I am not Surprised By this.....Not even a little bit.
appropriate time..... May be too late.
If true, the lack of such an asset and the time needed to built new ones is a clear indication russia is far from in a situation to bring war elsewhere.Russia only has 6 A-50s left. Not all of them are modernised, not all are operational. Give it a couple more years and they will have none.
That seems to indeed be the plan...NATO can sleep well for years.
You can always rely on newspapers to screw things up.German paper writes about secret negotiations between India & Germany to supply artillery shells to Ukraine via some third countries. Paywalled though:
(S+) Ukraine-Krieg: Europas verzweifelte Jagd nach Munition
Eurasian Times writes a summary of the same:
India, Germany In "Secret Talks" To Arm Ukraine As Europe Running Out Of Time To Supply Ammo: Der Spiegel
German paper writes about secret negotiations between India & Germany to supply artillery shells to Ukraine via some third countries. Paywalled though:
(S+) Ukraine-Krieg: Europas verzweifelte Jagd nach Munition
Eurasian Times writes a summary of the same:
India, Germany In "Secret Talks" To Arm Ukraine As Europe Running Out Of Time To Supply Ammo: Der Spiegel
Russia could only wish to lose this many equipment in a day. Ukraine is still holding back the mighty Russian army with crumbs of outdated western weapons. Go figure that out.
Ukraine is having a bad day