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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Jun 29

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Sweden Won't Turn Its Older Gripen Fighters Into Spares, Offering Ukraine a Rare Opportunity
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The plan to dismantle 60 JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighters to use their components for the new Gripen E/F fighters was dismissed, the aircraft will retain their combat capability, meaning they can be transferred
Swedish Ministry of Defense has ultimately rejected the idea of dismantling older JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighters to produce more advanced Gripen E/F variants, opting instead to allocate funds for new equipment procurement

This decision ensures that the entire fleet of legacy Gripen C/Ds will remain combat-capable and not be cannibalized for spare parts, as Saab confirmed.

The company announced it has been awarded a contract worth 2.9 billion Swedish kronor (~€260 million) to supply components for the production of 60 Gripen E fighters

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On a note from Defense Express, in 2024 Sweden had already set aside 14 Gripen C/D aircraft and saved them from parts cannibalization by ordering additional components. This move preserved the option of transferring these fighters to Ukraine. Now, with the Swedish government's latest decision, this potential transfer becomes more viable.

At the same time, the decision is also important for preserving Sweden’s own defense capacity, allowing its Air Force to induct new Gripen E fighters without sacrificing the operational readiness of existing C/D jets

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Jun 28

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Russia is expanding its capabilities in the production of drones, infantry fighting vehicles and aircraft: ISW predicted what the aggressor is preparing for

obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-ro…

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The terrorist country Russia

is increasingly investing in its defense industry. In particular, the aggressor is expanding its capabilities in the production of drones, infantry fighting vehicles, aircraft, and shipbuildingobozrevatel.com/ukr/entity/ros…

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The Russians are relying on these key platforms in a future war with NATO, according to an analysis by the Institute for the Study of War.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…

According to the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting, affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russians increased their industrial production by 2.6% between April and May 2025. Much of this growth is due to a sharp increase in the production volumes of Russia's defense industry.

Russia's monthly aircraft production rate increased by 16.9% in May 2025 compared to April 2025 and is 1.6 times higher than the monthly production rate in 2024. Russia also increased its naval and aircraft production capacity by 16% between February and May 2025. The center's data suggests that Russia is seeking to expand its naval and aircraft production capacity, which is a medium- to long-term effort and is likely part of Russia's ongoing efforts to restructure and rebuild its armed forces in preparation for a long-term conflict with NATO.

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Jun 27

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Thread:
Author
David Kirichenko
@DVKirichenko
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Russia Is Ready to Begin Its Summer Offensive

June 27, 2025

Russia’s summer offensive signals Putin’s determination to overwhelm Ukraine using mass drone warfare, motorcycle assaults, and Chinese tech support, while betting on scale, endurance, and Western hesitancy to act

nationalinterest.org/feature/russia…

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Vladimir Putin appears increasingly confident that Russia will ultimately prevail on the battlefield in Ukraine as Moscow wages a bloody summer offensive.

Just as Putin claimed in his 2021 essay
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” and that Ukraine’s sovereignty hinges on Moscow’s approval, he reiterated
meduza.io/en/news/2025/0…
in late June: “I’ve said it before, Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours. There’s an old rule that wherever a Russian soldier sets foot, that’s ours.”

https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/1937058461126156507

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Moskovsky Komsomolets noted that that phrase captured the essence of Putin’s “political faith and long-term strategy

https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/1937058461126156507

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Jun 27

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"Russia wants to complete the SVO with the desired result":

- Putin declared readiness for a new round of negotiations with Ukraine🤡

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow wants the "SVO" to end with the desired result and that the aggressor country's defense spending is aimed at this. He also announced that Russia is apparently ready for a new round of talks with Ukraine, all that remains is to agree on a place and time

obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-ro…

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Putin made these statements on June 27 during a press conference following a trip to Minsk.

Commenting on the deplorable economic situation and inflation in Russia,

" he claimed that Moscow was allegedly planning to cut defense spending".

According to him, Russia currently spends 6.3% of its GDP per year on defense, which, he says, is "not much."

"We paid for this with inflation, but we are fighting it. Most importantly, we plan to reduce defense spending," the dictator promised, adding that "all departments are thinking in this direction."

At the same time, Putin said, Europe is "thinking about how to raise spending."

"So who is preparing for aggressive actions, us or them? We want the SVO to be completed with the result we need, defense spending is aimed at this," the Kremlin leader said.

Speaking about the alleged "attempts of the West to bury" the Russian economy, he stated that "they themselves will soon die there, and they are burying us."

According to the Russian leader, the West will allegedly not be able to "cover up" oil supplies from Russia

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He also stated that the subject of the next round of negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will be a discussion of the memorandums of the two countries.

They are "opposites, but that's not surprising." The heads of the negotiating teams from Kyiv and Moscow are in constant contact and call each other, the dictator said

According to him, prisoner exchanges create the basis for "a substantive discussion of the essence of the problems between the Russian Federation and Ukraine."

Putin once again complained that Russia was allegedly "abandoned" by NATO's non-expansion to the east, and this was allegedly "one of the reasons for the SVO."

"NATO expansion was aggressive behavior by the West," he said.

The Kremlin leader also cynically stated that the Russian Federation allegedly "tried to peacefully resolve the problems" in Donbas for eight years, "but the West both deceived and waged an undeclared war there🤡

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Jun 27

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Carl-Oskar Bohlin

Swedish journalist:

On a makeshift patio right next to the harbor basin in Visby ( Sweden town at the island Gotland ), Vladyslav and Malik are sitting.

Neither I nor anyone else in Almedalen ( an speachplace during this week ) can possibly fully understand the extent of what they have been through and been subjected to. After an hour of conversation, I ask them if I can try to recount what they have told me and they answer in the affirmative.

- That is why we have come here, to let the outside world know what we have been through, they both say.

What they have come to Almedalen to tell about is their time as Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia. For two and two and a half years respectively, they were forced to endure what had made every circle in Dante's hell seem like a holiday trip. Malik begins.

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- We were woken up at 6am every morning. The day started with us being beaten all over our bodies with sticks, then we were forced back into the cell. Eight to ten people in each cell, monitored by a camera.

From six in the morning we were then forced to stand in individual positions completely still until ten in the evening.
No one was allowed to move,
no one was allowed to talk,
no one was allowed to do anything.

If a single person moved, fell or somehow fell out of the frame, the door was opened and everyone in the cell was taken out to be subjected to collective punishment.

We were given electric shocks and beaten all over our bodies.

- When I ask how it is even physically possible to stand upright in exactly the same position day in and day out for all waking hours of the day, Malik replies;

- When you have experienced first being soaked and then attacked with an electric rod that is plugged into a wall socket, you will stand up until it is the last thing you do. Some died, some lost their composure.

Those who went crazy, as Malik puts it, disappeared. He continues;

- Russia will never send them back, they never want to show what happened to these people.

For two and a half years, this was every day of Malik's life.

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- They told us that Ukraine was gone, that the country had fallen and that we would never be allowed back.

New prisoners of war were carefully placed in other places so as not to be able to provide updates on developments on the ground in Ukraine.

But one day, a recently captured Ukrainian soldier was accidentally placed in their cell, who could tell us how things really were. Free Ukraine still existed to a very large extent and Russia had been pushed back at the beginning of the war.

It gave them the strength to continue to endure, concludes Malik.

Vladyslav was placed in another prison and in another hell. Here, the prisoners were given penal servitude, but almost nothing to eat.

- We ate mice that we could find and catch, we ate soap, we ate everything we could get our hands on.

I ask if they didn't get any food.

- Yes, sometimes, but in small rations and food that was prepared in a way that was intended to make it almost inedible. We were given bread that was mixed with soil.

They beat us daily, they sent their guard dogs after us, who bit us. Sometimes they forced us into a small drying cabinet.

5 people at a time were packed tightly into a drying cabinet, then they closed the door and turned up the heat until we almost lost consciousness.

It went on like this, day after day, Vladyslav says.

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Jun 26

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Putin under pressure to declare war on Ukraine, but experts say Russia isn't ready

kyivindependent.com/putin-formal-w…

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Despite suffering over 1 million casualties, pounding Ukrainian cities nightly with missiles and drones, and committing countless war crimes, one startling fact about Russia's full-scale invasion remains — Moscow has yet to officially declare war on Ukraine

In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin described what he believed was going to be a swift victory and the capture of Kyiv within days as a "special military operation."
bbc.com/news/technolog…

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Nearly three-and-a-half years later, the Kremlin is stuck with the term, caught in a quandary of its own making — waging by what any measure is a war, while being unable to call it one for fear of a domestic backlash

"Putin has protected himself in this war by separating the direct effects of the war from the majority of the Russian population."

A formal declaration of war would have far-reaching implications for the country's industry and economy, as well as allowing the Kremlin to launch a full mobilization.

But partial mobilization announced in September 2022 led to the only widespread
dw.com/en/russia-pani…
protests against the war inside Russia, making clear to Putin that announcing anything more would cause him serious political problems.

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