接近和平?观看俄罗斯弹道导弹在乌克兰摧毁美国爱国者系统
Closer To Peace? Watch Russian Ballistic Missile Destroy US Patriot System In Ukraine

原始链接: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/closer-peace-watch-russian-ballistic-missile-destroy-us-patriot-system-ukraine

近期在特朗普政府支持下进行的俄乌会谈几乎没有取得进展,冲突反而愈演愈烈。俄罗斯国防部发布视频,声称其“伊斯坎德尔-M”导弹系统摧毁了乌克兰第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克州一个由美国提供的“爱国者”防空系统,造成超过10亿美元的硬件损失。此次袭击发生在距离前线100公里以外的俄军推进区域,目标是雷达、控制单元和发射器。 尽管泽连斯基不断呼吁,并得到了欧洲盟友的捐助,但希腊以自身防御土耳其的需要为由拒绝提供“爱国者”系统。无人机拍摄的画面证实了这一破坏。虽然俄罗斯的火力可以压倒乌克兰的防御,但一些西方系统仍在拦截俄军的火力。 这种情况凸显了俄与北约之间持续不断的代理人战争,存在升级的风险。普京下令在乌克兰境内建立缓冲区进一步使局势复杂化,目的是保护俄罗斯免受跨境袭击。冲突的走向依然岌岌可危,双方都展现了强大的军事实力。


原文

There's been little progress in Russia-Ukraine talks, which the Trump administration has backed - the latest held in Istanbul a week ago - and by all appearances the war continues to heat up and possibly expand.

Russia's defense ministry (MoD) has published battlefield footage which purports to show a Russian Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system destroying a US-supplied Patriot air defense system operated by the Ukrainian military.

Illustrative: Iskander missiles firing, TASS/Russia MoD

A Thursday Telegram post by the MoD showed the strike on a position in Dnepropetrovsk region, which it says destroyed a multifunctional AN/MPQ-65 radar, a control unit, as well as two Patriot launchers.

Russian state media has touted that this amounts to a loss of advanced military hardware worth over $1 billion. President Zelensky has already for months been complaining US-supplied air defense systems

European allies, including Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and Spain - have long worked to donate and transfer the anti-air system with Washington's approval.

Greece has continued to refuse to send Ukraine any of its Patriot batteries, citing the need to defend its homeland, also given Turkey is an ever-present threat amid a spat over maritime rights and sovereignty. Likely Greece also realizes any Patriot it donates could just as quickly be destroyed by Russia's superior aerial power.

"There is no discussion about supplying Patriot systems from Greece to Ukraine," a Greek official told Reuters early this month.

New drone footage from near the Ordzhonikidze settlement in the Dnepropetrovsk region has shown the destruction of multiple key components of an MIM-104 Patriot long range surface-to-air missile system operated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, after it was successfully targeted by Russian forces using the Iskander-M ballistic missile system. The strike took place approximately 100 kilometers behind the frontlines, at a time when Russian forces in the region have made significant advances. --Military Watch Magazine

Watch: the opening footage below features the official MoD clip of the Patriot being taken out...

However, there is also evidence that American and Western-supplied systems continue to at times successfully intercept inbound Russian fire. The Western allies have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into defending and propping up Ukraine's government and military.

Russia's military has enough firepower to still overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses, and so successes might still be few and far between. Watch harrowing footage of a fresh intercept below...

What all of this demonstrates is that the proxy war between Russia and NATO is still going strong, and risks further escalation, given also President Putin has just ordered large buffer zone to be established within Ukraine's border, to protect Russia against cross-border shelling and drone attacks.

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