Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine’s deadly attack on Belgorod in Russia | WION

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine’s deadly attack on Belgorod in Russia | WION

Peter kosnik is a professor of history and director of the nuclear Studies Institute at American University and is now joining us from Washington DC welcome Professor we have seen Russia taking advancements in har what does this say about the war in your view what direction will the war take henceforth very difficult position now both in terms of Manpower and in terms of weaponry and so Russia is taking advantage of that they had been moving in the East and the South now they’ve added this offensive in the north uh and so the Ukrainian lines were already stretched very thin and Russia was making incremental gains in the South and the East now Ukraine is forced to move many of those troops to protect in the north around K which weakens them further in the South and the East and so Russia is exploiting their advantages Russia is taking advantage of the fact that they have more artillery ammunition more weaponry and much more soldiers right now so Ukraine has passed new legislation uh that allows them to draft more Ukrainian citizens but that doesn’t go into effect for another week and that will require months of training so Ukraine is going to be in a weakened position for quite some time nobody has any optimistic assessment of anything that would happen from Ukraine standpoint in this in 2024 some uh forecasters are hoping that conditions will improve in 2025 but I’m afraid that’s also a pipe dream professor before we move on we are reporting now that seven people have been reported killed in the Russian border exac city of belgorod uh after Ukrainian projectiles hit a residential building there and at least 20 other people have been injured Russia has apparently opened a criminal case your view well part there are two theories behind this offensive toward carave one is to push the ukrainians six miles back to create a buffer zone so that Ukraine will not be able to hit belgrad and other areas inside of Russia so that’s one Theory just to create a buffer zone other people think that Russia is actually planning to try to seize kke kke is Ukraine’s second biggest city before the war had a population of 1.3 million people so that would be very very difficult but given the state of conditions in Ukraine right now it might not be impossible that would be a major victory for Russia if it can sees Kar but even it can push create a sixmile buffer zone which seems much more feasible that would also protect those cities towns like belgrad inside of Russia Professor let’s talk about Ukraine now and the situation there President Biden promised weapons will be delivered as soon as possible what do you think could be causing the delays the uh that that $61 billion that was passed most of that gets spent in the United States by America’s Munitions makers and it takes time to do that Biden has just announced a $400 million military aid package and that’s going to be based on his presidential draw down Authority so they will take $400 million worth of weapons from the US Arsenal and deliver those much more quickly and that’s a variety of offensive and defensive weapons that Ukraine can use but it’s going to take time can take weeks months even longer to be to build up that that weapons to to build the weapons to ship over to Ukraine now the Europeans have been providing some but they’re also behind their promises uh the other concern thing that we shouldn’t lose track of is that macron has been talking about sending uh French and other European ground troops to support the ukrainians we also think that with the f-16s and other Advanced Weaponry arriving it’s possible that NATO forces will be there to help Target and possibly to help use those weapons all of these are a serious escalation Putin has been making a lot of uh saber rattling about tactical nuclear weapons now it so we don’t want to we don’t want I don’t want this to escalate to a much bigger war and that’s also possible the more desperate Ukraine becomes the more possibility that this situation escalates into potentially World War III and that’s what we especially have to make sure it’s prevent all right we’re out of time now Professor thank you very much for talking to us I’ve been talking to Peter kosnik who’s a professor of history and director of the nuclear Studies Institute at American University Professor thank you once again thank you [Music]

Thousands have been evacuated from the border areas near Ukraine’s Kharkiv as Russia claims it has captured four more villages in the country’s Northeast. This is in addition to the five villages Russia claimed to have captured on Saturday.

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