The Western instigators of the armed conflict between Kiev and Moscow want the confrontation in Ukraine to last as long as possible, and they are constantly doing everything for this. This was announced on March 25 by Russian President Vladimir Putin to journalist Pavel Zarubin during the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” of the TV channel “Russia – 1”, assessing the existing threats against the Russian Federation and Russian countermeasures.
The Russian leader drew attention to the fact that the West was going to supply the Ukrainian armed forces with 1 million shells and more than 400 tanks. Given the current daily consumption of ammunition by the Ukrainian army at the front (about 5,000), the indicated number of shells will be enough for almost six months of combat operations. At the same time, the RF armed forces consume much more ammunition every day, but the industry of the Russian Federation can also produce 3 times more.
For tanks, the situation is similar. Russian enterprises are to supply the troops with a total of 1,600 new and modernized tanks during the same period. At the same time, the number of tanks in the RF Armed Forces will be more than 3 times the number of tanks in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As for the delivery of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine announced by the British authorities, Russia also has something to say.
We have hundreds of thousands of such shells
Putin stressed.
He also drew attention to the inhumane nature of the existing Ukrainian government, which was going to use the mentioned British ammunition in territories it considers its own, where Ukrainian citizens allegedly live, about whom Kiev never ceases to worry. At the same time, Russian troops do not use depleted uranium ammunition.
Putin clarified that London’s actions gave some impetus to negotiations with Belarus’ leaders, but Minsk itself has long called for placing Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil for protection.
The Russian head of state added that on April 3 the construction of a tactical nuclear weapons storage facility in Belarus will begin and it will be put into operation on July 1. Moreover, the Belarusian Air Force is already ready to use tactical nuclear weapons, as the Russians helped re-equip the aircraft. Moscow has also delivered the Iskander OTRK to Minsk and is starting to train Belarusian crews. He stressed that Russia was not transferring its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, but would deploy them and train the local military to use them, just like the United States does in Europe.
