Russia warns of a military confrontation with the United States over the delivery of weapons to Ukraine

The government of Russia warned to USA from the risk of a direct clash if Washington continues to supply arms to Ukraineincluding long range. It was the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Riabkov, who warned on Wednesday of this risk, given what he considers a growing supply of weapons to Ukraine.

“All weapons supplies, which continue and are increasing, increase the risks of such a development”, replied Riabkov, quoted by the RIA Nóvosti agency to the question of if Washington’s decision to provide kyiv with missile systems increases the risk of a direct clash between Russia and the United States.

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the deputy minister criticized the new package of US military aid to Ukraine worth 700 million dollarswhich, according to US government sources, includes the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems.

“We value this in a totally negative way, because the attempts to present this decision as containing ‘restrictions’ are worthless,” he stressed, alluding to the words of the US president, Joe Biden, about his country it does not encourage or allow Ukraine to attack beyond its borders.

MISSILE EXERCISES

The Russian Strategic Forces carry out exercises with mobile intercontinental missile systems “Yards” in the Ivanovo region, about 200 kilometers northeast of Moscow, the Ministry of Defense reported today. Russia.

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The systems Yards “They maneuver intensely” during the exercises, the portfolio said in a statement collected by the Interfax agency, which specified that about 1,000 soldiers and a hundred different types of vehicles participate in them.

“The members of the Strategic Forces rehearse the deployment of missile systems in field positions, displacements of up to 100 kilometers, changes of positions, masking and defense of these”, added Defense.

The “Yars” missiles, of which there are mobile and silo versions, have a range of up to 12,000 kilometers and can carry up to four nuclear warheads.

ZELENSKY ADMITS HUMAN LOSSES

the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, He has recognized that the situation in his country, especially in Donbas, is “very difficult” and that “between 60 and 100 soldiers die in action per day and another 500 people are injured”.

In a statement to the US website Newsmax, which is also reported by Ukrainian agencies, Zelensky He reiterated that his country is the “defensive perimeter” against Russia and that “it is a physical barrier formed by our people.”

“Russia will not stop at Ukraine, for sure,” Zelensky saidfor whom “the former republics of the USSR and the members of the EU, or some of them that are already members of NATO, are already under threat.”

In his last speech, delivered this morning, the Ukrainian president thanked the European countries for the agreement to “significantly limit Russia’s oil imports” and said that “the practical result is less than tens of billions of euros, which Russia already may not be used to finance terrorism.”

FIGHTING IN SEVERODONETSK

Russian troops are gaining a foothold in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetskin the eastern region of Luganskaccording to the latest part of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the direction of Donetsk, the Russian units, with the support of the air force, focus their efforts on different offensive operations, according to the kyiv analysis, which adds that the Moscow troops fire with mortars, artillery and rocket launchers. MLRS.

Likewise, Russia reinforced and regrouped units in the direction of Lyman, where “fighting continues”, while in Bakhmut, it tries to expel Ukrainian units from their positions near Bilohorivka and Vrubivka.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), an organization for strategic and military analysis based in Washington, has also published its own analysis of the conflict in recent hours, highlighting Russia’s decision to concentrate forces in eastern Ukraine. to capture new territories, such as Severodonetsk and Donbas in general.

That decision, according to ISW experts, “creates the conditions for intensifying counterattacks by Ukrainian forces in the Kherson region, where Russian troops are increasingly” more vulnerable.

Source: Elcomercio

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