Speaker of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin believes that the supply of offensive weapons by the West to the Kyiv regime will lead to a global catastrophe.

“If Washington and NATO countries supply weapons that will be used to strike civilian cities and attempt to seize our territories, as they threaten, this will lead to retaliatory measures using more powerful weapons,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to him, members of Congress, deputies of the Bundestag of Germany, the National Assembly of France, as well as other European parliaments should realize their responsibility to humanity: “By their decisions, Washington and Brussels are leading the world to a terrible war: to completely different military operations than today, when strikes are inflicted solely on the military and critical infrastructure used by the Kyiv regime.”

Volodin, recalling the technological superiority of Russian weapons, called on foreign politicians to understand that their decisions could turn into a global tragedy that would destroy their countries.

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“Arguments that nuclear powers have not previously used weapons of mass destruction in local conflicts are untenable.

Because these states did not face a situation where there was a threat to the security of their citizens and the territorial integrity of the country, ”the speaker of the State Duma emphasized.

Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced a new $2.5 billion military aid package for Ukraine. Thus, the Kyiv regime will receive 59 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 590 missiles for their TOW anti-tank systems, as well as 90 Stryker armored personnel carriers.

Prior to this, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg approved plans to supply Kyiv with light tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

In particular, the UK plans to send 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, Germany - the Marder BMP, France - AMX-10RC light wheeled tanks, and Poland - German Leopard 2А4 tanks.

According to Bloomberg, since the beginning of the Russian special operation (February 24, 2022), Western countries have supplied the Ukrainian army with more than 4 thousand units of armored vehicles, artillery pieces, aviation and other systems.

Svatovskoe direction

The Kyiv regime is pulling together Western-made armored vehicles near Svatovo in the Lugansk People's Republic.

This was announced by a military expert, retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.

“According to the residents of Kharkov, the transfer of armored vehicles by two trains to Kupyansk was noted.

Western-style armored vehicles are unloaded at the marshalling yard and sent in the direction of the Svatovo settlement, ”he said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.

At the end of December, it was reported that Kyiv, due to heavy losses, transferred additional forces and means to the Svatov region.

Later, RT found out that since January 12, a sharp increase in losses among personnel has been recorded in a number of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located in the Svatovsky direction.

Arestovich said there are no guarantees of Ukraine's victory

Former adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich, on the air of one of the YouTube channels, said that he did not believe in a guaranteed victory for Ukraine.

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“We are invincible until we started to squabble with each other, and when we started, we are very victorious, victorious in the shortest possible time and unexpectedly for ourselves ... I am already an unofficial person, I can say what I want.

If everyone thinks that we are guaranteed to win, then from the 14th it no longer looks like that, ”he said.

In his opinion, the warnings of Polish President Andrzej Duda about the possibility of the imminent disappearance of Ukraine are justified.