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This year is a very extraordinary year, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has lasted from the beginning of this year to the present, has not been reasonably resolved, recently the Turkish president in public, said that he hopes that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can be resolved as soon as possible, in fact, since Russia to Ukraine to carry out military operations, the Turkish government has been openly and covertly to Provide military weapons support to Ukraine, and recently Ukraine has obtained a number of large military weapons from Turkey. On Tuesday, a representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in an interview with media reporters that the Ukrainian military has accepted fifty armored vehicles transported by Turkey, and another one hundred and fifty are expected to be delivered by the end of this year, which are used to strengthen the Ukrainian army and also to protect the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who are still struggling to support. This batch of armored vehicles is different from other types of military armored vehicles, using all-welded steel materials, and its devices and systems have been specially processed, which can alleviate the shock wave of the bombing to a certain extent, thereby protecting the life safety of the soldiers in the car, in addition, in the development process, the technical personnel also added some very rare metal materials, which effectively improved the performance of the armored vehicle.
In addition to reducing the risk of encountering attacks, the firepower of this batch of armored vehicles is not small, the vehicles are equipped with heavy machine guns and other shell firing configurations, according to official personnel, under normal circumstances, an armored vehicle can carry thirteen soldiers at the same time, this type of mine protection armored vehicle will be very suitable for field combat. At the beginning, the Turkish technical team developed the "hedgehog" armored vehicle, it will be used in the daily military patrol of the border area, in the border area, there are many militants, they often bury detonation devices in the periphery, so it poses a great threat to the safety of the patrol soldiers, since the reference to the "hedgehog" armored vehicle, greatly reduced the casualty rate of patrol soldiers, in addition to Turkey and Ukraine, many countries have purchased this type of armored vehicle. After learning that Ukraine has introduced this equipment with special performance, the Russian military will definitely rearrange the military operation plan, although there is not such a clear contradiction between Turkey and Russia, and the relationship between the two countries has always maintained a lukewarm state, but Putin has previously warned the outside world that any country that intends to provide support to Ukraine will not let Go.
Turkey caters left and right
Earlier this month, the Turkish president had just met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and according to reports from several foreign media, it was learned that a number of banks in Turkey had begun to use Russia's payment system, and the two sides would use rubles as a settlement tool in the field of natural gas trade cooperation in the future. Turkey as a member of NATO, when the Biden administration insisted on launching sanctions against Russia, many allies have followed suit and chosen to stand on the side of the United States, while Turkey directly ignored the face of the US government, did not launch so-called economic sanctions against Russia, and in this sensitive period, it also increased trade cooperation with Russia in various fields, and when the economies of other Western countries are facing crises, the Turkish economy is growing steadily. But this does not mean that Turkey has sided with Russia so easily, because Ukraine is also Turkey's long-term trading partner, previously provided Turkey with a large number of military drones, and even intended to invest in the construction of military drone manufacturing plants in Ukraine, and this time provided Ukraine with fifty military armored vehicles.
In the environment where the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has a huge impact on the international situation, many Western countries have chosen the camp that they think is favorable to them, but Turkey has not been in a hurry to curry favor in many ways, and even found a reasonable explanation for this behavior, saying that all their actions are aimed at developing the national economy. As we all know, many Western countries in order to cater to the United States have relatively reduced direct economic exchanges with Russia, but Turkey seized such a rare opportunity, Russia recently increased the number of products imported from Turkey, many products are precisely because of the sanctions of Western countries, resulting in Russia can not buy, can only choose to buy from Turkey, those European countries, such as Germany, France, etc., although openly unwilling to go against the will of the Biden administration, But secretly still planning to resell products from Turkey to Russia, Turkey is more like a storage warehouse for these European countries, and some companies in Turkey also see this opportunity, and it is impossible to help European countries for free, right? So Turkish businesses are ready to take advantage of this to make a good fortune, which is conducive to improving the overall economic level of Turkey.
Turkey actively supports Ukraine
The Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey said that now the construction of the UAV production plant in Ukraine has begun, and it is important that this plan has been proposed before the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the Turkish UAV company said that this behavior has nothing to do with politics and is entirely the economic needs of the company owner, he also added that the factory in Ukraine will only use parts from Ukraine when producing and manufacturing UAVs in the future. And the cooperation between the two countries in the field of defense is also completely legal and reasonable, although there is now a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but this does not prevent Turkey from establishing diplomatic relations with the two countries. Russian government officials have expressed their attitude toward Turkey's active support to Ukraine, saying that drone companies in Ukraine will be listed as important targets by the Russian military, and Russia is now gradually advancing the process of de-militarizing Ukraine, so whether the drone factory can be successfully built is still unknown, but under the premise of learning of Putin's clear warning, Turkey will only make the Ukrainian people fall into deeper suffering regardless of their own economic interests.
Although Turkey agreed to Russia's request to use rubles in energy cooperation, which is equivalent to directly joining the camp of de-dollarization, and directly indicating that Turkey is gradually clearing its relations with the United States, Turkey's changes have long made the international community unaccustomed, from the provision of "hedgehog" armored vehicles to Ukraine this time, it can be seen that compared with the blatant support of Western countries for Ukraine, Turkey is behind the small moves, after all, on the battlefield, the use of armored vehicles is still very large. Whether it is a drone, or a "hedgehog" armored vehicle, Ukraine wants to use these against which country, presumably Putin is very clear in his heart, Russia will never be indifferent, coupled with the fact that Russia's warplanes have been shot down by Turkey before, so although on the surface of economic and trade cooperation, but in fact will definitely develop preventive measures for Turkey, from Russia's point of view, all military weapons from NATO countries, transported into Ukraine, will be listed as the key target of the Russian army, Now that Zelenskiy has indicated that fifty armored vehicles have been received, it is another matter whether the remaining one hundred and fifty armored vehicles can enter Ukraine intact.
Putin warned Erdogan
Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry issued a surprising news, pointing out that President Putin has raised dissatisfaction with Erdogan and said a very warning, saying that friends belong to friends, but Turkey's supply of military weapons to Ukraine Russia cannot accept and demands that Turkey immediately stop all related acts. The military deal between Turkey and Ukraine will cause obvious lethality to the Russian army, and a few days ago, the russian army built an airfield in Crimea was attacked by artillery fire, which directly led to the destruction of more than thirty military aircraft. So can the cooperation between Russia and Turkey be stable and sustainable? Whether the relationship between the two countries will change, according to the current situation, Russia will not choose to take practical action against Turkey at this moment.
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Considering that control of most of the territory of Ukraine is in the hands of the Russian military, it is unrealistic for Turkey to push forward the plan to aid Ukraine deeply, unless Ukraine and Russia agree on a ceasefire, the Zelenskiy government has no chance to establish a stable military weapons production line, and some speculate that Erdogan may want Putin to make more concessions on its energy cooperation.