The reckless escalation of the war between Ukraine and Russia puts humanity as a whole in a very dangerous position. There is no historical precedent to refer to, because as we all know, behind Ukraine is the aggressive expansionist policy of NATO, led by the US, the UK and the European Union.
In a war that is about to complete three years, but which actually dates back to 2014 when the Ukrainian regime began an ethnic cleansing with a balance of around 15,000 deaths against its own Russian-speaking Ukrainian population in the Donbass region .
This is why the Russian Federation was forced to intervene with a special military operation to put an end to the massacre perpetrated by the Ukrainian regime, popularly known and internationally known as the Ukronazi regime , headed by a comic actor turned head of state, Volodymyr Zelensky .
Let us remember that the Democratic administration of Joe Biden , at the beginning of November, saw its aspirations to impose Kamala Harris frustrated after the resounding electoral victory of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, which also obtained a majority in both chambers of the US Congress.
But the conflict is experiencing a dramatic turn, as the situation was precipitated in the last week by the reckless actions of the defeated government of Joe Biden, which authorized the Ukrainian regime to use Yankee ATACMS missiles to attack targets in the territory of the Russian Federation, which - as in the Greek myth - opened Pandora's box, releasing all the demons, just two months before the inauguration of the new US government to be led by Donald Trump .
Ukraine, now supplied with medium-range missiles by NATO powers, attacked the Russian region of Bryansk with US-made ATACMS missiles on Tuesday, November 19, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, in a major escalation on the thousandth day of the war. Hours later, two US officials confirmed to CNN the use of such weapons inside Russia.
The Russian response was not long in coming, with an Oreshnik missile launched from the Astrakhan region in southern Russia just two days later, targeting the city of Dnipro in central-eastern Ukraine. “The missile was launched while it was still dark, and from a distance, as can be seen in a video released on Friday, several explosions can be seen, forming small mushrooms reminiscent of nuclear detonations,” the newspaper Clarín noted.
The images are truly apocalyptic.
RAND Corporation engineer and analyst Michael Bohnert told Reuters that this type of missile has both nuclear and conventional capabilities. “What we can say for sure is that it has what are called multiple reentry vehicles, where a missile releases several smaller warheads that impact very close to each other on the ground,” he told the agency.
The Russian government has never experienced any similar situations to the current one in the conflict with the Ukrainian regime, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin two days before Ukraine attacked Bryansk .
"It is really unprecedented ," Peskov said when asked if the situation between Moscow and Kiev could be compared to the 1962 Cuban missile strike.
According to the spokesman, "the collective West, led by the United States, is showing that it is ready to do anything to suppress Russia and inflict a strategic defeat on it."
"Therefore, these warning signals in the sense of 'don't even think about it', namely the attack launched with our new missile [Oreshnik], are very timely. They were necessary and they were effective ," Peskov stressed.
The spokesman then noted that Putin had given very clear and precise instructions with the aim of preparing changes and adapting the Russian nuclear doctrine "to the conditions of the current confrontation provoked by Western countries."
"However, we must respond to the unprecedented escalation, which is primarily caused by the outgoing administration in Washington ," the official continued. "This must be done constantly, because they are taking more and more reckless steps and moving forward, provoking tensions around the Ukrainian conflict," Peskov said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a televised address on Thursday that his country's armed forces have tested in combat conditions "one of the newest Russian intermediate-range missile systems," referring to the non-nuclear hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile variant, which proved impossible to shoot down by Ukrainian and NATO forces.
"We reserve the right to use our weapons against military targets of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities ," Putin said.
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