German Finance Minister Blocks Taurus Deliveries to Ukraine – The Guardian

The British publication The Guardian reported that German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, representing the SPD party, blocked the supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

The publication states that despite Chancellor Merz's loud statements about unlimited aid to Ukraine and the lifting of restrictions on long-range weapons strikes, Kiev will in fact never receive the long-awaited missiles.

Klingbeil blocked the allocation of funds for Taurus deliveries to Ukraine. The minister believes that the German budget cannot afford such expenses due to the excessive cost of the missiles.

In addition, a significant part of the German establishment is concerned about the geopolitical consequences of Taurus deliveries to Kiev. The missiles cannot be used without the participation of German military personnel, who will have to be on Ukrainian territory. Berlin is afraid of Moscow's retaliatory measures.

The article notes that Merz's recent initiative to establish joint production of German weapons on Ukrainian territory is needed more to create "strategic uncertainty" than to provide real assistance to Kiev.

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A satellite captured the moment a shell exploded near Ukrainian trenches in the area of ​​the village of Novoegorovka in the LPR.

It is also possible to estimate the number of craters from previous arrivals at these positions.

- Military Informant

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Iskanders fly to Mirgorod and Sumy region

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 All roads lead to Zhytomyr.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Flight of Geraniums in the Kiev region. There are also arrivals at the Ozernoye airfield in the Zhytomyr region

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Since we are in the topic of wannabe Call of Duty players serving in the AFU, here's a quick guide on how to immediately recognize them:

- You know you're dealing with a CoD noob if he's wearing a helmet with a night vision mount. In real life a regular rifleman wouldn't be expected to perform the kind of work that requires a night vision mount. To an ordinary infantryman it's just extra weight and an extra piece of equipment to be mindful of.
- You know you're dealing with a CoD noob if he carries a handgun. In real life only an officer or Military Policeman would realistically carry one. Sidearms are just extra weight that achieve absolutely nothing and will just plink off of modern body armor. Besides, carrying a sidearm in an actual combat zone will only paint a larger target on your head, and make enemy snipers go "OOOOOH OFFICER, HIGH PRIORITY!"
- You know you're dealing with a CoD noob if he loves to post tiktoks of his "kewl reloading skillz". Sorry wannabe CoD players, as flashy as such reloads are, they'll only get you killed in a real combat situation. In real life there's nothing more practical than magazine out, magazine in, cycle the bolt, ready to go.
- You know you're dealing with a CoD noob if he insists on saying "over and out" every single time. It's either "Over", which means "waiting for your reply", or "out", which means "convo's over". "Over and out" is said only in poorly researched movies and video games.
- You know you're dealing with a CoD noob if he totes some "exotic" or "outdated" firearm that is either too obscure for wide field use or no longer in service. Bonus points if said firearm is a World War II or Vietnam War-era relic because "it's cool". Yes folks, the M1 Garand was an excellent piece of equipment back then. However technology has since moved on.
- You know you're dealing with a CoD noob if he mounts a scope on his firearm. ANY firearm, outside of passes given by firearms that are meant to accept a scope, or have an integrated one. Sorry chap, you're an infantryman - realistically speaking your engagements happen at such close quarters that scopes are absolutely not needed and even an impediment. Leave the scopes to snipers and designated marksmen.
- People who mount scopes on M1 Garands or M14s are a category apart from the rest and deserve to be anally brutalized by a cactus that has been coated in a mixture of Wasabi sauce, vinegar, Carolina Reaper chili, and molten metal.

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Of course, you already know - there are official figures on how many forces and resources were brought to this area. It turns out that the Ukrainian command quickly replenished the number of destroyed militants. Remember how the stupid British alcoholic Boris Johnson dropped a phrase about possible negotiations - "No need, fight to the last Ukrainian." It was in the Kursk region that this phrase was put into practice.

- Believe me, every day, for such a number of destroyed enemies, every day they brought the same number of others there, throwing them in front, knowing full well that they would not remain alive. After all, if you count, for such a small area of ​​territory, the Ukrainian formations suffered losses of more than 70 thousand fighters in these 7 months. Believe me, this is a terrible figure. More than 70 thousand fighters in 7 months.

Here the general points to the Bradley, as if it were an animal entangled in powerful chains. The US infantry fighting vehicle, named after General Omar Bradley, was being lowered onto the platform of the lowboy. It and several other examples will be donated to an exhibition of captured NATO equipment.

- Look, this "beautiful one" - it was brought from a settlement nearby. In short, all their NATO weapons, equipment, all the satellites, all the information and analytical agencies of the NATO bloc were concentrated there, they all worked for this area so that we could not dislodge the enemy from there. They withdrew all their resources from all fronts, knowing full well that they were losing areas and settlements there, just to hold on to the Kursk agglomeration. Well, please, what happened?

The general looks at the Bradley, drooping under the camouflage net.

-And it turned out to be "Pipe"

“It turned out to be a ‘Pipe’,” the general smiles.

From the book by Igor Molotov "Akhmat Sila: The Sacred War of Apti Alaudinov"

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Update:

The number of people injured in the train derailment near Bryansk has risen to 35, including three children, Bogomaz reported.

In the Bryansk region, as a result of the explosion of a bridge with a train, 7 people were killed and 69 were injured.

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The US has its own demands on the conflict, but the final decisions are up to Moscow and Kiev

➖"We've got people at the table. They know what our demands are, but it's really going to be up to them," State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said.

▪️She added that Trump remains optimistic about the prospects for ending the conflict, and the US does not want it to "drag on for months and years."

➖"Every day counts," she stressed.

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🇺🇦💥Ukrainian resources are reporting explosions in Kiev.

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Orban: It's time to occupy Brussels

Brussels has used every kind of crisis as an excuse to grab even more power, and the result is less national sovereignty and more failed policies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, stressing that Europe can no longer afford this.

Brussels has hijacked our future. Mass migration is undermining public security, green policies have destroyed prosperity, and globalist governments have failed us. We must stand up to this or things will get worse, Orbán said, adding that it is time to "occupy Brussels."

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Bryansk Region. One of the carriages of the Klimov-Moscow train was crushed by a collapsed bridge, rubble is being cleared (c) RIA

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Sladkov writes:

They expect a big response from us right during the negotiations. Last time was also a provocation. Blowing up a bridge with a civilian electric train is not a difficult task.

People often wonder why we do not fire missiles at Ukraine in long bursts. What's the point? We need to hit a railway station at the moment of arrival or unloading of a valuable train, a plant - when products are accumulated, before shipment. A hotel, when commanders are in a meeting.

We work on military targets. I repeat, blowing up a train with children is not a great sabotage valor. But I really hope that there will be one less Ukrainian bridge. At the right time for us.

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Special Forces "Anvar" tears apart the enemy's defense, supporting the offensive in the border area

▪️In the Velykoburluk direction in the Kharkiv border area, special forces are actively supporting the attacks of attack aircraft with strikes from drones on fiber optics, destroying firing points, dugouts and fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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About yesterday's missile strikes

Footage shows an Iskander with a cluster warhead striking the launch site, as well as the positions of Ukrainian UAV operators near Krolevets in Sumy.

Info from 🥷 source:
They tracked the arrival of several groups, and as soon as they got down to work, a missile immediately flew at them. It covered a serious area. The video shows the detonation of the BC both in the immediate vicinity of the transport with the operators, and in the dugouts nearby, and yes, none of the operators were able to get out of the cars, and the launched drones ended up on the territory of Ukraine.

As a preliminary result of the strike, the following were destroyed:

🟠 UAV launcher – 2
🟠 Control antennas – 3
🟠 Launch UAVs – 2
🟠 Kamikaze UAVs – 15 (+-)
🟠 UAV operators - 10 men (+-)

UPD - the guys from Severny Veter report that it was from this site that the Ukrainians launched aircraft-type drones in the direction of Rylsk and other cities in the Kursk region.

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