For the record, The EU recently approved enough funding to carry Ukraine for the next year.
Further, the US has supplied new rocket propelled smart bombs good for 180 km range that can hit an tank at a tremendous distance. The need for conventional artillery has been diminished by American technology not even presently deployed to our military.
It is now a new game where the Russians are severely outclassed
“new rocket propelled smart bombs good for 180 km range”
The Russians have sheet metal. Is it a $200 metal dummy or a tank?
>>The EU recently approved enough funding to carry Ukraine for the next year.
The recently approved EU funding is not for weapons. It keeps the bureaucracy, pensions, kleptocracy going over 4 more years.
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Key aspects of the Ukraine aid deal, however, remained murky.
It was not clear if EU leaders had also approved a separate military aid fund for Ukraine worth 20 billion euros ($21.7bn), proposed last July. Nor was it clear if they would move forward with the five billion euros ($5.43bn) in military aid proposed by Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief.
Thursday’s deal, known as the “Ukraine Facility“, consists of 17 billion euros ($18.5bn) in grants and 33 billion euros ($35.8bn) in loans, designed to help Ukraine rebuild and recover from the war.
The funding is also expected to help Ukraine make reforms on its path to eventual EU membership. EU leaders officially invited Ukraine to become a member in December, but around the same time, Hungary vetoed the aid package, saying Ukraine funding should not be grafted onto the EU multi-annual budget.
The aid’s eventual passage on Thursday was met with cheers from Ukrainian officials. Deputy Prime Minister Yuliya Svyrydenko wrote on Facebook that, with the funding, Ukraine had “come one step closer to economic stability for the next four years”.
Ukraine faces a $43bn budget deficit this year and expects the EU aid will cover just under half of it.