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“France has recovered €300M from the interest on frozen Russian assets to provide military equipment to Ukraine, including 12 new Caesar howitzers, 155mm shells, Aster missiles, and Mistral launchers. This funding will be used by the end of 2024, announced Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu. “

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1847895441808961789


7,399 posted on 10/20/2024 7:41:52 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Defeat the Pro-RuZZia wing of the Republican Party)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Last night the Sverdlov Ammunition plant in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia, was attacked by UAVs. Coordinates:

56°16'6.29"N, 43°22'43.93"E

People on the ground report that 14 UAVs were in the vicinity with 7 hitting the plant. Footages show rather large explosions coming directly from the facility. The results if the strikes remain yet to be seen.

The Sverdlov plant is an industrial behemoth. It is 16 square kilometers (6 square miles) in size and comprises of the production facility and extensive storage areas. It is located more than 760 km (480 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

Next to Dzerzhinsk, which btw, is one of dirtiest Russian cities, is the 53rd GRAU arsenal. This is a target-rich environment.

https://x.com/Tendar/status/1847972620072878349

Location on Google Maps


7,402 posted on 10/20/2024 9:39:51 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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"France has recovered €300M from the interest on frozen Russian assets to provide military equipment to Ukraine..."

Perhaps some of the €300M can be spent on South Korean weapons & ammo.

While the North Korean intervention in Russia's war against Ukraine exposed once again Western appeasement, it overshadowed something much more important. The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is a military and technological power house. Seoul always observes what the hostile neighbor in the North does and unlike the West, South Korea is for obvious reasons fully devoted in its cold war thinking process.

What that means can be summarized quite easily. Whatever North Korea does, it will be countered with a South Korean gambit. Seoul fully understands that a Russian win in Ukraine would mean a North Korean win. This won't be accepted in Seoul and unlike many other countries, South Korea has the means to do so. The list of potential weapons, which can be used to help Ukraine, is longer than Putin's table. From artillery shells and systems, over air defense assets and MLRS up to equipment for electronic warfare, everything what is needed for the war in Ukraine can be procured and especially produced in serial production in South Korea. Several countries such as Poland, Norway, Finland, Indonesia and more are lining up to get their hands on South Korean hardware, such as the K9 Thunder, and thanks to the fact that South Korea never left the Cold War, it maintained an industry which is capable of serial production while keeping up to technological edge. This enables South Korea to offer advanced military hardware for a lower price.

As mentioned in my post yesterday, Putin is tacticians, but a lousy strategist. His alliance with North Korea comes out of desperation. Almost half of all fired Russian artillery shells are originally from North Korea, and their quality is abysmal. For North Korea this alliance is much more beneficial. But it comes for a huge price, for both. South Korea will certainly not sit idle and will move against this unholy alliance. This means that Ukraine and South Korea will get closer. The war in Ukraine offers for South Korea's military industry and unique opportunity to test their weapon systems, which already are considered one of the best in the world.

So watch this space for what is about to come, and soon.

https://x.com/Tendar/status/1847758234486239338


7,408 posted on 10/20/2024 11:49:47 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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