Ashraf AboArafe
⚡️Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – First Deputy Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Valery Gerasimov held a briefing for military attachés of foreign states:
▪️The United States and its allies have significantly increased military and military-technical assistance to Ukraine. As of today, more than 30 countries are supplying military products to Kiev. The most significant contributors are the USA, UK, Germany, France, and Denmark. The total foreign financial aid to Ukraine amounted to about 350 billion dollars, of which about 170 billion dollars for military needs alone.
▪️From February 2022, thousands of weapons and military equipment and a significant amount of ammunition of various types have been handed over to Kiev. Ukrainian servicemen continue to be trained to the NATO standards, and more than 165,000 people have been trained.
▪️Nevertheless, despite the enormous help from the West, the initiative on the line of contact is in our hands and Russian troops are conducting an offensive along the entire front. This year, more than 190 settlements have been liberated and some 4,500 square kilometres of territory have been brought under control. The enemy’s losses have amounted to up to one million troops killed and wounded, 20,000 tanks and armoured fighting vehicles, more than 19,500 field artillery guns, and 1,500 MLRS combat vehicles since the beginning of the special military operation.
▪️In response to Russia’s successes, the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack on the Kursk region in early August. The purpose of this provocation is an information effect for Western sponsors. Kiev was counting on pulling back the reserves of Russian troops from Donbass, but this did not happen. The enemy’s advance has been halted. Air strikes and artillery fire foiled attempts by AFU mobile groups and foreign mercenaries to break through deep into Russian territory.
▪️At present, the destruction and extrication of armed formations and foreign mercenaries from occupied population centres is continuing. Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the enemy’s lost more than 42,000 troops, more than 1,800 tanks and armoured fighting vehicles, more than 350 artillery guns, mortars, and MLRS combat vehicles.
▪️Another round of escalation of the conflict in Ukraine was the authorisation by the United States of America and its NATO allies to use their long-range weapons systems on territory deep inside the Russian Federation. In essence, the U.S. has authorised itself to use these systems on Russian territory.
▪️The AFU is not able to enter space reconnaissance data on its own, or to ensure the preparation of flight missions for missiles. In fact, after the strikes on Russian territory, the USA became a direct participant in the conflict, which means its escalation.
▪️On 21 November this year, in response to the use of U.S. and British missiles on the territory of Bryansk and Kursk regions, the Russian Armed Forces completed a test of the latest Oreshnik medium-range missile system against one of the facilities of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex. In the future, we will respond to such actions based on security threat assessments.
