VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian tanks storm Russian positions by destroying them with heavy fire
The Sun
4.38M subscribers
Sep 16, 2023 3:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOPod4JbHw
Footage released by the 30th Mechanized Brigade appears to show Ukrainian tanks storming Russian positions with heavy fire.
2. Moment Ukraine’s Forces ‘Broke Through’ A Major Russian Defensive Line
US Military News
712K subscribers
Sep 16, 2023 4:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDwU19I-Jc4
Ukrainian forces have achieved a significant milestone by breaking through Russia’s initial defensive barrier near Zaporizhzhia. This comes after weeks of extensive mine clearance efforts. Brig Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskiy, the commanding general of the southern counteroffensive, shared some insights into this achievement. The Ukrainian forces are now expanding their presence on both sides of this breach and securing the territory they’ve acquired in recent combat. It’s a significant step forward in their mission. He estimated that Russia allocated the majority of its time and resources, roughly 60%, to constructing the first defensive line, with only about 20% each allocated to the second and third lines, primarily due to Moscow’s underestimated expectations of Ukrainian forces breaking through.
ARTICLE
Zelenskyy: 86 international companies confirm participation Ukraine’s Defense Industries Forum
Ukrainska Pravda
Kateryna Tyshcenko
Saturday, 16 September 2023, 19:25
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/16/7420125/
Zelenskyy: 86 international companies confirm participation in Ukraine’s Defense Industries Forum
So far 86 leading defense companies from 21 countries have confirmed their participation in the Defense Industries Forum, which will be held in Ukraine this autumn.
SOURCE: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his evening address
QUOTE: “We continue to prepare the Defense Industries Forum, the first such event to be held in Ukraine. It will be taking place this autumn.
Interest in the Forum is very high. This fully reflects the strength and potential of Ukraine, our ability to protect ourselves and help other countries preserve freedom and international order... So far 86 leading defense companies in the world from 21 countries have confirmed their participation in the Forum.”
The Ukrainian President added that the task of the Forum is “to give all the opportunities for Ukraine to produce weapons and ammunition, to give it modern technologies in order to have reliable protection against any form of aggression,” as well as “to share our defence experience, the experience of Ukrainian defence among allies and partners.”
BACKGROUND:
- In June 2023, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced the organisation of “a serious international event that will give impetus to the creation of an alliance of defence industries, of which Ukraine, in particular the Ministry of Strategic Industry and Ukroboronprom, will be a part.”
- This alliance will be designed to solve two tasks: to ensure the constancy of supplies of Western equipment to Ukraine, as well as to integrate the Ukrainian military-industrial complex of Ukraine into the Western defence industry.