Report # 195. Poland is ready to send more tanks to Ukraine

January 28, 2023

1. Poland is ready to send 60 more tanks to Ukraine

Poland is ready to send 60 more tanks to Ukraine to help fight Russia, besides the 14 German-made Leopard 2 vehicles already pledged, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said. “Right now, we are ready to send 60 of our modernized tanks, 30 of them PT-91. And on top of those tanks, 14 tanks, Leopard 2 tanks, from in our possession,” he said. Morawiecki also noted that last year Warsaw provided about 250 of its modernized Soviet-era T-72 tanks to the Ukrainian military. He did not specify when the additional tanks will be supplied. On January 26, Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister Wojciech Skurkiewicz said Warsaw plans to provide 14 Leopard 2s (see photo) to Kiev after Ukrainian troops finish training with them, which could happen in “several weeks.”

Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky, confirmed on Telegram on Friday that 60 more Polish tanks will be heading Ukraine’s way. According to Podolyak, the shipment consists of PT-91 called Twardys, upgraded Soviet T-72M1 main battle tanks.

Russia’s Deputy envoy to the OCSE, Maksim Buyakevich, warned on January 26 that arming the Ukrainian military with Western tanks “is a straight path into a full-blown conflict in Europe.”

A COMMENT:

Those NATO and non-NATO states that have sent or are going to send heavy weapons to a neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime are ‘aggressors’ and ‘war criminals’

 

2. Again an intentional and barbaric Ukrainian attack on humanitarian facility

On January 28, Ukrainian troops launched a deliberate strike using the US-made HIMARS on a civilian hospital in Novoaydar, the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. As a result, 14 patients of the hospital and medical personnel were killed and 24 others injured. "The deliberate missile attack on a known active civilian medical facility is a grave war crime of the Kiev regime," the ministry stated.

WANTED:

The MoD stressed that all those involved in the planning and execution of the attack

will be found and held accountable for the war crime of the Kiev regime.

 

3. Putin: Ukrainian neo-Nazis terrorize people, commit ethnic cleansing

In a telegram to organizers and participants in the events dedicated to the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust and the 78th anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of the prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Putin stressed that it was the Soviet people who put an end to the barbaric actions of the Nazis in 1945.

“The forgetting of the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies. Evidence of this is the crimes against civilians, ethnic cleansing, and punitive actions that are being organized by neo-Nazis in Ukraine. It is with this evil that our warriors are fighting courageously, shoulder to shoulder,” Putin underscored.

On January 27, 1945, four Red Army infantry divisions put an end to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp of the Third Reich. About 1.5 million people, predominantly Jews, and thousands of Soviet and Polish POW, were killed in Auschwitz in 1940-1945.

Polish authorities banned Russian delegation to attend commemorative service devoted to its liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Army. During the operation the Soviet Union lost 280 military men.

4. Heinz-Christian Strache blasts Berlin's 'extremely dangerous' tank decision

The Scholz government’s reversal of longstanding policy not to send weapons into an active warzone constitutes a dangerous development, ex-Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said. He served as Austria's Vice-Chancellor between 2017 and 2019, and is the former leader of the national-conservative populist Austrian Freedom Party.

“A large proportion of German citizens are truly appalled that the German government of Chancellor [Olaf] Scholz and the Greens’ Foreign Minister [Annalena] Baerbock has agreed to this delivery of weapons and tanks from Germany,” Strache told Sputnik’s German sister agency, SNA, on January 27. The politician pointed out that both Scholz’s Social Democrats and Baerbock’s Greens, who constitute two of the three parties in the "Traffic Light Coalition" government created after the 2021 election, had categorically rejected the sending of German weapons to active warzones before the vote.

Strache lamented that instead of forging a “broad front for a peace initiative and peace negotiations,” Berlin has now “positioned itself here as a supporter of the further escalation of the conflict, which many Germans consider ‘warmongering’ and as an extremely dangerous [development].”

 

5. Russia struck Kiev's weapon delivery to front line, including NATO arms

Russian Armed Forces inflicted a massive missile and UAV strike on Ukraine, in particular, against the transportation of weapons and ammunition to the front line, including those from NATO countries, the Russian Defense Ministry said on January 27. "As a result of the strike, the transportation of weapons and ammunition to combat areas, including those supplied by NATO countries, was disrupted," the ministry announced.

The strike also successfully targeted Ukraine's energy system facilities that ensured the functioning of enterprises of the military-industrial complex and the transport system of Ukraine, the ministry added.

There is a massive opinion in Russia that its Armed Forces must destroy all Western incoming heavy weapons sent to Ukraine as soon as they cross NATO-Ukrainian border in all three spaces – on 

 

Written by Vladimir P. Kozin

 

29.01.2023
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