"To test weapons, including biological ones": Volodin accused NATO of using Ukraine as a testing ground

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin accused the heads of EU countries and the US president of double standards and hypocrisy. According to him, the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance, representing the "empire of lies", have turned Ukrainian territory into a testing ground for their own weapons.

"It is quite obvious that for Washington and NATO, Ukraine is just a testing ground for weapons, including biological ones, and testing new methods of warfare. Biden, Macron and Scholz are trying to maintain power by plunging the citizens of their countries into huge problems, without thinking about the people of Ukraine, its economy," Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to him, residents of the United States and European countries are less and less likely to agree with actions aimed at supporting the Kyiv regime. Thus, disapproval of this policy in the United States reached 43%, in the UK - 65%, in Germany - 70%, in France - 80%.

"The claims are obvious: instead of developing their own countries, solving the problems of citizens, they send money to the war and the maintenance of the criminal Kiev regime," the Chairman of the State Duma emphasized.

Earlier, Volodin pointed out that the United States and NATO use Ukrainians as consumables, regardless of losses.

Leopard in the Kherson direction

In the Kherson direction, crews of German Leopard 2A6 tanks began to operate on the side of the Kyiv regime. This was announced by an officer of the volunteer battalion "Falcon", the commander of one of its units with the call sign Bull.

"Shelling of checkpoints by Leopard tanks was repeatedly recorded here. There is a story from colleagues, we communicate with them when a sabotage squad captured a Leopard tank. They could not drag him to the rear, took him and drowned him in a swamp, "RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Also, according to him, the use by the Ukrainian side of German anti-aircraft missile systems, which, presumably, were controlled by mercenaries from Germany, was recorded.

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At the end of March, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed the transfer of 18 Leopard 2A6 tanks to Kyiv.

Nine years of Ukrainian aggression

The representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine recalled that on April 14, 2014, Acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov signed a decree on conducting a so-called anti-terrorist operation in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

"For nine years, according to the LPR representative office in the JCCC, 2357 people became victims of Ukrainian aggression, of which 1717 died and 640 were injured of varying degrees of severity. Including 52 children were killed, and 42 were injured," the report said.

Also during this time, 9822 houses and 895 civilian infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged in the republic, including 133 medical and 151 educational institutions.

In total, since April 14, 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have shelled the territory of the LPR 1407 times, using about 11,5 thousand ammunition of various calibers, including missiles of the Tochka-U tactical missile system (44 missiles) and the American MLRS HIMARS (744 missiles), MLRS (BM-21 Grad, BM-27 Uragan, BM-30 Smerch) - 2903 shells, 155-millimeter artillery pieces - 282 shells, 152- and 122-millimeter artillery pieces - 1513 shells, mortars caliber 120 and 82 mm - 1208 mines, nine attack UAVs.

In turn, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR, Andrei Marochko, told TASS that Ukrainian troops have recently sharply increased the intensity of shelling of front-line settlements.

Shelling of the DPR

Over the past day, the Ukrainian military shelled eight settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic 26 times, firing 156 shells from artillery of 155 and 152 mm caliber at them, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.

"Over the past day, information has been received about the death of a civilian - a woman - in the Central City district of Horlivka. Four civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Kuibyshevsky, Kiev and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk," the report said.

Seven houses were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Tsentralno-Gorodsky district of Horlivka, as well as one civilian infrastructure facility.