Russian Defense Ministry speaks out about mysterious characters on military equipment

04/03/2022 08:35 GMT+7

Earlier, in a televised speech on the morning of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special operation to protect people in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Republic of Russia. self-proclaimed Luhansk people (LPR) in Donbass, eastern Ukraine.

“Russia has been, is and will respect the sovereignty of the newly formed states in the post-Soviet space,” Putin said.

“It is the aspirations, feelings and pain of the people that have become the main motivation for us to make the decision to recognize the independence of the people’s republics in Donbass,” Putin stressed.

The Russian Ministry of Defense spoke out about the mysterious characters on military equipment. (Photo: Russian Defense Ministry)

In recent days, many images of Russian military equipment in Ukraine have appeared on social networks with white characters such as “Z”, “V”, making many people curious about their meaning.

Recently, a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry has explained about the mysterious characters on military equipment. Accordingly, the Latin letter “Z” stands for “victory”, and the letter “V” stands for “strength of truth” and “mission to be accomplished”.

Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Center for Political-Military Journalism (Russia), previously said that the letter “Z” could be the first letter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s last name.

Meanwhile, according to Asia Times, the letter “Z” has become a famous symbol that many people have called the Russian military campaign in Ukraine “Operation Z”. It is considered the largest and most complex military operation organized by Moscow since the operation in Afghanistan in 1979.

In addition, this is also the first opportunity for the world to see the entire new Russian military force – a modernized, professional fighting force that has been completely refurbished since the war. 2008 with Georgia.

In the most recent move, the Russian Defense Ministry has for the first time officially announced the number of casualties when carrying out a special operation in Ukraine.

Specifically, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that 498 Russian servicemen were killed and 1,597 servicemen were injured to varying degrees during the course of their missions in Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry also emphasized that earlier reports about “countless” losses of Russian troops in Ukraine were fake, deliberately spread by Western media.

Konashenkov also confirmed that reports that Russia used conscripts and cadets from military schools in the operation in Ukraine are untrue.

In addition, the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense noted that the Russian military is carrying out an operation to eliminate the threat of Ukraine having nuclear weapons and military bases of the Treaty Organization. North Atlantic Ocean (NATO) is deployed on the territory of Kiev.

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