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Western propogandaAnyone should mock Russia at their own peril. End might just be the beginning....
We turn down the us offer of NASAMS, Patriot pac 3 & THAAD. Very bad decisionAah. Neither the Russians care a dime about us , nor the Ukrainians and nor the rest of Europe.
I would say this to both parties, go ahead and kill as much as possible. Destroy each other.
With NASAMS coming in, I don't think the Ruskies can do anything now.
Self-restraint being mass murder.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces showed a video of the destruction of the Russian positions by the Ukrainian Punisher UAV
Oh yeah? What's Put-Put gonna do to make the mocking cease? Invade Ukraine? He's already doing that, and it's turning out to be the worst decision a Russian Tsar has ever had. Instead of rebuilding the glorious Stronk Russian Empire, he's actually at a risk of fragmenting it further, look at what's happening in Dagestan already... And hey, with the state the Kadyrovites are in, imagine what would happen if a Third Chechnya War started...Anyone should mock Russia at their own peril. End might just be the beginning....
Very often, those who deplore the [relative] weakness of the military aid that France provides to Ukraine are those who did not lift a finger to denounce the cuts made a few years ago in the defence budget, despite the warnings made by the chiefs of staff during parliamentary hearings. So, as the saying goes, "charity begins at home", you only give what you can give...
However, France has given Ukraine armoured front vehicles [VAB] that the army is in the process of replacing with Griffons and Servals, MILAN and MISTRAL missiles, various ammunition, combat equipment and... eighteen CAESAr howitzers [Trucks equipped with an artillery system] out of the 76 it owns.
The Ukrainian army would like more [at least fifteen] to counter the Russian artillery... This is not possible in the current state, even if the 18 that have already been delivered will be replaced in order to bring the army's equipment up to standard.
However, on 22 September, after meeting Catherine Colonna, her French counterpart, the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, affirmed that Paris and Kiev were "working on the supply of new CAESAr" to the Ukrainian army.
Even if the time to produce a CAESAr must be significantly reduced [12 months instead of 30, according to the objective recently set by Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of the Armed Forces], the army cannot go beyond the 18 examples it has already sent to Ukraine... Also, the howitzers mentioned by Mr. Kuleba could only be taken from an order placed with Nexter.
This would indeed be the case, according to information from the daily "Le Monde". According to the latter, an agreement was reached between France and Denmark to deliver to Ukraine between 6 and 12 CAESAr, initially intended for the Danish army.
As a reminder, in 2017, Copenhagen ordered 15 CAESAr 8×8 [with increased capabilities compared to those used by the French army, with a mass of nearly 30 tons, improved crew protection and the ability to carry 30 shells instead of 18, editor's note] to replace its M109 systems, in service since the 1960s. The order was then increased in October 2019 to include four more.
According to the Danish Ministry of Defence, the first 15 CAESAr were to be delivered in 2020, with the last four to be delivered in 2023. The contract also included logistical support and training services over ten years.
According to Le Monde, the Danish government has "agreed, at this stage, to give up some of this equipment as it is still undergoing technical validation and may not all comply with the initial specifications" and that, "after having hesitated, Ukraine [...] is ready to recover this equipment and use it as is". The announcement of this operation could be made by President Macron during a meeting with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on 3 October.
It should be noted that if pressure is put on Germany to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, the same applies to Denmark. Thus, as reported by the newspaper "Politiken", Hanna Hopko, former chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament, made such a request.
"How can you sit in Denmark and just watch Ukrainians die? And say: 'OK, maybe in three months we will send you tanks'. I'm sure you can do without tanks now. It's the same thing with Germany and Spain. There are 13 Nato countries that have Leopard tanks," she said. "When they say they need tanks, we should take it seriously and deliver them," said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, according to Politiken.
Currently, out of the 57 Leopard 2A5 tanks it maintained in service in 2006, 44 have been upgraded to the 2A7M+DK standard between 2019 and 2022. They are operated by the Jutland Dragoon Regiment.
In any case, on the ground, while on 30 September Russia formalised the annexation of the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, the Ukrainian army continued its counter-offensive by seizing the town of Lyman, a crucial railway hub for the Donbass.
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Special forces of the NSU destroyed the enemy's ammunition depot, which the Russians had set up in the forest strip.