Press TV – May 21, 2022
Russia on Saturday said it has destroyed a major haul of Western weapons in Ukraine’s restive Zhytomyr region, west of Kiev, using sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles, amid growing tensions with the US and European Union states.
In a statement, Russia’s defense ministry said it destroyed “a large batch of weapons and military equipment delivered from the USA and European countries” using Kalibr cruise missiles.
The weapons were intended for Ukrainian troops in the country’s eastern region of Donbas where the warring sides are fighting for control.
The ministry further noted that missiles struck fuel storage facilities near the Black Sea port city of Odesa and shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and 14 drones. They also struck numerous Ukrainian command posts, it added.
Russia launched the military operation in Ukraine on February 24, following Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements and Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said one of the goals of what he called a “special military operation” was to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
Western countries have responded to the Russian military operation by backing Ukraine with cash and heavy weaponry while imposing unprecedented sanctions on Russian officials and entities.
Moscow has repeatedly warned that such a flow of weapons to Kiev will only prolong the war, which is now into its third month.
The Kremlin says Western arms deliveries for Kiev, and the imposition of harsh economic sanctions, amount to a “proxy war” by the US and its allies.
The latest development comes as US President Joe Biden signed a bill that provides nearly $40 billion of additional humanitarian and military aid for Ukraine.
The Biden administration is also working to deliver anti-ship missiles to Ukrainian fighters to help break Russia’s naval blockade.
Ukraine has asked for more advanced US weapons beyond its current inventory of artillery, Javelin and Stinger missiles, and other arms.
Western countries have in recent months supplied Ukraine with weapons, including artillery, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank weapons, and other powerful materiel, but Kiev has been pushing allies for more support.
The four main categories of weapons that the West has sent Ukraine are basic guns and ammunition, missiles, attack drones, and artillery.
Last Friday, Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, announced that the bloc would provide a further 500 million euros worth of military support to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Germany are discussing whether to sign a security guarantee for Ukraine to continue providing weaponry and support in the long run.
The conflict in Ukraine has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 13 million, creating the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
Russia says it will halt the operation instantly if Kiev meets Moscow’s demands, including abandoning the ambitious bid for NATO military alliance.
politicians in the UK have long been betraying its people
with fake wars immigration and high taxes
we look to russia to free us from our own governmental tyranny
JOSEPH BORRELL EU foreign chief
a JEW with Mossad in bed !
So if you think about it Biden is basically scrapping our weapons for the lost Ukraine war.
IT WOULD BE CHEAPER TO SEND OUR WEAPONS TO A LANDFILL
Of course the real Jew plan is to leave us defenseless.
So once again if you have two functioning neurons then start saying and demanding we nuke Israel into oblivion. Israel is an existential threat to all nations. Wake the fuck up people, your Jew infested governments are killing you with the vaxx and destroying your military with gay trannies and now they are sending our weapons to Ukraine so Putin can use them for target practice.
Yukon Jack “sending our weapons to Ukraine so Putin can use them for target practice.” & guess who’s going to pay for those destroyed weapons ??
You can be certain, it won’t be the Amish ??
yeah, ukraine wants more, more javelins and cash, more coke for brave genius zelensky, we are nothing but insects after all, we can starve do death, its ukraine that needs all your cash goyim, so you better hurry up and send all your cash to ukraine right now ok???
Yukon Jack: better to nuke tel aviv only and then start with deportations of jews and return the Holy Land to Palestinians…jews from israel and elsewhere relocate to antarctica isolation and then nuke them there