Russia-Ukraine war: thousands of Russian soldiers return to the Belarusian border and another attack on Kyiv is feared

Russia responds to the shipment of new weapons from the United States, Great Britain and other Western countries to Ukraine to stop the offensive of Moscow’s troops in the east. The Ukrainian General Staff has denounced that in the south of Belarus, on the border with the north of the country, Russians and Belarusians are accumulating 80 thousand infantry reinforced by the S400 surface-to-air missile system, hundreds of Iskander fighter jets and ballistic missiles.

A probable invasion from the north, similar to the one that began the occupation of Ukraine on February 24, it can have no other objective than Kiev, the capital, which is a relatively short distance from the border.

“It is a response from Putin who also wants to involve Belarus in the war,” said a senior military chief of the Ukrainian general staff.

The head of the defense committee of the Duma, the parliament of Moscow, said that his country’s military forces could chit Ukrainian infrastructure and the institutions of the Kiev government if the United States and other Western countries deliver long-range missile launchers.

“President Putin has already commented on the situation that will emerge with the arrival of new weapons. I can only add that the longer the range of the weapons, the more we will carry out the line of attack on our territory, “said Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

weapons of the west

Last week the United States announced that it will provide Himars missile systems, with a range of 80 kilometers, to Ukrainian fighters, who are fighting defensively in the Donbas region and need new weapons that allow them to deeply strike positions. Russian

Britain will provide M270 Mlrs missile launch systems “which will significantly increase the capacity of Ukrainian forces,” the UK Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The head of that ministry, Ben Wallace, said that “if the international community keeps its support, Ukraine can win”.

“Russia’s strategy is changing and so is our support,” Wallace said. “The new weapons will allow Ukrainians to better protect themselves from the brutal use of long-range artillery that Putin’s forces have used indiscriminately to raze cities,” he said.

So far, British military support for Ukraine has amounted to € 874 million.

threats

The threat of a combined Russian-Belarusian attack from northern Ukraine centered on the capital, Kyiv, which has more than two million inhabitants, coincides – and it is no coincidence – with the very bellicose statements of the former Russian president, Dimitri Medvedev, who sat in the presidential presidency in the three-year period 2008/2012 to take care of Vladimir Putin, who had to take refuge in the role of prime minister because then a constitutional provision did not allow more than two terms of president.

Putin has regained the presidency so far and Medvedev has become vice president of the National Security Council under the head of the Kremlin.

Medvedev could not say what he said without consulting Putin first. The political friendship between the two suggests that the second of him is saying what the president cannot announce openly.

Medvedev was clear: “I hate Westerners. They are bastards and degenerates. They want death for us, for Russia. As long as I’m alive, I’ll do my best to make them disappear. “

The consideration of Westerners as “degenerate” alludes to a statement by another great figure close to Putin, the Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who expressed his opinion in a statement full support for the Russian president in his holy fight against the West, which he accused of trying to impose homosexual parties on others, the so-called gay pride.

The verbal escalation accompanies the worsening of war tensions due to the more than ten thousand sanctions applied by Western countries to Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, to weaken the Russian economy and finances.

Rome, correspondent

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