Fair enough on the vehicles at the moment until congress sorted themselves out but shame couldn't make a case for Ukraine buying the 4 million cluster munitions even if sold them for 1 dollar per 1, just to say here we signed up to not have them so we sold them to Ukraine. Would be a massive help to Ukraine in the very short term.
A bit of Polyfilla woulda held it for a while longer
Ukrainians blamed..
... or pay Ukraine for the 'disposal' of obsolete munitions.
It's not just the US either Australia just scrapped a fleet of helicopters modern MRH-90 Taipan helicopters ,Europen design similar to the US Blackhawks helicopters,the Ukrainians Officially requested to take the the helicopters, instead the Australians stripped the engines and transmissions, controls , blades to be sent to new Zealand and the fuselages are getting buried in the Australian desert,
And on top of all of that you have Israel been giving top priority by the US over Ukraine
And for all the talk about Putins re-election being a done deal (and most likely it is), there will not be any more large scale mobilizations until after the election has taken place. So, Putin is having doubts about just how far he can push the Russian people.......
Let's just ignore the key details.... the Ukrainian request to Australia came months after Australia begun stripping them for parts.
They requested them last year....
and it seems there wasn't 9000 tow missiles sent to Ukraine the consensus is between 1500- 2500 ,
Details
Perun always give good unbiased updates
insane losses on the russian side in Avdiivka
Looks like Ukraine may have lost one of their latest skynex air defence systems only recently delivered..
Yes, Ukraine formally requested the helicopters last December.
The Ukrainian government made a formal request to acquire the MRH-90s on 19 December 2023.
TOW missiles:
Always important to read the comments to get a little more informed opinion.
You'd have saved yourself the embarrassment of the cargo 300/200, had you read the comments back then.
No .
So it can't possibly be a skynex based off tweet replies ....
So much for details
Well, well, problems with Russian oil..tankers attacked. More to come I'd guess.
He explains how he arrived at the numbers in the video but you would have known that if you watched it before commenting it as BS.
And you're saying it is based on the initial photo and ignoring all the comments under the tweet from people offering their opinion.
You seem to want it to be a Skynex system and the photo is enough for you so any other opinions you will disregard.
It seems like it's ok for you to post tweets but when someone else posts a tweet (that you disagree with or conflicts with something you say/claim), you pull out the 'oh based on some random person on twitter' etc...
Case in point, it looks like Ukraine lost a Skynex system to you (based on a photo). You're quite happy to post that here.
I reply with a tweet that people are of the opinion it's not a Skynex system (they explain why, 6 wheels, not 8 etc...), to which you reply 'So it can't possibly be a skynex based off tweet replies ....'
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At any rate. I can see why there'd be some speculation that one of the skynex systems took a hit there. It's not completely baseless. I'd err on the side of not(even removing a few percent because its Gatling that posted it) but it certainly looks more possible than Ukraine losing half a battalion from one sewer move 🤣.
Keeping in mind it's one gun out of 4. So they haven't lost a full system worst comes to worst.
I will admit things do not look good on the UAF frontlines. There are definitely signs of things beginning to buckle. Not sure if it's because of lack of troop rotation, shortage of supply, fatigue, etc
But Russia appears to be able to throw endless meat waves at UAf lines.
If Putin gets a win from this, History will not look kindly on some western nations and in particular the US Republicans.
I believe it's a mix of all of the above, rotation, replacements and ammo shortages ,they are blowing through a serious amount of everything from artillery, mortars and 40mm grenades,and yet the Russians keep coming and making minor advances but holding what they are taking, we've already heard families complaining there sons and fathers on the front lines close to two years,that takes a massive toll on everyone,and the leadership are arguing over Mobilisations all the while the clock has stated to tick for the release of conscripts who have to be released after three years
Realistically, are the conscripts going to be released when the time comes? Impossible to replace that kind of experience.
It's a tough 1 as with what's happening in the middle east now with America loosing troops, things could slide really bad over there and you would not know how that ends up which places Ukraine in a worse position as America might be thinking we need the weapons etc. that we have as there might possibly be a conflict with us over there and we cannot spare any to Ukraine.
I'd suggest that they may be refused after the third year to leave their posts and the Ukrainians could in theory extend there conscription contracts by several years but that could be a big problem if men and women on the front lines say no .
If I'm correct around March, April,May 2025 the first conscripts would be due to be released from their service
After the Oct 7 terrorist attack on Israel when the Israeli started to retaliate and move into Gaza Ukrainian shell deliveries fell immediately by 30% ,and only the other day the Israeli government put in a massive ammunition order to be delivered immediately , along with 25 f35 and a simpler number of the new F15EX which they asked the US Airforce to give their production slots so that Israel get them first ,the US air force hasn't even got there's yet ....
A massive ammunition demand from Israel will have an effect on Ukraine who as we already know are having issues with shortages
The US has stopped giving aid to Ukraine and it is unlikely to restart.
Europe is the issue here. We always knew it was a possibility that US aid would be pulled and we have sat around and twiddled our thumbs for the last 24 months and just hoping that the US continued to pick up our slack.
It could restart but we're heading to March/ April if not later before any serious discussions on aid actually start,it was predicted in October, November December, January now were a few days off February and still nothing from the US and not a lot coming from the Europe ,but that could all change
Europe doesn't have the manufacturing capacity and hasn't ramped it up over the last two years except in a few niche areas.
Unless US aid resumes, or European countries finance the purchase of US stocks, Ukraine will effectively fall this year.
I just can’t believe with how Iran had backed Hamas and how Russia is cosying up to Iran that Israel isn’t happy to see Russia defeated.
Europe has surpassed the US's figure for military aid, that's hardly sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
That's also excluding the financial support the EU provides Ukraine.
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