On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said Russian forces destroyed a large stockpile of weapons provided by the US and European countries in missile strikes in Ukraine. The ministry said the strikes were delivered using Kalibr cruise missiles and that they targeted sites in the city of Zaporizhzhia.
The ministry said that the strikes “destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied to Ukrainian troops by the United States and European countries.”
While what exactly has been destroyed isn’t clear, Russia has been reporting frequent strikes on arms provided by the US and its allies. Over the weekend, Moscow said it targeted a depot containing weapons provided by NATO countries near Odessa.
According to Ukrainian officials, Russia has started targeting railway stations that are used to transport Western-provided arms. The Russians have repeatedly warned the US and its allies against pouring weapons into Ukraine, but the Western powers have only escalated military assistance.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the Biden administration has pledged about $3.7 billion in military aid for Ukraine. On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin led a 40-nation conference in Germany on arming Ukraine and vowed the US would keep moving “heaven and earth” to get more weapons into Kyiv’s hands.
A good way to destroy old weapons from storage, and the frenzy of new money will go to manufacture new ones.
Exactly. It’s a war-profiteer’s bonanza.
But ***STAND WITH UKRAINE!!!***, wink, wink.
And inflation killing USA citizens roars on.
France’s victorious Macron boosts weapons, stakes in Ukraine
As he embarks on a second term, with the intention of keeping France at the forefront of international efforts to force Putin to change course in Ukraine, Macron has given a green light for the delivery of modern artillery pieces to Kyiv.
Firing six rounds per minute over 40 kilometers (25 miles) or more, the truck-mounted Caesar cannons will allow Ukrainian crews to pound Russian troops from afar, then move and pound them again. Used to great effect against Islamic State forces in Iraq and in other conflicts, they represent a step up in France’s assistance to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government.
In another remarkable move, Macron is talking openly about the guns, lifting a veil of secrecy he’d thrown over French military aid. The delivery and the publicity together signal a tougher line from Macron in his dealings with Putin — talking less and engaging more in brinksmanship with the Kremlin.
Good riddance. WAY to many of these weapons sloshing around in the world. The vast majority of which have “made in the USA” tags.
There was a time when the USA used to make useful stuff…
Are you kidding? If someone you don’t like is driving a tank around your front yard, has killed your neighbors after raping their daughter a Javelin is very very useful
Yes, driving tanks through yards, killing neighbors and raping women add in torture is exactly what Ukrainian thugs did in the Donbas. Well documented by the OSCE, the UN, other organizations and authentic media.btw.. That’s why I oppose these weapons being supplied to either side. Fact is that the Western governments are accessories in war crimes for setting up this atrocity. . The leaders of those countries know what the Ukrainian government did.
Most Ukrainians are innocent of their governments actions. They are paying a steep price for the psychopaths running Ukraine.
It’s the Wagner outfit that rapes women and children.
Another name?
Russki lover?
Finnish NAZI?
my country fought NAZIS.
Allied with the USSR.
Finland isn’t a country made up of Nazis.
I think your mom has told you way too many bedtime story’s about nazis. Maybe you have one under your bed, have you checked??
That list is long:
USA
Great Britain
Poland
France
Norway
Holland
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
etc etc…
Yes.
Thank you for that Timo.
Gog cannot be Russia because the extended lists is Magog: a confederacy.
Always happy to help the uneducated 👍
It is the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. = Government goons and thugs.
Nope, the Wagner group is closely linked to the Russian state and the Kremlin.
Bet this wished they had Javelins instead of that Soviet crap.
Lets see what defences Finland has?
Javelins are useless on missiles sonny.
Russia can deploy a hundred Hypersonics and every one makes its mark in less than 20 minutes from a static launch. Javelins do nothing in that contest.
PATRIOT missiles cannot catch up to a Hypersonic or intercept it.
A rotating radar is useless, needs a Phased Array 100% of the time to track one If you could register it: They have Advance stealth.
If You have not noticed, Old inventory is being deployed to use up.
Finland is going to get pounded.
Finland will be backed up by NATO. Enough said ✌️
like Ukraine is now?
lol.
what a simpleton Fin.
All mental ascent, sensation and no substance son.
Finland is too isolated.
Finland cannot become part of NATO because they colluded with NAZI GERMANY.
Russia is going to lance that boil of a fascist nation.
We can talk about that more later.
Kiddo, as a member of NATO Finland will enjoy full protection according to article 5.
Ukraine, unfortunately, isn’t a member of NATO and has never had a fast track option to membership like Finland has.
The Russians have shown themselves to be stupid, so predictions about what a stupid country is going to do are difficult because obviously they might do something stupid. Still I don’t think they are that stupid.
Russia hoped to smash in and grab Kiev in a few days and present the world with a fait accompli. That didn’t happen and it looks like they really have no sensible plan B. Planning of this special military operation was done it seems by the intelligence agencies and not the military. So that is a tad weird and may point to why you don’t do that.
The Finns are ready and waiting. Go for it.
How many different names you and your dad have here?
You cannot win by saying so or cheerleading for Fascism.
Every major world regime since the 1920s has been effectively fascist.
Two stupid Americans thought so in Ukraine. They went to the front waving a Javelin. Before the tanks they thought were coming, Russian artillery put them in the hospital. Apparently no one told them that Russian artillery precedes their armor. Morons.
British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday it would be legitimate for Ukrainian forces to target Russian logistics to cripple their supply of food, fuel and munitions but they were unlikely to use British weapons to do so.
Wallace said under international law Ukraine had every right to defend itself.
“Part of defending itself in this type of invasion is obviously where Ukraine will go after the supply lines of the Russian army because without fuel and food and ammunition, the Russian army grinds to a halt and can no longer continue its invasion,” he told BBC TV.
As we all know by now, Russian logistics sucks even without any disruption from Ukraine. Who can forget about the 5 miles long Russian convoy that was stuck north of Kyiv for weeks? Haha 😂
Your ” they sucks” rhetoric is weak and sophomoric pablum son.
You really hate living in the US, don’t you?
Have you failed so miserably in life that everyone around have become more successful than you?
I pity you, sometimes life throw you a curveball, I guess…
Being petty that you cannot win in a simple match of wits?
If you really love your Finland then go and defend it from their internet.
That is your patriotism to normalize NAZI affiliations.
The Nazi label does not fit RUSSIA does it?
No.
Finland cannot join NATO and Switzerland cannot either for the same reason. Norway too.
Haha, are you drunk?
Norway is already a member and Finland will be one in the very near future, regardless how much Moscow protest and scream in agony.
GO and defend NATO BEFORE YOU ARE CONSCRIPTED HERE
“Being petty that you cannot win in a simple match of wits?”
Haha, you are the most pathetic little troll I’ve ever come across, up-voting all your OWN comments?!
Absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣
only way I can upvote my comments is if DISCUS thinks I am a different player.
thganks son
Haha, loser, I caught you.
but how? how did you know?
Sure. The Ukrainian government that wants NATO involved will not use NATO weapons to attack targets inside Russia.
What an idiotic statement by Wallace. The stupidity of the British high command continues to astound me.
“Ukraine was a sovereign country that was living peacefully within its owner borders and then another country decided to violate those borders and bring 130,000 troops across into their country.
“That started a war between Ukraine and Russia, and in war Ukraine needs to strike into its opponent’s depth to attack its logistics lines, its fuel supplies, its ammunition depots, and that’s part of it.”
He added that it was “completely legitimate for Ukraine to be targeting in Russia’s depth in order to disrupt the logistics that if they weren’t disrupted would directly contribute to death and carnage on Ukrainian soil”.
The UK has always had the courage to stand up against tyranny; they refused to yield to Hitler in 1940 and they won’t give in to Putin in 2022 either.
too bad you cannot get a refund for bad home schooling.
I did see you with your sister a few years back and I know what you two did on Prom night.
Conservation of Momentum…! Weapons In = Weapons Destroyed …!
As if this was unexpected. Now that the fighting is concentrated in the east, over 1000 km from the Polish border, this will be the fate of near all the “heavy weapons” being “supplied” (or, dumped in) to Ukraine – Russia will drop the rail bridges over the Dnieper, then strike the depots; and little if anything will get through to Donbas – the castoff Polish and Slovenian supplied ex-Soviet tanks certainly can’t drive that far on their own tracks.
Not that it really matters; the crap the “eastern NATO members” are “generously donating” is all of limited value anyway, being primarily 35 year old soviet equipment that has been sitting in “storage” (i.e., rusting away in some godforsaken warehouse) for decades; the point isn’t to “aid Ukraine” but to trick the USA and Germany into “backfilling” these “donor nations defensive needs” with new, NATO compatible equipment for FREE in exchange for the marginally useless junk given to Ukraine. a”win” for everyone – except US taxpayers, and the poor Ukrainian civilians; two groups that deserve much better.
Well Said…!
Forty nations ain’t shit compared to the number of nations in the entire world.
If those forty nations want to bleed themselves dry giving weapons to the Ukrainazis for the Russians to blow up, go for it.
So that implies that Mali is going to be rushing aid to Russia? Somehow I think not. For your amusement you might add up the economic power of those 40 versus the world. So far the USA is into this for 5 billion which is a tiny sum for our Pentagon this is a 75% off war compared to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Good that you bring those two other conflicts up; because the only things learned from them is 1) nothing the pentagon or state department says can be believed, 2) US “training” of “allies” is woefully deficient, 3) “aid” given = “aid” wasted, 4) we (the USA) are ALWAYS “winning”. until it turns out that in truth, we aren’t.
Pretty sure Ukraine is on the same glide path; it’s what we do.
Funny you said that just as Biden asked for $33 billion more.
Yes that is a big chunk of change. That is 50% of the annual ( before theft) defense budget of Russia.
A fatal design flaw in Russian tanks dating back to the Gulf War has made them ‘sitting ducks’ for Ukrainian attacks, experts have revealed.
Unlike in Western tanks, Russian vehicles store up to 40 shells in a carousel at the base of the turret, making them extremely vulnerable.
Even an indirect hit can spark a chain reaction, igniting all the ammunition at once and decapitating the vehicles dubbed ‘mobile coffins’ by Western military experts.
The ‘jack-in-the-box effect’ has contributed to the devastating loss of up to 970 Russian tanks.
It explains why dozens of charred tanks with their turrets completely blown off have been spotted during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with videos showing the top part of the vehicles flying high into the air.
Oops, who could ever have thought that Russia’s tanks were even worse than their cars… Poor tank crews, no wonder they prefer to just abandon their tanks.
enjoying winning?
Hypersonics will put an end to that.
I’m still waiting for those hypersonics to enter action 😂😂😂
Oh boy!
Fortunately for us, we can make more!
Hence ‘the long war’ is back in the saddle again!
Biden:
Spends another 33 billion on Ukraine and wants Congress to fund it.
Our State department relies on journalists in Ukraine for intelligence?
Just say it: Starlink is the vehicle (is how) for the Why the media for this war is being praised.
That puts a target on every back of every western media journalist in Ukraine.