Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your messages every day because we are certain that we need to keep talking about war. On February 28, the United States and Israel went to war with Iran. Do you think this will affect the world’s position on the Russian-Ukrainian war? Will she “fade into the background” as some believe? Will it become more difficult for Ukraine? Is it possible to compare the attack on Iran with the Russian attack on Ukraine? The feedback form is at the end of this article. You can read the previous day’s review here.
Ukraine
During the entire war, Ukraine received only about 600 missiles for Parteut installations, male New York Times presidential advisor Dmitry Lytvin.
Moreover, in the first five days of the war against Iran alone, the United States used more than 800 Patriot missiles to shoot down Iranian attack drones, as well as more than 500 Iranian ballistic missiles fired at Israel and US bases in the region.
Patriot systems are essential to Ukraine’s defense, as they are one of the few systems that can successfully intercept Russian ballistic missiles targeting energy infrastructure.
father the accounts Specialized Ukrainian media, Kiev, taking into account the number of current Patriot installations and the average frequency of Russian missile attacks, needs at least 60 missiles per month, and during periods of more intense attacks (for example, such as last winter) – 100-120 missiles per month.
Ukrainian authorities constantly talk about a shortage of Patriot missiles. In early February, against the backdrop of particularly frequent Russian joint attacks, the representative of the Air Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuri Ignat, said: maleAmmunition is consumed faster than assistance is received from partners, and “some air defense systems sometimes remain empty.”
In January, books The Financial Times reported that the missile shortage had reached a level where Patriot facilities were unable to respond to the Russian army’s attacks on Ukrainian power plants.
Ukrainian specialists, at the request of the United States, have gone to the Middle East – and will share their experience in combating Iranian drones without using expensive Patriot missiles, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said today.
Over the course of four years of war with the Russian Federation, Ukraine learned to shoot down such drones using inexpensive technologies – anti-aircraft machine guns, mobile firefighting groups, and electronic warfare equipment.
War in pictures. Donetsk
The Ukrainian army bombed Donetsk on 8 March. According to the authorities of the annexed Democratic Republic of the Congo, residential buildings, an outpatient clinic, a children’s hospital, a college, two schools, two colleges and a kindergarten were damaged. Two people were injured.
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
Medusa’s readers live in different countries and have different attitudes toward war. We publish your messages to see this event through your eyes. Our editors try to represent all viewpoints, even if they do not match the editorial position. However, in accordance with the Medusa Law, we do not publish messages that contain “hate speech,” justify the killing of civilians, or express direct support for an aggressive war.
Nikolai (Siberia). My major changes [за четыре года войны] — I received a dose of indifference and experience to realize the banal truths that I had always known, but lived as if they did not exist.
I remember February 2022. How sure I was that nothing would happen. They shake their weapons and disperse. After all, it is nonsense to start a war. Obviously, this will cause more problems than benefits. This is the absolute truth…which was only true in my head. And here came the realization of trite truth number one – not all people think like you and share your value system. If this statement were expressed to me, I would agree to it without hesitation. But for some reason, it never occurred to me that once I started from a coordinate system where Putin cared much more about “greatness” than the well-being of Russians and their lives, it would become immediately clear that war was becoming more than likely. […].
The second trite truth is that people are wrong in their expectations about the duration of armed conflicts. When I read “The Bitterness of War” or “The Book of Siege,” there were many quotes from contemporaries who were confident that the First World War or the Great Patriotic War would not last long. Well, a year. Maximum two. For us, who already knew how it ended, it was clear that everything would continue for a long time. For contemporaries this was not the case. I knew all this, but I still predicted that the war would end soon […].
The third fact is that, very rarely, in a country waging a war of conquest, the population accepts it outright with hostility. It is preferable to consider it coercive rather than criminal […]. How did we get the area on which Saint Petersburg is located? Is anyone crying over the method of “annexing” Kazan? Does anyone want to be angry about the divisions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in which Catherine II was involved? It would have been foolish to expect the population to be enraged en masse. And I was waiting […].
We are not a unique country in this “acceptance”. In the United States, despite all the retrospective films, the majority of the population initially supported the war in Vietnam. During World War I, in every country that participated in this massacre, it all started with a national uprising. During World War II, the Germans firmly believed they were saving the German population in Poland, and then had to fight England and France, who were preventing them from saving the Germans from the Poles. He was forced to be the first to attack the USSR […]. There are our own and there are strangers. Ours is right and others are wrong. And that’s it. About a hundred years ago, Hemingway wrote that he mistakenly considered war a kind of sport, where you have your own team and someone else’s team. He did not see the light until he reached the front. But what do you ask people who only know about television and don’t want to know?
As a result, after all these realizations, apathy came as a defense mechanism. It became background news. I sincerely wish it would all be over, but I don’t want to suffer meaninglessly for this. […]. It’s better to hope that everything is finite, and in 50 years’ time, this decade will be remembered as the time when artificial intelligence became widespread, rather than as the bloodiest war of the 21st century. Hope – little by little it helped those who left, or those who stayed and were braver (or less cautious) than me.