The enemy troops do not stop singing praises to their offspring of the T-90M tank industry. They say this is such a child prodigy that will almost decide the fate of mankind It is not known how many of these coffins are already smoked /1
in the steppes of Ukraine, but one thing is known - the cure for the "breakthrough". It bears the name of the king. Your attention - "Karl Gustav".
"Karl Gustav" - Swedish hand-held anti-tank grenade reusable. The grenade launcher is designed to destroy armored targets, /2
fortifications, equipped and unequipped firing positions and enemy manpower, as well as to set up smoke screens and illuminate the area.
Caliber: 84 mm
Type: dynamo-reactive (recoilless + some types of grenades are active-reactive)
Length: 1130 mm
Weight: 9.5 kg
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Weight with optical sight: 14 kg
Effective firing range:
for fixed targets - 700 m,
on moving targets - 150 m,
on fixed targets with an active-reactive grenade - 1000 m
Armor penetration: more than 500 mm (with DZ 400 mm)
For a king, breakthrough armor is like a cardboard box
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The Swedish "Karl Gustav" grenade launcher was handed over to us in one of the first aid packages to Ukraine. Today it is one of the most effective and widespread grenade launchers in the world. It has been adopted by more than forty countries.
2/ When President Donald Trump was reminded in an interview with Time magazine
- this week that he had said he would end the Russian war on Ukraine on “day one,” he claimed he hadn’t been speaking literally or seriouslytime.com/7280114/donald…
3/ “Well, I said that figuratively, and I said that as an exaggeration, because to make a point, and you know, it gets, of course, by the fake news [unintelligible].
Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest, but it was also said that it will be ended,” Trump said, according to Time’s transcript. time.com/7280114/donald…
This “in jest” claim is a lie.
On the campaign trail in 2023 and 2024, Trump said on dozens of occasions, in an entirely serious tone, manner and context, that he would end the war in Ukraine either within 24 hours of his return to the White House or even sooner than that.
He said over and over again, including at both presidential debates of 2024, that he would have the war “settled” when he was president-elect, before his inauguration
1/ Russia does not have the military power to seize Ukraine: ISW explained why there is no "big concession" that Trump is talking about
2/ US President Donald Trump recently called Russia's alleged abandonment of plans to occupy all of Ukraine a "very significant concession."
- However,
the Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion precisely for this purpose, and subsequent years of bloody war have demonstrated Russia's inability to achieve this goalobozrevatel.com/ukr/person/don…
3/ Therefore, "renouncing" something that Russia is incapable of doing can hardly be considered a "major concession," according to a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
Analysts recalled that in 2022, Russia expected to capture #Kyiv in February-March in order to force Ukraine to completely surrender, overthrow the current Ukrainian government, and disarm the Ukrainian army, which would mean the complete defeat of Ukraine.
Russia failed to achieve this goal.
The Ukrainian military, with limited Western support, stopped the Russian offensive on the Ukrainian capital, as well as the advance of Russian troops in the east and south of the country.
And then,
by early April, they forced the Russians to flee from the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions, and a few months later liberated most of the Kharkiv region and part of the Kherson region, including Kherson
1/ Trump will not be able to jump off, because dictator Putin will not let him out of this situation. Interview with the Immortal
Last week in Paris, the United States presented its proposal for a settlement of the war to Ukraine and its European partners and awaited their response at talks in London.
That meeting of high-ranking representatives of Ukraine, Europe, and the United States, which was supposed to present a joint plan for a peaceful settlement, never took place.
- This is not surprising, because the "Trump plan", the presentation of which had been awaited for a long time, as it turned out, resembles more of a Putin-style "comprehension of the goals of the "SVO" than a list of mutual concessions.
The scale of this demand shows that Trump’s negotiator Steve Witkoff has apparently already made a deal with Putin during the talks in St. Petersburg, and that the US is now trying to impose it on the Europeans and Ukraine.
What the Kremlin is demanding today, and which, regrettably, the US supports, is nothing more than rewriting the internationally recognized borders of Europe for the Russian dictator Putin.
Of course, neither Europe nor Ukraine will agree to such steps. At a press conference in Kyiv on the eve of the announced meeting in London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that recognizing Crimea as Russian is out of the question.
One way or another, but now the question arises - what will happen next?
Will the US, as it threatened the day before, withdraw from the negotiation process, recognizing this as the first foreign policy defeat of US President Donald Trump, or will they continue to "twist the hands" of Ukraine and Europe?
Ukrainian diplomat and politician Roman Bezsmertny shared his thoughts on these and other relevant issues in an exclusive interview.
2/ The scale of this demand shows that Trump’s negotiator Steve Witkoff has apparently already made a deal with Putin during the talks in St. Petersburg, and that the US is now trying to impose it on the Europeans and Ukraine.
What the Kremlin is demanding today, and which, regrettably, the US supports, is nothing more than rewriting the internationally recognized borders of Europe for the Russian dictator Putin.
- Of course, neither Europe nor Ukraine will agree to such steps.
At a press conference in #Kyiv on the eve of the announced meeting in London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUa said that recognizing Crimea as Russian is out of the question.
One way or another, but now the question arises - what will happen next?
Will the US, as it threatened the day before, withdraw from the negotiation process, recognizing this as the first foreign policy defeat of US President Donald Trump , obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/don…
- or will they continue to "twist the hands" of Ukraine and Europe?
3/ Ukrainian diplomat and politician Roman Bezsmertny shared his thoughts on these and other relevant issues in an exclusive interview obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/288…
– In Paris, the US presented its proposal to Ukraine and its European partners on the settlement of the war and waited for a response at the talks in London, but the meeting never took place.
Even before the start of the meeting, it became clear that the negotiations in the British capital lacked not only a common agenda, but also the declared key participants.
After all, the "Trump plan", the presentation of which had been awaited for a long time, as it turned out, more resembles Putin's so-called "comprehension of the goals of the "SVO"
- than a list of mutual concessions.
It is not surprising that Russia has already stated that this plan of the US president to end the war in Ukraine will be included in Russian school textbooks
1/ Today, Friedrich Merz says he wants Europe to gain complete "independence" from the US, and has put forward the idea of creating a new European defense union to replace NATO, including nuclear cooperation with France and the UK.
He is hawkish on Russia and, apparently, intends to speak out against Trump just as decisively.
2/ The Christian Democratic Union (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) obozrevatel.com/ukr/location/g…
have reached a coalition agreement, which was concluded against the backdrop of strong pressure on German politicians to quickly form a new government that can confront the historic challenges of US President Donald @realDonaldTrump trade war and the military threat from Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Friedrich Merz is likely to be elected as German Chancellor on May 6.
The coalition agreement is expected to be signed the day before. This is good news for Ukraine, as the coalition that Merz has assembled has every chance of agreeing on a much more active line of support for Ukraine and strengthening European security than Germany has managed in recent years
3/ Today, Friedrich Merz says he wants Europe to gain complete "independence"
- from the United States and has proposed a new European defense alliance to replace NATO, including nuclear cooperation with France and the United Kingdom.
He is hawkish on Russia and is likely to be just as determined to oppose Trump. Merz is trying to position himself as a supporter of increased military aid to Ukraine and is in favor of supplying Taurus missiles.
"In this Europe, Germany must play a leading role. We must take on this responsibility. I, for one, am determined to do this," Merz notes.
2/ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend talks in London on Wednesday aimed at working toward an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine,
as Kyiv signaled it would reject a key detail of the Trump administration’s proposal to end the three-year conflictcnn.com/world/europe/u…
3/ Rubio had been expected to take part in the discussions with Ukrainian, UK and European officials, but State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Tuesday that he would no longer attend due to “logistical issues.”
President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will represent the US instead, Bruce said.
The talks follow a meeting in Paris last week in which officials from the US, the United Kingdom, France and Germany discussed a US framework for a ceasefire
The proposal includes recognizing Russia’s control of Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, an official familiar with the framework told CNN. It would also put a ceasefire in place along the front lines of the war, the official said cnn.com/2025/04/21/eur…