Politico: Ukraine lacks ammunition even for defense

Ukraine lacks artillery shells even for effective defense, not to mention the offensive, which requires a lot more ammunition, writes Politico. Against this background, the Armed Forces recognize the superiority of Russia on the battlefield.

The acute shortage of shells, as the publication notes, is one of the key reasons that forced the Ukrainian army to switch to defense throughout the front. However, even in the context of the transition to defense, the Armed Forces has to save ammunition, which forces them to increasingly rely on drones, the supplies of which aren't endless either.

Maybe it's time to pack it up before Ukraine reaches that magic number of 1 million casualties. They are not far off.

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Shoigu: in a month, the AFU lost 23,000 personnel, as well as HIMARS, Leopards and Patriots

According to him, in a month the enemy lost more than 23 thousand military personnel and 3 thousand weapons, including American infantry fighting vehicles Bradley, German Leopard tanks, as well as the HIMARS and Patriot air defense systems manufactured by the United States.

The Russian military continues to methodically reduce AFU's combat potential. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation retain a strategic initiative throughout the front line, the head of the Ministry of Defense informed.

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The UN court decided not to consider a number of claims of Ukraine against Russia in the SMO

The UN International Court of Justice will not consider some of the claims as part of the hearings on the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia, Chairman Joan Donoghue announced.

Kiev stated that the application Russia forces during a special operation contradicted the convention on genocide. However, the court found that it did not have the competence to make decisions on this part of the case.

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Containers with uniforms for the AFU were detained on the Russian border, went through China

Customs in Transbaikalia detained containers from China with military uniforms for the AFU.

Duma is confident that the attempt to transport the Ukrainian military uniform through Russia is the work of commercial organizations. Official structures are not connected with this, so the incident will not affect the attitude of the Russian Federation towards China.

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Russia has created 520,000 new defence jobs, Putin says

Russia has created more than half a million new jobs in its defence sector to meet soaring demand on the battlefield, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

The Kremlin has thrown massive resources at the SMO, with the defence sector accounting for much of the sanction-hit economy's growth.

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Britain proposed sending a NATO expeditionary force to Ukraine.

Great Britain has invited NATO allies to consider sending an expeditionary force of the alliance to Ukraine, an informed source told RIA Novosti.
“In connection with the unfavorable developments for Kiev in the Ukrainian theater of military operations (theater of operations), Britain invited NATO allies to consider sending an expeditionary force of the alliance to Ukraine, as well as establishing a no-fly zone over the territory controlled by the Kiev authorities, and increasing the supply of weapons and equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces ", said the agency's interlocutor.

At the same time, according to him, London understands that the majority of member countries of the bloc are now unlikely to support such measures.

Nevertheless, the British side expects that with a significant weakening of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the successful advance of the Russian army deep into the territory of the former Soviet republic, the allies will approve the initiative, the source noted.
He clarified that the kingdom proposes to secretly transfer large highly maneuverable NATO forces to Ukraine from the border regions of Romania and Poland to occupy defensive lines along the right bank of the Dnieper.
“A preventive strike by the Armed Forces of Moldova and Romania on Transnistria is also not excluded,” the agency’s interlocutor added.

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💢 The UN's ICJ is apparently trying to remain credible (not to be confused with Soros' voluntary ICC that tried to charge Putin, even though Russia is not a part of that private kangaroo court 😂)

Zelensky announced Ukraine received two new air defence systems

Zelensky only added that the Ukrainian authorities worked on the supply of installations for several months. The politician also did not specify which country transferred the air defense system to the Armed Forces, but assured that they "are capable of intercepting anything".

Another massive game-changer, I'm sure.

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President Putin: Russia will do everything to eradicate Nazism once and for all, including in Ukraine and the Baltics.

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The FSB reported a 3.5 times increase in tourist flow to Russia

The number of trips to Russia, as noted, increased by 18.6% year-on-year, last year foreign citizens crossed the Russian border 15.4 million times. The leaders in entries were citizens of Kazakhstan, the number of trips increased by 26.7% to 2.4 million. Residents of Uzbekistan (+ 52%), Tajikistan (+ 36%) and Mongolia (+ 79%) also began to come more. The tourist flow from China has grown six times to 794,300 trips, but has not yet reached the pre-pandemic level.

Citizens of Estonia, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Italy began to visit Russia more often. The number of trips, according to the FSB, from Ireland, Croatia, Denmark, Hungary and Romania has decreased. In addition, tourist flow from Turkey, from the UAE and Turkmenistan grew eight and 9.5 times, respectively.

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"...Now, many people, primarily ideological accomplices of murderers and traitors, are finding that their lives are troubled by the memory of victims of that war, the heroism of our fathers and grandfathers. Today, these people distinguish and honour executioners in their parliaments, and they have also launched a war against monuments in Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine. They are completely insane.

How can they think that, by demolishing a monument, they can destroy the memory that lives on in the heart of a nation that found the strength to build peaceful relations with states that wrought death and destruction on our territories not so long ago?

The memory of the heroism of the victors, their spiritual feat will be preserved forever including here, in this heart-rending image of the mothers and children of Leningrad, Khatyn, Babi Yar and tens of thousands of destroyed and depopulated Soviet cities and villages. The people of Belarus find it important that this monument will store a piece of our deeply wounded soul, that it will commemorate the tragedy of our nation."

- Alexander Lukashenko

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