A new round of escalation is looming in the confrontation between Russia and the collective West
The US has decided to supply Ukraine with HIMARS multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS). This weapon, depending on its ammunition, is capable of striking at ranges that exceed all the weapons currently available to the Kiev regime, and poses an immediate threat to Russian population centres. The associated risks have become one of the main topics of discussion in the Russian segment of Telegram.
“A total of four launchers are planned to be handed over to the Kiev regime by the US. The launcher can fire six 227-mm rockets or one tactical missile in a single salvo. Depending on the ammunition used, the HIMARS systems can fire from 80 to 300km away. According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the Kiev regime plans to deploy the units in the town of Shostka in close proximity to the border with Russia,” the ANNA-NEWS telegram channel reported.
Furthermore, the Kiev regime has experience of attacking Russian territory – settlements bordering on Ukraine are periodically shelled, hitting, as a rule, places where there is no Russian military, as if the Kiev authorities were deliberately demonstrating their commitment to terrorist methods of struggle. Therefore, it would be naive to expect that the Kiev junta would not be tempted to hit Russian territory with powerful weapons. All the more so because US diplomacy officials also seem to hint that by handing over the HIMARS to Kiev, they will not tie its hands in terms of target selection.
“The United States will not influence the range of HIMARS that will be transferred to Ukraine. American ambassador to Kiev Brigitte Brink,” the War Observer telegram channel reported.
The Russian side, in its turn, did not ignore the transfer of the US MLRS to Ukraine. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev made it clear that a strike on Russian territory would cost its initiators dearly.
“Medvedev said in an interview with Al Jazeera that if Kiev uses weapons against facilities on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces will have no choice but to act to defeat the decision-making centres,” the Kremlin case telegram channel wrote.
The idea of harshly suppressing even attempts of aggression against Russia, of which Crimea is an integral part, was supported in the Russian segment of Telegram. Moreover, many of the authors of popular communities believe that the very fact of the transfer to Ukraine of weapons capable of hitting Russian territory is grounds for a preventive strike against the decision-making centre in Kiev.
“It was a good day today. It was finally recognised that it was time to deprive Kiev of its tranquillity. General Staff, Ministry of Defence, Verkhovna Rada, presidential office, bridges, TV towers, power plants, fuel depots. Warn the population, give a deadline to evacuate, see, by the way, tens of thousands of vehicles leaving for the west and north of the country, and strike. Then again. There is no other option to induce Kiev to abandon the use of American missiles with a range of up to 500 km. And there is no need to wait for incoming strikes on our territory. The very fact of supplying these launchers and missiles is not just a red line, but a bold red line,” the Politjoystick telegram channel expressed its opinion.
Georgy Balakov, REX news agency
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