According to Russia's TASS news agency, US Secretary of State Blinken said: "Whether it is one soldier or a thousand soldiers, even if only one Russian soldier crosses the Russian-Ukrainian border, it is equivalent to the Russian army launching an attack on Ukraine." The United States has said that once the Russian army launches an offensive, the United States will retaliate against Russia.
U.S. White House press secretary Jane Psaki said any russian entry into Ukraine would face "severe" retaliation. Blinken told Ukraine that the United States and its allies will stand firm in their support for Ukraine.
According to the US "Warzone" website, there are now 4 Russian Iskand missile brigades on the Russian-Ukrainian border. This missile adopts a variety of guidance methods such as inertial guidance + satellite navigation + scene matching guidance. Together with spare ammunition, 4 missile brigades mean hundreds of missiles are ready to be launched.
Iskand missiles are not only anti-jamming and accurate, but more importantly have many different types of ammunition. It can strike different enemy targets, and iskand missiles have a variety of types of warheads, such as cluster submunitions, high-explosive bullets, penetrating submunitions, ground-penetrating bombs, air-incendiary bombs, and electromagnetic pulse bombs.
Hundreds of Iskard missiles, 2 missiles hit a target, the Ukrainian command centers, radar stations, anti-aircraft missile positions and ammunition depots, logistics bases and so on will be devastating.
The loss of command communications, logistical ammunition and anti-aircraft missile positions by the Ukrainian army is tantamount to a leaderless state of chaos. At this time, the Russian Air and Space Force will launch an air-to-ground strike, and the Russian ground tank unit will launch a decided large-depth and rapid breakthrough battle.
In the past, the Scud missile, a ballistic missile, had an accuracy of only 300 meters at most, but in fact, it was of little use on the battlefield, and at most it could only fight city battles. But modern ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles in the era of precision guidance, such as the Iskand missile, the accuracy has reached less than 5 meters.
This shows that modern ballistic missiles can already replace the strike role of the Air Force. The Russian military does not need to send a large number of fighters to carry out air raid tasks, and ballistic missiles can complete the task of precision strike of deep targets. Russian warplanes can concentrate on air defense interception operations to intercept American and NATO fighters.
The four missile brigades of the Russian army can carry out continuous intensive precision strike firepower against targets within a depth of 500 kilometers of the entire Ukrainian army. Destroy and weaken important targets of Ukrainian troops and U.S. forces in Ukraine, and seize the initiative in firepower on the battlefield.
In fact, nato troops do not have large troops to reinforce Ukraine, and now NATO's 10,000 troops in Ukraine are mainly instructors, special forces and mercenaries. In fact, they are all light infantry, and the biggest weapon is a single missile.
If the Russian army launches an offensive, NATO does not even have a division-level force in Eastern Europe that can carry out a rapid confrontation. NATO's biggest force in Eastern Europe is the Polish army, but the Polish army will probably have to be involved in guarding NATO's forward bases and air bases at that time.
Now, the Russian siege troops are ready. Hurricane M1 type 220 mm multi-caliber rocket launcher, 2S4 "Tulip" 240 mm self-propelled mortar, 2S19M type 152 mm self-propelled howitzer, 2S7 type "Peony Flower" 203 mm self-propelled howitzer and so on.
In modern urban warfare, there are a large number of reinforced concrete strongholds in the city. These strongholds have become difficult to destroy using Air Force fighters. Because, first of all, this kind of close air support requires a large number of flight sorties to ensure a 24-hour continuous presence. At the same time, heavy bombs were required to effectively destroy reinforced concrete strongholds.
Therefore, the Russian military has upgraded the old self-propelled heavy artillery, coupled with a modern information-based command and coordination system, unmanned aerial vehicle guidance and precision-guided munitions. Allowing these heavy self-propelled cannons to strike targets with precision, providing powerful battlefield close-range support firepower.
In front of the Russian Air and Space Forces, missile brigades and heavy artillery units. The U.S. military's current power in Eastern Europe is simply unstoppable. It would take at least 2-5 weeks for the U.S. army to send the main force from the mainland, by which time the battle would have long been over. Putin has already achieved a campaign plan to open up the Crimean land lines of communication or push the Donbass front to the Dnieper.