Report # 45. Russia warned foreign countries supplying deadly arms to Ukraine

1. Russia officially warned countries supplying arms to Kiev

Russian MFA has sent diplomatic notes to all countries, including the United States, who are supplying weapons to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson told Interfax. 25 suppliers have been mentioned by the Russian Investigation Committee, including 21 NATO member states.

According a reliable source, the notes stated that the supply of weapons to Kiev aggravates the situation in Ukraine and that it can lead to "unpredictable consequences."

There are more and more voices in Russia in favour of blocking by military means huge delivery of deadly weapons to Ukraine who have behaved as aggressor in 2014-2015 and up to now is acting like a war criminal not only towards civilians in Donbass, wishing not to live in a failed nazi state, but versus its own Ukrainian citizens who are deeply dissatisfied with the policy Zelensky who has plunged the country into abyss and destruction.

Russians are very angry that Western lethal weapons poured into Ukraine are used to kill Russians and Ukrainians.

 Russians are demanding that Moscow should act more vigorously, decisively  and effectively to protect both nations from extinction due to war-mongering policy pusued by the USA and NATO.

Russia experts suggested that Moscow, which has labeled weapons convoys coming into the country as legitimate military targets, but has not thus far attacked them, must be preparing to do so very urgently and without any hesitation.

A Ukrainian cargo aircraft packed with NATO weapons has been knocked down near Odessa April 16th.

2. Humanitarian situation is still complicated

Every day from 10:00AM (Moscow time), the Russian side opens humanitarian corridors in the Kharkov and Mariupol directions towards Russia, as well as an additional route from Mariupol to Berdyansk and further in two directions: the first – by land transport to the Republic of Crimea or Zaporozhye (to the territories controlled by the Kiev authorities), the second – by sea transport in selected directions. The Russian Federation is also ready to deploy humanitarian corridors in any other directions as soon as possible and ensure the safe evacuation of civilians.

The Ukrainian side has announced nine corridors on the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions for the current day, of which there is not one in the direction of Russia.

The Armed Forces of Russia, as well as the formations of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, strictly observe the ceasefire on all routes, including those declared by the Ukrainian side.

Unfortunately, in the Koryukovsky district of the Chernigov region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined country roads, as well as the sides of paved roads passing near the settlements of Veliky Shchemel, Naumovka and Holmy. Currently, the preparation of the next fake messages is being completed with the involvement of reporters from Western news agencies to further accuse the Russian Armed Forces of deliberately mining civilian objects.;

AFU units equipped firing positions and deployed armored vehicles in education institutions: in the city of Nikolaev (kindergarten No. 51), the village of Korolki (school, sports club) of the Sumy region, the settlement of Novaya Vodolaga (Lyceum No. 1) of the Kharkov region. The particular cynicism of the Kiev authorities is that these positions are placed in civilian objects that the Russian Armed Forces have never considered as targets for fire damage. Once again, we remind you that the Russian units strike point-by-point only at military facilities.

In the city of Liman, Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk People's Republic, this week, from April 11 to April 15, 2022, through the mechanism of the imposed curfew, nationalist battalions conducted total apartment-by-apartment search operations in order to identify pro-Russian local residents, as well as signs of assistance to the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic. All suspects (with their surnames, names, patronymics of 837 Ukrainians have been reliably established) were detained, are currently being subjected to brutal torture, and threatened with physical violence against their relatives. In the course of these forceful raids, the nationalists forcibly seized valuable property and food, allegedly for the needs of territorial defence.

Such actions of the Ukrainian authorities testify to their inhumane attitude to the fate of civilians and complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

Over the past day, 23,083 people have been evacuated from Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, without any participation of the Ukrainian side, from dangerous areas of Ukraine to Russia, including 2,318 children, and in total, 821,320 people have been evacuated since the beginning of the special military operation, of which 151 737 children. The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 108,995 units of personal motor transport, of which 4,508 per day.

From Mariupol through the humanitarian corridor in the eastern direction, also without the participation of the Ukrainian side, 138,733 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness organized by the nationalists, including 719 over the past day.

There are enough buses at the checkpoints to transport people to their chosen places of residence or temporary accommodation.

In the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, more than 9.5 thousand temporary accommodation facilities continue to operate, which are fully equipped with all necessary property, they provide places for rest and hot meals. Individual work is carried out with arriving refugees, they are provided with qualified medical and psychological assistance.

Over the past day, the hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, federal executive authorities, subjects of the Russian Federation and various public organizations received 836 appeals from citizens of Ukraine, and there are 2,748,565 of them in the database from 2,128 settlements of Ukraine.

Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold 6,198 foreign citizens from nine countries hostage as a human shield.

3. Distribution of humanitarian assistance is uninterrupted. However, from Russia only

The federal executive authorities, together with the subjects of the Russian Federation, various public organizations and patriotic movements, continue to accumulate humanitarian aid.

Since March 2, the Russian Federation has already delivered 11 951.9 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine, 834 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 14 in the Donetsk, Lugansk people's republics, Kharkov and Kherson regions over the past day, during which 288.1 tons of basic necessities and food were transferred to the civilian population.

During the advance of the Russian troops in liberated settlements, with the support of local residents, peaceful life and the organization of daily life are being established.

Convoys of Russian units participating in a special military operation are advancing through these settlements. Combat service support units deliver the necessary goods to the designated areas. The security of the advance of units and the movement of convoys is carried out by attack helicopters of the Russian AF.

In the liberated settlements of the Kharkov region, humanitarian supplies are delivered to local residents, primary medical care is provided.

On April 15, 2022, three humanitarian actions are being held in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Kherson region, during which 315 tons of basic necessities and food are being transferred to the population.

There are no signs of  humanitarian assistance delivered to Ukrainians from the NATO and the EU.

4. The situation at the Black Sea has not improved

76 foreign vessels from 18 countries continue to be blocked in Ukrainian ports. The threat of shelling and high mine danger created by official Kiev in its internal waters and on the territorial sea do not allow vessels to freely enter the open sea.

The reflection of the situation in the Black Sea area is the same like that of described in the Report # 44.

5. Russian MFA once again focused on biolabs in Ukraine

Russian MFA made a statement April 15th on U.SD.-Ukrainian biolabs in Ukraine.

It said that as a result of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO), Russia’s Armed Forces found documents that shed some light on the bio-military programme implemented by the U.S. Defence Department in Ukraine. The researchers in the programme were studying the most dangerous pathogens – potential biological agents for biological weapons that have natural focuses in both Ukraine and Russia. They were also researching ways that epidemics spread based on these agents. The scale of work makes it obvious that a considerable, and probably the most important, part of the information on the American military programme remains concealed from the international community.

Speaking at a US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on March 9, 2022, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said Washington was trying to prevent the transfer of some research materials from Ukrainian bio-laboratories to Russian forces. During press briefings on March 7, 10, 17, 24 and 31, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces Igor Kirillov described the US bio-military activities in Ukraine, based on the information obtained during the SMO in Ukraine by the Armed Forces of Russia. He also set forth conclusions based on expert analysis. Researchers continue to study these materials.

Russia has made public the facts that have come to light to date at the UN and other international organisations and called on the US authorities to provide detailed explanations, but, predictably, Washington does not appear to be ready to share with the public any meaningful information on its military biological programme in Ukraine.

Furthermore, clearly, the White House thinks that offence is the best defence and has launched yet another propaganda campaign centered on the false assertion that our country’s efforts to draw the attention of the international community to the activities of US military biologists in Ukraine are allegedly nothing more than a smoke screen, which, they say, Moscow will try to use to cover up the potential use of biological or chemical weapons during the special military operation that is conducted by the Russian Armed Forces.

This crude attempt by the US to divert public attention from this dangerously explosive issue of US-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine and to drown it in this “apocalyptic sensation” was – at first glance unexpectedly – strongly supported by German political leadership. A number of leading German politicians and top officials, including Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, have released statements that mimic the US narrative in the form of righteous threats and warnings directed at Russia. Berlin’s official proactive verbal stance remains in line with the strategy that it has pursued for a long time now in the context of the Ukraine crisis (which isn’t helpful in settling it now and which earlier led the Minsk process into a dead-end with its deliberate pro-Kiev slant), but nevertheless stands out in its blatant cynicism of the overall flow of anti-Russia rhetoric that has been coming from Germany in recent weeks. First of all, in view of the key circumstance that even before the Russian Armed Forces started this special military operation, Germany, alongside the United States, had been conducting vigorous military biological activities in Ukraine for many years and, possibly, continues to do so. We strongly believe that this is largely what motivates Germany to be more active, as compared to other EU countries, in its attempts to ascribe to our country criminal plans concerning the use of biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, which have not yet been liberated.

The Russian MFA also disclosed some details about Germany’s military biological activities in Ukraine. Since 2013, under the auspices of the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Government has been implementing the German Biosecurity Programme (GBP) which includes partnership projects with government agencies and research organisations in focus countries, which Ukraine became part of in 2014, the year of Maidan. German specialists from the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces (Munich), Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Greifswald-Riems Island), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg) and the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), which specialise in research of deadly biological agents, are engaged in practical activities.

According to the German Federal Foreign Office, the third phase of the GBP will be implemented in 2020-2022. We can infer from the publicly available materials that the GBP’s stated technical goals include, among others, the gathering of epidemic intelligence in third countries, including with the use of big data technology, and developing the infrastructure of partner countries for handling dangerous biological agents.

The Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine in Kharkov has been the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces’ main Ukrainian counterparty since 2016, which we know from its own data. The two institutes cooperate under the Ukrainian-German project titled “Initiative on Biological Safety and Biological Defence in the Management of the Zoonotic Risks at the Outer Borders of the European Union.” The fact that its official goal is to “improve the biological defence and security situation” in Ukraine, “particularly in the east of the country” gives rise to the rhetorical question of which border the German military biologists consider an outer border for the purposes of their professional interests. Is it the Russian-Ukrainian border?

The Institute of Microbiology claims in its materials that the project is related to the “potential threat of biological terrorism” in Ukraine amid the unending hostilities in eastern regions of that country. It is crystal clear that this is a way to send a subtle message about ​​the DPR and LPR’s possible “involvement” in hatching plans for the use of internationally prohibited biological weapons. In so doing, the German military have been deliberately intimidating their Ukrainian counterparts for a long time and have, in fact, been psychologically pitting them against the Donbass republics. Ukrainian biological safety experts invariably participate in the medical biodefence conferences that are regularly held by the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces.

Obviously, to ensure protection against a potential biological attack, it is first necessary to study the potential biological agents with which it can be made. In other words, it is necessary to conduct research in the field of biological or chemical weapons. The Armed Forces of Germany (AFG) have enough knowledge and practical skills in this area, as was demonstrated by the scandalous incident with the mysterious poisoning of blogger Alexey Navalny. Specialists from the AFG Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology – a military institution allied with the AFG Institute of Microbiology – supposedly very quickly detected in the body of the Russian citizen traces of some military toxin that NATO lists in the Novichok family. Such a high level of expertise –  if, of course, all statements were factually accurate –  suggests that the AFG is able to synthesise toxic substances independently, including the notorious Novichok and its markers.

Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute that is in charge of the centre for the study of the most dangerous viruses and zoonotic infections on the Baltic Island of Riems, maintains active cooperation with the Ukrainian State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise (Kiev), the State Scientific Control Institute of Bio-Technology and Strains of Microorganisms (Kiev) and also with the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Kharkov) that cooperates in parallel with the AFG Institute of Microbiology. In Ukraine, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute has focused on Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Soviet scientists discovered it for the first time on the territory of Russian Crimea in 1944. There is documented evidence that the institute commissioned its Ukrainian partners to collect samples of ectoparasite recipients of bats that were transferred to the afore-mentioned Reims Island under the existing agreements.

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine has concentrated its activities in Ukraine on extremely dangerous fevers – Denge, Chikungunya, West Nile and Usutu, to name a few.

This information on Germany’s bio-military activities in Ukraine is far from exhaustive. It cannot be ruled out that, as the special military operation progresses, additional documents will be discovered by the Russian Armed Forces. According to confirmed reports, Germany closely coordinated its work on biological security with its American allies that established a network of at least 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine. In addition to their other activities, they were involved in dangerous research.

Russian side urger German officials to immediately stop spreading false allegations about our country’s intentions to use weapons banned by international law. We believe that such statements can only serve to push neo-Nazi battalions to commit horrible provocations, and moral responsibility for their tragic consequences will be shared by Berlin.

6. Situation on the battlefield

Ukrainian troops still continue to shell the residential areas in the DPR and the LPR.

During April 15th Ukrainian troops used 250 high-caliber shells of 152 mm and 122 mm against the DPR. 20 civilians have been injured, including three children. 

The LPR was shelled by 64 shells also by 152 and 122 mm munitions. 11 houses have been damaged.

At about 7::00AM April 15th Moscow time, a battalion of Ukraine's 19th Separate Missile Brigade struck the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station with two Tochka-U tactical missiles.

The destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station dam by the strike was intended to result in the uncontrolled release of Dnepr water and cause flooding of many Kherson region settlements along with people in order to constrain the actions of the Russian Armed Forces.

Both missiles were shot down in mid-air by Russian air defence. Shrapnel from one of them fell on Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region. Kindergarten and residential buildings were damaged.

Russian high-precision, long-range air-based weapons destroyed armoured vehicles production plant in Kiev and military equipment repair facility in Nikolaev.

During the day, 16 enemy locations were hit by high-precision air-based missiles. Among them: 11 areas of Ukrainian military equipment and weapons concentration in Povstanskoe in Odessa Region, Barvenkovo, Lisichansk, Sribnoe, Petrovskoe and Opytnoe; 2 missile and artillery weapons depots near Nikolaev; central storage base for radar reconnaissance and communications equipment in south-east of Poltava; 1 anti-aircraft weapons storage base south of Poltava; area of 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade units concentration in Gusarovka.

Russia strategic heavy bombers used conventional air-dropped high-caliber bombs called FAB-500 and super-powerful FAB-3000 against “Azovstal” still works where there are no peaceful civilians. Such strike managed to destroy underground structures of this huge steel mill. Russia has not used any chemical warfare agents against ultra-nazi that are still hiding at “Azovstal”. All chemical weapons have been destroyed under the existing CWC.

During the night, Russian operational-tactical aviation hit 67 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment.

Russian AAD shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the air 15 km south of Izyum.

Missile troops and artillery hit 811 targets, including 43 Ukrainian command posts, 8 fuel column for military equipment as well as 760 areas of enemy manpower concentration.

Russian MoD said today that AFU have lost 23 367 men.

From the beginning of the “Operation Z” (February 24th) in total, 133 aircraft, 458 unmanned aerial vehicles, 246 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,246 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 252 multiple launch rocket systems, 981 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,146 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.   

 


Written by Vladimir P. Kozin 
 

18.04.2022
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