A few days ago, after the Russian border city of Belgorod was attacked by Ukraine and caused civilians**, the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations called on the Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the matter, and asked the Czech Republic, which provided rocket artillery to Ukraine, to attend the Security Council meeting and give an explanation, but was categorically rejected and bitterly ridiculed by the Czech Foreign Minister.
It may be that the Czech Republic will not attend the meeting, so the Russian side used the "radical method". For example, before the Security Council meeting, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Polyansky, shouted on social media: "We will wait and see if the Czechs have the courage to attend this meeting." However, the Russians' "agitation method" not only did not work, but instead attracted a "ridicule" from the Czech Foreign Minister.
Czech *** Captain Lipavsky responded on social **: "We refuse to be summoned anywhere by Russia. The Czech foreign minister also mocked: "We can participate in meetings, but we only participate in meetings that discuss the departure of Russian troops from Ukraine." ”
In international diplomacy, the Russians have never "lost their mouths". Therefore, after the "request" was rejected and was "sneered" by the Czech Foreign Minister, the Russian side made a "reply".
Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Nebenzya, shouted from the air: "The representative of the Czech Republic is in **?."The country's rocket artillery killed civilians in Belgorod. "We tried today to invite the Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to speak before us, but he cowardly chose to recuse himself. ”
As long as it is a "polemic", it is natural that Zakharova, the "first mouth of Russia", is indispensable. In response to the Czech Foreign Minister's remarks of "refusing to be summoned anywhere by Russia", Zakharova replied on social **: "I didn't expect the Czech Republic to be so illiterate", so that I don't even know how the UN Security Council works. ”
It is obvious that Russia and the Czech Republic are "on the bar". So, why is Russia eyeing the "small country" of the Czech Republic this time?This starts with the changes in the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine at the end of last year.
Objectively speaking, for most of the last year, Russia in general had a "defensive" strategy, despite local offensives (as in **Mut). However, after the outbreak of the Kazakh-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, the situation of the Russian-Ukrainian war has changed sharply.
The rapid "change" of the Russian-Ukrainian war is mainly reflected in two aspects: first, it coincides with the weakness of Ukraine and the "exhaustion of aid to Ukraine" of the Western camp begins to appear, and the Kazakh-Israeli war in the Middle East suddenly broke out, which directly led to the almost "stagnation" of US and Western aid to Ukraine, and also made Ukraine lack the "confidence" to continue. Second, based on the need to build momentum for Putin's candidacy, the Russian army launched a large-scale ** on the battlefield in Ukraine.
To put it bluntly, Russia's ** "just in time". First, the "uncertainty" of Western assistance makes the Ukrainian army dare not "give it a go", and the lack of "confidence" will naturally bring passivity on the battlefield. Second, the superimposed effect of the three major factors, namely, the "spillover" of the war to the Middle East, Putin's reactivation in diplomatic occasions, and the "infighting" of the United States, has enabled Russia to regain its "strategic self-confidence" and at the same time boost the morale of the Russian army.
Objectively speaking, Russia's "just-in-time" strategy and battlefield ** have directly pushed Ukraine into a "dangerous situation". For example, Putin's series of operations "created" an "expected" scenario of the imminent collapse of Ukraine. If this "expectation" is believed by the public opinion of Western countries, it will naturally make the West "hesitate" on the issue of continuing to aid Ukraine. In that case, it will inevitably be devastating to Ukraine.
Zelensky is a "smart man", he knows that if he wants to continue to receive assistance from the United States and the West, it is not enough to win sympathy with pathos, and it is necessary to create a battlefield situation in which the Ukrainian army is still capable of fighting and still has the ability to "regain lost territory". So, while deducing "pathos" and "paralyzing" the Russian army, Ukraine planned an "earth-shattering" raid.
Just when the international community generally believed that Ukraine no longer had the strength to inflict an effective attack on Russia, on December 26 last year, the Ukrainian army suddenly launched an attack on the port of Crimea, using drones and "Storm Shadow" cruise missiles to destroy the large landing ship "Novocherkassk" of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in one fell swoop, and caused a major number of personnel on the ship.
Some analysts believe that the destruction of the landing ship "Novocherkassk" will be no less than the sinking of the cruiser "Moskva" to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. After all, the cruiser "Moskva" was hit ** and sunk by the Ukrainian "Neptune" anti-ship missile on April 14, 2022, more or less by chance. The "Novocherkassk" landing ship was destroyed in a "small campaign" that was planned, coordinated, and strategically purposed. This is enough to show that Ukraine is not without offensive power, and it is not impossible for the Russian army's defense to break through.
To put it bluntly, the destruction of the Russian landing ship "Novocherkassk" has rekindled the hope of victory for the Ukrainians, and it has also embarrassed the "Ukraine will lose" theorists in Western countries, and even more so that the theory of "Ukrainian collapse" painstakingly created by Russia is almost shattered. Therefore, the Russians were annoyed and even a little anxious. So, after three days of "preparation", an extremely rare act of retaliation began.
On December 29, 2023, the Russian army dispatched about 18 Tu-95 strategic bombers and a huge number of Shahed drones, using various missiles and cruise missiles, including the supersonic "Dagger", to launch the largest retaliatory attack since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv and other entire territory of Ukraine, resulting in a large number of infrastructure damage and more than 100 civilians**.
After a large-scale Russian attack, Ukraine asked the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to condemn Russia's actions of "harming civilians". However, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Nebenzia, defended that it was caused by Ukraine's deployment of a "defense system" in urban residential areas, and said that Russia's move was to protect the Ukrainian people from the destruction of the Kyiv regime.
Russia's "justification" naturally makes Ukraine even more angry. As a result, Zelensky vowed to bring the flames of war into Russian territory as a sign of revenge. It means that since you have done the "first year of junior high school" and still have a good word, then I will simply make it a "fifteen"!As a result, on December 30, 2023, Ukraine launched nearly 100 drones and launched retaliatory attacks on Belgorod and other Russian border cities using long-range rocket artillery.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian army used rockets of the "Chiyang" and "Vampire" models to launch "terrorist attacks" on residential areas of Russian cities such as Belgorod and other cities, killing at least 24 civilians and injuring 111 civilians in Belgorod Oblast alone. And the "Vampire" rocket launcher in it is made in the Czech Republic. Therefore, the Russian side demanded an "explanation" from the Czech Republic.
It is obvious that in the eyes of the Russians, you, the Czechs, have provided Ukraine with "tools of crime", you are "** you have to give an "explanation" and you must bear "responsibility". Otherwise, you in the Czech Republic will have to be mentally prepared to "walk around without food".