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War
A thousand hundred and sixties day. Russia expands military units on the border with NATO. Putin thanks the DPRK for participating in the battle for the Kursk region
Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters, because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war. What feelings do you experience because of the ongoing war? How does it affect you personally right now? How has your attitude to what is happening, towards Russia, Ukraine, to the world changed over these three years of the war? Look for a feedback form at the end of this article. The review of the previous day can be read here .
World
Russia expands military units on the border with Europe, preparing for a potential war with NATO
Over the past few years, the Russian authorities have expanded military units on the border with Finland and Norway, The Wall Street Journal reported on April 28, referring to satellite images. There were new residential premises for the military and new storage facilities for equipment.
Russia is going to build new barracks and landfills, modernize the arsenals and railway tracks in the Petrozavodsk area in Karelia, where they plan to create a new army headquarters to manage tens of thousands of military, the publication reports. New railway tracks are laid along the borders with Finland and Norway, as well as south of St. Petersburg to the border with Estonia, and the existing railway lines expand.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered to increase the number of Russian army to one and a half million people. Many new soldiers who now serve in Ukraine should become the main Russian army, which is preparing for the confrontation with NATO, Western military and scouts said. Most of the new military, as notes, will be transferred to the Leningrad Military District, which borders on Finland, Latvia and Estonia.
The European intelligence officer told WSJ that Russia could try to check NATO cohesion, invading a small country, which is included in the Alliance, for example, to Estonia, where many Russians live. The senior researcher at the Russian and Eurasia program in the Carnegie Foundation Michael Kofman said that, in his opinion, Russia could “rather soon conduct a“ limited operation against the Baltic countries ”.
Danish intelligence in February issued a report in which she warned that Russia could start a large -scale war in Europe for five years. Western military officials told WSJ that the ceasefire in Ukraine would allow the Russian military to prepare even faster.
General Christopher Kavoli, commander of the United NATO forces in Europe, said in April, speaking in the US Senate that the Russian Armed Forces "are" restored and growing faster than most analysts suggested. " “In fact, the Russian army, which assumed the main severity of hostilities, is more today than at the beginning of the war,” he said.
Russia
The DPRK first admitted that she was participating in the war. Putin thanked Kim Jong -un for help in the battle for the Kursk region
The authorities of North Korea first confirmed that they sent their soldiers to participate in the Russian-Ukrainian war on the side of Russia. The North Korean State Agency of Tsak reported that the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un decided to enter the war ( the agency was called the war in a message - approx. Medusa ), because he thought that this was a “sacred mission for the monolithic strengthening of traditional friendship and solidarity between the two countries - the DPRK and the Russian Federation.”
The DPRK troops participated in the battle for the Kursk region, which “ended victorious”, and the North Korean military “fully demonstrated high morale and military grip, showed massive heroism, incomparable valor and selflessness,” the TSAC reported.
Soon after the statement of the North Korean side, Vladimir Putin thanked the DPRK units for participating in the operation in the Kursk region. According to the President of the Russian Federation, the military DPRK acted "in full accordance with international law, according to the letter and spirit of the agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership between the Russian Federation and the DPRK."
“Korean friends acted on the basis of a sense of solidarity, justice and genuine partnership. We are highly appreciated and sincerely grateful to the chairman of the state affairs, comrade Kim Jong -un, to the entire leadership and people of the DPRK, ”Putin said. According to him, the North Korean military "with honor and valor fulfilled their duty, covering themselves with unfading glory."
“The Russian people will never forget the feat of Korean special forces. We will always honor Korean heroes who gave their lives for Russia, for our common freedom, along with Russian brothers in arms, ”Putin said.
Western countries, Ukraine and South Korea reported that the DPRK sent from 10 to 12 thousand people to participate in the war. At the same time, the DPRK authorities did not admit that they sent their troops to Russia. Representatives of the Russian Federation also denied this. For the first time, the Russian authorities recognized this on April 26, when the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov informed Vladimir Putin that the Russian military “completed the defeat” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region. In his report, Gerasimov separately thanked the military DPRK for their help, noting that they acted “shoulder to shoulder” with the Russians.
War through the eyes of readers "Medusa"
Elya. I'm tired, I can't do that anymore. My God, I can't do that anymore. I am tired of idiots in power, that in Russia, that in Europe, that in the USA - everywhere, damn it. [...] I am tired of all these threats of the war with NATO, I just want to live calmly, and why exactly when my youth began, all the governments sharply wanted to play geopolitics? This is dishonest in relation to generation Z , it is dishonest in relation to generations of Alpha and Beta . This is dishonest, because it is then that then we will have to rake everything that these idiots do.
I am tired of seeing the suffering of other people. For what? Why should civilians even suffer from the fact that one old idiot in the ass stung the war? I don’t know, let all these politicians fight among themselves, only the civilian will leave alone. At least five by five on the stabs in [video surgery] Brawl Stars, generally spit, only without deaths of innocent.
I am tired of the fact that I have no right to even say something: they will put it in my home country, I am bad in another, because the passport is not the same. It is a feeling that you are a stranger everywhere, and you have no home anywhere - disgusting. This feeling will constantly pick you up with claws in my body, because it doesn’t matter where I run, I still have no more at home.
And I'm so tired of my anxiety. I can’t sleep, breathe, live, eat, from this anxiety. Each time I am afraid that I will see a nuclear mushroom outside the window, I have nightmares, because of which I wake up in the night, so that my heart beats in my ears. I’m scared to wake up the next day, I’m afraid to think about the future, I’m not planning anything next year - no, to think about the new day a huge effort is already for me. I just want this nightmare to stop. The only thing my psyche holds is on is hope [...].