The United State Intensify sending weapons toUkraineMoscow is raising the tone of intimidation by extending it as well. The advice to take seriously comes from the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, at the head of a country that for more than fifty days resisted an invasion whose cruelty fulfilled its promises. “We must all be prepared for the nuclear threat of Russia‘, he warned in an interview with CNN. According to the forecasts of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the conflict could last until the whole of 2022, which doubles the risk factors for a clash between the great powers. “We are concerned about the potential use of nuclear weapons, but it should be the whole world, not just Ukraine,” Zelensky says.

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This fear, which has gripped the West for several days, stems from the official diplomatic note sent this week from Moscow to Washington to which the United States responded firmly. We have warned Russia that if it invades Ukraine, the response will be unprecedented. As Biden says, big countries don’t cheat, “said US State Department spokesman Ned Price. The Russians have said some things in private and others in public. Nothing will deter us from the path we have taken to support Ukraine,” he adds, specifying that “if the Kremlin’s accusation is is that the United States and our partners around the world provide billions of dollars in security assistance to our Ukrainian partners, then we are guilty.” In detail, the new $800 million US aid package outlined by President Joe Biden during a phone call with Zelensky, also includes artillery systems Heavy ground like howitzers and firearms that can go up to 70 km. To defend the area as well as Mi-17 helicopters and 300 Switchblade suicide drones All this was supplemented by a training program, since so far only Soviet-designed materials have arrived From the United States that the Kyiv army can already use. The Pentagon announced that “within 24 hours” the first shipment “will arrive in the region,” without specifying where. Biden confirmed that the United States, for security reasons, Abandoning the mission in Kyiv, it would “continue to provide Ukraine with capabilities to defend itself” and the agreed delivery of military materials would “contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities adapted to the broader offensive that we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine.”

Specifically with regard to sending “more sensitive” weapons to Ukraine, Moscow responded with the two pages sent to Washington, in which Vladimir Putin states, in essence, that this “adds fuel” to the conflict and can be “unpredictable”. consequences. It is the Russian threat to resort to its chemical and nuclear arsenal that the Ukrainian president fears: it is estimated that at the beginning of February 2022, the number of nuclear warheads possessed by Moscow was just under 6000, of which about 4,477 are usable and 1,588 are already. deployed and operational. The Russians might decide to use them because “people’s lives are worth nothing to them,” Zelensky says. And not only against Ukraine. In addition to the Americans, says the Russian Investigative Committee, 24 countries arm Kyiv, including 21 member states of the alliance. “We appeal to the United States and its allies to put an end to the irresponsible militarization of Ukraine, which has unpredictable consequences for regional and international security,” asserts the official memorandum accusing the West of not taking into account the danger of falling advanced weapons. In the hands of what Moscow calls “radical nationalist forces”. The Kremlin also issued a second warning, this time to NATO: “The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO will have negative repercussions for peace and stability in Northern Europe,” promised the head of Russian diplomacy Serge Lavrov, adding that joining the Atlantic Treaty. Atlantic orbit “will not give Stockholm and Helsinki more security”.

Moreover, relations between the EU and Moscow are increasingly strained, which has led to the dismissal of 18 employees of EU representatives in response to a similar “hostile action” taken by Brussels against 19 Russian officials. “We expect the same action from Moscow in response to our expulsion of 30 Russians with diplomatic passports. We will see in what terms this will affect our employees. But we always keep the diplomatic channel open and a red line to evacuate civilians,” said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, declaring that after a “ten-hour” flight from Lviv, the Italian ambassador, Pier Francesco Zazzo, “has just returned in Kyiv and reopened our embassy, ​​which will operate from Monday.” ». And near the capital, yesterday, Russian forces attacked a missile factory, which shows that Russian verbal intimidation goes hand in hand with raids. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported that Kalibr missiles were fired at the Visar plant, about five kilometers southwest of the city’s outskirts, “which led to the destruction of the facilities for the repair of long and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems and the production of anti-aircraft missiles and ships’ missiles.” He predicted that “the number and scope of missile attacks in Kyiv will increase in response to any act of terrorism or sabotage on Russian soil” by the Ukrainians.

Processes
In the past two weeks, control of the capital and its suburbs has eased, after the gradual repositioning of the Russian army on the southeastern front of the country. However, Moscow decided to break this fragile balance again. Renewed pressure on the capital has not slowed down Russian military operations in the southeast, where intense missile attacks have been recorded since Thursday evening: in Lugansk, the enemy army is trying to take over the settlements of Popasna and Rubezny, in one day. 26 attacks were reported in all the disputed cities, including Severdonetsk, one of the largest centers in the region still in the hands of Ukraine. This is a response to the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, said Natalia Homenyuk, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. An insult that the invaded country pays dearly, given that the Russians also launched an attack on Mykolaiv with cluster bombs prohibited by international agreements, killing five people and wounding 15.

It is a war without rules that hits civilians in their homes and kills fugitives on the buses that were supposed to take them to safety. It happened near the village of Borovoy in the Kharkiv region: “According to preliminary data, up to ten people were killed and 30 injured,” Dmytro Chubenko, a member of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, told Interfax-Ukraine, which opened an investigation. . Files of potential war crimes are piling up, and the stories of those who witnessed the horror are unique and detailed. Tamara Senyushko, who has been on the front line of providing aid and medicine to the population since the beginning of the conflict, is in the Kyiv region, between Kwari and Bedhayn. “Here there are no infrastructures, sensitive targets, airports, railways, factories – he says – there are none, peasants who cultivate their fields live there, and yet no house has been saved. And Russian planes descended almost on the ground and dropped their bombs on houses and stables » In the Kuhari Tamara she photographed a car next to a completely burnt bus stop: “Whoever was inside died burnt alive, the corpse is still there. They also bombed the small cemeteries and the ground showed the corpses that are now visible to all. How can you go so far? They killed them twice.”