Moscow prepares a show of force: "NATO will realize it has no air defense - Ukrainian Patriots will not see Kh-47M2 Kinzhal"
"Patriot system will be destroyed immediately"
The Russian nuclear-capable Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic surface-to-air missile proved to be highly effective and invulnerable to enemy air defenses during the special military operation in Ukraine.
This was stated by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and First Deputy Minister of Defense V. Gerasimov speaking to foreign military followers.
Kinzhal was one of six Russian strategic weapons unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 1, 2018.
For the first time it was used in the special military operation in Ukraine.
"For the first time, ultrasonic weapons were used in combat conditions.
The Kinzhal airborne missile system proved to be highly effective and invulnerable to the reactions of Ukrainian air defenses, " the Russian military chief told TASS.
Gerasimov went on to reveal that Russian long-range missiles hit more than 1,300 critical Ukrainian facilities during the special military operation.
The army chief said the strikes "significantly reduced the combat potential of the Ukrainian armed forces, disrupted the command and control system of the troops, paralyzed the work of the military-industrial complex and significantly hindered military deliveries."
By Patriot
Kinzhal was specifically designed to overcome any known NATO air-missile defense systems, including the MIM-104 Patriot, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Aegis.
Instead of using the latest supersonic glide and scramjet missile designs, it uses more classic ballistic missile technology with a supersonic speed of Mach 10-12.
Because it flies at supersonic speeds within the atmosphere, the air pressure in front of it forms a plasma cloud as it moves, absorbing radio waves.
Thus, the missile can achieve what is called "creature stealth".
The missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers when fired from MiG-31Ks and up to 3,000 kilometers when fired from Tu-22M3 bombers.
The Kinzhal's supersonic speed gives it better target penetration characteristics than lighter, slower ballistic and cruise missiles.
When armed with a 500 kg conventional warhead, the missile's impact can generate more than 16.9 gigajoules of kinetic energy, or the equivalent of 4,000 kg of TNT explosives.
The missile can also be armed with a 100–500 Kt nuclear warhead.
Despite its speed, the missile can achieve high accuracy thanks to an advanced GLONASS assisted inertial navigation system and an optical search system.
Gerasimov's remarks about Kinzhal were intended to warn Ukraine, which is set to receive Patriot artillery, from the United States and other NATO nations.
This is also Moscow's big bet: A quick destruction of the Patriot anti-aircraft system by the hypersonic Kh-47M2 Kinzhal will cause strong tremors in the West.
Several states including Poland, Romania, etc. will realize that they have no air defense against modern Russian weapon systems.
Yesterday, B. Putin stated that he is not worried. Russia is ready to neutralize any Patriot system given to Kyiv.
US moving bioweapons research out of Ukraine – Moscow
Unfinished projects are being relocated to Central Asian and Eastern European countries, according to the Russian military.
Washington has been moving its bioweapons research out of Ukraine, the head of Russia’s Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Troops has claimed. This comes after the research laboratories' existence was exposed under the Trump presidency.
“The Pentagon is actively working to transfer its unfinished research projects to the countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe,” Igor Kirillov insisted during a briefing on Saturday.
The US has also been boosting cooperation with Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Kenya and other nations in the Indo-Pacific and Africa, with “the US Department of Defense being most interested in countries that already possess laboratories with a high level of bioсontainment,” he added.
According to the commander, data on illegal, US-backed laboratories in Ukraine was presented at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons conference, which took place in Geneva between November 28 and December 16.
It included “documentary evidence that work with components of biological weapons and studies of pathogens of especially dangerous and economically significant infections had been carried out on the territory of Ukraine with financial, scientific, technical and personnel support of the US,” he noted.
Papers obtained by Russia during its military operation in Ukraine reveal that “military-biological programs” were run through the Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute in Kiev, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Kharkov and the Lviv-based Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene, Kirillov claimed.
The files also mentioned three Pentagon contractors and seven high-ranking officials of the US Department of Defense, he added.
The full text of a report by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) on its work in Ukraine, seen by the Russian military, contained data, “confirming the conduct of exercises and training activities with pathogens of especially dangerous infections” in Ukraine, Kirillov said. When the Pentagon released this report to the public, 80% of its content had been redacted, he pointed out.
According to the Russian commander, the head of the American delegation at the conference declined to respond to Russia’s accusations of violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) by his country.
“Such a stance by the US and its blocking of any initiatives to resume work on the verification mechanism of the CWC once again confirms that Washington has something to hide, and that ensuring transparency in terms of compliance with the convention doesn’t play into the hands of the Americans,” he said.
However, the report by Russia didn’t go unnoticed by other countries and “made many member-states reflect on the risks posed by cooperation with Washington in the military-biological area,” Kirillov stressed.
The Russian military has been gradually releasing materials on the work of the US-backed biolabs in Ukraine since March. Washington has denied Mocsow’s bioweapons claims, calling them disinformation and a conspiracy theory used by Russia to justify its military operation.
On the New Year’s Eve, everybody’s into making predictions
Many come up with futuristic hypotheses, as if competing to single out the wildest, and even the most absurd ones.
Here’s our humble contribution.
What can happen in 2023:
Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel, and gas price will top $5.000 per 1.000 cubic meters
The UK will rejoin the EU
The EU will collapse after the UK’s return; Euro will drop out of use as the former EU currency
Poland and Hungary will occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine
The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and other outcasts
War will break out between France and the Fourth Reich. Europe will be divided, Poland repartitioned in the process
Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland
Civil war will break out in the US, California. and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP
All the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia
The Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading to the IMF and World Bank crash. Euro and Dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies. Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead
Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets!
Putin bans Russian oil exports to countries that implement price cap
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia's long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of crude oil and oil products from Feb. 1 for five months to nations that abide by the cap.
The Group of Seven major powers, the European Union and Australia agreed this month to a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil effective from Dec. 5 over Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine.
The cap is close to the current price for Russian oil, but well beneath the windfall price Russia was able to sell for this year and that helped offset the impact of financial sanctions on Moscow.
Russia is the world's second largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, and a major disruption to its sales would have far reaching consequences for global energy supplies.
The decree, published on a government portal and the Kremlin website, was presented as a direct response to "actions that are unfriendly and contradictory to international law by the United States and foreign states and international organisations joining them".
"Deliveries of Russian oil and oil products to foreign entities and individuals are banned, on the condition that in the contracts for these supplies, the use of a maximum price fixing mechanism is directly or indirectly envisaged," the decree stated, referring specifically to the United States and other foreign states that have imposed the price cap.
"The established ban applies to all stages of supply up to the end buyer."
The decree, which includes a clause that allows for Putin to overrule the ban in special cases, stated: "This...comes into force on Feb. 1, 2023, and applies until July 1, 2023."
Crude oil exports will be banned from Feb. 1, but the date for the oil products ban will be determined by the Russian government and could be after Feb. 1.
WIDER DEFICIT
The price cap, unseen even in the times of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union, is aimed at crippling Russian state coffers and Moscow's military efforts in Ukraine.
Some analysts have said that the cap will have little immediate impact on the oil revenues that Moscow is currently earning.
However, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday that Russia's budget deficit could be wider than the planned 2% of GDP in 2023, with the oil price cap squeezing export income, an extra fiscal hurdle for Moscow as it spends heavily on its military campaign in Ukraine.
Russia has been promising to respond officially for weeks, and the eventual decree largely established what officials had already said publicly.
The G7 price cap allows non-EU countries to continue importing seaborne Russian crude oil, but it will prohibit shipping, insurance and re-insurance companies from handling cargoes of Russian crude around the globe, unless it is being sold for less than the price cap.
EU countries have separately implemented an embargo that prohibits them from purchasing seaborne Russian oil.
Russian Urals oil traded above $56 per barrel on Tuesday, below the price cap level.
Brent crude oil moved a little higher on the news and was up 1.4% at $85.1 by 1743 GMT.
Dynamics of special op are positive, everything is going according to plan — Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin positively assessed the dynamics of the special military operation. In an interview with the Rossiya-1 TV channel for the program ‘Moscow. Kremlin. Putin’, the head of state expressed the hope that Russian fighters would once again please everyone with the results of their work.
"The dynamics are positive. Everything is developing within the plan of the Defense Ministry and the General Staff. And I hope that our fighters will please us more than once again with the results of their combat work," Putin said, answering questions from journalist Pavel Zarubin.
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov on Friday said Russian troops had liberated Soledar in the evening of January 12. He said full control over Soledar made it possible to sever supply routes of Ukrainian forces in Artyomovsk, known in Ukraine as Bakhmut, which is located to the southwest, then surround Ukrainian forces in that town.
Russia will destroy any weapons West supplies to Kiev — Russian ambassador to US
Anatoly Antonov stressed that "pumping Ukraine with weapons, whether by the US or other NATO countries, will only lead to an increase in casualties among the civilian population, will create additional difficulties in the former Soviet republic"
The Russian army will destroy any weapons that Western countries send to Ukrainian troops, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday.
When asked to comment on the statements of the US State Department spokesman Ned Price about the possibility for the Kiev security forces to attack Crimea with American weapons, he replied: “It should be clear for everyone – we will destroy any weapons supplied to the Zelensky's regime by either the United States or NATO. That is true now as it was true during the Great Patriotic War. The emergence of tanks, bearing Nazi insignia, on the former Soviet soil unequivocally makes us aim at toppling the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine and creating normal conditions so that the neighboring peoples in the region could live peacefully like in the old days,” Antonov said as quoted by the press service of the embassy.
He stressed that “pumping up Ukraine with materiel from the US or other NATO countries will only lead to an increase in civilian casualties and create additional difficulties in the former Soviet republic.”
“Ponder over the theses of [President of Russia] Vladimir Putin. It is just impossible to defeat the Russian Federation. Victory will be ours,” Antonov concluded.
The Russian Army has deployed S-300 air defense missiles to within 50 miles of the border with LATVIA.
In the image below, a truck carrying S-300 interceptor missiles is seen driving on a road toward LATVIA.
Behind it is the Radar and Fire Control truck:
Behind that are two additional trucks carrying S-300 missiles:
The final deployment location is not yet known (by me) but intel sources tell me that the final location is "beyond artillery range. It would take a missile strike to take them out-- and the S-300 can detect and shoot down most missiles."
The map below better shows the location where these trucks were caught on camera:
Why Russia is deploying air defense missiles near the LATIVA border is an interesting question. From the look of it, Russia seems to be actively preparing for an attack BY NATO, and as such, they are preparing vast and varied defenses to defend Russian territory anywhere NATO might strike.
In February 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a pre-planned strategic deterrence forces training. The purpose of the exercises was to check the readiness of military command and control bodies, launch combat crews, crews of warships and strategic missile carriers to carry out assigned tasks, as well as the reliability of the weapons.
According to reports, Hypersonic missiles, ICBMs, and nuclear submarines were involved in the exercises.
This week Putin announced he is set to unleash ‘unstoppable’ hypersonic Zircon missiles during upcoming war games with China and South Africa in the coming weeks.
Vladimir Putin is set to unleash ‘unstoppable’ hypersonic Zircon missiles during his upcoming war games with China and South Africa.
The new Mach 9 nuclear-capable Zircon missiles, which travel at speeds of nearly 7,000mph, will be fired from the Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov during naval exercises off the coast of South Africa.
The ‘training launch’ of the missile, one of the world’s deadliest weapons, will be aimed at a ‘surface target’ at a distance of more than 310 miles.
The upcoming launch of the deadly missiles comes after the Admiral Gorshkov conducted an ‘electronic’ launch at an ‘enemy surface target’ as it sailed in the western Atlantic off the coast of United States last week.
The Zircon missiles will also now be fired from the Russian frigate during naval drills between Russia, China and South Africa in the Indian Ocean.
The three nations will engage in the war games from February 17 to 27 off South Africa’s east coast near the cities of Durban and Richards Bay.
Joint Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic Faisal Mekdad pertaining to the Issues of the Chemical Weapons Convention
The heads of foreign ministries of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States have issued a statement that contradicts the reality with regard to the provocation of 7 April 2018 involving the use of chlorine, which was staged in the Syrian town of Douma by the pseudo-humanitarian "White Helmets" NGO affiliated with the Syrian armed opposition. Thus, they have demonstrated support for the report published on 27 January 2023 by the Investigation and Identification Team (IIТ), a body imposed on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by the "collective West", on the chemical attack allegedly carried out by the Syrian Air Forces against the civilian population of the town and "abetted" by Russia.
We consider this statement, which reproduces groundless accusations against Syria of the use of chemical weapons, as another step to build up comprehensive pressure on our countries. We believe that the publication of yet another falsified report on the provocation involving the use of chemical weapons in Douma is but another attempt to whitewash the act of tripartite aggression, committed by France, the United Kingdom and the United States on 14 April 2018 against sovereign Syria by launching a missile strike on the Syrian civilian and military infrastructure in violation of the UN Charter and universally recognized norms of international law.
We recall in this regard that the IIT was established in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Despite the enormous pressure exerted by Western countries, less than half of the States Parties to the CWC voted in favour of its establishment.
The ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Syrian Arab Republic reaffirm that the abovementioned statement of "the four" is yet another proof of the hostile intentions of these States towards our two countries, as well as of their destructive policy aimed at spurring up new crises in the Middle East and across the globe.
Russia and Syria deny the unfounded accusations made against them, condemn this other deceitful statement by France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and reaffirm their strong rejection of the policy pursued by these countries, which aims to substitute the UN Charter and universally recognized norms of international law with the so-called "rules-based order" granting NATO and EU countries dominance in determining basic parameters of the political, economic, scientific, technical, humanitarian as well as moral and ethical development of the human civilization.
It is also worth recalling that so far the United States remains the only chemical weapons possessor State which, despite all the financial and technological capabilities at its disposal, is doing its best to slow down the process of its own chemical demilitarization.
Russia and Syria once again reaffirm that the use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere and under any pretext is categorically unacceptable.
British musician Roger Waters speaks at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
Medvedev: Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting, Waters breaks down the wall of lies built by the West
MOSCOW, February 8 – RIA Novosti. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation declarationSpeaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Roger Waters, one of the founders and leaders of the Pink Floyd group, is breaking down the wall of lies that the West has built.
Medvedev released a statement on his English Twitter account referring to the work of the Pink Floyd group. In particular, in 1979 the group released the album The Wall (“Wall”), and in 1975 the song Shine On You Crazy Diamond (“Shine, crazy diamond”).
Medvedev, “At the UN, Roger Waters is breaking the West’s ‘wall’ of lies. Shine, crazy diamond!”
Waters said at the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday that he did not see Russia’s operation in Ukraine without reason and condemned the provocateurs. Also, US President Joe Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine today.
Roger Waters full speech at the UN security council.
08.02.23 - New York City
oger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting today, Wednesday 8, 2023 in New York.
Madame/Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I feel profoundly honoured to be afforded this singular opportunity to brief your excellencies today. With your forbearance, I shall endeavour to express what I believe to be the feelings of countless of our brothers and sisters all over the world, both here in NY and across the seas. I shall invite them into these hallowed halls to have their say.
We are here to consider possibilities for peace in war-torn Ukraine, especially in light of the increasing volume of weapons arriving in that unhappy country. Every morning when I sit down at my laptop, I think of our brothers and sisters, in Ukraine and elsewhere, who, through no fault of their own find themselves in dire and often deadly circumstances. Over there, in Ukraine they may be soldiers facing another deadly day at the front, or they may be mothers or fathers facing the awful question how can I feed my child today, or they may be civilians knowing that today the lights will go out, for sure, as they always do in war zones, knowing that there is no fresh water, that there is no fuel for the stove, no blanket, just barbed wire and watch towers and walls and enmity. Or, they may be over here, in a big rich city like NY, here brothers and sisters can still find themselves in dire straights. Maybe, somehow, however hard they worked all their lives, they lost their footing on the slippery tilting deck of the neo-liberal capitalist ship we call life in the city and fell overboard to end up drowning.. Maybe they got sick, or maybe they took out a student loan, maybe they missed a payment, the margins are slim, who knows, but now they live on the street in a pile of cardboard, maybe even within sight of this United Nations building. Anyway, wherever they are, all over the world, war zone or not, together they make up a majority, a voiceless majority. Today I shall endeavor to speak for them.
We the people wish to live. We wish to live in peace in conditions of parity that give us the real opportunity to look after ourselves and our loved ones. We are hard workers and we are ready to work hard. All we need is a fair crack of the whip. Maybe that’s an unfortunate choice of idiom, after five hundred years of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery.
Anyway Please help us.
To help us you may have to consider our predicament, and to do so you may have to take your eye off the ball for a moment, to put your own goals momentarily to one side. What are your goals by the way? And here maybe I direct my inquiries more to the five permanent members of this Council. What are your goals? What is in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Bigger profits for war industries? More power globally? A bigger share of the global cake? Is mother earth a cake to be gobbled up? Does not a bigger share of the cake mean less for everyone else? What if today, in this place of safety, we were to look in another direction, to look at our capacity for empathy for instance, to put ourselves in other’s shoes, like, right now, for instance, the shoes of that chap on the other side of this room, or even the shoes of the voiceless majority, if they have any shoes that is.
The Voiceless Majority is concerned that your wars, yes your wars, for these perpetual wars are not of our choosing, that your wars will destroy the planet that is our home, and along with every other living thing we will be sacrificed on the altar of two things, profits from the war to line the pockets of the very, very, few and the hegemonic march of some empire or other towards unipolar world domination. Please reassure us that that is not your vision for there is no good outcome down that road. That road leads only to disaster, everyone on that road has a red button in their briefcase and the further we go down that road the closer the itchy fingers get to that red button and the closer we all get to Armageddon. Look across the room, at this level we’re all wearing the same shoes.
So back to Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine by The Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not “unprovoked”, so I also condemn the provokateurs in the strongest possible terms. There, that’s got that out of the way.
When I wrote this speech yesterday, I included an observation that the power of veto in this council only lay in the hands of its permanent members, I was concerned that that was was undemocratic and rendered This Council toothless…. This morning I had a revelation……..TOOTHLESS! maybe toothless is in some ways a good thing……..If this is a toothless chamber……..I can open my big mouth on behalf of the voiceless without getting my head bitten off……. How cool is that. I read in the paper this morning, some anonymous diplomat quoted as saying, “Roger Waters! To address the Security Council? Whatever next?….. Mr Bean! Hwah! Hwah! Hwah! For those of you who don’t know, Mr Bean is an ineffectual character in an English comedy show on TV. So it’s a penny to a pound the anonymous diplomat is an Englishman, Hwah! hwah! hwah! To you too Sir! Ok, I think it’s time to introduce my mother, Mary Duncan Waters, she was a big influence on me, she was a school teacher, I say was, she’s been dead for fifteen years. My father, Eric Fletcher Waters, was a big influence on me too, he too is dead, he was killed on the 18th of February 1944 at Aprilia near The Anzio Bridgehead in Italy, when I was only five months old, so I know something about war and loss. Anyway back to my Mum. When I was about thirteen I was struggling with some knotty adolescent problem or other trying to decide what to do, it doesn’t matter what it was, I can’t remember anyway, but my mum sat me down and said, “Listen, you’re going to be faced with many knotty problems during your life and when you are here’s my advice, read, read, read find out everything you can about whatever it is, look at it from all sides, all angles, listen to all opinions, especially ones you don’t agree with, research it thoroughly, when you’ve done that you will have done all the heavy lifting and the next bit is easy, “Is it? Ok mum what’s the easy bit?”…….”Oh, the easy bit is, you just do the right thing.“ Hmm!
So speaking of doing the right thing brings me to human rights.
We the people, want universal human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or nationality. To be clear, that would include but would not be limited to the right to life and property under the law for, for instance, Ukrainians, and for instance Palestinians. Yup, let that sink in. And obviously for all the rest of us. One of the problems with wars is that in a war zone or anywhere where the people live under military occupation, there is no recourse to the law, there are no human rights.
Today our brief is the possibility of peace in the Ukraine, with special reference to the arming of the Kiev regime by third parties.
I’m running out of time so,
What do the Voiceless millions have to say?
They say
Thank you for hearing us today
We are the many who do not share in the profits of the war industry.
We do not willingly raise our sons or daughters
To provide fodder for your cannons.
In our opinion
The only sensible course of action today
Is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
No ifs, no buts, no ands.
Not one more Ukrainian or Russian life is to be spent.
Not one.
They are all precious in our eyes.
So, the time has come to speak truth to power. You all remember the story of the Emperor’s new clothes? Of course you do. Well the leaders of your respective Empires stand, in one degree or another, naked before us. We have a message for them. It is a message from all the refugees in all the camps, a message from all the slums and favelas, a message from all the homeless, on all the cold streets, from all the earthquakes and floods, on earth. It is also a message from all the people, not quite starving but wondering how on earth to make the pittance they earn, meet the cost of a roof over their head and food for their families. My mother country England is, thank god, an Empire no more, but in that country now, there is a new catch phrase “Eat or Heat?” you can’t do both. It’s a cry echoing round the whole of Europe.
Apparently, the only thing the Powers that Be think we can all afford is perpetual war. How crazy is that?
So, from the four billion or so brothers and sisters in this Voiceless Majority who together with the millions in the international anti-war movement represent a huge constituency, enough is enough! We demand change.
President Biden, President Putin, President Zelenski,
USA, NATO, RUSSIA, THE EU, ALL OF YOU.
PLEASE CHANGE COURSE NOW,
AGREE TO A CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE TODAY.
That, of course, will only be the starting point. But everything extrapolates from that starting point. Imagine the collective global sigh of relief. The outpouring of joy. The international joining of voices in harmony singing an anthem to peace! John Lennon pumping the air with his fist from the grave. We have finally been heard in the corridors of power. The bullies in the schoolyard have agreed to stop playing nuclear chicken. We’re not all going to die in a nuclear holocaust after all. At least not today. The powers that be have been persuaded to drop the arms race and perpetual war as their accepted modus operandum. We can stop squandering all our precious resources on war. We can feed our children, we can keep them warm. We may even learn to cooperate with all our brothers and sisters and even save our beautiful planet home from destruction. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Medvedev says Biden received security guarantees before going to Kiev
The politician noted that Western countries are "quite faithfully" supplying Kiev with arms and money.
US President Joe Biden has received security guarantees before his trip to Ukraine, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said, without specifying who gave the American leader these guarantees.
"Biden, having previously received security guarantees, finally went to Kiev. He promised many weapons and swore allegiance to the neo-Nazi regime to the grave," Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday, "And, of course, there were mutual incantations of victory, which will come with new weapons and courageous people."
Medvedev noted that Western countries are "quite faithfully" supplying Kiev with arms and money. "In huge quantities, allowing the military-industrial complex of NATO countries to make money and steal weapons to sell to terrorists all over the world," he specified.
Biden visited Kiev on Monday, February 20, to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky and express support for Kiev.
The Associated Press earlier reported, citing the White House, that Washington had been in contact with Moscow shortly before Biden's visit to Ukraine "to ensure deconfliction."
Full Speech. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in Moscow on February 21, 2023.
Any action by Ukraine or the West that poses a threat to Russian peacekeepers or nationals in the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria will be seen as an attack on Russia, the country’s Foreign Ministry has stated. It warned Kiev and its Western backers against carrying out “provocations” there.
In a statement released on Friday, Russian diplomats cited data from the country’s Defense Ministry, according to which Ukraine has amassed considerable numbers of military personnel, as well as hardware and artillery on its border with Transnistria. In light of this, Moscow warned the “US, NATO member states and their Ukrainian underlingsagainst any further adventurous steps.”
While Russia favors “political-diplomatic” ways of resolving issues, “no one should have any doubt that the Russian armed forces will react appropriately to any provocation by the Kiev regime,” the statement reads.
Moscow stressed that it is determined to protect its citizens, peacekeepers, and military personnel stationed in Moldova’s breakaway region.
The report of a Ukrainian military buildup along the country’s border with Transnistria was issued by the Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday.
The territory on the left bank of the Dniester River proclaimed independence from Moldova in the early 1990s, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Around 1,100 Russian soldiers are stationed in Transnistria as peacekeepers in order to monitor a 1992 ceasefire between Moldovan and local forces.
