Comments by "Mikhail M" (@mikhailmik) on "NATO offers Ukraine 'major support package', but membership still on hold" video.
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Interview with Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu
July 11, 2023
1. What won't they say about the results of this adventure?
In my opinion, they have so hyped and warmed up this topic with a counteroffensive that practically, if not half the world, then a third for sure, were waiting for the 11th. To sum up some results, what did they achieve for this widely advertised and announced, as they called it, "strategic" counteroffensive.
As a result, what did they approach the NATO summit with?
Since June 4, the enemy's losses have amounted to more than twenty-six thousand soldiers and three thousand units of various weapons.
Destroyed: 21 aircraft, 5 helicopters, 1,244 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles. Among them are 17 German Leopard tanks, five French wheeled AMX tanks and 12 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
In addition, we destroyed 914 units of special military vehicles, two anti-aircraft missile systems, 25 multiple rocket launchers, 403 field artillery guns and mortars.
This is an important figure, because the main damage is always caused by artillery.
I repeat once again – 403 guns, including 43 American M777 artillery systems and 46 self-propelled artillery units from Poland, the USA and France.
Russian air defense systems shot down: 176 HIMARS rockets, 27 Storm Shadow cruise missiles and 483 unmanned aerial vehicles.
In general, the enemy has not achieved its goals in any of the directions.
Moreover, we continue to deliver effective strikes with high-precision long-range weapons against the reserves of the Ukrainian army and military equipment coming from the West, significantly reducing the offensive potential of the enemy.
We know that the results of our combat work are carefully monitored and analyzed by foreign intelligence agencies, primarily the United States and NATO countries.
2. Now the Ukrainian army continues its unsuccessful "meat assaults"?
Yes, they are actively fighting, trying to break through our defenses in different directions. Literally over the past two days, several waves of attacks have been launched against units of the 7th Company of the 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment and the 291st regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division. As a result of two-day almost continuous battles, the enemy lost up to 90 personnel in this direction, 4 tanks of which 3 "Leopard", 15 infantry fighting vehicles, of which 6 "Bradley".
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, assault detachments of the 15th and 21st motorized rifle brigades of the Center group of troops repelled the offensive of a motorized infantry company of the Army of Ukraine near the settlement of KARMAZINOVKA.
Having inflicted a fire defeat on him, the Russian units launched a counterattack, advancing 1.5 kilometers deep and 2 kilometers along the front.
Last night was also restless.
During the repulse of the attack of the armed forces of Ukraine in the area of WORK, more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen and eight infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed.
Thus, all the plans of the Ukrainian military forces for the offensive were thwarted.
3. Washington announced the delivery of cluster munitions to the Kiev regime. How much can this affect the course of a special military operation?
The whole world has already seen that they have confirmed the transfer of cluster munitions. Justify it in different ways. They say that taking into account the fact that conventional 155-caliber ammunition has actually run out, so now until their production starts, they decided to cover up with these cluster munitions.
This will naturally affect the prolongation of the conflict…
Neither we, nor the Americans, nor Kiev, joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
At the same time, Russia, realizing the threat such ammunition poses to the civilian population, refrained and refrains from using them in a special operation.
If the United States supplies cluster munitions to Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces will be forced to use similar means of destruction against the armed formations of Ukraine as a retaliatory measure.
It should be noted that Russia is armed with cluster munitions, as they say, for all occasions. At the same time, they are much more effective than the American ones, their nomenclature is wider and more diverse.
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Poland's leader, Andrzej Duda, has admitted that NATO may send a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine after the war is over.
And something tells me that this "NATO mission" will consist of Polish troops, which Poland is now so actively preparing by mobilizing in the country.
As before, the Poles' plan is simple - as soon as the front of Zelensky's regime starts to crumble, and the troops of NATO PMC "VSU" start to flee, "NATO troops from Poles" will be introduced to western Ukraine for protection.
There is no need to explain further, integration of the territories into Poland and liquidation of all Ukrainian nationalists in the region. By the way, it has already reached the most stoned, with a clinical form of Russophobia, such as Faryon, who suddenly realize that they are already a colony.
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