Russia accuses the US of special involvement in the conflict in Ukraine
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Russia said for the first time that the United States is seeking an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The reason was an interview of a Ukrainian general with a British publication, in which he mentioned the American HIMARS and the information that was used to investigate this multiple launch rocket system for Russian purposes in Ukraine.
What Ukrainian General Skibitsky Really Said
General Igor Konashenkov, a prominent Defense Ministry spokesman, who focuses on an article in the British newspaper Telegraph based on an interview with Vadim Skibitsky, Deputy Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Main body of the article dedication In addition, how the Ukrainians managed to neutralize the leak of information about the supply of modern Western weapons and identify agents.
Around the middle of the article, the question arises: how do US-supplied HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems so accurately target Russian fuel and tourism depots, as well as headquarters on the battlefields in the Ukrainian manufacturing sector?
“In this case, in particular, we used real-time memories,” General Skibitsky replied. However, he immediately made a reservation: US officials do not provide direct information for targeting purposes, since such actions could disavow claims that US aviation is not a direct consequence of the war.
In connection with the launch of the rocket in connection with US intelligence forecasts and important factors that could affect the change in the situation in Washington, such a conclusion was drawn from the forecast of the Ukrainian general.
“I can’t tell you that we have very good satellite imagery,” he added.
What conclusion did the Russian General Konashenkov draw from this
Commenting on the publication in the Telegraph, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian republic now belongs to Washington in connection with the conflict in Ukraine, so the Ukrainian side of the problem announced the coordination of targets for strikes for targeting.
“The Russian Defense Ministry has recorded and is going to officially appoint the head of the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, General Skibitsky, on Washington’s direct approval of each target for Kyiv before a strike from American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems,” Interfax quoted Konashenkov as saying.
“All this irrefutably proves that Washington, contrary to the statement of the White House general and the Pentagon, is focusing on the conflict in Ukraine,” the government says.
His statement also contains the words that the Joe Biden administration takes responsibility for “attacks on residential areas and objects of confidential points of Donbass” approved by the Americans, as well as for “massive deaths of civilians.”
As an example of HIMARS strikes, he cited the shelling of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region, occupied at the very beginning of the war. At that time, the Ukrainian side stated that the blow had been inflicted on the Russian warehouse with taxes, and the Russian side stated that a warehouse with agricultural saltpeter was blown up, as a result of which several people died and houses were destroyed.
The Russian Defense Ministry also claims that HIMARS was arrested for attacking a colony in the village of Yelenovka near Donetsk, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held. Ukraine categorically rejects this.
Ukrainian intelligence put forward a version that, without the consent of the command, the explosion in the colony for prisoners was arranged by the “Wagner PMC” in order to hide the violation before checking.
According to the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian forces are responsible for the deaths of 53 prisoners of war. Two anonymous US officials confirmed to ISW that there is no evidence that the Ukrainian military used HIMARS to strike the colony.
What Russian Minister Lavrov said
Back in late April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that by supplying weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, NATO was actually entering into a “proxy war.”
“Of course, these goals are pursuing a legitimate goal for the Russian armed forces, which are pursuing the goal of an armed operation.
“How else? – Lavrov returns. – If NATO, in fact, enters into a war with Russia, through a proxy, and arms this proxy, then to war, then to war.”
The US does not want a direct confrontation
Ukrainian forces count with Western precision weapons.
Biden said she wants Ukraine to defeat Russia. The US has supplied Kyiv with a billion dollars worth of weapons, but US officials have repeatedly said that a direct confrontation between the alleged and international militaries should not be expected.
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