Ukraine puts war hope in new superweapon: Minister warns Russia - "No mercy"
Created: 07/16/2022, 20:04
By: Kathrin Reikowski
A rocket launcher of the "Mars" type (medium artillery rocket system).
(Iconic image) © Wolfgang Eilmes/dpa
Western arms supplies play a major role in the Ukraine war.
Ukraine relies on new multiple rocket launchers - but a Russia expert expresses doubts.
Kyiv - The bloody escalation of the Ukraine conflict has turned into a trench warfare: the two warring factions are fighting for individual towns and villages in the east and south of Ukraine, trying again and again to break through the fronts of the war opponents.
In the south of Ukraine, the cities of Dnipro and Mykolayiv have recently been attacked, in the west there is fighting over Bakhmut and Siwersk.
This map shows where the Ukraine war is raging.
Ukraine now claims to have received a new superweapon from the West that could give it a decisive advantage over Russia.
"No mercy for the enemy," wrote Ukraine's defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, when announcing a new arms shipment on Twitter.
Ukraine-News: Kiev's defense minister celebrates new weapon - "No mercy for the enemy"
"Thank you to our partners," Reznikov wrote on Twitter.
He expressed his delight at the expansion of Ukrainian military capabilities: “The Long Hand family of the UAarmy has been expanded: the first MLRS M270 are here!
You will be good company for HIMARS on the battlefield.”
The minister did not reveal which partner supplied the weapons.
But at the beginning of June Great Britain announced that it wanted to support Ukraine with M270 multiple rocket launchers.
This means "a significant boost to the capabilities of the Ukrainian army," said the British Ministry of Defense at the time.
A rocket launcher of the "Mars" type (medium artillery rocket system).
(symbol image) © Wolfgang Eilmes/dpa
The weapon system can hit targets up to 80 kilometers away with precision-guided missiles.
Great Britain also wanted to train Ukrainian soldiers in the use of the new weapon system.
In this way they want to give Ukraine another advantage against the Russian war of aggression.
A war in which civilians die again and again.
In the city of Vinnytsia, three children died in a Russian attack on Thursday.
The historian and Russia expert Jörg Baberowski sees this brutality of the actions of the Russian army as a sign of weakness.
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Ukraine-News: Western weapons decisive against Russia?
Ukraine currently assumes that missile attacks will significantly reduce Russia's attack potential, according to
Der Spiegel
.
"Over the past few weeks, over 30 enemy logistical military installations have been destroyed," a spokesman for Ukraine's Defense Ministry, Oleksandr Motuzianyk, said on Ukrainian television, as
quoted by
Der Spiegel .
The Himars systems supplied by the USA are to play a role in this.
Baberowski points out that, despite new weapons for Ukraine, Russia could have more leverage in the Ukraine war: “Those who can wait have power.
That is why Putin will probably prevail in the end.
Russia will not achieve all the goals it has set itself.
But Putin can still reduce Ukraine to rubble and prevent it from integrating into the western alliance system," the historian told
t-online
.
He is therefore not uncritical of arms deliveries to Ukraine: "If the West delivers arms to Ukraine, there must be a strategy for what should come after the war," he said.
"You have to know what a future peace order will look like and who should guarantee it." There are currently no convincing answers to many questions about this.
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