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@bjorn_wegner @MariaEngqvist @FOIresearch @shashj @KofmanMichael @MassDara: Thanks. I look forward to reading it.

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Putin was reportedly shown video of a Khrizantema ATGM launched from a Mi-28NM attack helicopter.
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A likely AASM guided bomb strike on a Russian UAV command post in Kherson Oblast.
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Video posted yesterday from Ukraine's 1st Separate Marine Battalion showing another possible AASM or JDAM strike on a Russian position in Kherson Oblast. 2/
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Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk posted a video on March 4 showing another AASM strike on a building in Kherson Oblast. 3/
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/french-made-aasm-bomb-strikes-russians-in-the-kherson-region/
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RT @KofmanMichael: New Russia Contingency is out. I talk with @ChristopherJM about the early days of the war, his book, what it’s like to cover the war and recent news that he’s reporter on. @WarOnTheRocks

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A Russian Su-27 fighter crashed today near Sevastopol, possibly due to friendly fire. The pilot reportedly ejected and survived.
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RT @HalBrands: Some cool news: I have a new edited volume out on the Ukraine war at the 2-year mark. The contributors are a real cast of all stars. And best of all, it is available open-access--that is, totally free--online, here:

muse.jhu.edu/book/122782

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Interesting chapter from Alexander Bick who led the NSC's Russia-Ukraine Tiger Team on the Biden administration's thinking during the Russian buildup:

"Over the fall, the administration was trying to balance two contradictory objectives—to ensure that Ukraine had the capabilities to defend itself, while avoiding any steps that might increase the likelihood of an invasion or affix blame on the United States. As Colin Kahl, then under secretary of defense for policy, later put it, 'we didn’t want to inadvertently speed up the Russian clock, incentivize Putin, or give him a pretext to make a decision he had not made. Us leaning too far forward could create dynamics either within the alliance or as we were trying to build world opinion against the Russians that made us look like we were the provocateurs.'"
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_edited_volume/chapter/3881922

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@pierre_alonso @nytimes: It’s not only the Patriots that can shoot down ballistic missiles. SAMP-T can definitely intercepted Iskander-M and maybe Zircon. But it probably cannot intercept Kinzhals. Only Patriot PAC-3 MSE/CRI are proven to have shot down Kinzhal. But Ukraine needs both SAMP-T and Patriot.

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@ukraine_map @pierre_alonso @nytimes: NATO has around 100 Patriots and 17 SAMP-T split up between France and Italy.

Ukraine has received 3 Patriot Batteries and 1 SAMP-T Battery. Ukraine will need 10-12 of those batteries to effectively defend the country, and a couple more for the frontline.