Russian army shelled Kherson, killing at least 2 and injuring 7. Fierce fighting broke out on many fronts in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said that more than 330,000 Russian troops were killed.
According to Reuters, Uzbek President Volodymr Zelenskiy said that “Russian invaders shelled Kherson again.” Kherson is a port city in Uzbekistan on the west bank of the Dnieper River. After the Russian army withdrew from the city at the end of last year, it often launched artillery bombardments from the east coast.
Zelensky pointed out that “fierce fighting” took place on multiple fronts, including the eastern Ukrainian towns of Maryinka, Avdiivka and Bakhmut; however, it is understood that the Russian and Ukrainian sides Fighting also took place in the northeastern regions of Kharkiv and Unan.
Brutal shelling hit Kherson’s “buildings, streets and hospitals” like a torrential rain. Ukrainian officials said that Russian shelling in Kherson caused at least two deaths and seven injuries.
In addition to expressing his condolences to the families of the victims, Zelensky also emphasized that the Kherson area alone suffered at least 20 shellings in one day.
In addition, according to Agence France-Presse, Akadivka Mayor Vitaliy Barabash said on December 3 that the Russian army’s ground offensive had significantly slowed down in the past day.
Barabash pointed out that there are three reasons for the slowdown of the Russian offensive: bad weather conditions, large manpower losses, and “the Russian army has lost motivation.” He said: “Fewer and fewer (Russian) people are voluntarily launching assaults, saying There are more and more people who don’t.”
AFP could not independently confirm Barabash’s account.
Akadivka is an industrial town located near Donetsk and has been a key target of Russian military attacks in the past two months. Ukraine stated that the Russian army launched a new wave of attacks at the end of November, which was the third wave of large-scale offensive since October 10.
In addition, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces posted on its official Facebook page that from the Russian invasion on February 24 last year to 9 a.m. on December 3 this year, the Russian army had killed 332,040 people and the Ukrainian army destroyed 5,575 Russian combat vehicles. vehicles, 10,396 armored vehicles, 5,403 artillery systems, 913 multiple launch rocket vehicles, 602 sets of air defense systems, 323 military aircraft, 324 helicopters, 10,423 various vehicles and tankers, 18 ships, 1 submarine, 5,595 drones, 1,140 special equipment, and 1,569 cruise missiles.
It was revealed that Russian and Ukrainian military leaders bypassed leaders and secretly launched ceasefire negotiations?There is a mystery behind the Russian media’s hype
According to the Russian media Moskovskij Komsomolets, veteran American investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh said that Russia-Ukraine peace talks seem to have started, regardless of whether Zelensky agrees or not , the situation will not have any impact.
Seymour Hersh said that this secret peace talk was different from what the outside world imagined. It was mainly organized by the Russian and Ukrainian militaries. There was no instruction from Washington and Moscow, and certainly no instruction from Kiev. The peace talks were organized by The Russian Army Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny took the lead.
He said that possible solutions include Russia continuing to control Crimea and holding elections in places occupied by Russia to allow them to join Russia; in exchange, Ukraine can join NATO, but NATO must promise not to station troops in Ukraine and Offensive weapons.
Seymour Hersh pointed out that this negotiation condition was strongly opposed by the White House and Zelensky, believing that it would go against public opinion and endanger Ukraine’s national autonomy. If Ukraine joins NATO, the United States will lose its closest line of defense against the communist system in Europe.
Seymour Hersh suspects that democratically elected President Zelenskiy’s control over the Ukrainian military is declining. The Russia-Ukraine war has caused the Ukrainian military’s power to continue to grow, and new situations may arise in Ukraine in the future. In other words, if Seymour Hersh’s revelations are true, saying that the military no longer obeys Zelensky’s command, the Ukrainian president will be tantamount to a “coup.”
However, the relevant claims cannot be verified, and Ukraine has not commented. The Russian media has recently been hyping up rumors of a rift between Zelensky and Zaluzny.
It was rumored that Zaluzny wanted to withdraw troops from the front line and regroup, but Zelensky vetoed it. It is also reported that Zelensky publicly warned military generals not to “cross the line.” In addition, it is reported that members of Congress who support Zelenskiy called for Zaluzny to be stripped of his military powers, but were rejected by Congress.
The Russian media Sputnik also quoted the so-called “Ukrainian media” on December 2 that according to new poll results, Ukrainian people trust Zaluzny more (82%) than Zelensky (72%) ), if both people participate in the hypothetical next presidential election, no one can win in the first round, and only after Zaluzny stated that he would not run, the presidential office was willing to hold a presidential election next year.
Ukrainian “Observer” (Obozrevatel) TV station previously reported that Russia apparently wants to use a New York Times report in November about cracks in Ukraine’s leadership to expand its awareness campaign against Ukraine and manipulate the direction of public opinion. The New York Times reported that Zelensky’s office criticized Zaluzny’s statement that the Russia-Ukraine war was “in a stalemate” and believed that such a statement “helps the Russians.” This public rebuke of senior military officials Showing the rift between Ukraine’s military and democratically elected leaders.
Russia will hold a presidential election in March next year. Some analysts believe that the secret peace talk plan mentioned in the revelations is obviously much more beneficial to Russia. Russia will fully obtain the Ukrainian territory occupied by this invasion. It can be said that it has won the war for Putin, and its internal propaganda will be more beneficial to Russian President Vladimir Putin (Vladimir Putin). )’s re-election created a bullish market, but for Ukraine, it seemed that it only gained a symbolic membership in NATO. Moreover, the Russian media’s hype about the split among the top leaders of Ukraine’s government and military will be conducive to Russia’s attempt to divide the morale of the people in Ukraine and thus affect the direction of the war.
Putin signs new decree to increase the size of the Russian army by another 170,000 people
According to reports from Reuters and Agence France-Presse, the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense announced last Friday (December 1) that Putin had signed the latest decree, which will increase the size of the Russian army by 170,000 people, and Russia’s standing force will reach 132 million, bringing the total number of armed forces to 2.2 million.
This is Russia’s second military expansion since 2018. Putin had previously ordered an additional 137,000 troops in August 2022, bringing the total number of armed forces to 2 million, of which 1.15 million were active duty soldiers.
“The increase in the full-time strength of the armed forces is in response to the growing threat to our country from special military operations and the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also stated that the increase in active-duty soldiers is due to the recruitment of contract personnel, and that the military has no plans to significantly increase recruitment or conduct a new wave of mobilization. In 2022, Russia’s mobilization order and conscription measures caused a large number of men to flee Russia.
The Russian military has shifted from conscription to recruitment in recent months, promising attractive financial incentives, especially in remote areas.
At the same time, former Russian President and current Vice Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on the same day that from January 1 to December 1 this year, the Russian army has recruited more than 452,000 people to serve under contracts soldier.
The decree comes as both Ukraine and Russia try to make progress and replenish their forces in a war that has seen a virtual stalemate on the front lines in recent months.
It is rumored that the Russian drone is equipped with a terrorist thermobaric warhead. The Russian army shot and killed 2 prisoners of war with irrefutable evidence of war crimes.
Russia continues to use “Witness-136” (Shahed-136) suicide drones to attack Ukraine, intending to use a “war of attrition” to cause the Kiev authorities to continue to “bleed”.
According to a report by the Ukrainian military news media Defense Express on December 3, Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) and intelligence expert Sergei Beskrestnov disclosed the recently discovered Russian warhead on his Telegram channel Photos of the wreckage indicate that the Russian military has begun assembling the newly developed thermobaric bomb warhead onto the Witness-136, which weighs an astonishing 40 kilograms and may pose a serious threat to Ukraine’s infrastructure.
According to the report, the Russian military’s “Bumblebee” light flamethrower is loaded with about 3 kilograms of thermobaric fuel, which can affect an indoor space of 80 cubic meters or an area of 50 square meters in an open area. . If the “Witness-136” is equipped with a 40-kilogram thermobaric warhead, it will be more than 10 times more powerful than the “Hornet” light flamethrower, and its power is unimaginable.
Once the thermobaric bomb is dropped over the target, the material in the bomb can be quickly mixed with the air to form an aerosol colloidal cloud, which can trigger a secondary explosion in the air. When a thermobaric bomb explodes, it can not only release a large amount of heat in an instant, but also form a high-temperature, high-pressure hot fireball with a temperature of up to 2,500 degrees Celsius and an expansion of 2,000 meters per second. It can also form an oxygen-deficient area within the scope of action, which is terrifying. The killing effect.
The aforementioned report mentioned that the thermobaric warhead equipped with the “Witness” drone may be as powerful as the thermobaric warhead launched by the TOS-1A “Sontsepek” multiple rocket launcher used by the Russian army on the front line. The Russian army has never announced the weight of the latter’s warhead, and the Ukrainian army has estimated that it should be between 30 kilograms and 90 kilograms.
Although there is no international law that explicitly prohibits the use of thermobaric bombs, according to the Geneva Convention, which “prohibits the use of indiscriminate attack weapons that cannot distinguish targets” and international humanitarian law, which “prohibits excessive and unnecessary harm”, if a vacuum bomb is used in an attack, Civilians in built-up areas, schools or hospitals are likely to be convicted of war crimes under the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions.
In addition, another clear war crime occurred in the Avdiivka region where Russia and Ukraine are at war. Many media reported on it, and relevant videos captured by drones were also circulated on the Internet.
The video shows that the Russian army captured a position of the Ukrainian 45th Brigade and found that there were still Ukrainian soldiers in a shelter who had no time to retreat. Two Ukrainian soldiers had run out of ammunition and were forced to surrender. However, after the second Ukrainian soldier came out of the shelter, the Russian army immediately shot them dead.
Dmytro Rubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, said that he would report this incident to the United Nations and the International Red Cross.
Ukrainian army spokesman Oleksandr Shtupun said on December 3 that the video was clear evidence that Russia had significantly violated the laws of war.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office quickly launched a criminal investigation within hours. If the incident is verified to be true, the Russian military may face war crimes.
German-Ukrainian military-industrial cooperation to produce armored vehicles will be unveiled next summer. The “dual-bomb combination” GLSDB for U.S. aid to Ukraine is expected to be delivered next year
Armin Papperger, CEO of Germany’s largest arms manufacturer “Rheinmetall”, said in an interview with the German financial media “WirtschaftsWoche” on December 2 that it would sign a contract with Ukraine to produce in Ukraine early next year. “Fuchs” armored personnel carriers and “Lynx” infantry fighting vehicles are expected to be produced “six to seven months” after the contract is signed, that is, by the end of next summer, the first batch of “Fuchs” manufactured in Ukraine will be produced. The first batch of “Bobcats” will be produced in 12 to 13 months in 2025.
He said that Rheinmetall and Ukraine have already cooperated to produce the first batch of 10 “Lynx” in factories in Germany or Hungary. “After the acceleration phase, we should be able to quickly be in place to mass-produce these armored vehicles entirely in Ukraine.” He said that after receiving training in Germany, Ukrainian technical workers have the ability to repair and maintain these armored vehicles in their country.
As for the safety of setting up a factory in Ukraine, Paiperg said he is not worried because Rheinmetall will “rent existing factories in Ukraine, modify them and operate them” and “they all seem to be fairly well protected.”
In May this year, Paiperg confirmed that Rheinmetall signed a joint venture with the Ukrainian state-owned arms production company “Ukroboronprom”. The company was registered on October 18 and will eventually manufacture arms locally in Ukraine. Defense industry cooperation between the two parties includes technology transfer.
Zelensky recently said that the summer counteroffensive did not obtain all the weapons needed, which limited its military power and hindered the speed of advancement.
U.S. National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby responded by saying that he could not dispute Zelensky’s assessment, but what he could confirm was that the United States had done everything it could. He said the Biden administration wanted to provide more help, but was opposed by Republican congressional representatives.
Currently, Ukraine is more focused on “domestic weapons production.” It is hoped that cooperation with Western arms companies will help the country revitalize its local defense industry and reduce its dependence on Western aid, creating another shot in the arm for the economy. . This priority consumes a lot of Uzbekistan’s budget, but current production is still far from enough to turn the war situation around.
Zelensky is currently seeking preferential loans and contracts from Western allies to help achieve the goal of self-sufficiency in weapons production. He said that nothing scares Russia more than a militarily self-sufficient Ukraine.
In addition, according to a Reuters report on December 1, sources revealed that Boeing, the main contractor of the “Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb” (GLSDB), will deliver this type of ammunition to the United States at the end of December and will conduct several months of testing before shipping it to the United States. Ukraine enters the war against Russia.
The report quoted the US Department of Defense as saying that Ukraine will have to wait until next year to receive the first batch of GLSDB. The United States has modified it so that it can carry out strikes within a range of nearly 160 kilometers.
The report stated that Ukraine needs GLSDB to reinforce the limited number of cluster munition-type “Army Tactical Missile System” (ATACMS) provided by the United States with a range of 160 kilometers.
GLSDB is also launched by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System “HIMARS”. It is a combination of the GBU-39 small diameter bomb and the M26 rocket engine. It has a caliber of 155 mm and is smaller than the current Ukrainian army’s M30A1 and other “HIMARS” weapons. The guided multiple launch rocket system (GMLRS) rocket used in the system has a range of about 2 times longer.
Last year, the overall revenue of global arms dealers “unexpectedly” slowed down by 7.9% in the United States and rose by 11% in the Middle East.
According to Agence France-Presse, the latest report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows that the total sales of weapons and military services by the world’s top 100 arms companies in 2022 will be US$597 billion, a decrease of 3.5% from 2021.
Geopolitical tensions coupled with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have boosted demand for weapons and military equipment. Diego Lopes da Silva, a senior researcher at the think tank, said on December 3 that under such circumstances, the slowdown in revenue of the world’s top arms suppliers was “unexpected.”
“The reduction in production shows that there is a real time lag between a demand shock like the war in Ukraine and when companies expand production capacity and actually meet demand,” Silva said.
The think tank said the decline was mainly due to lower revenue from major U.S. arms manufacturers, which have been hit by “supply chain issues and labor shortages” due to the coronavirus (COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019) epidemic.
U.S. arms revenue alone fell by 7.9% and will still account for 51% of total revenue in 2022. 42 U.S. arms dealers are among the top 100 in the world.
The report also pointed out that the revenue of Russian arms manufacturers also dropped sharply by 12%, reaching 20.8 billion US dollars.
The revenue decline was partly due to sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, but Silver noted it could also be due to delays in payments from the Russian government.
In fact, from a percentage perspective, the Middle East had the largest growth of any region, growing by 11% to $17.9 billion. In particular, the revenue of Turkish weapons companies increased by 94%, and drones produced by Baykar Technology were widely used in the Ukrainian battlefield.
Total revenue for arms suppliers in Asia and Oceania will grow by 3.1% to reach $134 billion in 2022.
China is the second largest supplier after the United States. The total revenue of the eight Chinese arms companies on the list increased by 2.7% to US$108 billion.
“We see this demand continuing over the next few years. Therefore, we expect military spending to continue to increase and weapons revenue to increase,” Silva said.
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