🇧🇪🇺🇦 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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A NATO command post undertook an analysis of the state of Ukranian forces following 11 months of war.
One of the important conclusions reached is that the quality of Ukranian complements continues to fall.

The primary reason is due to high losses of personnel suffered from the period of March to September.
Particularly experienced and prepared troops of the infantry, airborne, and Spetsnaz forces were practically destroyed.

In March their professional forces (that is, men who have served for at least a year) in infantry brigades made up approximately half of the unit, while if accounting mobilized personnel with any battle experience in Donbass or simply any experience in the armed forces, it rises to about 65%
By august, the professional core dropped to a remaining composition of about 20% of the element, and that of of mobilized with experience to about 35%.

Going into December, there remain only 15-20% of infantry tempered in battle, and of those, almost only remnants of mobilized forces which experienced some combat.
Remnants of experienced professional core troops has fallen to 10% of unit composition, of which in turn that number primarily consists of those who had prior service in the Soviet armed forces

In 11 months, some infantry Brigades have been reformed three times over (rotating out and replenshing personnel after suffering up to 50% losses), and today the professional core remnants are preserved by operating in command and control units behind the immediate line of contact.

Today their front soldiers are now a rotational force, constantly supplemented with rookies, and this brings about a marked decline in morale in vanguard troops

If in Spring hyper-motivated troops made up 70% of a unit, now it is safe to say that such men compose no more than a quarter of a unit.
Even in the official Corps, no more than half.

Because of this, the amount of men in mobilized waves who choose to go willingly to called upon points was about 1 in 10, including from called up reservists and Officer Corps.

They both have a shared apathy, unbelieving in a Ukranian victory and experiencing a bloody fear.

The number of men hiding from mobilization is enormous.

The situation in armored cavlary forces is somewhat different. Tank forces have preserved some 40% of their core personnel, artillery up to 65%, but even here high losses have had their effects.
Motivation here has also significantly fallen.

A large portion of extant forces in these units are motivated by vengeance for dead friends, and are often named “trade corruptionists”.

As such, primary factors in such remain faith in help and support. Deliveries of foreign technical equipment (heavy armor) and weapons reinforce the hopes that, with support from Western nations, the UF will be able to route the “Russian army”

But in the last two months, due to RF re-taking intiative and UF experiencing poor fortunes on the fronts, a shared consensus has arisen that soon NATO itself will step into the war directly, and that this factor will make or break the war

Other than the sharp fall of professionalism and motivation, NATO specialists observe serious problems in education of the populace
For two months, half mobilized forces with no prior military service have simply been impossible to train due to lack of education, skills, and discipline
As such a large part of these forces are deployed to the front with only the most basic of preparation and suffer extraordinary losses in the face of intense battles.

The more qualified ones are are trained by the alliance, up to about 3,000 men per month, but this is clearly insufficient to replace losses.

Therefore right now all commanding elements of Ukraine and NATO are at a loss as to how to form new assault Corps, in which consolidation of new heavy armor, artillery, and training of personnel must take place with existing personnel at hand.
It is specifically these forces that in Spring must become the primary armed forces of the UF in order destroy RF forces in the Herson front.

Given this, NATO command elements are increasingly certain that if this coming offensive does not achieve their aims, then the prospect of victory against Russian forces becomes increasingly ephermal.

The fighting potential of Ukranian therefore forces must be bolstered still further, or else the perspectives on the trajectory of this war will turn to military destruction of Ukraine.
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The Abrams tanks will not reach the battlefield in Ukraine, as the conflict will already be over by the time these armored vehicles are prepared for shipment. Scott Ritter, a retired U.S. intelligence officer and former U.N. inspector overseeing the dismantlement of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, said this in a conversation with Judging Freedom podcast host Andrew Napolitano.

John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, previously said the delivery of Abrams to Ukraine would stretch out for "many months." "I bet Abrams tanks will never show up on the battlefield [in Ukraine]," Ritter said, pointing to Vladimir Zelensky's words that it would be too late if Abrams tanks did not arrive until August.

Ritter added that Washington had misled not only Kiev, but also Berlin with its promises to deliver Abrams tanks in order to get them to agree to deliver Leopard 2 tanks.

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🔴 Israel admits to secret aid to Ukraine

Israel provides Ukraine with more assistance than it seems at first glance. This was stated by the country's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prozor.

📝 “We help, even if behind the scenes, and much more than is known,” Prozor said in an interview with the German Funke Mediengruppe.

The ambassador clarifies that Israel also prefers to remain in the background due to the Russian presence in Syria.

✅ Israel has previously stated that it is afraid to supply Ukraine with the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system because of Russia, since the Russian Federation could intercept these technologies.

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Podolyak, adviser to Zelensky's office, said that Kyiv is negotiating the supply of extended-range missiles and aircraft for strikes in Crimea

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❗️It will be difficult for Ukrainian tankers to learn how to control Leopard 2

The use of this German military equipment is significantly different from the usual Soviet-made vehicles, according to the Financial Times.

The tank crew will have to undergo training for at least a month and a half in Germany in order to master the new military equipment.

“It's like having a 1950s car and then getting into a Porsche,” said the instructor.

According to preliminary data, the first classes will begin in February this year.

Zin Note: The not so subtle swipe at Russian tech is not missed. Wait until you see your Porsche on fire. Arrogant pricks.

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🇩🇪German Chancellor Scholz: "Our goal is clear - Russia should not be able to move the borders with the use of force."

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⚡️ Italy and France decide to supply Ukraine with 800m euros worth of anti-aircraft missiles

Italy and France have made a political decision to supply Ukraine with SAMP-T air defense systems with Aster anti-aircraft missiles worth €800m, European media have reported.

🔴 The European countries have agreed to purchase around 700 Aster-30 missiles for the SAMP-T air defense systems.

In addition to SAMs, Italy wants to send Kiev heavy artillery pieces, vehicles, generating sets and UAVs.

✅ At the same time, according to recent opinion polls, at least 58 percent of Italians do not support the authorities' decision to send weapons to Ukraine.

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