The Vesti website transmits the content of the speech of one of the participants in the program, Vladimir Solovyov, on the Rossiya 1 TV channel:
“The shameless lies used by the West to demonize Russian policy are used because they are effective. However, it is already becoming clear to him that this policy needs to be changed. Xavier Moreau, an expert at the Stratpol Center for Political and Strategic Analysis, stated this on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program.
“Why Zelensky lied is because this lie still works well. Previously, we were told that a Buk complex was used in the MH-17 crash, and a civilian plane crashed due to an error. The entire West believed in this lie for two years. But later, the interested parties realized that it was time to change the narrative and came up with another lie. Why? Because it works well,” said the expert. <…>
“If I were in Zelensky’s place, I would think: why not? But he does not understand that no one in the NATO army is going to die for the current Ukrainian regime. Secondly, the tone towards Ukraine has changed and the first signal came from the Pentagon from the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces Mark Milli,” Moreau recalled.
We are talking about the words of General Milli, in which he doubted the reliability of the numbers of dead Ukrainian soldiers, which Kyiv officially cited. Even The New York Times came out with an article stating that the Russian special operation “demilitarizes NATO,” the expert noted.”
A native of France, Xavier Moreau, a resident and citizen of Russia, a self-styled analyst and owner of a French restaurant in Sergiev Posad, has repeatedly commented on Russian propaganda publications and TV shows. On the third day of a full-scale war in Ukraine, he claimed that President Zelensky was finished, that the West had abandoned him to his fate. However, he announced the collapse of the Ukrainian state back in 2014. But the assertion that the West believed for only two years that MH17 was shot down by a Buk, made on the very day that a Dutch court issued a verdict that fully confirmed this version, is generally difficult to explain.
True, the Vesti website, apparently out of habit, even misrepresented the words of the Kremlin propagandist. In fact Moreau said:
“In 2014, they explained to us that the miner used the Buk M1, which has long been absent from Russia, and due to the fact that it was used, the MH17 accidentally crashed. For two years the entire Western world believed in this gross lie. Two years later, they realized that they needed a year to train the crew of the Buk, and therefore change the narrative – we are now explaining that the Russian army sent one system across the border on a truck and immediately it fired at MH17. It's a gross lie, but it works."
It’s clearer this way, but a gross lie is just Moreau’s statement. Two years after the disaster, a Bellingcat investigation established the path of a particular Buk launcher across the Russian border to the launch site of the missile that downed the Malaysian airliner. This did not contradict the main version considered by the international investigative team, and now the Dutch court has put an end to the investigation: this version is true.
Moreau's passage about the "demilitarization of NATO" was again distorted by the site. Moro stated:
“General Milli of the Pentagon General Staff is already starting to say very strange things. For example, he says that Ukraine lost 100,000 soldiers. This is 10 times more than the official figures, which are still… [inaudible]. Then in the New York Times we read the text that there is resistance between Millie and Biden's advisers. <…>
And as military expert Scott Ritter said, Russia is now demilitarizing NATO. And here's what's happening now: Reuters [reports] that the US is trying to buy 100,000 155mm [caliber] ammunition from South Korea. 100,000 ammunition is two days for Russia, they spend 50,000 per day. Or a week. But in any case, it's not enough.
And it seems to me that Zelensky either did not understand, or understood too well, that the West does not have a plan B [for him].”
General Milli did indeed estimate the combat losses on both sides at about 100,000 men. But this is not 10 times more than official Ukrainian data: Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine, spoke of 10,000 dead Ukrainian fighters in early June. Since then, their number could not help but increase, especially considering the fact that since then the Ukrainian troops have gone on the offensive, and the losses of the attacking side are always greater than those of the defending side. Milli spoke about the losses not only in the dead, but also in the wounded, and in the Ukrainian troops, according to various estimates, from 4 to 6 wounded per one killed soldier.
The purchase of a relatively small batch of ammunition from South Korea does not at all indicate the depletion of American stocks, this is just one small episode in the history of NATO arms deliveries to Ukraine; According to Czech sources, another US-Korean contract worth about $3 billion is on the way for the purchase of weapons and ammunition, which will be supplied to Ukraine through Czech intermediaries. The same South Korea, according to the Los Angeles Times , signed contracts worth almost $9 billion, according to which it supplies weapons to Poland, so that it would transfer them to Ukraine.
Scott Ritter indeed stated that "Russia is demilitarizing NATO, destroying everything that the alliance has transferred to Kiev, thereby completely gutting its stocks." But The New York Times has never published this. The fact is that the former UN weapons expert Ritter is an expert with a hopelessly damaged reputation: he served two and a half years for pedophilia, after which no one, except Russia, turned to him for comments. Therefore, it is not surprising that he stated both that Russian troops in Ukraine deliberately limit their capabilities for humane reasons, and that civilians in Bucha were killed by Ukrainian troops.
There are no reliable data on the destruction of weapons transferred to Ukraine; peppy Russian reports about the destroyed HIMARS turned out to be fakes.
Finally, Moreau’s phrase about “the West’s lack of a Plan B for Zelensky” literally repeats what he said in February when he claimed that Zelensky was done. As you can see, the plan is still found.
