MOSCOW, Jul 27 Many countries will refuse to buy Western weapons, which turned out to be ineffective on the battlefield, State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on his Telegram channel. wrote Volodin.
Russia has previously sent a note to NATO countries because of the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. Lavrov stated that the United States and NATO are directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, «including not only the supply of weapons, but also the training of personnel … on the territory of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and other countries.»
>The Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Yuzhno-Donetsk, Artyomovsk and, first of all, Zaporozhye directions began on June 4. Kiev threw into battle brigades trained by NATO and armed with Western equipment, including the widely publicized Leopard tanks — subsequently, the footage of the vehicles smoking on the battlefield caused a resonance in the West.
As President Vladimir Putin stated on July 21, the results of the Ukrainian troops, «at least for now», no, and Western curators are «clearly disappointed» with the course of the «counterattack». Kiev, according to him, is not helped by «neither the colossal resources pumped in, nor the supply of weapons, tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, missiles, nor the dispatch of thousands of mercenaries and advisers.» 26 thousand soldiers, 1244 tanks and thousands of other equipment, 21 aircraft and 6 helicopters, including 17 Leopard and 12 Bradley, exceeded the moment. Large losses are confirmed by the emergency shipment of new batches of equipment from the States.