Posted on 03/12/2022 8:39:10 AM PST by blam
Image source: Associated Press
Setting the stage for a potential major escalation with Western and NATO powers, the Kremlin warned on Saturday that the Russian military is prepared to target Western arms shipments that are continuing to pour into Ukraine. Russia’s Deputy FM Sergei Ryabkov said on state TV that Washington had been informed in the last days that Moscow will see weapons supply convoys entering Ukraine as “legitimate targets”.
“We warned the United States that the orchestrated pumping of weapons from a number of countries is not just a dangerous move, it is a move that turns these convoys into legitimate targets,” Ryabkov said in the remarks, which served as a severe warning to the West.
He added that Russia has formally warned “about the consequences of the thoughtless transfer to Ukraine of weapons like man-portable air defense systems, anti-tank missile systems and so on.” He added that from Moscow’s point of view, the US administration has failed to take these warnings seriously.
Weeks prior the lead-up to Russia’s Feb.24 invasion of Ukraine, the US Embassy in Kiev had tweeted photographs anytime a major arms shipment arrived. The US authorized Baltic allies in the transfer of Javelin anti-tanks missiles to supply Ukrainian forces; at the same time, the UK had sent many rounds of transport plane-loads of munitions and weapons systems.
It’s also believed that supplies Stinger anti-aircraft missiles are being ramped up. The fresh Russian warning also comes following the US-Poland MiG-29 fiasco. Warsaw had prematurely offered to give all off its MiGs to the US so that they could be flown into Ukraine from Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
The Biden admin said the offer was a “surprise” while the Pentagon flat-out rejected the plan, saying that the risk would be too high of bringing NATO into direct conflict with Russian forces, given that the planes would have to enter Ukraine from the West, risking an aerial engagement incident.
#Ukraine: Another gift from NATO; UA forces training with newly delivered RPG-76 Komar single-use RPG, made in Poland in great quantities during the Cold War.
Though these aren’t very effective against modern Russian MBT, they would still work against structures & light armour. pic.twitter.com/yjycel94uJ
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 12, 2022
Recent battlefield videos have appeared to confirm that in many instances invading Russian tanks and armored vehicles are being destroyed and disabled by West-supplied Javelin and other anti-armor missiles that are in the hands of Ukraine’s military.
Without doubt the Kremlin is blaming the West for these attacks, given they are taking place with NATO-supplied advanced weapons.
JAVELIN in first cut. Notice the Turret blown off – by design. Notice also the Russian rifles (INFANTRY) do not attack the firing point to suppress add fires but keep running the opposite direction. Not good. @cspanwj @gregkellyusa pic.twitter.com/EZbcbhLfi1
— Bill Badey (@10903) March 11, 2022
In some instances entire Russian convoys appear to scramble when under ambush in narrow corridors, as is seen in the above video has gained much media attention in the past two days.
Washington has actually been supplying Ukraine’s military with the “tank busting” Javelin for many years now, and this has also included training local forces on how to use them effectively. Ahead of the conflict, Moscow had long warned that his was a huge provocation, and announced a “red line” regarding NATO military infrastructure being extended into Ukraine. The Russians apparently took the increased Western arms shipments as signal for impending NATO military expansion there.
It’s likely that any new and current West-supplied shipments into Ukraine are occurring through covert means, especially now that Russia has in effect declared ‘open season’ on any external weapons convoys.
Biden is trying to start WWIII. He is letting Ukraine be destroyed in the process. He won’t send any weapons, he’s using other countries as pawns, with Ukraine as the keystone.
Biden is worse than Putin when it comes to this war.
And Zelenskyy is a foolish pawn.
America should mind It’s own business .
Just nuke Putin now, the Russian people will thank us
Dozens of Freepers are getting war erections over the possibility.
By the rules of warfare Russia does have a point here.
Of course they are legitimate targets, as are the trans-shipment points and possible their points of origin.
How broken does your brain have to be to think otherwise? Too many New Year's Eve renditions of "Imagine"?
This war is a war that acts like a war, and no one under forty can comprehend it as a result.
28,000 Russians died taking Kiev from Manstein in 1943.
NATO has joined the war. Let them suffer the consequences.
Still cold over there, Germany and Italy!
Hi.
During the Vietnam war Russia and China openly delivered SAMs, fuel, munitions etc through the port of Haiphong or overland routes.
They both cried bloody murder when we “accidentally” took something out.
Putin is old enough to remember this little factoid .
5.56mm
It appears that Zelensky’s parents were Russian Jews and that he grew up speaking only Russian. I bet he has many relatives in Russia.
Of course they are legitimate targets, so were the supply ships of WWII that were sunk by the U-boats.
Amen!
I suspect the Russians are a little late based on what is going on at the front lines
Rasputin is a chesty little bastard. Ain’t he?
1. Why does Biden want Ukraine in Russian hands?, and
2. Would he sacrifice an entire country to protect his son?
He was a actor and comedian. I don’t think he knows what he is doing. Listening to people around him and begging for weapons and help. And biden is using other countries to help them because he is afraid of Putin. Poland called him out with the jets. He backed down. He is making us look weak. I bet he is afraid to even talk to Putin. He is going to get another countries people killed having them drive weapons into ukraine. I think eventually Putin will lob a bomb or a missile on the border of Poland and kill some folks. Then we will see what happens. He will probly tell russia they can’t sell there mail order brides to the USA anymore. I wonder if both russia and ukraine have info on biden and his family that could show undeniable proof of bad things.
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