Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Keep them behind your lines taking out tanks and short range artillery positions. The apache is very capable of defending itself once facing the enemy head on. It when you start flying sorties over enemy lines that you'll get a stinger up your jacksy.

The Ukrainian flag is flying on the outskirts and it's been geolocated it's infact just over the border.

Sorry to disappoint some here, but the news is that Soledar is still holding as of this morning.

Everyone can see with their own eyes the civilian buildings being reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian infrastructure and a huge humanitarian crisis, all this done to a peaceful nation by a rogue one.

Half of Europe still remember the Russian liberation and denazification, raping killings and plundering so when Ukraine is saying russians did this I tend to assume they actually did much worse.

But let's not rush to conclusions comrades.

And not only in Ukraine, bring on modern weapons so this terrorist nation can be battlefield anialated on mass no prisoners unless officers

We didn't know we where going to fight in Ukraine, zombies I still find hard to believe

Number is going to go a lot higher 🤬

Needs to be a big reaction to this. 12 British tanks just doesn't cut it.

Very little of anything.

We have a small number of javelins and other Anti tank weapons and some Giraffe anti aircraft systems .

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If it's a negligible amount (in the context of what's being used daily over there), then it may not be worth sending anything. There's also this other argument you hear that Ireland's defences are woefully understocked as it is and we therefore need more of everything to deter foreign aggression and/or be able to police our borders, territorial waters and airspace. So you'd expect those people to clear their throat if it came out that Ireland was donating what little usable weaponry it had.

Typical cowards in Russia are saying the missle strike in Dnipro wasn't their fault,the Ukrainans shot it causing it to crash into the building therefore it wasn't our fault

Ireland was committed to supporting Ukraine with non lethal aid and that there were discussions with the EU partners on a package. She must have been referring to this which happened a few weeks after I got my response.

Someone with more military knowledge that me can expand on whether this would even be useful anyway, but we also have a double neutrality problem.

We ourselves are neutral, and would need a change in our Constitution to donate arms to Ukraine and secondly some of our equipment is Switz, which as a neutral country does not allow it's equipment to be exported to a country actively involved in war like Ukraine.

The majority of our IFV's are Mowag Piranhas III's which are Switz, some of our heavy mortars are also Switz and this probably (again someone with actually military knowledge can correct me on this) is the only offensive equipment we have which would be moderately useful to the Ukrainians at the moment. Perhaps our anti-tank weapons aswell, but what could we even afford to give away there 1,000-1,500 ?, it's negligible stuff.

Our best course of action is to increase humanitarian aid, to lessen the load on some other countries and allow them to concentrate their resources and money on sending offensive weapons beyond our capabilities.