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I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
⚡️Lithuania has fortified part of the border with the Kaliningrad region with mines and concrete barriers in the shape of “dragon's teeth”
📍Russia's Uralvagonzavod has shipped a new batch of T-90M Proryv tanks to the Russian army
📌The Ukrainian company Besomar has developed an interceptor drone to shoot down Russian drones
17 IRIS-Ts will boost Ukraine’s air defenses but it’s still not enough, experts say
Ukraine's continued requests to Western allies for more air defenses were answered in part this week, with the announcement that Germany has ordered an additional 17 IRIS-T air defense systems for Kyiv.
And the timing couldn't be more critical – an ongoing campaign of aerial strikes on Kharkiv, devastating attacks like that on Ukraine's largest children's hospital in July, a strike on Poltava earlier this week that killed at least 55 people, and an attack on Lviv the day after, repeatedly highlight the shortcomings in the country's air defenses.
But according to experts who spoke to the Kyiv Independent, while welcome, the IRIS-Ts will be unable to protect from something that has become an increasing concern in recent days – Iranian ballistic missiles.
💥Ukrainian officials now reporting that the ammunition depot destroyed by Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia's Voronezh region last night also contained 7 North Korean ballistic missiles.
Detonations lasted for several hours.
7 down, 193 to go.
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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany and its partners will hand over 77 more Leopard 1A5 tanks and 12 howitzers to Ukraine
At Ramstein, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the allies want to hand over additional Leopard tanks to Ukraine as soon as possible.
Germany will also provide 12 Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers. Half of them will be delivered this year and the rest next year.
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❗️CNN has released a video showing Russian soldiers allegedly killing three Ukrainian soldiers during a surrender in August in the Pokrovsk direction
Prosecutor General Kostin tells CNN that his office is investigating 28 executions of prisoners since the beginning of the war, in which 62 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.
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The burial of the family killed by hypersonic missiles. The missiles hit a mere 3 minutes after the air raid siren went off. Only the father survived
Overnight with explosions that rattled every home in Kyiv, Russians tried to blow up the Ukrainian Parliament with Iranian drones.
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🇮🇷 Iran has confirmed that it has transferred missiles to Russia. An Iranian MP said that Tehran gives Moscow missiles and drones, and Moscow gives soybeans and wheat in return
He also added that the partnership with Russia helps Iran circumvent sanctions and receive foreign currency for arms sales.
Meanwhile, Iran's mission to the UN denied supplying missiles to Russia, and the Foreign Ministry said that Iran “has never been a part” of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
The WSJ newspaper wrote the day before that Iran had already transferred several hundred ballistic missiles to Russia.
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⚡️ Russian POWs held in Ukraine no longer allowed to call relatives, ombudsman says.
Russian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Ukrainian camps are no longer allowed to make phone calls to their relatives, Ukraine's Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced on Sept. 7.
Lubinets said that the ban does not violate the Geneva Conventions, as Russian POWs can still send written letters to their families.
Russian UAV crashed in Latvia on Saturday.
According to the Latvian defence ministry, the incident occurred on Saturday in the Rezekne region in eastern Latvia.
The competent institutions are still investigating the event, but preliminary data indicates that a Russian military drone entered Latvian airspace from Belarus.
In accordance with established procedures, Latvian defence forces notified high-ranking government representatives, law enforcement officers, and NATO commanders.
As far as it is known, this is the first time a Russian military drone has violated Latvian airspace since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In light of this, Latvia's Minister of Defence, Andris Sprūds, emphasised the importance of continuing the work initiated to fortify the country's eastern border, particularly the development of air defence capabilities and electronic warfare.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics emphasised the necessity of a unified reaction to incidents involving Russian drones, stating that "the number of such incidents on NATO's eastern flank is growing".
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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