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Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts.
Kiev is now employing the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) provided by Washington to strike Moscow-controlled areas. Such missiles hit warehouses in Nova Kakhovka – in the Kherson region – containing saltpetre, a chemical compound that is used to make gunpowder and fertilizers. Ukraine claims the target was an ammunition dump. The strike caused a major explosion and fires. Shops, gas stations, pharmacies, a church, and other civilian buildings were also hit. At least seven people were killed and 60 have been wounded, according to Vladimir Leontyev, head of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka District military-civilian administration.
The first M142 HIMARS arrived in Ukraine at the end of June and have been linked to explosions in the Donbass region and southern Ukraine. In its counter-offensive, the Ukrainian authorities are indiscriminately attacking the areas whose control they lost and are basically shelling the very population they consider to be their own people – using American weapons for that. City districts have been leveled, with civilian infrastructure destroyed and many civilians killed in the process.
Last week, Alexandr Shulguin, Moscow’s permanent representative at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), warned that Kiev is preparing provocations with chemical weapons at the Nikolaevka thermal power plant and also at other locations in Kharkiv. He told Rossiya 24 channel that a note was sent to the technical secretariat of the OPCW.
Kiev was in control of the Azot chemical factory in Severodonetsk (now taken by the Russians forces), and, on June 25, Ukrainian shelling forced Russian forces to suspend the evacuation of civilians from the plant. Hundreds of people had taken shelter there. Ukrainian troops also shelled the Yasinovka coking chemical plant in the Kirovsky district of Makiivka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on June 19.
Already in May there were reports that Ukrainian nationalist battalions were plotting provocations at the chemical facilities in the so-called “chemical industry triangle” (Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, and Rubezhnoye), which is home to over 30 chemical factories. On May 6, Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, had already warned about Kiev’s plans to deploy “heavy weapons” against chemical plants in the region. In fact, the Ukrainian military has been gathering information about chemical facilities in the Donbass, both in the DPR and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR).
Thus, the Ukrainian strategy that is unfolding now seems to involve attacking chemical plants and facilities. And US-provided missile systems might be used for that very purpose. The environmental hazards of this are quite obvious, not to mention the humanitarian disaster and the potential long-term health effects on the population even after the end of the conflict for many years to come (due to soil and water contamination). A lot of chemicals are stored in Donbass, which is a heavily industrialized region. It is also home to a number of mines which are currently closed. If a dam is broken, mercury and sulfur from the flooded mines could end up in the Sea of Azov.
Currently, eight American HIMARs are in Ukraine and four more are expected to arrive by the end of July. Even though Kiev claims this new development is a game changer, it can only protract the conflict and in fact cannot ensure Ukrainians will retake terrain. Last week, on July 6, the Russian defense ministry announced Moscow had destroyed two Ukrainian HIMARS and their ammunition depots in a village south of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.
If Kiev keeps targeting chemical facilities, a Russian offensive is sure to follow, and it will include an aerial onslaught. In this scenario, the HIMARs batteries will be helpless, according to a Ukrainian military official quoted by Jack Detsch, a Pentagon correspondent writing for Foreign Policy.
The proxy war the US-led West is waging against Moscow in Ukraine does not seem to have a way out or an exit strategy right now. Even with all the heavy weaponry provided, Russia and its artillery machine cannot be defeated. In fact, the Russian Federation controls three-quarters of the Donbass and still has five times more artillery than Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say there are 10 Russian canons for every Ukrainian one.
Kiev’s other weaknesses are well known, such as its lack of skilled infantry – not to mention the bad shape of its economy. Moreover, there are no real diplomatic endeavors toward peace or a compromise. So, the Western strategy apparently consists in keeping the flow of weapons to Ukraine to prolong an already disastrous conflict, at an enormous humanitarian, environmental and economic cost.
MORE ON THE TOPIC:
- Analysis Of Military-Biological Activity Of USA And Its Allies In Ukraine And Other Regions – Russian Defence Ministry
- Ukrainian Forces Staged Another Provocation With Chemicals On Donbass Frontlines (Videos)
- BREAKING: AFU Blew Up Acid Tank In Chemical Plant In Rubezhnoye, LPR
- False Chemical Flag, Moscow Accuses The Ukrainian National Guard Of Planning An Attack
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The chopped head of Zelensky on a platter will end this war.
The war has 2 heads, the first head is the U.S. petro dollar that is funding the war and the second head which in reality is many heads is the Ukrainian conscripts which keep being used as cannon fodder to continue the war profiteering. Once either one of those 2 heads expire, the war is over.
You mean Rothschild… His hand is up Kolmoski’s ass, and Kolmoski’s hand is up Elenski’s ass..
You mean the Zelensky regime.
That would only give Putin an excuse to escalate and use those other WMDs known as tactical nooks. May be snake could be the first one being uninhabited and all.
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It would be a big mistake by the Kiev scumbags to attack any chemical facilities in Donbass or any other part of Russia controlled Novorussia, especially if large numbers of civilians are killed, something that is sure to be the case. The Russians response, however, will take the war to another level, and perhaps that is just what the Kiev junta wants. But the next level for the Russians is way above anything the enemy can handle. Its kind of scary really, for the evildoers, that is, not knowing what Putin has in store for them. All they know is that it is not good, not good at all!
I agree with you but let’s hope that the rest of Ukraine can be liberated in the same manner in which South and East Ukraine has been liberated and that Kiev does not carry out a mass terrorist attack. It must be said however that the Ukrainian NATO cirminal gang could care less about causing the death of millions of civilians if they could and blame it on Russia. This is the reason one of the first things Russia did was to gain control of the Chrenobyl plant and the bioweapons labs. They knew the Ukrainians would set off a dirty bomb or a biological pathogen or even worse. At this point Russia cannot and will not stop until all of Ukraine is denazified, demilitarized and cleansed of all the remnants of the NATO Ukro tyrants.
Kiev has already engaged in a mass terror attack…first against the righteous seperatists and again against its own rounded up concripts who are threatened with the death of their families if they don’t die on the front lines like good cannon fodder to the Russian juggernaut.
I know how to fix this……………push the Ukranians / HIMARS out of range.
I have often bought a few 20 kg bags of fertiliser from a local farm to improve my grass. The farmer had many tons delivered and he stored it in his barn.
Fertiliser can be treated with other components to create VERY basic explosives.
It would be wise for fertiliser to be stored in smaller quantities and in more remote locations in all countries, I think.
Tell that to Lebanon… If you have a time machine of course…
If the Russian will not destroy the local industries .Ukraine , for their masters will .
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Ukrainians employ the “coward weapons” against the civilians -because they are themselves a weak army.
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When you are so weak you cannot even fight back and attack civilians instead because they can’t hit back. I guess the UA is reverting to its usual MO when being thrashed on the battlefield.