Nightmarish are Russia's losses since the start of the invasion of Ukraine according to Volodymyr Zelensky. In a speech late Saturday night, the Ukrainian president said the Russian army has lost about 23,000 men, while more than 1,000 Russian tanks and about 2.500 military vehicles.
According to the latest confirmation from Moscow admits that Russia's losses are 1,351 soldiers. In a statement on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Russian forces have destroyed 2,600 Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles, 142 aircraft, 112 helicopters over 650 drones, while estimating Ukrainian losses at more than 23,000 soldiers.
Zelensky noted that "the occupiers are gathering additional forces for new attacks against our army in the eastern part of the country," stressing that in order to intensify this operation to conquer Donbass, Russian forces are strengthening their presence around Kharkiv. "Every Russian soldier can still save his life. Better to stay alive in Russia than to be killed on our land," the Ukrainian president said, addressing the invaders.
However, yesterday's missile attack on the Odessa airport, which resulted in the destruction of the runway, fortunately without causing any casualties, proves, according to analysts, that Moscow's ambitions are not limited exclusively to eastern Ukraine, but always have plans to control access to the Black Sea, while a Russian reconnaissance aircraft overflying Sweden is also a cause for concern, at a time when the processes for that country's (and Finland's) accession to NATO are intensifying. "A Russian Antonov AN-30 helicopter aircraft violated Swedish airspace on Friday night," stressed a statement from the Swedish Ministry of Defence, which clarified that its teams monitored the entire incident and photographed it.
Moldova fears invasion
On Saturday, Moldova's foreign minister, Niku Popescu, sent a dramatic message to the West, saying that Europe's future depends on Ukraine's victory over Russia, on its ability to preserve its political system, its country, its resilience. "The fate and the future of every country in this part of the world, of the whole of Europe, depends on how this war ends, on where it ends and on when it ends," said Popescu, who called the attacks in Transnistria the other day a "staged provocation", admitting that "Moldova is in a very difficult region at a very difficult time. We are Ukraine's most fragile neighbour, of course we are affected in multiple ways... we are also increasingly affected by this regional destabilization."
What thoughts and psychology prevail in Moscow and in the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin's advisers is, after all, a big question mark, which is always a source of concern. Above all the possibility of retaliation, even nuclear attacks against Western countries that are helping Ukraine militarily and even decisively.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's directorate in charge of nuclear non-proliferation, Vladimir Yermakov, yesterday, Saturday, indirectly reiterated the possibility of using such weapons, saying that "Russia believes that the risks of a nuclear war should be kept to a minimum and that any armed conflict between nuclear powers should be prevented."
But around the same time, Russian state television was hosting a broadcast of scenarios involving "simulated" nuclear strikes with Sarmat missiles against Western countries. The graphics shown showed that a missile launched from Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea would hit Berlin in 106 seconds, Paris in 200 seconds and London in 202 seconds!
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