Yesterday the spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov he told a British Telegraph journalist that in Ukraine one cannot talk about war but still about one Special military operation. According to the foreign minister Lavrov Ukraine is becoming a totalitarian Nazi state. Meanwhile Putin continues with its strategy, calling for a referendum on annexation to Russia in the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. According to the international community this is an "illegitimate" vote while Kiev claims that the vote is imposed on citizens with the threat of weapons.
The tsar then started the partial mobilization, creating not a few tensions on the domestic front: after the protests of the past few days, long lines of men of military call age formed in the night on the borders with other nations, while the training of Russian reservists, which according to the media could be one million and not 300 thousand. Relations between the Kremlin generals on the ground would be tense, so much so that according to the CNN Putin himself would be directly issuing orders on the offensive.
The threat of hypersonic weapons
The former president Dmitdj Medvedev he said that the referendum vote will be protected "with any Russian weapon, including tactical nuclear weapons". And if that weren't enough, Medved remembers that “ours hypersonic missiles they can achieve goals in Europe and the USA ”.
For hypersonic missiles, at the moment, the West has not developed suitable air defenses: in essence we are vulnerable to any attack with hypersonic technology weapons which, as known and according to tests carried out by Moscow, can also travel up to mach 10 with variable and remote trajectories. In a matter of seconds these missiles (which can be armed with nuclear warheads) can reach and hit European capitals.
Mobilization
According to Novaya Gazeta the entire text on the call to arms had to be classified but then it was decided to apply theomission only in the seventh of the ten articles that make up the provision (where we talk about the numbers to be recalled). According to some sources, instead of 300 thousand units, the seventh chapter speaks of 1 million who can be called. Peskov, in this regard, has branded the one million mobilized as a colossal fake news.
The only exempt are the employees of the war sector, those not suitable for health reasons, people with dependent disabled family members, fathers with at least four dependent children under the age of sixteen. The Ministry of Defense added that university students also remain at home: a move designed to weaken the protest.
The news was confirmed that last Wednesday's demonstrators were enlisted in a forced manner. In the most remote provinces, according to some news that reach the media in a fragmented way, the summons would also have been sent to people over fifty years of age, thus increasing the audience of those interested in the mobilization (thus exceeding the 300, announced by the Russian Defense )
On the borders of Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia thousands of Russians are massing, wanting to escape the mass call to arms. On the other hand, almost five thousand people have already taken refuge in Finland. In this regard, Finland will "significantly" limit the entry of Russians into its territory: the Helsinki government has announced. Daily entries from Russia to Armenia have tripled. Germany said it was ready to welcome any deserters.
The reaction of NATO
"Avoid broken reactions: we must not fall into the provocations of Vladimir Putin". At the top of NATO it is clear Putin's attitude that, according to their analyzes, he is losing the war on the ground and the cohesion around him within the borders of Russia.
The Alliance will continue to help Kiev as long as it is possible, because in the event of a nuclear attack by Moscow, the US, the EU and NATO they will not be able to remain in active defense positions. The military leaders are ready to answer even the least desirable: after a very quick consultation between the heads of state and government, the attack in Moscow will be answered. The operating procedures provide for a gradual response. It will be necessary to differentiate the nuclear attack on a territory far from the NATO borders, another if it were close and another if it were directed towards one of the member countries.
As Repubblica writes, the American generals and those of NATO itself keep in constant contact with their colleagues in Moscow. And they let them know that if the Red Army were to go too far, then the States and the Atlantic Alliance have a conventional - therefore non-atomic - arsenal at their disposal, capable of disabling all Russian missile bases and drastically reducing their presence. enemy in Ukraine.
Among the moves designed to increase deterrence, there would also be that of reinforcing the naval presence in the Mediterranean. Moving, if necessary, units currently located in the Pacific. The goal would be to increase the availability of Tomahawk missiles, equipped both conventionally and with nuclear devices. They can therefore be used for both protocols that the allied armed forces could prepare. Meanwhile, the most concrete counter-move on the Ukrainian theater is to increase aid to the Kiev army. In particular, the delivery of long-range Atacms missiles should start.
In such an unpredictable and very fluid context, hope is still placed in the diplomatic efforts that are still underway, hoping for the authoritative mediation of China which, among other things, in Samarkand last week, made it clear to Russia that it was not agree to start and fuel a war "now". According to China and India, we need to focus on climate change which, in the short to medium term, could cause more damage and deaths than a world war.