With the stalemate in a series of security negotiations between the United States and Russia and between Russia and NATO, the Russian military has also begun a new round of border troop increases while resolving the Kazakh issue, on the one hand, to continue to exert maximum pressure on the West and force it to accept the relevant security agreement requirements proposed by Russia; on the other hand, it is also ready to carry out military operations once the negotiations are completely broken, or kiev is going it alone to launch a real offensive against Dongtonbas.
Russian Far Eastern forces arriving in Belarus
Moreover, the Russian army's reinforcement operation this round is not quite the same as last year's several troop increases; the large number of troops previously deployed on the Russian-Ukrainian border was actually the deployment of some units of the 1st Guards Tank Group Army of the Western Military Region, which was originally the reserve of the military region, and only a small number of firepower units under the Central Military Region as the general reserve were mobilized. In the new round of troop increases that began this month, the Russian army began to concentrate large-scale troops from the Far East, that is, the Border between China, Russia and Mongolia, to the western region to conduct the so-called Russian-Belarusian joint exercise.
Looking at the military columns heading west from the Far East through the Trans-Siberian Railway in the past few days, there are tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and Iskander missiles under the 5th, 35th, and 36th Arms Composite Army Group, all of which are concentrated in the European part, and the Russian army seems to be ready to increase the strength of another army group at the border between Russia and Ukraine or Belarus, and form an encirclement from the front adjacent to Russia throughout Ukraine, so as to ensure that it can drink the Dnieper River in the shortest possible time It is really a posture to pull away and move the real attack.
Iskander laid it out, and the Russians were prepared to do a good job
Under this crisis, the West is a bit unable to sit still, of course, this can not sit still performance is different; Germany on the one hand said that we support Ukraine to join NATO, and then the backhand banned the British military transport aircraft that delivered military supplies to Ukraine through German airspace, indicating that Germany does not support the provision of any weapons to both sides, the British this traditional European offshore churning stick is very honest, sent some anti-tank missiles to show that they provided all necessary help except useful help; in contrast, the Americans are the most honest, On the one hand, the Usstreme Truman strike group, which was originally planned to be deployed in the Middle East, was left in the Mediterranean, ready to give Ukraine the necessary momentum support, and on the other hand, it was indeed preparing to provide the Ukrainian army with some heavy weapons in addition to javelins.
According to CNN's report, the US government is preparing to provide a number of heavy equipment assistance to the Ukrainian army, the core of which is 6 Mi-8/17 helicopters, used to strengthen Ukraine's air assault force, it is too humiliating to say that Ukraine itself, go forward 10 years, Ukraine itself can produce the engine used by the Mi-17 (now it can), and at the same time can also overhaul and even build a new Mi-17 out, 10 years later, even the size of the helicopter fleet in its hands can not be maintained, but also rely on the help of the US military.
And the origin of the Russian-made helicopters provided by this group of US troops is also very interesting, they were originally a batch of helicopters purchased by the US government for the former Afghan government army, originally planned to be handed over to the Afghan government army, let them mobilize their own special forces to fight against the Taliban, relying on helicopters can quickly put the air force into the battlefield for rapid withdrawal; but after the withdrawal of the US military, the real use of these helicopters has been seen, and the transport of troops into the front line is non-existent. However, it did help quite a few so-called elite troops of the Afghan government army to escape directly from the front line; later, many high-ranking Afghan officials and magnates ran from all over Kabul by such helicopters, and then ran out of Kabul; it can be called one of the special aircraft for Afghan escape.
Of course, these helicopters because of the late departure of the factory, the United States took over is already quite late, did not have time to transfer to Afghanistan, and finally did not perform any humiliating escape mission; but the Afghan government army ran the same special plane to Ukraine, it is inevitable to make people have a strange association, I am afraid that such a helicopter is unlikely to send the Ukrainian army to where they need it, it is likely to help the Ukrainian army everywhere to run out of the encirclement, or help the heads of the Kiev regime to escape from Kiev. The Americans are still well-intentioned.
Incidentally, the United States may have to assist Ukraine in this plan to assist the new helicopters to Ukraine, although it is said that the US government paid money to buy them for the former Government forces in Afghanistan, but the money and the actual manufacture of aircraft are the Russian Kazan Helicopter Factory, and now it has been handed over to Ukraine; then if the Russian army really launches a large-scale attack in the future, and then capture these helicopters, it will be interesting; anyway, the main helicopters of the Russian army are also these models, and they can immediately receive the change of livery for their own use That rounding down is equivalent to the US treasury to help the Russian Air and Space Force update its helicopter equipment; the Russian helicopter industry has made money, and the Russian army has also saved the budget.
Of course, as mentioned above, the helicopters that were planned to be aided to Ukraine in this batch of plans were themselves originally intended to be used by the United States to aid the former Government forces in Afghanistan, but because the Kabul regime lost too quickly after the withdrawal of the US troops, and even Kabul was lost before the US troops were completely withdrawn, so they have not been able to deliver them; and now they are saying that they will be given to Ukraine to use at the moment of the Ukrainian crisis, so as to cheer up the Ukrainian government, but can the Ukrainian government survive until the helicopters are delivered and then collapse That would be another story.
If this batch of helicopters is still not aided out this time, it means that these helicopters, which were originally dedicated to the evacuation of the Afghans, did not succeed in saving Ukraine, in this case, it is quite hoped that the United States will give these Mi-8/17 to Taipei free of charge; after all, who will be sent to perish, what a good meaning.