Sputnik News – Dec 21, 2022
Both Russian president Vladimir Putin and Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu delivered speeches on Wednesday in the wake of announcements by the Donbass Republics as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions that they are planning to hold votes on joining Russia on September 23-27.
In his TV address on Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia was at war with the collective West rather than Ukraine.
“In reality, we are fighting the collective West plus NATO. When we speak about it, we mean not only the weapons being supplied [to Kiev] in huge batches, but also about systems of communication and information processing systems,” Shoigu said.
The Western states as well as NATO, he said, are supplying Kiev with “huge” amounts of weapons.
The minister went on to stress that the Ukrainian forces are increasingly using Western weapons to target civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
He stressed that more than 70 military satellites and 200 civilian satellites are working to aid Ukraine and added that some 150 Western military specialists have been deployed to Kiev, de facto leading Ukrainian forces.
Military Losses of Russia and Ukraine
Touching upon the issue of the military costs of the armed conflict in Ukraine, Sergei Shoigu estimated that Kiev has lost half of its army, which originally had about 200,000 troops at the initial stage of Moscow’s special operation.
“Over this time, their losses amount to over 100,000 [military casualties]. This includes 61,207 deaths and 49,368 troops who were injured,” Shoigu said.
Over 2,000 foreign mercenaries were eliminated in Ukraine in the past months by Russians, the minister said, adding that 1,000 remain at the combat zone.
Russian losses, Shoigu noted, amount to 5,937, noting that the servicemen were “courageously fulfilling their duties.”
Partial Mobilization
Shoigu has also provided details on the military’s plans, explaining that partial mobilization in Russia is necessary to hold a 1,000-kilometer wide line of control and the liberated territories.
“Naturally, what is behind, and what is there, along this line, it must be secured, these territories must be controlled. And, of course, first of all, this is what this work is being done for – I mean, partial mobilization,” Shoigu said.
He said that only one percent out of Russia’s 25 million-strong military reserve will be subject to partial mobilization. He specified that reserve servicemen who have military professions and combat experience will be mobilized, adding that this will not concern students.
Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian forces fully control the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), partially control the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, and added that they are advancing in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
The LPR and the DPR as well as the Russian-held parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have announced they would hold referendums to join Russia from September 23-27.
The move was followed by President Putin signing a decree on the partial mobilization in Russia
I’ve been saying for months that this is NOT a proxy war.
Take the Patriot missile system. Just one unit takes 90 men to crew it. Then you have all the NWO intel. It takes time to train these operators. Maybe they’ve already done their training, but as others have said, the systems being sent to Nazi UKraine will be older systems, and they don’t work as well as the military propaganda suggests.
At some point, either the US becomes officially engaged, or a new Russian leader will do it for them.
Even if Russia wins by a comfortable margin, the NWO won’t stop until the control Russia and have broken China, and India.
“Russia at War With Collective West..”
Yes… the game is almost up…
and if you reside in ZOG get ready to ‘kiss you a$$ goodbye!’ in 2023… if not sooner!
I don’t think this is so much Cold War II as World War II Part 2, when many military and political leaders in the west said they should have joined the Nazis and turned on Russia. That’s exactly what they’ve done, joined the Nazis and turned on Russia.
Putin, Shoigu, Lavrov—-and all who are consequential in being apprised of the REAL facts—-know they are not fighting Ukraine, but a different permutation and concatenation of “the West”, i.e. Blackrock.
Russia won’t utter those words—-just like it won’t utter the relevant words regarding the moon-landings and the WTC (and so many other things)—-because public “accusing” and “ridiculing” are not culturally acceptable for the Russian relationship with the truth (knowing truth has more to do with a creator than human convenience) …
The Kherson and Zaporozhye regions would be crazy if they turned down joining Russia, but no doubt they will do the right thing. I just finished watching a Christmas celebration involving children from the liberated Donbass. All were ethnically Russian enjoying their cultural norms such as dancing and singing. Contrast that with the multicultural quagmire of the west. The culture homogeneity we once knew here has been ripped apart, deliberately.
@STEPHEN
Cancel Cultur is new jewish communist
cooked meal for the stupid west while
the russian block keeps its culture + traditions .
if there is a god/des he/she/it bless RUSSIA !
Learn to make perogies..
Next year your Gov’t will be importing T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D-S of Ukrainian refugees.
The war is a hybrid of the Kalergi Plan
I thought that the Ukraine was Christian. Why is a Jew representing the Ukraine and why are all the people in positions of power in the Ukraine, all Jews?
Are the Christians of the Ukraine being forced to fight against their cousins, the Russians?