Flags of NATO member states outside the bloc's headquarters in Brussels. File photoBRUSSELS, May 5.An increase in the supply of heavy weapons to Kyiv from the United States and NATO allies is associated with a higher risk of their direct participation in what is happening in Ukraine, Xavier Moreau, an expert on geopolitics of the Center for Political and Strategic Analysis (StratPol) and weapons, told RIA Novosti. Previously, the official representative of the French Cabinet of Ministers Gabriel Attal said that Paris continues to supply Kyiv with artillery weapons. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the US and NATO should stop supplying weapons to Kyiv if they really want to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. The Russian Foreign Ministry has previously stated that NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. «It is obvious that when the West equips Ukraine with modern offensive weapons and trains Ukrainian operators in the UK, France, Germany or Poland, we are dangerously close to directly engaging NATO troops in the conflict,» Moro said. , who entered into a lend-lease system with her friends from NATO and gets into debt beyond reason,» Moro added.The West is preparing for eternal warThe former head of the French company Nexter, specializing in defense equipment, Moro drew attention to the fact that «the Lend-Lease law in question was passed by the US Congress on January 19, a month before the start of operations.» To be really effective, Moro continued. , the weapons systems being sent should be operated by NATO soldiers with experience in using this equipment, but this cannot happen without provoking a spiral of nuclear war, he said. late, if it arrives at all.» He emphasizes that Russia has already warned NATO many times about the danger of escalating and participating as an allied belligerent, and the new Russian hypersonic weapons allow for irresistible conventional or nuclear strikes. «We are entering a danger zone,» the expert warns.The West is ready to believe in Moscow's incredibly cunning plan» We have moved from so-called defensive weapons to purely offensive weapons. Germany supplied helmets and body armor in February; now they are supplying Gépard anti-aircraft tanks decommissioned in the German army, as well as several 2000 self-propelled armored howitzers (PzH 2000 caliber 155 mm) of the latest generation. This is a big step forward for the most pacifist country in Europe. A large number of portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons have been delivered. Now the West is moving to heavy equipment,» the expert said. «The French are supplying their new 155-mm guns» Caesar», and the Americans — 60-ton M777 tracked howitzers. These US weapons are very expensive, and ammunition is also very expensive. Shooting from the M777 at long-range (70 km) shells cost 100 thousand US dollars per shot! In addition, these shots must be aimed drones, and the Ukrainian army is losing its drones, which are dying like flies,» Moreau explained. The expert also mentioned the training time A notion that should not be underestimated: it takes 1 year to train the operators of the Patriot anti-missile systems. But, Moreau adds, the real challenge will be getting the heavy weapons into the eastern Ukraine: all rail junctions and bridges have been destroyed, and Russia controls the airspace. For heavy tanks like the Abrams M1 tank promised by Poland and the US, bridges, structures and even Ukrainian roads do not allow passage, he added. Moro wonders how the Ukrainians will cope. They will need a continuous stream of ammunition at a time when they have already run out of gas. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and on March 25 they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
