Since December 2021, NATO countries have transferred more than 1,100 air defense systems, 440 tanks and 1,510 infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) press office reported on Monday (February 20th). According to SVR, most of the equipment provided It was destroyed Russian troops during special military operation.
“The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation has information that since December 2021, during the period of aggression against Russia, NATO countries transferred 1170 air defense systems, 440 tanks, 1,510 infantry fighting vehicles, 655 artillery systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” says the press release.
The Foreign Intelligence Service added that the Ukrainian authorities received 9800 missiles, 609 thousand anti-tank shells and 1 million 206 thousand shells for multiple launch rocket systems from the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance.
“Most of the military equipment supplied by the West was destroyed by Russian troops,” the ministry says.
In turn, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian Aerospace Forces special operations A Ukrainian Su-27 plane was shot down near the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region.
Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said, “The Russian Air Force’s warplanes shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in an air battle near the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region.”
What else was reported in the Russian Ministry of Defense?
In addition, today’s summary of the section includes the following statements in particular:
“In the Kupyansk direction, up to 50 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank and three cars were killed as a result of artillery fire and active actions of units of the “Western” troop group.
In the direction of Kherson, a self-propelled howitzer “Akatsiya”, a towed gun “Hyacinth”, a self-propelled howitzer “Gvozdika” and three D-30 howitzers were destroyed in one day. An ammunition depot belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit in the Kherson region.
In the Donetsk direction, volunteers of the assault detachments, in cooperation with the Air Force units, with the fire support of the rocket troops and the artillery of the “South” troop group, took control of the Paraskovievka settlement of the DPR. .
In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the daily losses of the enemy amounted to the following: up to 60 military personnel, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, one D-20 howitzer and two D-30 howitzers. In addition, three ammunition depots belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
Air defense systems intercepted one rocket of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system per day, and also destroyed 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
Army aviation, missile units and artillery of the forces of the Russian Armed Forces struck 98 artillery units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in firing positions, as well as manpower and equipment in 124 areas per day, ”the statement said.
What has Moscow tried to negotiate with Washington?
The SVR took December 2021 as the “starting point” in its calculations of military equipment supplied by NATO countries to Ukraine. Recall, on December 17, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs opened to the public Draft agreements with Russia and NATO and separately with the United States.
The text concluded that “the parties should make every effort to avoid the danger of nuclear war”. The document also laid out Washington’s obligations to exclude further eastward expansion of NATO.
In the draft agreement signed with the North Atlantic Alliance, Moscow proposed to exclude “the participation of Ukraine” and even the possibility of expanding the military bloc.
In the West, these proposals of the Russian Federation were considered as an “ultimatum”, and then the negotiations between Russia, the USA and NATO, which started in January 2022, did not yield any results.