Cheng Mo: Clarifying the Lies Demonizing the US Aid to Ukraine Act Denmark announced a huge amount of military aid to Ukraine
Original Cheng Mo Visionary Way 2024-04-28 15:18
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Executive summary: 1. Clarify the media lies that demonize the US aid to Ukraine bill; 2. Danish foreign and defense ministers visit Kyiv to announce huge military aid to Ukraine; 3. Belgium announces new aid to Ukraine and decides to transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine in advance; 4. Australian defense minister visits Kyiv to announce a new round of military aid to Ukraine; 5. Britain purchases "Storm Shadow" cruise missiles on a large scale and starts wartime production; 6. Ukrainian drones successfully attack a Russian military airport and two oil refineries;7. Two brigades of the Ukrainian army changed air defense to block the Russian army and broke into the positions of the Ukrainian army;8. The Russian army continued to launch a fierce offensive west of Avdiivka.
If it weren't for a large number of readers' reminders, I would never have expected that the United States passed legislation a few days ago to allocate $60.84 billion in aid to Ukraine in fiscal year, which would become a "big scam" for countless media on the Chinese Simplified Internet to ridicule Americans and the whimsical "big scam" of Ukrainians counting on American aid.
In the past two days, under the reminder of a large number of readers, I briefly took a look at Baidu, and was extremely shocked to find that countless media interpreted the latest US aid to Ukraine as follows: the so-called $60.84 billion aid to Ukraine consists of four parts, the first item is $23.2 billion, "used to replenish the US military equipment inventory and defense services", which has nothing to do with Ukraine, and the second item is $13.8 billion, "used to purchase advanced weapons systems, defense products and defense services for Ukraine" The third item of 11.3 billion US dollars, "for the ongoing military operations of the United States in Europe", is spent on the troops stationed in Europe and the United States, and has nothing to do with Ukraine; the fourth item, 7.85 billion US dollars, is "used for direct financial assistance to Ukraine", but this money is a loan, and it is simply a debt, and in the future, the Ukrainians will have to pay it back with interest.
Is this really the case? Let me first put out the conclusion: The interpretation of the content of the US $60.84 billion aid to Ukraine is based on ignorance on the part of a small number of media, and the majority of them have ulterior motives and nakedly demonize the US lies. I have always believed that no matter how bad and evil the United States is, we cannot use extremely low-level lies to smear the enemy, thereby lowering our own moral bottom line and destroying our own image. Now I'm going to explain each item - I am extremely reluctant to do such a frivolous refutation, but there are so many people asking me that I have to make a response.
The first item of $23.2 billion, if translated literally, is indeed "used to replenish US military equipment stocks and defense services", but in fact, in connection with the United States' previous foreign military aid appropriation laws and the latest foreign aid law full text, this more accurate Chinese translation should be "authorize the president to directly withdraw a total of $23.2 billion in weapons and provide technical support from the existing US military stockpiles", and use this money to purchase similar weapons to supplement US military stocks. Because of this, in my previous article, it is more accurately translated as "extracting weapons from the US military stockpile". The $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine announced by the United States immediately after the bill was passed belongs to this allocation. Some people have to emphasize that this money is finally spent on the US military industrial complex, and it is the Americans who make it, and I hope that they will buy some domestic cars and commercial houses to give to everyone, and then let the domestic automobile factories and real estate developers make money and pay taxes.
(U.S. aid to Ukraine is a real payment)
The second item, $13.8 billion, is indeed to issue defense procurement orders for aid to Ukraine, but because these orders are either purchased directly from the international arms market, or require the US military industrial enterprises to step up production, handle them according to urgent orders, and require delivery within one year under special circumstances of up to half a year, it is by no means a flickering of the year of the monkey. Of course, the weapons and ammunition urgently needed by the Ukrainian army still need to be taken directly from the US military inventory, that is, the amount of the first $23.2 billion in aid will be used. The $6 billion aid order for Ukraine announced by the US Department of Defense mentioned in my article yesterday is the second $13.8 billion expenditure.
The third item, $11.3 billion, is used for US military operations in the United States, which is actually used for US military expenditures directly related to the war in Ukraine, including the cost of additional US troops stationed in response to the Russian-Ukrainian war, the cost of transporting weapons and ammunition to US military bases in Europe and maintaining them, the cost of training the Ukrainian army at US military bases in the United States and Europe, the expenditure of US military advisers to Ukraine, and the expenditure of satellites and reconnaissance aircraft provided by the US military stationed in Europe to Ukraine to collect battlefield intelligence. The huge expenses required by the US military in Europe were included in the US military's $886 billion military budget for 2024 from the "US National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024" signed by Biden in December last year.
The fourth financial aid of 7.85 billion US dollars is to provide direct cash assistance to the Ukrainian government, mainly to pay the salaries of Ukrainian soldiers, and cannot be diverted for other purposes. Half of them authorize the president to forgive, and the rest of the debts are repaid from frozen Russian assets.
To put it simply, the $60.84 billion US aid to Ukraine in fiscal year 2024 will be spent entirely on Ukraine, and it will not form a dime of debt to Ukraine.
I am in favor of ruthlessly exposing the evil nature of the United States, but I do not advocate deliberately spreading rumors and lies to discredit our opponents. Many people are convinced of the low-level lies that demonize the United States, and are keen to frantically forward such spam information, and this is a big question worthy of our contemplation! This is also what I have been extremely painful and helpless in the past 10 years.
(Smear the opponent's self-destructive image with low-level lies)
Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov announced on international social media on April 27 that a Danish delegation consisting of Danish Defense Minister Paulsen and Danish Foreign Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen signed a letter of intent during a visit to Kyiv on the same day, pledging to provide Ukraine with a huge military aid of more than 4 billion euros.
"Denmark has demonstrated its continued support by providing Ukraine with 17 military aid packages worth more than 4 billion euros," Umerov said. He also said that Denmark became one of the first countries to finance the purchase of weapons directly from Ukrainian manufacturers, for which 200 million Danish kroner was allocated to support Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises.
Denmark is one of the most powerful countries in the camp to aid Ukraine, especially since last year, it has greatly increased its aid to Ukraine. Denmark is a Nordic country with a population of only 6 million people, a member of NATO, and a wealthy country with a GDP per capita of $70,000.
The Belgian government announced on April 26 that it would provide missiles for Ukraine's air defense systems from its own stockpiles and would allocate 200 million euros to participate in Germany's air defense program, while providing Ukraine with F-16 fighters in advance. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Defense Minister Ludivan de Donder made the statement at a press conference in Brussels.
At a press conference held by the two on the same day, Dedonder said that in the coming weeks, they will continue to mobilize in support of Ukraine. He also announced that the Belgian government has decided to accelerate the supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which will be completed by the end of 2024. Belgium originally planned to start supplying F-16 fighters to Ukraine in 2025, and has now decided to bring forward deliveries to 2024.
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Marles visited Ukraine on April 27 and announced an additional $100 million military aid package for Ukraine.
Of the latest $100 million in military aid, $50 million will be used for military assistance, including $30 million for drones, $15 million for other equipment such as fire masks, generators, combat helmets, inflatable boats, etc., and another $50 million for support for Ukraine's short-range air defense systems, in addition, Australia will also provide Ukraine with air-to-ground precision munitions.
Since Russia's attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Australia has provided a total of $880 million in military aid to Ukraine, including $1 billion in economic and humanitarian aid.
Relative to Australia's economic aggregate, Australia's aid to Ukraine is relatively small compared to other close partners of the United States and Ukraine's close neighbors. However, compared with New Zealand, another close partner of the United States, Australia's assistance to Ukraine is relatively large. Among countries outside Europe, the United States has provided the most aid to Ukraine, followed by Canada.
(The Prime Minister of Ukraine met with the visiting Australian Defense Minister)
On April 26, local time, British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps inspected the "Storm Shadow" cruise missile production line.
"This is the production line of the British 'Storm Shadow' cruise missile, which is made here to cause great damage to the Russian army in the hands of the Ukrainians," he told reporters at the scene. He also revealed, "This week, we poured billions of dollars into the factories here to expand their stockpiles to stop the formation of new Axis powers, which put the factories into war production." ”
The Storm Shadow cruise missile was developed by the European Missile Corporation (a joint venture of British Aerospace, European Space Defence and Italy's Finmecanika Group) and is available in air-launched and submarine-launched versions, with similar performance to the American-made Tomahawk cruise missile. The maximum range of the two models is 250 km and 560 km respectively. At present, Britain and France are supplying Ukraine with cruise missiles with a range of 250 kilometers.
The warhead of the Storm Shadow cruise missile is a BROACH hard target through dual warhead, consisting of a 150 kg large cone-angle shaped armor-piercing warhead and a 300 kg shaped shaped armor-piercing warhead, which can deal with high-value fixed targets, such as air bases, radar facilities, communication hubs, port facilities, large bridges, fortified fortresses, etc.
Storm Shadow missiles cost around £2.54 million per unit, or £2.54 billion for 1,000. Previously, the UK had a stockpile of about 800-1,000 Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and after the start of wartime production and the expansion of production capacity, it will be able to produce about 50 Storm Shadow cruise missiles per month. The French cruise missile of the same type is called "SCALP-EG", and the Chinese translation name is "Scarp". They can all be mounted and launched on the Ukrainian Su-24 fighter-bomber.
(Britain launches wartime production of "Storm Shadow")
As I mentioned in my article yesterday, in the early hours of April 27, Russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine. The Russian army fired 34 missiles, 21 of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.
Today the Ukrainian side announced that energy facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions were attacked. At least five power plants were damaged and several people were injured. Temporary power outages occurred in some areas, but the vast majority were quickly restored.
From the evening of April 26 to the early morning of the 27th, the Ukrainian army launched a large-scale drone attack on the Crimean Peninsula and Russian mainland targets, and most of the Ukrainian drones were intercepted by Russian air defense systems, but they still successfully attacked the Russian military airfield and oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that 66 Ukrainian incoming drones were intercepted in the Krasnodar Territory on the same day.
That night, hundreds of drones of the Ukrainian army arrived at the Kushchovskaya military airfield, causing several violent explosions. Satellite imagery showed that "dozens" of Russian military aircraft were parked at the airport before the attack, as well as large radar systems, air defense systems and electronic warfare (EW) equipment.
Ukrainian drones also attacked two oil refineries in Ilsky and Slavyansk, damaging their distillation towers and causing fires. Krasnodar Governor Kondratiev said Ukrainian drones tried to strike oil refineries and infrastructure in the region's Slavyansky, Siversky and Kushchuvsky regions, but the attacks did not cause "serious" damage.
Unlike Russian officials, Slavyansk refinery safety director Trudnev told the media that 10 drones attacked the refinery that day, causing damage to some equipment and stopping the operation of some units. The refinery was attacked by Ukrainian drones from the night of March 16 to the early morning of March 17. The air defense systems deployed by the Russian side at the refinery do not seem to be working.
A drone night attack launched in the early hours of April 27 hit key facilities at two Russian oil refineries and a military airfield, according to a spokesman for Ukraine's Defense Ministry and National Security Service. The Ukrainian side did not provide specific information about the damage to the Russian side.
(Attacks continue on Crimea and the Russian mainland)
As I analyzed in yesterday's article, the Ukrainian army must put a large-scale F-16 on the battlefield and adapt for a period of time before it can organize a major counteroffensive, which will be as soon as this autumn, perhaps until winter. At this stage, it is relying on defensive positions to defend to the death. Russia's strategy is to continue to attack and occupy as much Ukrainian territory as possible before the F-16 is put into battle.
The first goal publicly announced by the Russian side is to take the entire territory of Luhansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. In the last year, the heaviest fighting has taken place in the vicinity of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast. After the Russian army occupied these two Ukrainian strongholds successively, the Russian army continued to carry forward the tenacious style of not fearing death and continued to advance westward.
As can be seen from the latest battle map of Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia drawn by the American Institute for the Study of War below, compared with a year ago, the biggest change is that the Russian army broke through the Ukrainian army's defense in the two directions of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, occupying about 500 square kilometers of territory on the Ukrainian side.
It can also be clearly seen from the latest battle map below that two days ago, the Russian army punched a salient about 7 kilometers deep and 2 kilometers wide northwest of Avdiivka, piercing into the positions of the Ukrainian army like a sharp sword. This very rare situation has an exact explanation from the Ukrainian side: when the two brigades of the Ukrainian army changed defenses, due to a major tactical mistake, the Russian army seized the fighter plane and broke through the defensive position of the Ukrainian army.
(Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia)
The Russian army's spike 7 kilometers deep into the Ukrainian army's position northwest of Avdiivka was the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (which arrived here from Zaporozhye half a year ago to reinforce) that was originally stationed here two days ago and retreated to rest, and there was a problem in the handover with the newly formed 115th Mechanized Infantry Brigade that came to change the guard. The 115th Brigade was not fully prepared after arriving at the front line, the 47th Brigade began to withdraw quickly, and the 30th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Russian Army seized the fighters in time and launched a fierce attack along the railway line, and the 115th Brigade, which lacked combat experience, quickly broke out. Fortunately, the 47th Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, which had been baptized by fire for a year, quickly returned to help, which prevented the Russian army from continuing to advance.
Now the 47th Brigade and the 115th Brigade of the Ukrainian Army shirk responsibility for each other, but both sides obviously have problems, and the 115th Brigade has a bigger problem - the 47th Brigade retreated at the agreed time, and in any case, the 115th Brigade is not deployed in place, or the combat experience is insufficient. However, objectively speaking, the 47th Brigade of the Ukrainian Army retreated too quickly, overestimating the combat capability of the newly formed 115th Brigade, and also having secondary responsibility.
The fact that the troops of a brigade of the Russian army went deep into the positions of the Ukrainian army alone, and the Ukrainian army did not organize encirclement and annihilation in time, which once again confirmed the analysis of my article yesterday, the Russian army has a more tenacious will to fight, and the Ukrainian army's ability to attack tough battles is obviously insufficient because it is afraid of the dead. This also shows that if we only have advanced weapons and equipment in our hands and do not have a stubborn will to fight, whether it is offensive or defensive, if we encounter an opponent with a stubborn style on the battlefield, we will just flee from the wind.
There is a saying in China: When two armies meet, the brave wins. Now the Ukrainian army is organizing the encirclement and annihilation of the 30th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Russian Army, if in the next week or two, the Ukrainian army cannot dispatch elite troops to defeat this Russian salient and pull out this spike, it proves that the Ukrainian army's hard-fought attack power and will to fight are indeed worrying.
(Ukrainian artillery opened heavy fire on the Russian army)
The following is an introduction to the fighting between the Russian and Ukrainian armies in the past 24 hours in the west of Bakhmut and Avdiivka, where the fighting is most intense.
On April 27, Russian forces continued offensive operations in the Chasiv Yar area, west of Bakhmut. Heavy fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of Chasiv Yar, where Russian troops are trying to clear the positions of Ukrainian troops in the forest area east of Chasiv Yar. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian offensive near the eastern part of Chasiv Yar.
At present, the main offensive tasks in the Chasiv Yar direction are the 98th Guards Airborne Division of the Russian Army and the Ossetian "Sarmat" Volunteer Battalion.
In the past 24 hours, the heaviest fighting has taken place in the north and northwest of Avdiivka, with Russian forces launching 35 penetration attacks on the scale of companies and platoons around the clock.
Geolocation videos released on April 27 show Russian forces advancing north of Novokaliv, north of Avdiivka, and continuing to advance in wooded areas west of Ochretan northwest of Avdiivka, southwest of Solovyov and south of Novobakhmutivka. The Russian army has captured the whole of Soloviev and continues to fight with the Ukrainian army west of the village of Berdich.
Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the Ukrainian army's Hortitsa group, which is in charge of operations in the Donetsk direction, said on April 27 that the Russian army's 55th Motorized Infantry Brigade from the 41st Army of the Central Military District has sent additional reserves to the Novobakhumivka-Oseretyen area in an attempt to break through Ukraine's defenses, and the Ukrainian army has invested additional reserve support in the area.
The National Defense Strategy Center of Ukraine also pointed out on April 26 that the Russian army has directly invested two motorized infantry brigades and one motorized infantry regiment into tactical infiltration in the Osheretyen area, which is equivalent to three times the strength of the Ukrainian army. Those who served as the main offensive tasks west of Avdiivka included the 9th Motorized Infantry Brigade, the 114th Motorized Infantry Brigade, and the 132nd Motorized Infantry Brigade belonging to the 1st Army Corps of the Donetsk People's Republic, the 35th Motorized Infantry Brigade, the 55th Motorized Infantry Brigade, and the 74th Motorized Infantry Brigade belonging to the 41st Army of the Central Military District of the Russian Army, as well as the 30th Motorized Infantry Brigade belonging to the 2nd Army of the Central Military District, which penetrated deep into the positions of the Ukrainian army as mentioned earlier.
On the 795th 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: 1,096 Russian troops were annihilated (dead and seriously wounded), and a total of 466,200 Russian troops were annihilated; Destroyed 11 tanks, 20 armored vehicles, 1 air defense system, 1 rocket launch system, 46 fuel tankers and logistics heavy-duty vehicles, 3 sets of special equipment (mainly electronic warfare equipment), 43 artillery pieces, intercepted 22 suicide drones. It is not clear why the 21 missiles intercepted by Russia and Ukraine yesterday were not included in the statistics, and this kind of information can often be seen out of sync.
(The battle losses of the Russian army counted by the Ukrainian side on April 28)
Based on various information, I roughly estimated that the losses of Ukrainian officers and soldiers were about 96,000, 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.
Source: 2024-04-28 WeChat official account Vision
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