wind is not what was expected, the winter dragged on – and immediately the prices flew up.
Among other things, the Europeans did not listen to our urgent requests to preserve long-term contracts for the supply of the same natural gas to European countries, and they also began to cover them up. Many are still working, but they have begun to cover up. But this had a negative impact on the European energy market: prices crept up. Russia has absolutely nothing to do with it.
But as soon as gas prices, say, went up, the price of fertilizers immediately increased, because some of these fertilizers are produced, among other things, at the expense of gas. Everything is interconnected. As soon as fertilizer prices began to creep up, many enterprises, including in European countries, became unprofitable, began to close altogether – and the volume of fertilizers on the world market fell sharply, and prices, respectively, rose, and prices rose dramatically, one might say, completely unexpectedly for many European politicians.
But we warned about this, and this has nothing to do with any military operation of Russia in the Donbass, has nothing to do with it at all.
But the next step, when our operation began, the european, American partners so-called began to take steps that exacerbated the situation in this sector: in both the food and fertilizer sectors.
By the way, Russia occupies 25 percent of the world market for fertilizers, and for example, for potash fertilizers, as Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko told me – we need to check, of course, but I think this is true – for potash fertilizers Russia and Belarus – 45 percent of the world market. That’s a huge amount.
And the yield depends on the amount of fertilizers invested in the soil. As soon as it became clear that there would be no fertilizers on the world market, prices immediately crept up for both fertilizers and food, because if there are no fertilizers, there is no necessary volume of agricultural products.
One clings to the other, and Russia has absolutely nothing to do with it. Our partners themselves have made a lot of mistakes, and now they are looking for someone to blame, and, of course, in this sense, Russia is the most convenient candidate for this.
Pavel Zarubin: By the way, we have just received news that the new European sanctions package includes the wife of the head of one of our largest fertilizer companies.
Where will all this lead, in your opinion?
Vladimir Putin: Here’s the thing: the situation will get worse.
After all, the British, then the Americans – the Anglo-Saxons – imposed sanctions on our fertilizers. Then, realizing what was happening, the Americans lifted the sanctions, but the Europeans did not. They themselves say in contacts with me: yes, yes, we need to think about it, we need to do something about it, and today they have only exacerbated this situation.
This will worsen the situation on the world fertilizer markets, which means that the prospects for the harvest will be much more modest, which means that prices will only go up – that’s all. This is an absolutely short-sighted, erroneous, I would say, just stupid policy that leads to a dead end.
Pavel Zarubin: But Russia has been accused from very high tribunes that there is grain in reality, but it is in Ukrainian ports, and Russia allegedly does not allow this grain to be exported.
Vladimir Putin: This is a bluff. Here’s why.
First, there are some objective things, and I will talk about them now. The world produces about 800 million tons of grain and wheat per year. Now we are told that Ukraine is ready to export 20 million tons. 20 million tons compared to what is produced in the world, 800 million tons, is 2.5 percent. But if we proceed from the fact that in the total volume of food in the world wheat is only 20 percent – and this is true, this is not our data, this is UN data – then this means that these 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat are 0.5 percent, about nothing. That’s the first thing.
Secondly, 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat is a potential export. To date, the US authorities say that today Ukraine could export six million tons of wheat – according to our Ministry of Agriculture, this is not six, it is about five million tons, even, let’s say, six – and, this is the data of our Ministry of Agriculture, seven million tons of corn. We understand that this is not much.
In the current agricultural year – 2021–2022 – we will export 37 million, and in 2022–2023, I think that we will raise these exports to 50 million tonnes. But it is, apropo, by the way.
As for the export of Ukrainian grain, we do not prevent this. And there are several ways to export grain.
First. Please can be exported through ports that are under the control of Ukraine, primarily the Black Sea basin – Odessa and nearby ports. It was not we who mined the approaches to the port – it was Ukraine that mined it.
I have already said many times to all our colleagues: let them clear mines, and please let the ships loaded with grain leave the ports. We guarantee their peaceful passage without any problems into international waters. No problem, please.
They should clear mines and raise from the bottom of the Black Sea ships that were deliberately sunk in order to complicate the entrance to these ports in the south of Ukraine. We are ready to do this, we will not use the situation of mine clearance to launch any attacks from the sea, as I have already said. That’s the first thing.
Second. There is another possibility: the ports of the Sea of Azov – Berdyansk, Mariupol – are under our control, we are ready to ensure trouble-free export of Ukrainian grain through these ports. You are welcome.
We have already completed the demining work – Ukrainian troops once mined it in three layers – the work is coming to an end. We will create the necessary logistics. Please, we will. That’s the second thing.
Third. It is possible to export grain from Ukraine through the Danube and through Romania.
Fourth. You can go through Hungary.
Fifth. You can go through Poland. Yes, there are certain technical problems there, because the track is different, it is necessary to change the wagon bogies. But it’s just a few hours, and that’s it.
And, finally, the simplest thing is the export through the territory of Belarus. The easiest and cheapest, because from there directly to the ports of the Baltic States, to the Baltic Sea and further – to anywhere in the world.
But for this it is necessary to lift sanctions from Belarus. But that’s not o
ur question. In any case, President of Belarus Alexander Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] puts the question in this way: if someone wants to solve the problem, if it exists at all – the export of Ukrainian grain, please, the easiest way is through Belarus. No one bothers.
So there is no problem with the export of grain from Ukraine.
Pavel Zarubin: What can be the logistics of exporting from those ports that are under our control? What can be the conditions?
Vladimir Putin: No conditions.
Please ensure peaceful transportation, guarantee the safety of approaches to these ports, ensure the entry of foreign vessels and their movement along the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in any direction.
By the way, there are a lot of ships stuck in Ukrainian ports today – foreign ones, dozens of ships. They’re just kept locked up there, and, by the way, the crews are still being held hostage.
On today’s Crosstalk I linked @212, EU and Outlaw US Empire officials are called everything but smart and caring of others. Luongo essentially called them idiots with a plan–but whose plan is it really? Certainly not the idiots; they’re incapable and grossly so. IMO, Neoliberal Parasites want babies to pay to be born–not their parents–so they’ll be born into debt peonage and need to work it off in the manner of indentured servants. But they’ll never be able to become free for their nation will become one massive Company Store whereby you’re forever in debt. That’s the Rentier Class’s plan–The Great Reset. Putin’s being beyond charitable saying what was done was merely mistakes, not premeditated actions.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 4 2022 0:15 utc | 234
Today, Russia’s MFA published the following informational material “On the myths of the European Union in the field of food and energy security,” which is a PDF in Russian which I machine translated below. So we have this document and Putin’s interview statement on the issue.
DEBUNKING THE MYTHS SPREAD THE LEADERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
1. Statement: Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and the Donbas has jeopardized food supplies in the world. (Source: Comments by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy J.Borrel on the results of the meeting of the EU Council on Foreign Affairs, Brussels, April 11, 2022)
What is in reality. About the risk of a food crisis in the world the UN declared two years ago. The main drivers of price growth for agro–industrial products in recent years are the consequences COVID-19 pandemics, short-sighted economic and energy policies of the largest economies of the Western world, trade wars, adverse weather conditions, illegal unilateral sanctions The West in relation to the Russian Federation, underinvestment in the agricultural sector.
At the same time, according to UNCTAD, there is no physical shortage of food in the world. It’s about the system of their distribution. A big role here the price factor also plays a role.
The jump in prices for agro-industrial products was recorded back in 2020 and is not the result of a special military operation. According to FAO, from 2019 to February 2022, the food price index as a whole increased by 50%. According to information from stock exchanges, wheat prices increased by 25% in 2021, and by February 2022 they have already exceeded the average level by 31-62% over the past five years. Corn
has risen in price by 162% over the past two years, rapeseed – by 175%.
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the supply and logistics chains in the world have been seriously disrupted. A sharp increase in anti-crisis financial injections into the economy for the post-pandemic recovery of the EU, the USA and Japan led to to a significant increase in demand and, as a result, a jump in inflation. Stocks are the same food was the lowest in the last 5-10 years. The EU’s ill-considered decisions on a hasty transition to “green energy” have led to record energy prices. This led to an
increase in the cost of agricultural production: fuel and electricity costs increased significantly (in 2020-2022 oil prices increased by more than 22%, average electricity prices in Europe in March 2022 reached historical highs: from 350% up to 530% in some EU countries compared to the same period in 2021). This instantly affected the production of mineral fertilizers (carbamide and saltpeter rose 3.5-4 times, the rest – 2.5-3 times) and grain. These factors were overlaid by unfavorable weather conditions and natural disasters in some regions of the world. As a result of anti-traffic restrictions on international movement, interruptions in freight traffic and a decrease in cargo transportation volumes, transport costs have significantly increased. Freight rates have increased practically 2 times. Unilateral illegitimate restrictive measures of the West against Russia, including obstacles to the transportation of goods, difficulties with the payment of supplies, bans on transactions, customs problems, have become additional risk factors in the field of global food security.
Brussels has openly declared a total trade and economic war on our country, ignoring the fact that Russia is one of the world leaders in the supply of basic agricultural products (wheat, barley, sunflower, mineral fertilizers and fodder crops), including including low-income countries at risk of food shortages.
The leadership of the European Union, instead of unfounded accusations, should be engaged in the effective elimination of its own system errors in macroeconomic, financial, trade, energy and agro-industrial policies, stop delaying commodity flows to the detriment of the situation of developing countries, and also refuse from the vicious practice of introducing unilateral restrictive measures contrary to the norms of international law.
2. Statement: Russia is occupying Ukrainian lands and it is shelling the farmlands of Ukraine. Sowing operations in Ukraine in 2022 are under threat. (Source: Blog Entry High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy J.Borrel “Food Insecurity: It’s time to act”, April 7, 2022)
What is really. Tasks of a special military operation The purpose of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is to protect the civilian population of the DPR and LPR from a real threat from neo-Nazi “volunteer battalions”. The Russian military does not they occupy the territory of Ukraine and do not set themselves such tasks.
They are fulfilling their duty to force Kiev to peace on the terms of demilitarization, denazification and ensuring the neutral and nuclear-free status of a state that would cease to pose a threat to part of its own population and its neighbors.
The Kiev authorities confirm that the sowing campaign in the current The year takes place in all regions of Ukraine. The pace of its implementation is 20-30% lower than last year. By mid-May 2022, about 8.6 million hectares of land were sown with various crops, which is 24% less last year’s indicator. Among the main reasons for the slowdown are the shortage of fuel and lubricants (directed to the needs of the Armed Forces), mobilization male population, mining of AFU fields and marine areas. Nevertheless, on May 11, 2022, the Prime Minister of Ukraine D. Shmygal recognized, that, “despite the known difficulties,” Ukrainian farmers “coped with his task.”
3. Statement: Russia is purposefully destroying Ukrainian agriculture, including agricultural machinery, granaries and specialized infrastructure. (Source: Statement by the Chairman European Commission U. von der Leyen at the session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, May 24, 2022)
What is really. In its usual manner, Brussels misleads the international community by manipulating facts. The European Commission, as well as Ukrainian structures making such accusations (NGO “Ukrainian Environmental Group”, Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy of Ukraine, etc.), do not provide any documentary evidence, including photos and videos. Data on the number and names of destroyed in the course of hostilities, there are also no objects of agricultural infrastructure and equipment in the public domain.
Russia is interested in Ukraine as well as the DPR and LPR, remained a self-sufficient state in terms of
food security. It is in the national interest Russia, and also contributes to reducing the migration burden on our country. We are making the necessary efforts for this. A sowing campaign has begun in the liberated territories, restoration measures are being carried out, including agricultural infrastructure. Producers from different regions of Russia will provide seeds of vegetables and cereals for shipment to the DPR and LPR. 40 tons of seed have already been delivered to Donbass. At the same time, in the south of the Kherson region, Russian servicemen neutralized more than 12 thousand explosive objects during humanitarian demining of agricultural lands. Over 200 hectares of the liberated territories of the DPR and LPR have been cleared of explosive devices.
Against this background, actively escalating the situation around the food crisis threatening the world, Brussels announced a full-scale mobilization in order to promptly export millions of tons of Ukrainian grain to the European Union. By July 2022, the European Union intends to export about 20 million tons of grain to the west.
To do this, transport corridors are being created, alternative to the blocked sea route through the fault of Kiev itself. The operational direction of additional trucks and freight cars for grain transportation, barges to the Ukrainian border, the inclusion of special slots for trains with Ukrainian grain in the railway schedule, customs duties are canceled for a year for Ukrainian export. Grain, corn, and oilseeds are exported in huge volumes. This is evidenced by numerous videos published in the media. This does not prevent Brussels from the most It is cynically groundless to accuse Moscow of “confiscating Ukrainian” stocks of grain and agricultural machinery by the method of prodrazverstki.
The campaign launched by the EU to export grain from Ukraine cannot but raise doubts about the final consumer of this product and how much it will eventually arrive in third countries, in the interests of which Brussels allegedly operates. There are good reasons to believe that the funds received from the sale of agricultural products are used to pay for Western weapons and military equipment supplied to Ukraine.
Something similar has already happened in the history of Ukraine. In February 1918, by agreement with the government of its central rada, German and Austrian troops entered the Ukrainian territory under the pretext of protection from Soviet Russia. In return, 37 thousand wagons with Ukrainian provisions were taken to Berlin and Vienna.
We have already clearly seen the true price of the “humanism” of the West on the example of the fight gainst the corona crisis, including when solving the issue with the distribution and supply of vaccines. As practice shows, such assistance is primarily intended to serve the geopolitical interests of the EU itself.
Moreover, the EU intends to export food from Ukraine en masse, despite the significant decrease in the harvest predicted by international experts on the territory of this country this year. The inevitable
consequences of this for Ukrainians–rising prices and food shortages–are, of course, not taken into account.
So, the European Union is engaged in undermining the foundations of agriculture, and not only
Ukrainian.
And that’s all I was able to translate in one go. The document still has eight pages remaining. That’s enough to get the overall gist that the usual suspects are lying again as usual. As was mentioned on Crosstalk, there’s a war on information, not fake news, plus the Propaganda/Information War. The censorship of general info by YouTube, Twitter and Facebook is quite massive, although we’re very fortunate they can’t erase and replace it all as in 1984. Luongo made reference to the lack of quality education at the expense of Wokeness Indoctrination, which goes against his contention that the states have some sway over Washington since education is in the State’s domain, not the Feds.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 4 2022 1:31 utc | 245
Not that anyone cares (Et Tu is far more important here), but here are the last two Russian MoD briefings…
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-based missiles have hit 21 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, including command posts of the Ukrainian Nazi formations Kraken and Azov near Kharkov. [MY NOTE: Possibly because the neo-Nazis were reported conducting executions of “traitors” in Kharkov.]
Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit 15 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration. Ammunition and fuel depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Dolina and Slavyansk, Donetsk People’s Republic have been destroyed.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 240 nationalists and up to 39 weapons and military equipment, including 1 Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, 10 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, 3 BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 7 artillery mounts and mortars, and 17 special vehicles.
Fighter aviation have shot down 1 Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian air force near Lubomirovka, Nikolaev Region.
Russian air defence means have hit 7 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Odessa, Kamyshevakha, Popasnaya, Zolotoe, Kudryashovka in Lugansk People’s Republic, Yarovaya in Kharkov Region, as well as Verkhnetoretskoe in Donetsk People’s Republic overnight.
Missile troops and artillery have hit 131 command posts, 146 artillery and mortar batteries at firing positions, as well as 579 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
In total, 186 Ukrainian aircraft and 129 helicopters, 1,084 unmanned aerial vehicles, 327 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,373 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 460 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,752 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,350 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
We note that the inflow of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine to take part in combat operations against the Russian Armed Forces has virtually dried up since the beginning of May.
According to the data at our disposal, the total number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine has now been almost halved from 6,600 to 3,500. At the same time, the number of mercenaries in combat units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and National Guard in Donbass has decreased by orders of magnitude.
Hundreds of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine were eliminated by Russian long-range precision weapons shortly after their arrival while they were still undergoing pre-training and coordination of tactical units.
But most of the mercenaries are destroyed in the war zone due to their low level of training and lack of real combat experience.
Separately, I would like to point out that the commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and National Guard units, which included mercenaries, are not sparing foreigners in their efforts to reduce losses of their servicemen. Captured mercenaries tell interrogators that they are the first to be sacrificed. Due to the Kiev regime’s silencing of the losses and the absence of remains, relatives of the mercenaries in their countries of residence simply do not know about their deaths.
Faced with a real combat situation and heavy losses among servicemen of the AFU, the National Guard and foreigners, a significant number of mercenaries prefer to leave Ukrainian territory as soon as possible, but the Kiev regime prevents them from going abroad in every possible way.
Let me remind you that under international humanitarian law, mercenaries are not combatants and the best that awaits them is criminal liability.
The Kiev regime’s urgent attempts to guarantee the mercenaries legal protection by including them in the military units of the AFU or the National Guard, or by issuing them with fresh Ukrainian passports, will not save any of them.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
@mod_russia_en
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 21 areas of concentration of AFU manpower and military equipment during the day.
Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit 37 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 360 nationalists and 49 weapons and military equipment including 1 detection and airspace control radar station in Slavyansk, Donetsk People’s Republic.
Also 13 Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, 1 Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system have been destroyed near Bakhmut, as well as 2 mortar batteries, 2 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 8 artillery mounts, 26 special vehicles, and 4 missile and artillery weapon depots near Soledar, Dzerzhinsk, Yakovlevka and Bakhmut.
Russian air defence means have shot down 3 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Ryasnaya, Krutaya Balka, Donetsk People’s Republic and Dmitrovka, Kharkov Region overnight. 3 Uragan multiple-launch rockets have been also intercepted over Petropolie, Kamenka, Kharkov Region, and Novoselovka Vtoraya, Donetsk People’s Republic.
Missile troops and artillery have hit 26 command posts, 122 AFU artillery and mortar batteries at firing positions, 537 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 5 ammunition depots. 1 AFU unmanned aerial vehicle control post near Pervomaiskoe in Nikolaev Region has been destroyed.
In total, 186 Ukrainian aircraft and 129 helicopters, 1,087 unmanned aerial vehicles, 328 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,386 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 462 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,760 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,376 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
Against the backdrop of Kiev’s political catastrophe in Mariupol and military failures in Donbass, the Kiev regime, with British financial support, has organised the production of “morale raise” videos for Western and Ukrainian audiences.
In particular, on May 28, staged video was filmed near Meshkovka, Nikolaev Region, of the alleged “high efficiency” of the use of Western weaponry by Ukrainian nationalists.
To add more drama to the future film, at the insistence of British supervisors, a re-enactment of never-existing battle between Ukrainian Nazis and outnumbered “Russian soldiers” was created on the set.
The roles of “opponents” of the Ukrainian Nazis in the staged short film were performed by members of the local territorial defence unit wearing red armbands.
In the absence of trophy Russian equipment, the mock enemy appears in the frame using Ukrainian APCs and armoured vehicles.
The next video shoot is scheduled for June 5 and 6. The videos will focus on staged testimonies of “ordinary Ukrainians” accusing Russia of allegedly deliberately shelling civilian populated areas.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
@mod_russia_en
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jun 4 2022 3:40 utc | 260
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