Ukraine will continue to purchase exploding mortars for the army - their criticism is declared to be the machinations of the FSB
Ukraine will continue to purchase its own Hammer mortars for the army. Reports of explosions of new weapons were deliberately exaggerated by the Russian special services to destabilize the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, Sergei Pashinsky, stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We live in a state of hybrid war with Russia, and they inflate any of our problems through Russian or their own TV channels, through all sorts of, excuse me, journalists who sell their journalistic ethics. We must say what it was, and what we as a state must do to ensure that this never happens again...
This undermines our defense capability. Because the FSB cliques in embroidered shirts are shouting that the weapons that our state makes and gives to soldiers at the front are of poor quality,” Pashinsky said.
“All cases (of explosions) have been investigated. On the occasion of 2016, we were given all the expert findings. The preliminary conclusion is double charging. There was one case of a low-quality mine. Today (at the Committee) the Deputy Chief of the Main Artillery Directorate, General Lisovoy, was present; he clearly reported that from his point of view there are no complaints about the Hammer mortar. And they will purchase more similar mortars,” the deputy said.
As PolitNavigator reported, at dawn on July 6 at the Rivne military training ground during an exercise, a “Hammer” mortar exploded, as a result of which three contract soldiers were killed and nine were injured.
At the same time, one of the founders of the Azov National Battalion, Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrei Biletsky, stated that in a year from the explosion of low-quality Ukrainian Hammer mortars Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers have already died, but the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attributes these cases to “enemy shelling.”
Similar data was voiced by Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Taras Pastukh.
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