Putin Meets With Top Officials as Russia Worries Over Devastating HIMARS: Simple , PUTIN, leave Ukraine NOW and withdraw Russian Army
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Western officials have touted the threat HIMARS poses to Moscow. American-made HIMARS can carry either six guided rockets with a range of around 40 miles, or a single Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), with a range of almost 200 miles.
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SIMPLE solution. LEAVE UKRAINE, PUTIN. Quit. Call a cease fire within 24 hours and get all forces out of Ukraine by August 5 or so. GET OUT.
What are you waiting for ?
Also the perennial Russian fixation that non European people are dumb comes up ONCE AGAIN
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The United Nations?warned?earlier this month that a "hunger catastrophe" was coming because of the Ukraine invasion, and that this would particularly affect "Africa, the Middle East, Asia and even Latin America."
But Russia is campaigning to avoid any blame.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed the shortages on the West in a Sunday address to Arab League ambassadors in Cairo, Egypt,?the BBC reported.
Lavrov is also due to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo, the BBC reported.
He wrote in newspapers published in those countries that the idea Russia was "exporting famine" was actually Western propaganda, the BBC reported
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I guess that you, Lavrov really think that non Europeans are stupid. Excuse me but isn't that neo colonialism , Lavrov?
Try again, LAVROV.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-meets-top-officials-russia-worries-himars-1727601
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Putin Meets With Top Officials as Russia Worries Over Devastating HIMARS
BY?JACK DUTTON?ON 7/25/22 AT 7:57 AM EDT
Russian President?Vladimir Putin?will hold a cabinet meeting on Monday with senior officials, amid concerns about Ukraine's High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) from the United States that Western officials claim hamper Moscow's war efforts.
The rocket systems first arrived in Ukraine in June from the U.S and have been seen?as crucial to helping?Kyiv's forces repel the Russian military.
The Russian state-backed TASS news agency reported on Monday that Putin will hold the cabinet meeting via videoconference on Monday, with the main topics being the development of air transport and aircraft manufacturing. Deputy Prime Minister and Trade Minister Denis Manturov, and Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev will give presentations at the meeting.
The Kremlin said "a number of current issues will also be considered," without providing more details, but it is likely that a response to HIMARS will be broached at the meeting, according to TASS. Putin last met with top officials on July 15, when he held a meeting of Russia's Security Council.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a cabinet meeting on Monday with senior officials, amid concerns about Ukraine’s HIMARS from the United States that Western officials have said have hampered Moscow’s war efforts. In this combination image, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with participants of the Bolshaya Peremena national contest for school students via a video link at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 20, 2022 and U.S. M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers fire during a military exercise in southeastern Morocco on June 9, 2021.
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Western officials have touted the threat HIMARS poses to Moscow. American-made HIMARS can carry either six guided rockets with a range of around 40 miles, or a single Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), with a range of almost 200 miles.
A senior U.S. defense official told reporters on Friday that Ukraine had used HIMARS to destroy more than 100 "high value" Russian targets in recent weeks. The official said that among those targets were ammunition depots, long-range artillery positions, command posts, air-defense sites, and radar and communications nodes.
Retired U.S. Army General Mark Hertling called the HIMARS a "game changer" on Saturday and said that Moscow's forces are now "in dire shape." He said that HIMARS has a greater range, precision and accuracy than most of the weapons Ukraine is using to fight Russian forces.
On Friday, the White House announced that an additional $270 million in security assistance would be sent to Ukraine, including four more HIMARS. That same day, Ukraine denied Russia's claim that it destroyed four HIMARS launchers.
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General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Ukraine's use of HIMARS was "degrading" Russia's capabilities.
Earlier on Monday, the British Ministry of Defence said Russia is likely continuing to "struggle" to extract and repair?thousands of Russian combat vehicles?that have been damaged during the war in Ukraine.
Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, in what he called a "special military operation" against what he claimed was the eastward expansion of?NATO?and with an aim of "de-nazifying" Ukraine's leadership. Ukrainian President?Volodymyr Zelensky?is Jewish and has lost family in the Holocaust.
Thousands of troops have died since the war began, while millions have been uprooted from their homes.
Newsweek?reached out to the Russian foreign ministry for comment.
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AND BY THE WAY
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ukraine-invasion-food-shortages-says-not-its-fault-2022-7
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Russia is trying to convince African nations that food shortages caused by the invasion of Ukraine are not its fault
Sinéad Baker?18 hours ago
A man in a military uniform in a burning wheat field as Russian troops shell fields to prevent local farmers from harvesting grain crop in the Polohy district of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on July 17, 2022.?Dmytro Smolyenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images
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Russia is trying to convince African nations that global food shortages caused by its invasion of Ukraine are not Russia's fault.
Ukraine is one of the world's largest food producers, particularly for the developing world. But Russia's invasion has harmed the production and export of food.
The United Nations?warned?earlier this month that a "hunger catastrophe" was coming because of the Ukraine invasion, and that this would particularly affect "Africa, the Middle East, Asia and even Latin America."
But Russia is campaigning to avoid any blame.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed the shortages on the West in a Sunday address to Arab League ambassadors in Cairo, Egypt,?the BBC reported.
Lavrov is also due to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo, the BBC reported.
He wrote in newspapers published in those countries that the idea Russia was "exporting famine" was actually Western propaganda, the BBC reported.
He also wrote in the?article,?according to The New York Times:?"We know that the African colleagues do not approve of the undisguised attempts of the US and their European satellites to gain the upper hand, and to impose a unipolar world order to the international community."
Russia and Ukraine?signed a UN-backed deal on Friday?to restart shipments of grain from three ports, including the port of Odesa. The ports had been cut off by the Russian navy.