Developments in Ukraine NATO’s military science failed in the confrontation with Russia

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday evening in Meeting with Vladimir Putin, the president of this country, expressed his opinion that NATO’s military science has completely failed in the conflict in Ukraine, and Western trainers and their methods did not contribute to the success of this country’s army.

According to him, The armed forces of Ukraine, which are completely under the control of Western countries, everything they did during the counterattack was planned in detail according to the advice and training of the US military and NATO trainers. General Shoigu added: Therefore, certainly the failure of the counterattack was a serious shock to them, and the methods, techniques and technologies that they practiced and tried to use here were a complete failure. And it certainly cannot be said that NATO’s military science has reached a high and unattainable level. In addition, the Minister of Defense emphasized that currently 260 satellites of the countries supporting Ukraine are operating online against Russia. 67 of them are NATO’s specialized reconnaissance satellites, and yet they are of no use to the Ukrainian military.

Yesterday, Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian Federation Council’s (Senate) Information Policy Commission, said that NATO made a big miscalculation. It has been committed in the issue of the conflict in Ukraine, but this will not lead to a change in the policy of the coalition. According to this Russian senator, the systematic mistake of America and the West in general is that they overestimate their capabilities. He drew attention to the fact that Western countries often repeat their mistakes and underestimate the strength of the enemy and have not learned from such results in various conflicts around the world.

Next, you can follow the developments related to the 728th day of the Ukrainian war:

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The village of Krinki in Kherson region was completely captured by the Russian armed forces

Vladimir Saldo, the governor of Kherson region, this morning, Wednesday, in Its Telegram channel announced that the village of Krinki, located on the left bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region, which was liberated yesterday by the Russian armed forces, has been completely cleared of the presence of Ukrainian forces.

He reminded that The months-long adventure of the Kiev authorities in this area, which cost the lives of 3,500 Ukrainian citizens, failed, and they also lost this area of ​​the banks of the Dnieper.

Last night, the Minister of Defense of Russia, Sergei Shoigu, said that the coastal village of Krinki in the Kherson region is under the complete control of the Russian army. According to him, the armed forces of Ukraine wanted to advance towards Crimea with resistance in Krinki, and four trained brigades of marines were concentrated in this village, but their resistance was finally crushed.

Shoigu added that in Currently, guard posts of Russian armed forces have been established along the banks of the Dnieper river in this area.

Shoygo: Russian armed forces have taken control of 317 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced last night in an interview with the editor of the TASS news agency that the Russian armed forces liberated more than 317 square kilometers of areas under the control of the Ukrainian armed forces in all directions since the beginning of the offensive operation. .

In his meeting with Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, he also mentioned that the freed area in the city of Avdiyoka is 72 square kilometers. Shoigu stressed that the Russian armed forces will continue their offensive operations towards the western regions after the capture of Avdioka. The Russian army captured the city of Avdioka with minimal casualties. >

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced in an interview with TASS: The General Staff of the Armed Forces was able to carry out the operation to liberate the city of Avdiyoka in the Donetsk People’s Republic from the Ukrainian armed forces with minimal casualties. According to him, the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces started preparations for this operation last fall and managed to create large reserves of military forces in the north and southwest suburbs of the city. The counterattack is at least 166,000 people

The Russian Defense Minister also announced that during the counterattack, the Ukrainian armed forces lost at least 166,000 soldiers who were killed or wounded. Sergei Shoigu added: the enemy could not even cross the first defense line of the Russian army by deploying such a huge force, while there are two other defense lines after the first line. Thus, they had to suffer defeat by losing 166 thousand dead and wounded, <...> more than 800 tanks, and approximately 2.4 thousand armored fighting vehicles.

According to the Minister of Defense, Russian forces destroyed more than half of the Leopard tanks that were delivered to the Ukrainian side.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister blamed the shortage of ammunition. The loss of Avdiyoka was called

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Koleba, announced last night in an interview with the CNN TV channel that the country’s armed forces, due to the lack of ammunition and military equipment They did not reach the west, they lost the city of Avdioka. He said: “We would not have lost Audifka if we had received the artillery ammunition necessary to defend the city from the western partners.” In addition, Koleba noted that due to the delay in decision-making, in one place, the forces Many lost their lives.

This network reminded that earlier, John Kirby, the official spokesman of the White House, blamed the Republicans in the US Congress for Avdioka’s loss. According to him, this happened not because of bad leadership or insufficient training of the Ukrainian forces, but because of the lack of timely action and the inaction of the Congress representatives. Pentagon: Without US help, Ukraine Must decide what cities it can keep

Pentagon Deputy Spokesperson Sabrina Singh said at a press conference last night that without US help, Ukraine must decide what cities it can keep. maintain with its existing military facilities.

“Ukraine has to decide and decide what cities it can preserve with the resources it currently has and with what foreign partners can provide,” he said.

Singh noted that everything now depends on the decision of the Congress. The Pentagon official explained that without congressional approval to allocate additional funding resources, the United States cannot send air defense systems, artillery and ammunition to Ukraine.

When asked why a department with an $800 billion budget wouldn’t want to “take a risk” and give Kiev $4 billion, Singh stressed that it was a really big risk that the Pentagon wasn’t ready to take. to pay He added: “We do not have the necessary resources to replenish our weapons stockpiles. Therefore, we are not willing to accept such a risk. We cannot withdraw from the PDA packages (Presidential Drawdown Authority – the government program for the allocation of urgent military assistance) until the resources to replenish the stockpiles are available. Let’s not have our own military.” Antonov: sooner or later a peace agreement will be reached on Ukraine. Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador, in an article for the American Newsweek stated that the country does not refrain from talks to resolve the conflict in Ukraine and is confident that sooner or later an agreement on peace will be reached.

He said: “We insist and know that sooner or later a peace agreement will be reached, despite the efforts of supporters of Kiev, who spend billions of dollars to prolong the military conflict and continue the suffering of thousands of people.”

Antonov added that Russia will not stop talking like in the past. Meanwhile, according to him, the West still declares that there is no alternative to the one-sided “Copenhagen format” and the “peace formula” proposed by the Ukrainian president, which does not take into account the positions of the Russian side at all.

The Russian ambassador believes that the United States will worsen the situation in Ukraine by not accepting Russia’s requests.

Anatoly Antonov wrote in an article titled “Russia and Ukraine: There is a Path to Peace” for Newsweek magazine: Instead of the key demands of Russia – the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine, there is also a lack of attention to Russophobia. and NATO-related plans of Kiev – and understand the reasons for it, Washington and its satellites will only make the situation worse.

The diplomat emphasized: they are handing over weapons to their puppets and ” They call it “good investment”. They turn a blind eye to the heinous crimes of the Kyiv authorities, who use Western technology to commit war crimes and terrorist attacks against government infrastructure, civilians, and even their own soldiers.

Antonov pointed out that there is ample evidence. Which shows that Western weapons sent to Ukraine are used in conflict zones around the world and they are silent about it.

Kirby: Ukrainian leadership did a wise thing by withdrawing troops from Avdiyka

John Kirby, the coordinator of strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said that the US leadership believes that Ukraine took a logical step by withdrawing its forces from the city of Avdiyoka, although this situation could affect will have much to do with the continuation of the military operation, if the Ukrainian side does not receive additional support from the West.

In fact, [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, with the withdrawal of his forces from Avdiyka, said Kirby. not to be encircled and to be able to protect themselves and the available valuable resources, he did a wise thing.

At the same time, the White House official pointed out that an attack on Avdiyoka could have a serious impact on military operations in the eastern regions. And that Russian forces can occupy more territory over time if Western countries do not continue to support Kiev militarily. According to him, the lack of resources in the Ukrainian army is related to the lack of timely action by Congress.

Yesterday, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, called the withdrawal of the Ukrainian army from Avdiyoka an escape. According to him, the order for the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from this city was issued only based on political considerations to cover up this escape and make it look like an organized withdrawal. American detained in Yekaterinburg

John Kirby, the coordinator of strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, told reporters last night that the White House and the US State Department plan to meet with a woman who He has dual Russian-American citizenship and was arrested in Yekaterinburg.

He said: We have learned about reports of the arrest of a person with dual American and Russian citizenship, and we are trying to get more information and have requested consular access to him.

Kirby emphasized that, as previously stated, the presence of American citizens in Russia is dangerous and they should leave the country or cancel their planned trip.

Yesterday, the Federal Security Service of Russia announced that a Russian citizen – The American, who has been collecting money for the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces since the beginning of the military conflict, has been arrested in Yekaterinburg.

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced last night that a very difficult situation has arisen for the armed forces of Ukraine in the direction of Kharkiv, which has caused concern.

He wrote on his page in X: I I am returning from the positions of our soldiers in the Kharkiv region. The situation on the front line is very difficult in several regions, especially the regions where the Russian forces have concentrated the most of their reserves. Zelenskiy noted that the armed forces of Ukraine are facing delays in accessing military aid. and the lack of weapons and ammunition is strongly felt. He said that there is also a lack of artillery and the need for advanced air defense and long-range weapons. Schultz: The consequences of the conflict in Ukraine have hit Germany hard.

German Chancellor Olaf Schultz admitted that the consequences of the military conflict in Ukraine hit the German economy hard and that the country was not prepared for this situation. “The consequences of the conflict in Ukraine have hit us hard here in Germany because we were not prepared,” he told a conference of the German Federal Employers Association. At the same time, Schultz said the government Germany quickly took all the necessary measures, for example, terminals for receiving liquefied natural gas (LNG) were created during the “fuel shortage”.

Lukashenko: about 32 thousand NATO forces near The borders of Russia and Belarus are established

Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, announced yesterday in a meeting with the officials of the country’s security institutions that NATO has deployed more than 30,000 military personnel and thousands of armored vehicles in along the borders of Russia and Belarus.

Lukashenko said: In the vicinity of the borders of Russia and Belarus, as part of the NATO military exercise, about 32,000 military personnel from the combined forces of NATO and the United States are stationed. In addition, more than a thousand units of armored vehicles, about 160 artillery and mortar systems, 235 airplanes and helicopters have been sent to this region. And Washington and its allies will continue to expand NATO. In this regard, Lukashenko determined the task of the Ministry of Defense regarding the rapid and qualitative transformation of the equipment needed by the army and the improvement of the country’s defense system. The Prime Minister of Ukraine admitted that almost a third of the country’s economy Lost

Ukraine Prime Minister Denis Shmigal has admitted that since the beginning of the military conflict, the country has lost almost a third of its economic strength.

He spoke about this in an interview with the Japanese TV channel NHK and said: “Ukraine has lost 30% of the economy and also 3.5 million jobs.” Western munitions complained about the insufficient amount of them in the possession of the armed forces of Ukraine and the countries supporting Kiev in general, adding: “Unfortunately, the production of ammunition around the world, including the European Union, is not large enough to supply the required amount of ammunition to

Earlier in the day, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that 10 years after the Maidan revolution, the country has degraded and is collapsing. He emphasized: the prices of food, housing and public services have increased several times and people are tired of this situation.

Polish president signs law to help Ukrainian refugees

Andrei Duda, President The President of Poland signed a law, according to which the program to help Ukrainian refugees is extended until the end of June this year.

In a statement published on the website of the Office of the President, it is said: “President Andriy Duda Law signed on February 9, 2024 to amend the laws on providing assistance to citizens of Ukraine in connection with armed conflicts on its territory. This law guarantees the temporary protection of Ukrainian refugees, providing them with food and accommodation at the expense of the state, medical care, access to education and a full package of social assistance. University of Warsaw conducted, more than half of Poles who were surveyed, opposed paying subsidies to the children of refugees from Ukraine. The number of opponents of subsidizing food and housing for Ukrainians at state expense has also increased.

In addition, Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported that Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government admitted that the money needed to finance aid to Ukrainians do not have special savings and reserves.

In mid-February, a new survey showed that almost half of Ukrainian refugee women in Poland no longer intend to return to their country. Among the changes that could motivate these women to return to Ukraine, refugees cited the provision of well-paying jobs (38 percent) and the eradication of corruption (31 percent) in Ukraine.

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