According to the news of the Global Network on the 14th, on the evening of March 13, local time, the Russian military announced that in the special military operation against Ukraine on the same day, the Russian army used high-precision long-range weapons to accurately strike several military facilities in western Ukraine, and achieved great results, and 180 foreign mercenaries were annihilated on the spot!
Russia says 180 people annihilated, Ukraine: not yet confirmed
It is reported that when the Russian Defense Ministry released the war report information on the evening of the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that the specific target of the Russian military attack was the Yavorovsky Military Training Center in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, which was established in 2007 and is only a few kilometers from the Polish border, which is an important fulcrum for the Ukrainian armed forces to store Western aid weapons and equipment and train anti-Russian forces. Igor Konashenkov said: In the current round of precision strikes by the Russian army, 180 foreign mercenaries were killed, and a large number of weapons and ammunition aided by European and American countries to Ukraine were destroyed. He stressed that the Russian side's action to clear foreign mercenaries arriving in Ukraine will continue.
However, in cnn reports, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Markiyan Lubukovsky denied russian claims in an interview and said that the Russian narrative was inconsistent with the facts and was "pureLy Russian propaganda", and Lubukovsky claimed that there were foreigners among the dead at the Yavorov military base. Earlier in the day of the 13th, a number of foreign media reported that Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov admitted that yavorov military training ground was attacked in the early morning of the same day, and admitted that there were foreign military instructors working inside. However, the casualty data given by the Ukrainian side is "at least 35 deaths and 134 wounded", without mentioning the presence of foreign mercenaries.
In this regard, Aerospace Jun believes that at present, both Russia and Ukraine are in a state of war, and due to various uncertainties, the information released by both sides is likely to be in line with the real situation. However, it should be noted that for the Russian army's strike operation, a large part of the information disclosed by Russia and Ukraine can be corroborated with each other, that is, the Yavolovsky Military Training Center in Ukraine does have foreign personnel, and it has indeed been attacked, although whether the Russian army successfully annihilated 180 foreign mercenaries can not be confirmed, but the Russian attack did play a role in seriously damaging the Ukrainian side. Therefore, the so-called "pure Russian propaganda" of the Spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is basically "hard-mouthed".
Why did Ukraine suddenly gather so many foreign mercenaries?
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in February this year, the Ukrainian army has been hit hard by the Russian army one after another, and on the first day of the war, the command and communication system of the Ukrainian army has lost its ability to coordinate under the key blows of the Russian army, and the command and dispatch of the Ukrainian army has been forced to be paralyzed. The next day, with the long drive of the Russian ground troops, a large number of Ukrainian regular troops abandoned their armor and abandoned their positions, or surrendered directly to the Russian army, in just one week, the Ukrainian capital Kiev has been surrounded by a trend, although the Russian army in the next few days due to tactical adjustments, slowed down the pace of attack, but the current Russian side is generally in a superior position.
In addition, as the United States and Western European forces that provoked the contradictions between Russia and Ukraine, after the war between Russia and Ukraine, the West did not become Ukraine's strong "backing" as promised to Ukraine during the "arch fire" period, in addition to providing assistance to Ukraine with individual troops and light weapons, NATO countries, including the United States, said that they would not send a single soldier to help Ukraine resist the Russian offensive. At the same time, although the United States has set off a big wave of Western sanctions against Russia, the Western forces in the United States are not interested in Zelenskiy's request that "NATO send troops to help it establish a no-fly zone", and are even unwilling to provide Ukraine with heavy equipment, including fighter jets.
Despite the dire situation, the Ukrainian Zelenskiy government did not announce its surrender and still claimed to continue its confrontation with Russia. In order to alleviate the problem of insufficient military resources in the country, the Kiev authorities have earlier ordered Ukrainian adult men not to leave the country during the war, and some Ukrainian armed personnel of an extreme nature similar to the "Azov battalion" have been forcing the elderly and children to train in the use of firearms to serve as a target for attracting Russian firepower in formal conflicts. At the same time, kiev authorities have also used social networking sites to recruit so-called "volunteers" abroad to fight in Ukraine.
In various recent reports, the government departments of many countries have been dissatisfied with Ukraine's recruitment in the country and have issued corresponding regulations to stop it. However, in the case of the overall bias of Western public opinion towards Ukraine, there are still many foreigners going to Ukraine. For example, the Canadian sniper "Wall-e", who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and set a sniper world record, recently declared himself to enter Ukraine from Poland, of course, there are many ordinary people who have not touched guns, so when these "foreign mercenaries" enter Ukraine, most of them first conduct certain military skills training and then be sent to the front line of the war against Russia.
Can foreign mercenaries change the situation in Ukraine?
"Sniper", "mercenary", these words are not unfamiliar to military-loving friends, these characters in Hollywood movies can often be turned around by one hundred. However, in reality, "snipers" and "mercenaries" are not "supermen", perhaps some of them have excellent combat skills, some are proficient in firearms, but what will be the result of a small group of mercenaries when they fight head-on with regular troops? It is undeniable that judging from the large number of weapons and equipment provided by the West to Ukraine, these mercenaries may not be weaker than the Russian army, but in terms of organization and system perfection, mercenaries can only be hammered by the Russian army.
In the war zone, Ukraine has lost almost all air supremacy, so that the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft can carry out devastating low-altitude bombing of Ukrainian military facilities only by virtue of its thick skin in the case of avionics backwardness, and it is simply a death in today's various aerial electronic detection environments. In the face of the Russian army with strong system support, even snipers with strong infantry capabilities, can not turn over much waves, and no matter the Russian army itself attaches great importance to sniper operations, just the use of artillery to clear snipers this aspect of experience, the Russian army has a very rich experience.
In fact, on a social platform in China, there is news today that the so-called Canadian ace sniper has been killed by the Russian army, although it has not been officially confirmed, but the aerospace jun has no doubt about the accuracy, coverage, and destruction ability of russian artillery. Therefore, The Aerospace Jun believes that the recruitment of foreigners to the war zone by the Ukrainian Kiev authorities is more symbolic than a show to express its firm anti-Russian attitude to the West and hope that the West can finally provide "real military support" to it.
Synthesizing the current situation in Russia and Ukraine, in the view of the aerospace jun, Ukraine has come to this step today, although the United States and NATO are the main inducements, Ukraine itself cannot face the geopolitical situation squarely, and the lack of geo-wisdom is also one of the promoters of today's situation. From the perspective of pure national development, whether it is the chaos in the Middle East or the current Russian-Ukrainian dispute in recent years, it is actually a reminder of how important it is to have a strong and unified country!