The warning from Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the RT and Sputnik propaganda media, came after further Ukrainian strikes overnight in the border town of Belgorod, a key supply center for Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. “Explosions and air defense sirens in Belgorod,” Simonian wrote in a Telegram message early Thursday. “The Anglo-Saxons are publicly encouraging Ukraine to take up hostilities on Russian soil. And they give them the means to carry out this plan. “What choice do you leave us, idiots?” The complete annihilation of what is left of Ukraine? Nuclear strike? In Putinist circles, the term “Anglo-Saxons” can be used as a term for malicious Western influences, but there seems to be no doubt that Simonyan’s message referred to Britain. British Defense Secretary James Hippie provoked outrage in Moscow earlier this week when he said he considered it “perfectly legitimate” for Ukrainian forces to hit targets in Russia and that “it was not necessarily a problem” if they used weapons donated by Britain. The British military has been actively training Ukrainian forces since Russia annexed Crimea and sent special forces to eastern Ukraine in 2014. The UK has also supplied large quantities of weapons, including valuable mobile anti-tank weapons. In an interview with Times Radio, Heappey said: “Ukraine was a sovereign country living peacefully within its owner’s borders and then another country decided to violate those borders and bring in 130,000 troops. “This started a war between Ukraine and Russia, and in the war Ukraine has to strike at the depths of its adversary to attack its logistics lines, its fuel supplies, its ammunition depots, and that is part of it.” Putin himself took part in the barrage in a speech to lawmakers in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. “If anyone intends to intervene in the ongoing events from abroad and create strategic threats to Russia that are unacceptable to us, they should know that our retaliation will be lightning fast,” he said. “We have all the tools for that, things that no one else can boast of now. And we will not brag, we will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know. “ This is not the first time that Kremlin leaders or propagandists have warned of a nuclear fire, although the threats are becoming clearer and less visible as the war progresses. When he ordered the invasion on February 24, Putin warned that those who tried to prevent Russia from achieving its goals would face “consequences that you have never encountered in your history” – which was considered to mean nuclear weapons. At that point, the invasion still seemed like an almost comfortable imperialist adventure for Putin and his generals, who were extremely confident that the Ukrainian resistance would soon be eliminated and that Volodymyr Zelensky’s government would be overthrown. But thinking and fighting by better-prepared Ukrainian forces, the Russians suffered a humiliating setback in the battle for Kyiv. Forced to retreat, the Russian military is now focusing its forces on areas of eastern and southern Ukraine, where it is making costly but overwhelming progress as it seeks to encircle Ukrainian forces to the east and take full control of the Black Sea coast to the Black Sea. . Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Thursday that the Russians, now fighting under a single commander, were stepping up their attacks in both eastern and southern Ukraine and “firing hard” on all fronts. In the early battle for Kyiv, Russia suffered heavy casualties at the hands of Ukrainian light infantry and special forces, who used their knowledge of the ground to remove Russian columns – leaving behind oxidized remnants of Russian tanks and battle vehicles. which can only be identified by the letter “G”. Military experts say the latest phase of the war – equally crucial to Ukraine’s survival as a nation – is more conventional in terms of war, which is fought on a flatter and more open ground with the artillery power of each side key to success. . Some Western nations are sending hundreds of artillery shells, plus tens of thousands of shells, to Ukraine. The Pentagon on Wednesday released photos of dozens of 155mm shells. to be loaded on an aircraft at the March Reserve Aircraft Base in California. The ever-increasing arms flow to Ukraine is a huge problem for the Russians, whose ammunition factories remain largely inactive due to a lack of foreign-made components due to international sanctions. Hence the growing chorus of nuclear threats from the Kremlin and its spokesmen.
