Linked at bottom is a very interesting write up on how much ammo is being used in the Ukrainian war and how industrial production is necessary to sustain it, as well as an evaluation of that production. The surprising bit is how thin the supplies are. But first a couple very poignant Vladimir Putin quotes about the breakaway regions joining Russia and his evaluation of the west run by the globalist elites.
“People in four regions become our citizens forever. We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire, end all hostilities, return to the negotiating table, we are ready for this. But we will not discuss the choice of people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson. Their choice has been made, and Russia will not betray it,” Putin said.
“Millions of ruined, twisted destinies. They don’t care. The main thing is to get their benefits. Greed is the real reason for the hybrid war against Russia. They want to rob, to see us as a crowd of soulless slaves.”
“They don’t need Russia at all, we need it. Russia will always be Russia. We will protect our values and our homeland even now.” Putin concluded.
“The choice of people causes wild anger in the West. The West has never had any moral right to claim about the freedom of democracy. They brazenly divide the world into their vassals and everyone else who, according to Western racists, should join the list of savages. Entire nations and states are branded. What, if not racism, is Russophobia?”
“The whole Western world order is deceitful and hypocritical. The USA is the only country in the world that destroyed two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki — by the way, it created a precedent. <…> It left a terrible mark in the memory of the peoples of Korea and Vietnam. In fact, Germany and South Korea are still being occupied.”
“They export bread from Ukraine. Where is it going? Yes, to the same European countries. Another swindle and outright deception.”
“Washington is demanding more and more sanctions against Russia, and most European politicians are forced to agree. Although they understand that it is going to deindustrialize Europe. This is not servility, but a direct betrayal of the peoples.”
“The Anglo-Saxons have moved to diversions, starting to destroy the pan-European energy infrastructure. Who did this? Who benefits from it, he did.”
“To get out of a new tangle of contradictions, they need to break Russia to plug their holes. They can bring the system to collapse or use the formula “war will justify everything”.
“The neocolonial system is doomed. But its owners will cling to the end.”
https://southfront.org/breaking-dpr-lpr-kherson-and-zaporozhie-regions-joined-russia/
“The dictatorship of the Western elite is directed against all societies, including against the peoples of those Western countries themselves. It’s a challenge for all. This means the total negation of the human, the overthrow of religion and traditional values as the crushing of freedom becomes to look like the opposite of religion – open Satanism,” he said, repeating a familiar theme of his, and while rejecting “LGBT”/gender ideology as a threat to Russian society which the West seeks to impose…
“Do we really want to have a parent No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 instead of mom and dad in Russia? Do we want children to be told that there are other genders besides men and women? Is this the future we want for our children? For us, this is unacceptable,” the Russian president said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-live-putin-declares-annexation-eastern-ukraine