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Around 200,000 USD to train and equip a soldier?
''Earlier, France trained and equipped the Ukrainian 155th Mechanized Brigade named after Anna of Kyiv, providing armored vehicles, artillery, and training for 2,300 soldiers.''

Probably an all-in package.
 

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Footage of Ukrainian FPV drones attacking a Russian M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzer. The video was filmed in the Kursk region of Russia, according to some media, it was filmed in Donbass. The 170-mm M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzer is produced in North Korea. There is still no footage of the M1989 self-propelled howitzer in action in Russia. The M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzer was attacked by three drones while being towed. Judging by the video, the howitzer was confirmed to have been destroyed for the first time. The Russian tank with Tsar-Mangal protection was not attacked by drones.

 

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Russian FPV drone operators have published footage of the destruction of a camouflaged Ukrainian DANA vz. 77 self-propelled howitzer. The video was filmed in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. The 152 mm DANA vz. 77 self-propelled howitzer was developed in 1977 in Czechoslovakia and has a firing range of up to 20 kilometers. The Ukrainian army also has a modernized version of the Dana-M2 self-propelled howitzer. As a result of the attack by the Russian FPV drone, the Ukrainian DANA vz. 77 self-propelled howitzer was completely destroyed. This is the third confirmed loss of this type of self-propelled howitzer by the Ukrainian army.

 

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Around 200,000 USD to train and equip a soldier?
I posted about this earlier in thread. The Brigade is bring equipped from scratch, with help from Sweden, Denmark, the Baltics and likely Finland (they just keep quiet). They're going to feature CV90 IFVs, Leopard 1A5 MBTs, Archer 155mm Artillery, a drone unit and unknown APCs.

It's not in any way cheap to train and fully equip a 3000-5000 person mechanized infantry brigade. $1 Billion usd sounds about right. It would probably be 2-3x that if we were talking a fully kitted out 5000 strong Western brigade.
 

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Thr Netherlands 🇳🇱 has announced the following aid package for Ukraine:

- Delivery of additional F-16 Fighter Jets
- 1 Patriot Battery Command Center
- HAWK Air Defense Systems

 

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Three Ukrainian 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers were attacked by Russian FPV drones "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" controlled via fiber optic cable. The 122-mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer was first produced in the USSR in 1968. The howitzer is also used by the Russian army. The videos were filmed over several days in the area of the settlements of Fedorovka and Molocharka, this is the Kramatorsk and Konstantinovskoye direction. The FPV drones were used by the 200th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of Russia. It was not possible to identify the Ukrainian units using the 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers. All Ukrainian Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers were in camouflaged firing positions; judging by the video, they were destroyed as a result of the attacks by Russian drones. The ammunition of one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer exploded, as shown at the end of the video.

 

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Footage of an attempt to break through a Ukrainian armored group from the Sumy region of Ukraine to the Belgorod region of Russia, the group was breaking through in the direction of the Russian village of Demidovka. It is worth noting that Ukrainian troops do not stop trying to break through to the village, it is not clear why this is being done. Perhaps this is how they stretch the front line, preventing Russian troops from creating large strike groups of troops. The composition of the Ukrainian armored group, tanks, M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and armored vehicles. What is especially interesting in the video is that the Ukrainian army began to use the Russian type of protection "Tsar-Mangal" on tanks, several destroyed tanks are visible in the video, this was not noticed before. To repel the Ukrainian attack, Russian units used FPV drones.

 

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Your hate for Putin influences your judgement.
If he was an imbecile,he wouldnt have taken Crimea and the road to Crimea.
I would say he is smart and a strategic thinker.
You dont need to be a genius in order to capture some territory from a country which has 4 times less population and 10 times less GDP than you. Especially when that country is peaceful.


Just take a look at the situation,3 years war and still nothing significant happened to Russia.
Russian economy is all about selling oil. Nothing else there.

Soon the war will be over and Russia comes out stronger(fact).
No it became much weaker. Russia birth rate collapsed, many young men left. Hundreds of billions wasted on nothing,

Oil in Russia is not forever.

''Who's fault is that?'' you could ask and i would answer only the US and the EU are at fault here for not providing real game changing weapons at the start of the war.
Yes US could easily end this war by providing Ukraine long range missiles like JASSM and Tomahawk.
 

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Rare footage of a Russian Grad MLRS strike on Ukrainian army positions in Pokrovsk was filmed by a Russian FPV drone. The drone was right in the epicenter of the rocket explosions. The 122 mm Grad multiple launch rocket system was adopted by the USSR in 1963. The firing range of the Grad MLRS is up to 42 km. More than 30 countries use the Grad MLRS, not counting similar systems.

 

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It could easily end this war by providing Ukraine long range missiles like JASSM and Tomahawk.
Too late now, I think. It could have done that IMO but Biden was worried about escalation and opted to grind Russia's resources down through an extended stalemate conflict. Now, with EU support, I think that continuing the attrition of Russia's military, financial and economic resources is the way to bring Russia to its knees. You can't keep fighting without resources, can you?

PS You can if defending your homeland, perhaps, but not when you are attacking someone else's homeland.

Moscova delenda est
 
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Specialists of the 42nd Guards Division of the Dnepr Group of the Russian Armed Forces showed lightweight special Russian ammunition for FPV drones. RPG grenades for equipping FPV drones are now used less and less often. Lightweight homemade ammunition for drones is increasingly being made, this can be seen in the video from the military operations in Ukraine. The ribbons that appear when drones explode are most likely such ammunition. There are no factory-made lightweight ammunition yet, but according to a serviceman, some of them are made according to the developments of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

 

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Russian FPV drone operators have shown footage of a drone attacking a Ukrainian FV104 Samaritan armored personnel carrier. The location of the shooting is not reported. Very few FV104 armored personnel carriers were produced; it was developed in 1976 in Britain. It is worth noting that the Russian army is already using FV104 armored personnel carriers. Judging by the video, the FV104 armored personnel carrier was hit by several strikes from Russian drones. The fate of the crew is unknown

 

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An episode of the battle of Ukrainian units in the village of Valentynivka, in the Toretsk direction, this is in the Donbass. The video shows an attempt by two Ukrainian soldiers to capture a temporary stay point for Russian servicemen in one of the buildings in Valentynivka. In the video, Ukrainian servicemen throw grenades at the building, in response, Russian servicemen also throw a grenade, shown with an arrow. Further, drones allegedly provide support to Russian servicemen, ammunition is dropped from them. As a result of the battle, one Ukrainian serviceman is wounded, the second serviceman dies in a neighboring barn. Presumably, there was a third Ukrainian soldier. At the end of the video, a Ukrainian soldier is shown walking, and then he is shown wounded, lying on the threshold of the house. The video is shortened

 

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The fighting is gradually approaching Kherson. Footage has been published of four Russian FAB-500 air bombs equipped with UMPK modules hitting a temporary deployment point and logistics center of the Ukrainian army in Kherson. The bombs were dropped by a Russian Su-34 frontline fighter-bomber. The video was filmed from two angles. According to one version, there were three FAB-500 bomb strikes. The fourth explosion may have been the detonation of something in the building.

 

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Germany 🇩🇪 announced the delivery if a substantial new military aid package for Ukraine today. The package consists of the following:

- 4 Diehl Kenetic Air Defense Systems
- 66 FFG MRAPS
- 3 Zuzana 2 155mm Howitzers
- 6 Bergepanzer 2 Recovery Vehicles
- 4 WISENT-1 Mine Clearing Tanks
- IRIS-T SLM Air Defense Missiles
- 150 HF-1 Kamikaze Drones
- 70 VECTOR Reconnaissance Drones
- 10 Surface Sea Drones
- 38,000 Rounds of Gepard Ammunition
- 27,000 155mm Artillery Shells
- 1,000 122mm Artillery Shells
- 120mm Leopard 2 Tank Shells
- 2 Mine Ploughs
- 41 Ground Surveillance RADARS
- 187 Laser Range Finders
- 92 Infrared Binoculars
- 55 Underwater Scooters
- 3 Border Protection Vehichles
- 917 RGW 90 Anti-Tank Weapons
- 3,769 G3 Assault Rifles
- 800 MK556 Assault Rifles
- 150,000 Tourniquets
- 544 Sleeping Bags

 

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