The Russian Air Force has operated quite restrained until now, but they must respond to an attack that causes serious military damage, warns Bálint Somkuti, an expert on security policy.
As Mandiner wrote: the Russians gave the USA an ultimatum. "The Russian side has no intention of tolerating the unbridled anti-Russian propaganda spread by the information sources of the American embassy, and intends to use all available means to neutralize it," said RIA's informant Novosztyi. about this by clicking .
It also turned out that, according to Ukrainian President Zelensky's confidant, Oleksiy Danyilov, "it is only a matter of time before Ukraine receives the requested F-16 fighter-bombers", even though US President Joe Biden previously stated that the United States will not provide Ukraine with F-16s.
, also spoke in the aforementioned interview that the Ukrainian army has the military capability to attack targets in the territory of the Russian state in addition to the occupied Ukrainian territories.
no one forbids them" from using weapons manufactured in Ukraine against Russian targets , adding that the Ukrainian army has such long-range weapons.
Kirilo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence - who was recently asked to be defense minister by the Ukrainian president - made the same statement in January when he told ABC News that attacks are expected to take place behind the front lines, "deep" in the Russian hinterland, but to the question of whether the Ukrainian armed forces will in this case admit that he carried out these actions, the military leader only said: he will be able to answer this question only after the war.
On the subject, Mandiner contacted security policy expert Bálint Somkuti, who said that the current Russian-Ukrainian border stretches along the former state border for hundreds of kilometers in part of the thousand-kilometer front, so it is possible to shoot across from Ukraine to Russia with a mortar and even an assault rifle . ".
As the expert put it: In addition, Ukraine really has long-range weapons that can be used to launch deep attacks against Russian territories. The development and production of Ukrainian drones similar to the Geran-2/Sahid-136, which is also used by the Russian side, has begun, and the subsonic anti-ship missile Neptun, which was reportedly used to sink the Moscow cruiser, is also manufactured in Ukraine, Bálint Somkuti explained. .
A researcher at the MCC Geopolitics Workshop also told Mandiner: " the attacks a few weeks ago against the English base of the Russian long-range bombers may have been a major test". According to Somkuti, the Russians claim that a Soviet-made Tu-141 was shot down far inside the country's borders, and that Belgorod, close to the border, and the separatist Donetsk area are regularly hit by artillery, rocket launcher and HIMARS attacks - although no evidence has yet been presented for the latter , it is not inconceivable that the Ukrainians actually carried out such attacks.
The expert pointed out that the Russian armed forces take the threat seriously.
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Author: Tamás Maráczi
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