The Kremlin said on Monday that new deliveries of Western weapons to Kyiv would "deepen the suffering of the Ukrainian people" and would not change the course of the conflict.
"This supply will not be able to change anything," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a daily briefing.
Ukraine, which has scored some battlefield successes since Russian forces invaded last February, has asked Western allies for heavier weapons and air defenses as it seeks to tip the balance of the 10-month-long conflict in its favor.
The Kremlin also rejected a Ukrainian assertion that a senior Russian official has been floating the idea of a potential peace deal over Ukraine with European officials early Monday.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, told the country's public broadcaster on Thursday that Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russia's presidential administration, had been holding meetings with European officials in an attempt to force Kyiv to sign what he characterized as an unfavorable peace deal.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked about Danilov's assertion, said it was "another fake."
Golda_M on January 9th, 2023 at 11:33 UTC »
This whole war, Russia has consistently failed at reacting tactically to intelligence... or even to manifest reality. "This changes nothing" is the Russian motto.
For example, within 48 hours, Russia knew that the northern battleplans were bust. The VDV was facing artillery in hostomel. The runway was destroyed. They did not have the weapons or numbers to attack artillery positions, and were not trying. Transport planes would not be landing en mass. That was a fact.
Yet, the Kyiv convoy just hung out, waiting for something everyone knew was not happening. Waiting. Taking losses. Not adapting. When they did finally maneuver, they assumed BTG formations. The BTG formation is designed to move fast, take initiative, fight enemy armour and handle urban combat zones. They assumed these formations to hold fixed position against infantry in forests... The only thing Ukraine had at this point was motivated, but undertrained light infantry. Very light. Russians assumed the only formation capable of losing those exact assets to that exact force. Why? Because reality<plans.
Russia have had prior notice of every major arms delivery. When HIMARs and ER artillery arrived, they were still "surprised." Holding unholdable positions like snake island.
Russia's entire artillery MO was based on 15km artillery range. When HIMARS came, they changed nothing. They just patiently waited for Ukraine to blow up all their ammo dumps over a month before rethinking this system.
Right now, Russia is being complacent about GLSDB. They are waiting patiently again for Ukraine to slowly start blowing up ammo dumps, CCs and muster sites. It'll take about 100 high casualty, tactical catastrophes before someone has the balls to suggest that this does, in fact, change something.
Visual_Expert_5971 on January 9th, 2023 at 10:51 UTC »
Kremlin is the source of all suffering.
eggandbaconpie on January 9th, 2023 at 10:45 UTC »
Deepen Russian suffering, certainly.