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Denmark 🇩🇰, Sweden 🇸🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 have come to an agreement on the purchase and delivery of additional CV90 infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. Denmark is funding the purchase, Sweden will build the units in Sweden and deliver them to Ukraine, to add to the 50'ish exisiting units Ukraine...

No country is going to sacrifice its own defense capabilities for that of Ukraine. They're willing to send their surplus, but not their core assets. Germany 🇩🇪 could definitely afford to send a squadron of its Tornado ground attack aircraft to Ukraine, but the problem is training Ukrainian...

Finland 🇫🇮 will more than double its production of artillery shells in 2024 and beyond. The Finnish Government signed a 3 year 120 million Euro deal for the production of additional artillery shells. The target number was not disclosed. Why is this notable? Finland contains the most artillery...

A couple aid related notes for Ukraine 🇺🇦. USA 🇺🇸 passed an astronomical $886 Billion usd defense budget for 2024. In that bill there is an additional $800 million usd for aid to Ukraine. Note that this has nothing to do with the $61 Billion usd worth of aid they are trying to pass, but for...

Per sources inside the Ukrainian Army, Ukraine 🇺🇦 now has 30 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled, 155mm howitzers in its inventory. With part creation and component sourcing in allied countries, Ukraine's alleged 400 person production operation is yielding 6 new howitzers each month...

Denmark 🇩🇰 is set to announce a new 1 Billion Euro defense package for Ukraine. Contents of the package, including tanks, drones and a various types of ammunition, will be delivered starting immediately and throughout 2024.

Good news on the air defense front for Ukraine! The German 🇩🇪 Luftwaffe confirmed today that they have delivered their second planned Patriot missile defense battery to Ukraine, on schedule for winter operations. The battery consists of 8 launchers and a fire control statation, as well as an...

USA 🇺🇸 announced new $200 million usd defense package for Ukraine. It was announced by Biden package on live television, with Zelensky in attendance. For those deeply concerned that USA is going to run out of drawdown authority funding for Ukraine in the near future, USA still has $4.4 Billion...

The International Monetary Fund is sending Ukraine a $900 million usd tranche of aid. Fungible aid is important because while this money is earmarked for macro financial aid, that will free up money for Ukraine to use to purchase significant quantities of weapons and equipment.

Sweden 🇸🇪 has announced a new, $150 million usd aid package for Ukraine. Contents of the package were not fully disclosed, but are designed to aid infrastructure onto the winter months, as Russia will undoubtedly start using larger quantities of missiles again, in an attempt to destroy Ukrainian...

I'm some ways, Trump isn't wrong. The United States does, objectively, pay a significant percentage of NATO's overall defense spending, while European countries that are at far greater threat of direct war with Russia, are able to ignore their respective armed forces and instead spend their...

New USA 🇺🇸 $175 million usd defense package for Ukraine has been announced. For those tracking, USA has $4.6 Billion usd remaining in their previously announced Presidential Drawdown Authority package. That said, they've now run out of replenishment money for their own stocks, which means that...

Finland 🇫🇮 today announced that they will increase artillery shell production over the coming weeks, and plan to invest tens of millions of dollars throughout 2024 to help Ukraine stay in thr artillery fight. Furthermore, Finland is planning to up its proposed 2024 budget, so that it has the...

This news is a few days old but France 🇫🇷 will send an additional 6 CAESAR 155mm howitzers to Ukraine. Nexter is also now producing 12 CAESAR howitzers per month and is in the midst of expanding the production line to produce 16-18 units per month. France recently freed up 200 million Euros...

Canada 🇨🇦 announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, consisting of the following... - 11,000 additional C7 assault rifles - 9 million rounds of ammunition Note that these rifles will largely be sent to Britain, where they will be distributed to Ukrainian soldiers training there, before...

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 will send Ukraine $2.2 Billion usd worth of military aid in 2024. While the aid package is not yet finalized, it's expected to include among other things the following... - Air defense systems and missiles - F-16 Fighter jets and armaments - F-16 training for pilots - 155mm...

This would be juicy, especially if USA reciprocates by giving numbers of their own missiles to Ukraine in retaliation and gives their blessing for the Ukrainians to fire them on Crimea and military targets on the Russian side of the border. Russia's air defense has already struggled to intercept...

New news on aid for Ukraine today... Canada 🇨🇦 has announced an additional $1 Billion in military aid for Ukraine 🇺🇦 . The details of how the money will be spent have yet to be released. European Union 🇪🇺 has announced another 1.5 Billion Euros worth of macro financial aid for Ukraine 🇺🇦...

Substantial new military aid package from Germany 🇩🇪announced today. The package is worth 1.3 Billion Euros and includes some significant items. Here is what we know so far... - 4 Additional IRIS-T SLM air defense units - 20,000 155mm artillery shells - 8000 DM22 anti-armor mines - 60 Vector...

"Slowed down" is not the context you presented in your post. You said "minimal" which is not true and doesn't properly represent what's been happening. It also doesn't account for the fact that many European countries have been stepping up, both quietly and overtly over the last few months, to...