Russia warns of new attacks on military targets in Kyiv if Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory escalate
2022-04-15 14:12:37 / National Radio News
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The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed this Friday that its forces bombed a military installation on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and warned of further retaliation in the area in case of acts of sabotage on Russian territory.
The spokesman for the highest military unit, Major General Igor Kona-shénkov, stated that last night the Kalibr Navy cruise missile attack was carried out against the Vizar mechanical design factory, where the ships producing and repairing missiles were destroyed. air and anti-ship missiles.
Kona-shénkov warned the Ukrainian nationalist regime that if terrorist attacks or acts of sabotage escalate in Russia, the number and scale of rocket attacks on targets in Kyiv will increase.
In connection with the incursion of two Ukrainian helicopters that bombed the border towns of Klimovo and Spo-da-riu-shino yesterday, Kona-shenko stated that one of the planes was destroyed by Russian defenses while returning to its base.
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed that around 30 mercenaries from a Polish private military company involved in the fighting in Ukraine were killed in an attack by the armed forces.
Meanwhile, a mercenary who appeared among the thousand soldiers who surrendered in Mariúpol, Briton Aiden Aslin, denounced that Ukrainian soldiers are snatching food and drinking water from civilians in supermarkets.
According to Aslin, the Kyiv Armed Forces military looted supplies of food that the population needed to survive and forbade them from going out to fetch water.
Aslin stated that from day one in Mariupol he campaigned for Ukrainian troops to leave the city.
The mercenary also acknowledged that in order to avoid a conflict with Russia, Ukraine should have recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and Crimea’s membership in Moscow.
Aiden Aslin joined a Ukrainian military division in 2018 and previously fought in the ranks of the Kurds in the Middle East.
Through British media, the British mercenary’s family asked Russia to pardon him.
Meanwhile, a diplomatic note from Moscow addressed to Washington warned the Joe Biden administration against supplying arms to the Ukrainian army, according to The Washington Post.
The letter calls on the United States and its allies to stop the irresponsible militarization of Ukraine, which is having unpredictable consequences for regional and international security.
The notice was issued after President Joe Biden announced $800 million in military aid to Ukraine and amid attacks on Russian territory by the nationalist regime in Kyiv.
But this military aid the United States is offering is jeopardizing its own arsenals and showing Washington’s “weakness” in the face of an ongoing conflict, according to Hal Brands, a Bloomberg columnist and professor of global affairs at the Paul Paul School of Advanced International Studies H. Nitze .
In an article, Brands commented that US stockpiles of key weapons are smaller than one might imagine, recalling that the superpower has already been unable to send more Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine because it has its own arsenals would leave severely exhausted.
The analyst noted that while Kyiv will need much more Western aid and more complex weapons like tanks and fighter jets to prevent Russia from benefiting from it, the United States will not resume arms production in the near future due to equipment, funding and skilled labor shortages can significantly increase workforce.
Meanwhile, The New York Times newspaper quoted anonymous European Union officials as saying that the bloc is preparing projects for a possible ban on Russian oil products, but evaluation of the measure will not begin until the final round of the presidential elections in France, which is held are scheduled for April 24th.
The New Yorker newspaper assures that the decision to postpone the debates is to ensure that the impact of the veto on Russian oil on energy prices does not favor far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and does not hurt the chances of the current French president, Emmanuel Macron , wins the presidential election again.