Poland 🇵🇱 isn't screwing around when it comes to arming itself against Russian aggression in the region. They just completed a contract today to purchase nearly 1800 missiles from USA 🇺🇸. The contract is worth $3.6 billion usd and consists of...
- 821x AGM-158B-2 JASSM-ER cruise missiles.
-...
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 have announced the following defense package for Ukraine.
- 18 F-16's that will be sent to Romania 🇷🇴 to train Ukrainian pilots. An initial cohort will consist of 50 Ukrainian pilots that will train out of a Romanian air base. Seperate pilot training will also take place in...
Sweden 🇸🇪 and Portugal 🇵🇹 have officially joined the Czech 🇨🇿 led initiative to purchase artillery shells for Ukraine from outside the European Union 🇪🇺. Sweden will donate $108 million usd to the coalition, while Portugal will donate $32.6 million usd.
The combined donation will purchase...
Spain 🇪🇸 has announced a new defense package for Ukraine, consisting of 19 additional Leopard 2A4 MBTs. The tanks are being refurbished from existing Spanish stockpiles and will be sent to Ukraine later this year.
Spain has several hundred Leopard 2A4 MBTs in storage. However, many would need...
The main goal of the West is and has always been to spend small amounts of money (relatively speaking) to support the Ukrainians in exhausting Russia's Soviet stockpile and, thus, their ability to project "hard" power in the region and to quell their attempts to remake the Soviet Union by force...
Lol, 80%+ of Ukraine is not occupied and Russians lose thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of men and hundreds of armored vehicles and artillery pieces for each additional 1% that they take. Outside of Mariupol, all of Ukraine's large cities are still standing and none are under immediate...
Some news on additional defense packages and macro financial assistance for Ukraine.
Finland 🇫🇮 is sending CB90 river boats to Ukraine, joining the initiative by Sweden 🇸🇪 and The Netherlands 🇳🇱. Finland did not announce the quantity of boats that they'll send...
290,000 additional artillery shells equates to tens of thousands of young Russians that will never make it home to their families for Christmas. It's also hundreds, if not several thousand tanks, IFVs and artillery pieces from the Soviet stockpile that Russia will never be able to replace...
Canada 🇨🇦 announced the full contents of their latest defense package for Ukraine. It consists of the following.
- $40 million usd worth of 155mm artillery shells, purchased in line with the Czech 🇨🇿 led initiative.
- $7.5 million usd worth of night vision devices...
Interesting. Must have auto-corrected without me knowing. I post flags all the time and I think that's the first time I've ever got one wrong.
Thanks for pointing it out!
Belgium 🇧🇪 has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth 412 million Euros. The package consists of the following...
- 3 Minesweeper vessels
- 300 Iveco Lynx Multirole vehicles
- 155mm artillery shells
The average Russian citizen is extremely poor. If Ukraine can continue to damage Russian refining capacity to the point that domestic gasoline prices soar, that will disproportionately impact the average Russian to the point that the government may have to step in and subsidize costs so that the...
