"Tanks alone won't turn the tide of the war in Ukraine," this was said in an analytical article published by the New York Times. 

NATO tanks "will not be the silver bullet that will allow Kiev to win the war," says the newspaper. But the United States military will, once again, attempt to remake an army in its own image to give Ukraine the best chance to break through entrenched Russian defenses.

The Ukrainians will undergo an accelerated course in what the U.S. military calls "combined arms training," which the U.S. units themselves take months, if not years, to master. "It is not yet clear how realistic it is for the Pentagon to train Ukrainians in the complexities of combined arms maneuver warfare in a short period of time," the authors write. 

That said, Kiev needs to overcome the military stalemate the AFU may face after the Russians began building multi-level defenses along the lines of captured positions. 

"Breaking through these lines is not just driving a battalion of tanks across the trenches." It requires a coordinated attack with infantry marking targets, tanks firing on those positions, and artillery pieces providing cover and support. "Such combined-arm maneuvers are the subject of the exercises," the article explains. 

In order to strengthen the strike power of the AFU, the Leopard tanks will go on the attack in tandem with the American BMP Bradley. The tanks will break through the trenches and open the way for the infantry on Bradley fighting vehicles to hold the recaptured territory.
That said, "the new donations are unlikely to increase combat power enough for Ukraine to win the war, but officials and outside analysts say they will help significantly." "When the full package of Western equipment arrives, Kiev could create as many as three additional brigades," the publication writes. 

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Germany is sending initially 14 tanks to Ukraine, and plans to send a total of 88.

14/88 tanks - seriously. Olaf Scholz's nazi grandpa is probably proud in the grave

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According to @rsotmdivison's information, Leopards are already in Ukraine. Two tractor-trailers with Leopard tanks were spotted in the Nikolaev area

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Hungarian media described how "Ukrainian-style mobilization" takes place in Transcarpathia: people are caught right on the street, taken from attics, and forced into buses, but they can avoid compulsory mobilization by paying $10,000.
This is reported by the portal "Index," based on the information from local residents.

The military takes absolutely all the men, including the ethnic Hungarians. No deferments are given—not to those caring for sick relatives or to fathers of large families, the article says.
Witnesses say that sometimes people have to spend weeks hiding in attics to avoid mobilization.
Summonses are handed out both at border checkpoints with Hungary and simply on the street. It is reported that one man was loaded into a car and sent to the front when he was "peacefully travelling on his bicycle."

As PestiSrácok previously wrote, ethnic Hungarians are being drafted en masse in Transcarpathia because of the huge losses of the AFU near Soledar.
 
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🇧🇪🇺🇦 Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced at a press conference that the Belgian government has allocated the largest military aid package to Ukraine so far totaling €90m.

The new military aid package for Ukraine will include a significant amount of weapons and equipment from the Belgian Armed Forces, including:

- Raytheon AIM-120A AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air guided missiles as anti-aircraft missiles as part of NASAMS SAMs;
- Mistral man-portable (transportable) anti-aircraft missile systems;
- 80 Iveco LMV light armored vehicles (4x4);
- 150 Volvo N10 (6x4) trucks;
- 4,000 FN SCAR 5.56 mm automatic rifles;
- 120 40mm under-barrel grenade launchers;
- 1,000 FN Minimi 5.56 mm machine guns;
- 1,000 FN M2HV 12.7 mm machine guns;
- small arms ammunition;
- 1,500 M72 disposable hand grenade launchers.

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🇷🇺🇷🇺 Marines storming strongholds in Ugledar direction.


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All NATO countries have started to race to see who can help Ukraine the most, etc. Furthermore, the blatant Russophobic rhetoric of many Western political leaders is perplexing and irritating. What should be done about it?

We need to demonstrate to the world community what open war with Russia will entail. I may be wrong, but I think it is time to withdraw from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and start "testing" nuclear weapons at test sites. Let the entire Western political electorate see what the aggression of their leaders and their countries toward Russia can lead to.

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📌 Fighters of the Wagner PMC sent home another batch of AFU soldiers killed in Soledar.

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War-winning help!!!

🇱🇻 Latvia handed over four combat electric scooters to Ukraine.
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Footage from Artemovsk taken during arrivals. ㅤ

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🔥The Russian military, using night vision and thermal imaging, detected a Ukrainian nationalist sabotage and reconnaissance group and corrected the fire of 152mm Hyacinth-B cannons at it.

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Sergey Zergulio Kolyasnikov @SergeyKolyasnikov writes : (Published by RT)

We live in interesting times. One by one, the masks are cracking. And now U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is happily announcing that the U.S. administration is gratified to know that the Nord Stream 2 is a pile of metal at the bottom of the sea.
And former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the Normandy format, which was created to peacefully resolve the conflict in southeast Ukraine, was a "diplomatic imitation." The same one that resulted in the February 12, 2015 negotiations that produced the Minsk agreements.

We are not accustomed to states' endorsement of terrorist methods. We do remember how, when Hillary Clinton was US Secretary of State in October 2011, she celebrated the assassination of the head of sovereign Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and laughed on camera: "Come and see: he's dead."

Incidentally, Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Special Forces Al-Quds of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed on January 3, 2020, in a missile strike ordered by... American President Donald Trump.

Later, in September 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Fox News that he was ready to eliminate Assad, but Pentagon chief Mattis was against it: "I would have preferred to remove Assad." Everything was in place for that. Mattis wasn't willing to do that. "Mattis was a highly overrated general." Even at the time of the interview, Trump regretted that the Syrian president could not be killed.
Why does the U.S. need these wanton assassinations and terrorist attacks? for profit and plunder. In January 2022, a giant convoy of gas tankers carrying stolen oil was spotted in Syria near the border with Iraq. In August 2022, 137 tankers of oil were removed by the U.S. military from Kurdish-held territories in northeastern Syria.

These are just the cases that hit the media. According to the Syrian government, in the first half of 2022, more than 80% of the country's daily oil production was smuggled out by the US military.

And today, Russia is one of the few countries confronting U.S. terrorism. In August 2022, Vladimir Putin said that U.S. dominance in world politics was on the wane. That American hegemony means stagnation for the rest of the world, for all of civilization, "obscurantism and the abolition of culture."

Herein lies the fear and hatred of the U.S. towards Russia. After all, "Russia has a nasty habit of actually doing what it says!" as Lieutenant General Mikael Klasson, Chief of Staff of the Swedish Armed Forces, said.
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