November 24, 2022
1. Missiles targeted AFU military logistics amid NATO’s ‘proxy war’ on Russia
The Russian military is using precision weapons against Ukraine’s infrastructure to disrupt the flow of weapons the US and its allies are funneling to Kiev with the aim of prolonging the conflict, Moscow’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia said on November 23.
According to the Pentagon, by November this year, the USA alone has sent weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by using 878 heavy transport planes and 4,000 ground trailers.
On November the US DoD announced the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $400 million to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration's twenty-sixth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
Capabilities in this package include: additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS); 150 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS); aditional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS); 200 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds; 10,000 120mm mortar rounds; hgh-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs); 150 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs); over 100 light tactical vehicles; over 20,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition; spare parts for 105mm Howitzers and other equipment.
In total, by November 23, 2022 the United States has committed more than $19.7 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration. Since 2014, the United States has committed more than $21.8 billion in security assistance to Ukraine and more than $19 billion since the beginning of Russia's repelling combined massive Ukrainian-NATO aggression launched against Donbass and later against Russia last February – exactly on February 14 or ten days before Moscow responded to it.
Addressing an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council, Nebenzia said the Russian missile strikes are aimed at disrupting the delivery of weapons and supplies from the West to Ukrainian troops on the front, through which NATO is conducting “a proxy war against Russia.”
Moscow is not targeting civilian residences, Nebenzia underscored, claiming that the regrettable damage to residential areas is often caused by Ukrainian air defenses deployed in Ukrainian populated areas. “As a result, missile debris or Ukrainian rockets that have gone astray hit objects that Russia did not even aim at,” he clarified.
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Nebenzia also noted the “hysterical and fully mendacious” statements coming from Kiev about the November 15 incident in Poland, when a Ukrainian S-300 missile killed two villagers in Przewodow located in Poland. Yet Western and even UN officials continue to uncritically repeat Ukrainian allegations that it was not Ukrainian, he said. But NATO officials firmly believe that the missile manufactured in the USSR belonged to Ukraine.
The Russian envoy also pointed out that the UN has looked the other way while Ukraine shelled the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and even tried to blame Moscow for it. Russian troops have controlled the plant since February 2022. From October 5 it became Russian property. Since last summer Ukrainian forces began launching drone and artillery attacks on the facility, according to the Russian MoD.
UN SC meeting held on November 23 featured a video statement by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accusing Russia of being a “terrorist state” [see comment on real terrorism below, Item 2].
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At the INSC meeting the UN Under-Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo once again expressed “deep concern” about recent “reckless and deplorable” shelling of the ZNPP, without naming the party responsible, though four IAEA observers on site have personally seen who has open fire at the station. It was Ukraine.
Madam Rosemary DiCarlo, don’t you see that you are hiding criminals?
Looking forward to hearing your explanations.
2. Kozin: It is necessary to inform the world community about Ukrainian terrorism
On November 23, 2022 the European Parliament recognized Russia as a "state sponsor of terrorism" in terms of because of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
Russia should respond in a specific manner to such a demarche, which has nothing to do with it, Vladimir Kozin, leading expert of the Center for Military and Political Studies of MGIMO and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, told Ukraina.ru Internet site.
Ukraina.ru.: Mr. Kozin, how do you assess this resolution in general?
V. Kozin: Extremely negatively for several reasons. In short, it has a wrong address. Though it mentions Russia by name, it has nothing to do with our country, it is completely biased, and in terms of documents it is unfounded.
Ukraina.ru.: How about a few more details?
V. Kozin: First, Russia has already been repeatedly subjected to terrorist attacks by terrorist formations and extremist groups. Dozens of innocent civilian – children and elderly people – have been killed during such acts. Before the new five Azov Sea and Black Sea adjacent territories became part of Russia, thousands of civilians in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and later in the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, suffered from acts of terrorism and genocide sponsored by the state called Ukraine for the last eight years.
Secondly, Russia is condemning terrorism most actively and permanently in all its forms and manifestations regardless of geography at all official regional and international political platforms. Many countries of the world still shy away from countering this evil under the pretext that it is impossible to define terminology what "terrorism" and "terrorist act" are. In contrast, Russian legislation has a clear terminological definition of these phenomena. And a high bar of criminal responsibility for the corresponding deeds is also established in our society.
Ukraina.ru.: Should Russia somehow respond to the European Parliament resolution?
V. Kozin: Russia should respond to such a demarche in a peculiar way. Our own national document should be adopted at the level of the State Duma that would not only condemn such a resolution, but also has to declare Ukraine as a state that sponsors individual terrorism against individual Russian citizens and that directly engages in large-scale terrorist activities on an official-state level and in significant territory.
Ukraina.ru.: And to mention Ukraine in that context only?
V. Kozin: Not only in that way. Our potential response should also point out that Western countries supplied criminal Kiev regime with offensive lethal weapons are in fact also providing material assistance to Ukraine in pursuing its policy of state terrorism. The West is also politically assisting Kiev in implementing a barbaric strategy of terror that has already victimized many thousands of civilians in the Donbass and in other areas.
Here are the numbers that highlight the case. Tens of thousands of assets of social and critical infrastructure in the region have been destroyed as a result of Kiev's terror. According to the Pentagon, by November of this year, the USA alone has sent weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by using 878 heavy transport planes and 4,000 ground trailers.
The is another important element of our possible reaction to such ‘indictment’ resolutions, of which there have already appeared in several versions in other individual states. It is necessary to remind the world community of the numerous human casualties and material destructions caused by the armed aggression of Ukraine and NATO against Russia. For example, once a week such official data should be distributed to the UNO and other multilateral organizations, sent to parliaments, as well as to the mass media.
Ukraina.ru.: In short, if I understand you correctly, there should be systematic Russian activity at the international diplomatic level?
V. Kozin: Yes, it should be.
[Original in Russian: Владимир Козин: «Нужно системно работать по информированию об украинском терроризме»// Украина.ру, 24 ноября// https://ukraina.ru/20221124/1041168762.html]
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
