The second phase of the war, the conquest of Mariupol, the main port of the Sea of ​​Azof, Vladimir Putin’s decision on Thursday imprison two thousand Ukrainian fighters at the Azovtal steel mill, where they had to surrender or die of hunger and thirst, while the offensive of 80,000 soldiers on the 480-kilometer front to seize eastern Ukraine continued, albeit with no definite progress.

All of this is concentrated in a war of conflict that is now shaping up to be a dangerous escalation between Russia against the Western United States and the European countries.

In addition to war, it includes an economic war of large scale ending more than seventy years of peace since the end of World War II. The world is beginning to prepare for a long crisis.

Negotiations to stop the war are in a stalemate. Both sides accuse each other of not wanting a deal.

The visit of the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky in kyiv, showed the extent the weather is getting worse.

Doubt

Europeans seem to have despaired of intervening to achieve a peaceful solution. Now they, too, point directly to Russia’s defeat. The US remains adamant because it does not believe Putin wants an agreement and he prefers a military increase. Washington considers that ahead of time a long war of attrition.

President Zelensky responded: “Weapons, weapons, weapons”, when Europeans and North Americans asked what their needs were.

Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, gave the 27-nation European Union “full support” in kyiv on Wednesday for Ukraine’s arms policy to the teeth.

He told Zelensky that heavy weapons would now come to Ukraine so they could face Russia’s new offensive, which is mainly being fought with heavy weapons.

Putin helped worsen the climate of war for him threat harder than it has ever done through the use of atomic weapons.

With the West’s increasing shipments of heavy weapons, it responded by announcing that the Sarmat 2 super intercontinental ballistic missile, hypersonic flying at 24 thousand kilometers per hour and “unobstructed” would be launched from the Pleseck Cosmodrome , in northwestern Russia. .

Its formidable flight can reach 18 thousand kilometers, carrying a powerful nuclear warhead. He clarified that it served to give Russia’s enemies a stop.

“It doesn’t have similar weapons in the world and won’t have them for a long time,” the Russian president said.

The super missile hit Kura, Kamchatka, after traveling 5,450 km. Of course, it directly threatens European countries and the main, distant enemy: the United States.

Its main base was Krasnoyarsk before the end of the year and there will be three more trials, which will cover the maximum distance. It weighs 208 tons and the nuclear warhead weighs ten tons.

Putin’s message

Sarmat 2 is a specific message from Putin to the West and aims first of all at launch a thick threat in the face of concrete announcements and news about a leap in the quality of military aid to Ukraine, which has received more than six billion dollars in war materials from the United States and the European community.

In Mariupol, preparations have already begun to organize a great patriotic parade on May 9. On that day, in Moscow, Vladimir Putin will lead the grand parade celebrating Adolf Hitler’s great victory against the Nazis, a war that resulted in 25 million Russian deaths during World War II.

It will be a special May 9 because in Mariupol the Russians will celebrate their only victory so far in the invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24. Also in many cities of Russia there will be similar ceremonies.

The Russians hope that in the next few days the 6,000 soldiers participating in the siege will be able to leave to join the 80,000 who are slowly advancing to occupy eastern Ukraine.

The capture of Mariúpol makes it possible to clear the corridor that from the Crimean peninsula, in the south, which was annexed by the Russians in 2014, runs in the eastern part to the Donbas region.

there in the richest Ukrainian region, full of minerals and productive land, are the small Russophile republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Both add up to half of the territory of the Donbas, adjacent to the Russian border.

It is not known, but it is feared, that the Russian intention is to seize the other half of the Donbas as well.

The question is now being decided on the battlefield. The corridor from the Donbas to the Crimea gives the Russians a full control of the Sea of ​​Azov and a uniform portion of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast.

The Russians, especially Putin, had one big goal left in the south: to seize the city of Odessa, which would give them total control over the Black Sea coast. But in addition to the fact that Odessa had time to prepare for battle, there were also other cities in the south that were already fighting the Russians.

In this second stage, the critical point for the Ukrainians is to stop Russia’s massive offensive, whose reserves waiting on the other side of the border add up to 120,000 well -equipped soldiers of all kinds. of heavy and light weapons, including the veteran. artillery with scorched earth strategy and two hundred planes to bomb combat zones before the infantry arrived.

heavy weapons

The United States, Great Britain, the Baltic countries and Poland are certainly in favor of heavy weapons. Poles refine many old soviet tanks and medium and heavy artillery. France, Turkey, Germany, Italy and Spain are more cautious about the type of supplies.

Slovakia sends T72 and armored tanks by rail to western Ukraine, which has no Russians so far. Flights from the United States and Western Europe intensified.

Ukrainians are calling for more shipments of the agile Singer anti-aircraft missiles and the lightweight Javelin missiles, which are highly effective against tanks.

Great Britain prepares the armored Mastiff and Jackal. The Turks sent beautiful and highly effective Tb2 drones to pursue the long convoy of the Russian military.

The US has confirmed T80 tanks and S-300 missiles, which are highly valued by Ukrainians in combat.

Shipments take between four and six days to be shipped to Ukrainians. In Poland, which has a long border with Ukraine and a firm stance to help its neighbors, planes continue to be dropped off and taken down by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.

They flew the best route to deliver weapons to trucks, vans and other vehicles.

Caravans also depart from Romania and Slovakia. Expeditions were assigned to Ukrainian cities adjacent to combat zones.

The convoys were small and often operated at night to avoid the Russians. The last two kilometers are the most complicated, as they are the ones that start in nearby cities and go straight to the front. The movements were led by Ukrainian military intelligence.

In Poland, Romania and Slovakia there are also fast courses for Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who come to be trained in handling the weapons they receive.

It is known that of the heaviest and most complex weapons, the training is conducted by the Pentagon on US territory. For example, one hundred Ukrainian soldiers are already using “with great benefit” the training they received in the US to handle and also educate other soldiers of the use of the hundreds of kamikaze drones used on the front.

Rome, correspondent

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