Cheng Mo: Ukraine is about to get 45 F-16 fighters Russia has been attacked on a large scale, and Ukraine has once again defeated a Russian battalion-level armored cluster
Original Cheng Mo Visionary 2024-04-05 14:34
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Executive summary: 1. French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Russia for blatantly lying; 2. Russia said that it had added 100,000 new recruits to Ukraine to participate in the war this year, confirming that the Russian army had suffered heavy casualties; 3. Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium were about to hand over 45 F-16 fighters to Ukraine; 4. Hungary prevented NATO from continuing to aid Ukraine; 5. The prospects of the US aid bill to Ukraine are still uncertain;6. Hundreds of drones of the Ukrainian army attacked multiple targets in Russia in the early morning of April 5;7. The Ukrainian army repelled the attack of the Russian battalion-level armored cluster west of Avdiivka, destroying a large number of Russian armored vehicles and artillery.
French Defense Minister Le Corny and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had their first telephone conversation since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war on April 3, local time in France.
According to the French side, the French government provided the Russian side with some "useful information" about the terrorist attack at the Moscow Concert Hall, without mentioning any topics related to the Russia-Ukraine war, while Russia said that Le Kolny and Shoigu "had a dialogue on the Ukrainian issue" during the phone call.
Speaking to the media on April 4, Macron said: "The rhetoric of the Russian side is strange and threatening. "The Russian side's lie that France is behind the terrorist attack on Moscow and that the Ukrainians are behind it is absurd and meaningless. ”
I am not surprised that Russia has bitten like a mad dog on the terrorist attack in Moscow, but I am interested in the fact that the French and Russian defense ministers did not mention the topic of Russia and Ukraine in the phone call, but Moscow lied that the two sides exchanged information about the Russia-Ukraine war. This can be understood both as a desire by the Russian side to drive a wedge between France and Ukraine, and as a hint that the Russian side is in a hurry to make peace. In any case, blatant lies in diplomacy will only make other countries extra wary of Russia. Obviously, Russia, which has been isolated by the international community, is now only concerned with how to win the support of its own people, and has completely lost its concern for its own international image.
Peskov said on April 4 in response to the controversy over the phone call between the Russian and French defense ministers that relations between Russia and NATO are gradually deteriorating, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is still open to dialogue with the West, but there is no plan for direct dialogue with French President Emmanuel Macron. It seems that France's provision of intelligence to Russia on the Moscow terrorist attack this time is aimed at exposing Russia's ridiculous lie that it blames Ukraine, thus triggering an angry response from Russia.
(France and Russia clash over terrorist attack in Moscow)
In the wake of a terrorist attack at a concert hall near Moscow last month, the number of people who signed up to fight in Ukraine out of patriotic enthusiasm for the country has surged, according to a statement issued by the Russian Defense Ministry on April 3. "Over the past week and a half, there has been a significant increase in the number of people who have come to the recruitment sites in the hope of signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense to participate in the special military operation," the Russian Defense Ministry said. So far, more than 100,000 people have voluntarily signed up to fight this year, including 16,000 people who signed up within 10 days of the terrorist attack, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The latest statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense proves that Russia's practice of blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terrorist attack has indeed had the effect of mobilizing the Russian people to support the war in Ukraine, although it is widely despised by the international community. The new number of contract soldiers in the Russian army indirectly confirms the huge personnel consumption on the battlefield in Ukraine.
On the same day, Zelensky said at a joint press conference in Kyiv with visiting Finnish President Stubb: "I can say that on June 1, Russia is ready to mobilize another 300,000 troops. He reiterated: "The Ukrainian side does not need to conscript 500,000 people this year." ”
Zelensky's latest statements about the number of conscripts in Ukraine are in line with the statements of the top brass of the military. At present, the Ukrainian army claims to have a million troops, not counting logistics, medical personnel and reservists, and the number of troops that can be put into combat is as high as 700,000, and the number of land forces exceeds that of Russia. This is a very large number, and the total number of Ukrainian troops before the war was just over 200,000. At present, the new personnel of the Ukrainian army should only need to supplement the casualties on the battlefield and overage retirement.
On April 4, local time, Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova said during a visit to the state-run aviation training center in Pardubice that the Czech Republic is providing F-16 pilot training for Ukraine. Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium will hand over a total of about 45 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in a matter of months.
So far, according to incomplete statistics, the number of F-16 fighters promised to supply Ukraine exceeds 70. The United States has the largest number of F-16 fighters, including thousands of older models in stock, but the United States has not made a commitment to provide Ukraine with fighter jets.
(Ukraine is about to get 45 F-16 fighters)
On April 4, local time, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó said at a press conference after the "NATO-Ukraine Council" meeting that NATO is currently in a state of "war fever", which poses a serious risk of war escalation.
Szijjártó said that the vast majority of the presentations at the meeting were about how to increase the supply of weapons to Ukraine. And the build-up of arms shipments is becoming more and more difficult, since most of the allies have now almost completely surrendered their military equipment stockpiles. He believes that it is time to start Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, and not to supply weapons to Ukraine.
It seems that Hungary is using all occasions to sabotage the Western camp's military aid to Ukraine and let Russia win this war. It is a pity that Hungary does not have the ability or guts to stop the Western camp from aiding Ukraine, and can only win a trace of favor among the Russians in the Russian media.
On April 4, local time, NATO continued to hold a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on issues related to aid to Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba said that the main purpose of his trip was to call on NATO countries to provide Ukraine with anti-aircraft weapons, including the "Patriot" air defense system.
A number of diplomats told the media that in response to the changes brought about by Trump's possible election, this NATO foreign ministers' meeting will discuss the issue of the "Coordination of Defense Ministers for Ukraine Aid" being led by the United States and completely transferred to NATO. When European countries took the lead in forming more than 10 professional alliances to aid Ukraine, I said that these actions are actually in response to the changes brought about by Trump's possible assumption of office. In the face of Trump's possible abandonment of allies, former U.S. allies are seriously preparing to stay together after the U.S. leaves.
Regarding the US aid bill to Ukraine, it is still confusing. The U.S. House of Representatives is about to reconvene, and Speaker Johnson is under pressure from all sides to introduce a compromise aid bill to Ukraine, such as giving Ukraine a lease bill and a loan line instead of giving even a penny of gratuitous aid, as Trump said. However, Republican hardliners have once again publicly threatened to remove Johnson from the post of speaker if he submits any aid bill to a vote. These hard-line Republican lawmakers believe that the United States should no longer provide any free aid to foreign countries, but should spend every penny of taxpayers' money at home.
I really think that Trump and his die-hard supporters are idiots of international affairs! There is not a single country or region in the top 50 countries and regions in terms of economic aggregate and the top 50 developed countries and regions in terms of per capita GDP that do not provide free assistance to foreign countries. Will isolating the United States really beneficial to US security and development? I do not have any positive or negative answers, because after all, Americans have their own right to choose and a powerful mechanism for correcting mistakes. As a Chinese, I don't worry about Americans at all.
("Euro-Prussia" joined forces to block aid to Ukraine)
A large number of Ukrainian drones attacked Russia's Rostov Oblast in the early hours of April 5. The governor of the region said that Russian air defense systems shot down more than 40 targets over the city of Morozovsk, and a large substation was damaged, causing power outages in some areas, and work is currently underway to restore power supply.
Almost at the same time, the Omorozovsk airbase was attacked by dozens of drones, and no specific losses are reported.
In the past 24 hours, the Russian side has continued to attack Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones, and the tug-of-war between the two sides on various lines of contact continues, with the most intense fighting taking place in the areas around Bakhmut and Avdiivka, where the Ukrainian army repelled all Russian "human charges".
Following the Ukrainian army's defeat of a battalion-scale armored cluster assault on March 30, on April 4, the Russian army launched a battalion-scale attack on the Ukrainian army's position in the village of Berdychi west of Avdiivka, and the Ukrainian army destroyed a large number of Russian armored vehicles and repelled the Russian army's fierce attack.
The Russian army's fierce attack on the positions of the Ukrainian army in Bertich lasted for more than 2 months, and the Ukrainian army has been holding on unto retreat. It can be seen from the statistics of Ukrainian battle losses today that the Ukrainian army has destroyed 73 Russian armored vehicles and 50 Russian artillery pieces in the past 24 hours. In my impression, the losses of armored vehicles of the Russian army in a single day are the highest in history.
On the 772nd day of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that the battle losses of the Russian army (including Russian localities, enterprises, and separatist groups) in the past 24 hours were as follows: 860 Russian troops were annihilated (killed and seriously wounded), and a total of 445,900 Russian troops were annihilated; Destroyed 15 tanks, 73 armored vehicles, 1 air defense system, 3 rocket launch systems, 61 fuel tankers and logistics heavy-duty vehicles, 4 sets of special equipment (mainly electronic warfare equipment), 50 artillery pieces, and intercepted 30 suicide drones.
(Russian army battle losses counted by the Ukrainian side on April 5)
Based on various information, I roughly estimated that the losses of Ukrainian officers and soldiers were about 93,000, of which the number of dead and seriously injured was also 1:1, and more than 20,000 Ukrainian civilians were killed. The warriors of Ukraine who died defending their homeland will return to heaven with glory and be with God.
Let us continue to pray that God will give peace and put an end to wars, that the wicked may be rewarded and the good be sheltered.
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