As Ukraine's defence Minister #Resnikov is sacked, presumably for incompetence, but also due to corruption concerns,
Here's the vast list of what the United States tax payer has given #Ukraine how much of it has actually reached the frontlines is unknown, where it actually went is also unknown.

This only relates to the nearly 50 bn in military aid, Billions in cash and other supports have also been handed over.

10,000 Javelin anti-armor systems

2 Patriot air defense battery and munitions

70,000 other anti-armor systems and munitions

8 NASAM systems

1,700 Stinger anti-aircraft systems

20 Avenger air defense systems

4,000 TOW missiles

HAWK air defense systems and munitions

35,000 grenade launchers and small arms,

Laser-guided rocket systems

RIM-7 missiles

100,000 sets of body armor and helmets

Antiaircraft guns and ammunition

Thousands of night-vision devices,

surveillance systems, thermal imagery systems, optics, andlaser rangefinders

9 anti-drone gun trucks and ammunition

C-4 and other explosives

10 anti-drone laser-guided rocket systems

Explosive-ordnance-disposal equipment

M18A1 Claymore mines

Air-to-ground missiles

Anti-tank mines

Mine-clearing equipment

High-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)

Precision aerial munitions

Obstacle-emplacement equipment

6,000 Zuni aircraft rockets

Medical supplies

Field equipment, cold-weather gear, generators,

and spare parts

7,000 Hydra-70 aircraft rockets

Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear protective equipment

Manned aircraft

18 armored bridging systems

20 Mi-17 helicopters

Artillery

Explosive and combat drones

160 155mm Howitzers and ammunition

72 105mm Howitzers and ammunition

Switchblade drones

47 120mm mortar systems

Phoenix Ghost drones

10 82mm mortar systems

ALTIUS-600 drones

67 81mm mortar systems

Munitions

58 60mm mortar systems

203mm, 152mm, 130mm, 122mm, 120mm, and
25mm ammunition

Surveillance drones

38 HIMAR systems

ScanEagle drones

60,000 122mm Grad rockets

Puma drones

Precision-guided rockets

JUMP drones

Rocket launchers and ammunition

CyberLux K8 drones

Tanks and armored carriers

Coastal defense

154 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles

2 Harpoon coastal defense systems

4 Bradley Fire Support Team vehicles

62 coastal and riverine patrol boats

31 Abrams tanks

Unmanned coastal defense vessels

45 T-72B tanks (via the Czech Republic)

125 Stryker armored personnel carriers

Port and harbor security equipment

300 M113 armored personnel carriers

250 M1117 armored security vehicles

Radar and communications

200 armored medical-treatment vehicles

4 satellite communications antennas

500 MRAP vehicles

125mm, 120mm, and 105mm tank ammunition

2 radars for unmanned aerial systems

21 air surveillance radars

70 counter-artillery and counter-

mortar radars

Ground support vehicles

2,000 Humvees

20 multi-mission radars

354 tactical vehicles

Tactical secure communications systems

100 light tactical vehicles

Counter air defense capability

68 trucks

Counter–unmanned aerial systems

124 trailers

Electronic jamming equipment

10 command post vehicles

SATCOM terminals and services

30 ammunition support vehicles

6 armored utility trucks

Satellite services

8 logistics support vehicles

Commercial satellite imagery services

89 heavy fuel tankers and 105 fuel trailers
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⚡️SWITCH TO "VOLGA" AND SAVE YOUR LIFE

Rybar's team, with the help of colleagues form Zaporozhye, made a short campaign video on the initiative of 149.200. By going over the radio to the frequency 149.200 and calling Volga, enemy soldiers can surrender.

Since July 20 and the launch of the initiative by the channel Revenge of Goodwill in the Russian segment of Telegram, all mentions of the initiative have gained 56 million views.

Despite the colossal informational effect and the confirmed facts of the surrender of entire units, the Ukrainian side in every possible way blocks this info and keeps units in an information vacuum. We know that there are many who want to surrender. They just need to be given a chance to survive.

❗️We ask our colleagues in Telegram, our subscribers and partners to distribute the video as much as possible. Post it into Ukrainian chats, send it to friends, make the initiative work.

More prisoners means less work for Russian fighters.
#Russia #Ukraine
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Vremyevsky section: unsuccessful attacks of the AFU near Novodonetsky
situation as of 18.00 September 7, 2023

Fighting continues in the Vremievsky sector. Over the past 24 hours, the Marines of the 37th brigade of the Ukrainian Navy tried several times to attack at the Novodonetskoye-Novomayorskoye line. According to the Warrior of the Far East , they managed to break into the defense, but subsequently the fighters of the 40th brigade of the Russian Armed Forces recaptured their positions.

Similarly, three assault detachments of the 37th infantry regiment, under the cover of mass artillery cluster munition fire, attacked the landings northwest and west of Novodonetsk, where they immediately tried to equip strongholds, which were subsequently destroyed.

At the moment, Ukrainian artillerymen are massively shelling the front line, and detachments of the 35th infantry regiment have been moved to Zolotoy Niva, which indicates preparations for a new wave of offensive.

🔻To the west, units of the 37th Marine Corps again stormed the positions of the Russian army near the forest belts near Urozhayny, but to no avail. At the same time, a low level of morale is noted in the ranks of the enemy and the number of deserters is growing, which is why detachments were placed in the vicinity of Makarovka.

🔻On the direction of Priyutnoye, the situation has not changed much - the AFU have taken up lines along the landing, but they are not going on the attack, waiting for results on the eastern flank. Artillery is working on enemy concentrations: as a result of several strikes by the Russian Armed Forces, eight were killed and four wounded in the 1st Tank Brigade of the AFU, two more fled.

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❗️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Battle for Avdievka: Historic Liberation of the Yasinovataya-2 Industrial Zone (Situation at the end of November 25, 2023)

A few hours ago, Russian fighters successfully cleared the last building in the Yasinovataya-2 industrial zone in the southern part of the Avdeevsky fortified area after several days of intense and bloody fighting.

▪️ Since 2014, the industrial zone had been under the control of Ukrainian forces. However, despite the fortifications and reinforcements, it is now completely under the control of the Russian Army.

▪️ This line holds not only symbolic significance but also has strategic importance as it is situated on a hill overlooking the southern outskirts of Avdeevka. The southern neighborhoods will be within range of fire from this line, further worsening the situation for the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine).

🔻Simultaneously, on the northern flank, Russian units achieved small but crucial results. Russian Armed Forces personnel were able to establish a foothold at the railway adjacent to the coke plant.

▪️ Through a successful assault starting from the gold dump and pumping station, the enemy was completely driven out, expanding the controlled zone near the plant.

🔻Intercepted communications reveal that Ukrainian forces are complaining about the lack of support. According to AFU members, the command has abandoned the Avdeevka garrison, leaving its subordinates to fend for themselves.

▪️ Meanwhile, the transfer of reinforcements is ongoing. Units from the 116th mechanized brigade of the AFU have been redirected from the Zaporozhye direction, and the 45th separate rifle battalion has been placed under the command of the 31st Mechanized Brigade due to losses.

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Putin's interview about Ukraine. Russia - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06kTHB9ZGy4&pp=ygUPUHV0aW4gaW50ZXJ2aWV3

https://youtu.be/8r5ZHrugoe4?si=bXP1AQcXOkMBXcte

Not a flashy video but good insights & information.

https://youtube.com/shorts/DX72kNRkLC4?si=WSx9E1TxKd6LuDNb

Russia: with some luck we get a Ukrainian pilot making a video or selfie with his new F16 🤞😂

March 1999: Under Bill Clinton, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. A weakened post-Soviet Russia, led by Boris Yeltsin, controlled by a cabal of Oligarchs, protested but could do nothing to prevent it.

March 2004: Under George W. Bush, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO – the largest ever wave of NATO enlargement.

April 2008: At the NATO Bucharest summit, George W. Bush announced that Ukraine and Georgia are on an “immediate path to NATO.” Bill Burns, ambassador to Russia, sent a memo: Across the board, Burns said, the Russian political class told him, “Ukraine is the reddest of red lines, “Nyet means nyet.”

February 2014: Kiev erupted in violence. Obama State Department official Virginia Nuland boasted that since the 2004 “Orange Revolution,” the US had spent $5 billion on regime change in Ukraine. Creating chaos and confusion, NATO rooftop snipers killed both protestors and police - forcing Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.

Donbass Civil War Point of No Return

2 May 2014: Neo-Nazi thugs, bussed to Odessa with their baseball bats, confronted ethnic Russians protesting the coup. When the protestors fled into the city's Trade Unions House, the building was set on fire. Forty-eight people were burned or bludgeoned to death

February 2015: In Belarus, Putin and Poroshenko met with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to negotiate a ceasefire. The leaders agreed to a deal that would have ended fighting in eastern Ukraine – granting autonomy to the Russian-speaking Donbass - but successive Ukrainian governments refused to implement the accord.

December 2021: Team Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accords that would have left a “neutral” Ukraine intact. Since 2008, Russia had tried to convince US administrations that Ukraine was off-limits to NATO membership, but Joe Biden once again brushed Russian concerns aside: “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.”

18 February 2022: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documented that Ukraine had ramped up artillery attacks along the Line of Contact. (Since the 2014 coup in Kiev, NATO-armed Ukraine and Nazi brigands had killed thousands of ethnic Russians in the Donbass.)

19 February 2022: Invited to speak at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said, “Ukraine will get and deploy nuclear missiles.” The next evening, on CBS 60 Minutes, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said, “Ukraine will never honor the Minsk ceasefire…”

24 February 2022: With 90,000 troops, Russia launched its “Special Military Operation” - not a "full scale invasion." Citing the UN principle, “Responsibility to Protect,” Russia intervened in the eight-year Donbass civil war after all prospects for diplomacy had failed.

Putin waited patiently on a Minsk peace or on a mutual security accord with #NATO. Now he admits he was snookered, perhaps also realizing that "he who fights a war only halfway digs his own grave." Because he can no longer trust the West, and Zelensky is intransigent, Russia must pursue the war until the #Ukraine army surrenders.

Since June 2024, Putin has delineated Russian conditions for a broad, sustainable permanent peace: No temporary ceasefires, no European "peacekeepers," no NATO (or Nazis) in #Ukraine - and recognition of Crimea and the historical Russian oblasts Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian territory.

Absent an agreement, #Russiawill continue advancing beyond the four oblasts and toward the historical “Russian cities” of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv. The Russians are stayers, can endure hardship – will fight to the end. From the Kremlin to the Duma to the street, Russia is united in its goal of destroying NATO's potential to harm or hurt the Russian people.

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Source: Alen Watson @DietHeartNews