Posted on 04/28/2022 3:38:26 AM PDT by GonzoII
Canada will be handing over the M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine, including the newest Excalibur extended-range GPS-guided shells.Militarnyi informs about this with reference to CBS.
The media obtained confirmations from three sources saying that four of the 155-mm howitzers were sent to Ukraine. For reference, Canada has 37 of these howitzers. Ukraine will be receiving these weapons from the 1st Regiment of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery inventory.
Anita Anand, Defence Minister noted that “a number of M-777 howitzers were shipped to Ukraine in cooperation with our American allies.”
The shipment included an unspecified amount of 155-mm ammunition.
Among other items, Ukraine will be receiving a number of precision-guided Excalibur rounds left over from the Afghan war. The M982 Excalibur is a 155-mm extended range guided artillery shell. The Excalibur was developed and manufactured by Raytheon Missiles & Defense and BAE Systems AB.
Excalibur is guided through the GPS and can hit targets up to 60 km away. And in December 2020, during the tests, the US Army successfully hit the target at a distance of 70 km. The weight is 44 kg, and the weight of the warhead is 22 kg…..
(Excerpt) Read more at mil.in.ua ...
They have also been taking out bridges and paths to distribute weaponry.
The Donbass war began when Azov fighters were sent there by Kiev to shoot at and shell and otherwise harass their fellow Ukrainians 24/7. Would you rather that the ppl living in the DPR were totally defenseless against their attackers? You’re apparently okay with America supplying Ukrainian soldiers with weapons, but you have a problem when Russia does the same? 🤯
The globalist-backed Maidan revolution/coup occurred in February 2014. The Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass weren’t happy that the democratically elected Russian-backed president was deposed and saw the writing on the wall for eastern Ukraine.
They held a referendum and voted overwhelmingly to seek independence from Ukraine. Poroshenko, et al, initially agreed to allow it, but then he changed his mind and sent in the Azov battalion to punish them.
Kiev has been treating the Donbass citizens abysmally for years and they were tired of it. So they did something about it, much like our forefathers 250 years ago. What is so objectionable about that?
Ukraine already has used US intelligence, data and weapons to strike inside Russia.
Our own dumbass government is bragging about it when they should be keeping their mouths shut.
Now Russia feels it has every right to strike weapons convoys heading to Ukraine that are in NATO countries.
The stupidity of our government in this war is heading toward disaster.
Give me a break. Even your early Russian separatist leader Igor Ivanovich Strelkov admitted Ukrainian locals didn't want to fight for "mother Russia"
In the video, Girkin, who was announced Friday as the “defense minister” of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” proclaimed by the separatists, sits at a desk in his camouflage uniform with no insignia other than the pro-Russian ribbon of St. George tied to his left sleeve. Reading from a statement, he is frustrated and even petulant. “I am going to say things you may not like, things that will insult your dignity,” he says to the people of Donetsk, “but they must be said.”
“When I was in Crimea [during Russia’s invasion in February and March] I was told that the Donetsk miners would rise up, they’d tear people apart with their bare hands,” Girkin says. “But now hundreds of thousands are calmly sitting in the comfort of their homes watching events unfold on television while drinking beer, waiting for an army from Russia to come and do your fighting.”
The few local men who have joined his militia are those aged over forty who were raised in Soviet times, and there is a complete absence of youth in his rebel ranks, Girkin says. “Where are the young people?” he asks, “Maybe in the gangs that are currently robbing, looting and wreaking havoc in the province?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHdrSm6jrU
Russia, can't even interdict the weapons in Ukraine, you think they can credibly attack and sustain an attack against a NATO country?
The idiots, UK too, are finding mics and making threats to other countries all over the place.
I have never seen anything as awful and careless as what they are doing.
They have also been taking out bridges and paths to distribute weaponry.
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Russia took out 5 substation in West ukrain. Most, 1000+ of their locomotives are electric,, ooops,, they have some 300+ diesel ones, those gonna be busy moving the electric doorsteps of the rails before the stuff can roll in from NATO.
NATO can’t just give Ukraine locomotives or moving stick cuz Soviet era railroad gauge is wider that europes, they can’t roll in Ukraine
Does NATO have a red ball express and the trucks and drivers to run one ?
Watch for Transnistria to be denied self determination
( rand paul you magnificent @@, you set the self determination trap and blinken walked right into it ! /-)
and it’s ammo dump ‘ liberated’.
Every one gets self determination except Transnistria ?
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Russia took out 5 substation in West ukrain. Most, 1000+ of their locomotives are electric,, ooops,, they have some 300+ diesel ones, those gonna be busy moving the electric doorsteps off the rails before the stuff can roll in from NATO.
NATO can’t just give Ukraine locomotives or moving stock cuz Soviet era railroad gauge is wider that europes, they can’t roll in Ukraine
Does NATO have a red ball express and the trucks and drivers to run one ?
Watch for Transnistria to be denied self determination
( rand paul you magnificent @@, you set the self determination trap and blinken walked right into it ! /-)
and it’s ammo dump ‘ liberated’.
Every one gets self determination except Transnistria ?
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