According to FFI, the Ukrainian battlefield experience reinforced Norway’s decision to prioritize artillery systems capable of achieving more than 40 kilometers in range and better survivability, and led to a reassessment of ammunition acquisition strategy, favoring volume and cost-effective accuracy improvements over limited high-cost precision rounds. The evaluation judged the acquisition to be economically sound and aligned with modern operational requirements, despite noting that long-term viability would depend on integrated force protection and continued ammunition procurement.
I read a news item about how the recent surge of drone aggression is stressing Ukrainians and affecting moral. It wasn't clear whether that was a propaganda piece meant to imply Ukraine is weakening, but I have noticed far fewer Zelenskyy updates in the past couple of months, and the feeling I get from even the pro-Ukrainian media that the invasion is wearing Ukraine down.
[UK] will provide for the delivery of more than 5,000 air defence missiles from Thales, which will not only significantly strengthen the UK's defence capabilities but also help Ukraine continue its resistance in the war launched by Russia.
I don't necessarily agree with the author's worldview and politics, as a USian while I am wary of China the obsessive fear mongering over China as a distraction from talking about basic things like say getting people in the US good quality affordable healthcare is obnoxious and self defeating even if it is your job to analyze such things. My whole life US warhawks have been writing nonstop about war with China.. yeah it could happen but these kinds of people are monotone and exhausting... If you aren't from the US you don't probably have any idea how repeatedly this narrative is beat over USians heads. Even during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars the US military industrial complex was loudly repeating to the US populace that this wasn't the actual war they were going to fight and we needed to remember that China was the real enemy.....
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 155 mm artillery shells and GMLRS (mobile rocket artillery) missiles were now being provided to Ukraine.
The officials did not say how many weapons were being sent and whether the shipment was complete. It was also unclear why the latest shipments only included shells and artillery missiles and whether any decision had been made to resume shipments of other weapons.
The city of Lutsk, home to airfields used by the Ukrainian army, was the hardest hit, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It lies in western Ukraine near the border with Poland, a region that is a crucial hub for receiving foreign military aid.
Ukrainian defense officials have stated that monthly output reached 20 units, with optimal conditions allowing for up to 36. By mid-2025, more than 85% of components were sourced domestically, with a target of reaching 95% by the end of the year. Manufacturing operations are distributed across facilities in Ukraine and EU member states to reduce exposure to missile attacks.
Marhanets, a town where more than 40 thousand people lived before the full-scale war, has been terrorized by Russians for over three years. The town has frequent power and water shortages, and the residents suffer from regular artillery shelling and drone attacks from the occupied Enerhodar on the left bank of the Dnipro, which is seven kilometres away in a straight line.
Ukraine has been highly successful at countering Russian artillery. Any gun firing can be spotted by counter-artillery radar, like the U.S. -made AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder, which tracks shells in flight and calculates their source. New Ukrainian-made acoustic detectors which recently went into mass production are likely to figure increasingly.
Russian forces have occupied the settlements of Zelenyi Kut and Novoukrainka near the administrative border between Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast and are trying to advance further.
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