FROM THE ANALYST
GOOD NEWS FOR UKRAINE

France has announced that it’s about to use emergency powers to requisition production facilities to manufacture weapons for itself and Ukraine.
The EU has granted €130m to Rheinmettal to improve factories for 155mm shell production in Spain, Romania, France and Germany.
The Czech government said that it has now been pledged enough money to increase the shell buying target from 800,000 to 1,500,000.
This has enabled the Ukrainian army to increase its artillery usage because it knows it’s getting new shells from other sources. The need to conserve for an emergency has been substantially reduced.
Interesting photos released showing how dispersed the Ukrainian building facilities are for the Bohdana Self Propelled Gun system. This makes it so much harder for the Russians to destroy production.
Ukrainian trainees returned to Warsaw from Suda Bay in Crete - a Greek/ NATO base where the Greek S300 were stationed. These are planned for transfer to Ukraine - having trained the operators it seems that transfer is already underway.
Russia admits that 10,000 Syrian volunteers in the Russian army basically vanished into the distance and haven’t been tracked down.
Russian artillery pieces since the invasion have fallen from 23,500 total in use and stored - only 4,500 are estimated to to be left operational. In addition the losses of SPG’s have forced the army to resort to older towed artillery.
Furthermore there is zero indication that Russia is building any kind of towed or self propelled artillery. Nor does it have spare barrels to refit worn guns with. They just don’t have enough of the precision equipment, the alloys or the capacity to do so.

NOT SUCH GOOD NEWS

Why is Russia using Starlink? How has this been allowed? Why is it Ukrainian systems are operating at half speed? Why have Russian systems not been turned off? WTF is Musk up to and why is he allowed to get away with it?

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!

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