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So now that russia has captured Soledar, they feel obligated to hold on to it at all costs.
Meanwhile Ukraine has parked themselves next to the town while russia has no strength to secure a perimeter around it. Drones, artillery and recon forces on the ground hitting russians in the town pretty much 24/7. 
No matter how many losses they take, Soledar must'nt fall. So we can be sure russia doubles down. 
Sounds like a honey trap to me. But surely Prigozhin is a master strategist and I simply fail to see the big picture.
New post can be found here >

They absolutely should. Making Europe militarily less dependent on the US is a project mostly driven by France, so they shouldn't hide behind Abrams, even if Germany does. >

Yes but it's not easy. Out of 200 tanks, some are in maintenance and 70 are out of service to be upgraded to XLR standard this year. That doesn't leave many >

Similar to the Challenger numbers.  226 total and many of those not close to combat ready and yet UK still sent a full squadron.  I know it;s slightly easier for an island to give up its tanks but realistically what other land war are France expecting to fight in the next ten years? 
Leclerc's use standard NATO ammo as well which makes for easy resupply. >


but realistically what other land war are France expecting to fight in the next ten years? 

To be fair, they do border Spain, and as we all know, no one expects the Spanish inquisition. >

Or as I once joked as Santander bought out the company I was working for...
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"no one expects the Spanish Acquisition."  
I thought I was really funny at the time.  
No one I worked with had watched Monty Python so 20 years later I'm determined to get a positive response on the best joke I ever came up with. >

Those glorious Viking bastards. >

important article
upvoted, thanks for posting >

Sweden just announced that it is transferring 50 Combat Vehicle 90 to Ukraine.
CV90 is a really good IFV. It has a 40 mm autocannon  and can carry 7-8 soldiers.
Sweden will also send artillery system Archer (unspecified amount), more NLAWs and AT-systems (presumably more AT4s), mine clearing equipment and automatic rifles.
Source is press conference with Swedish Prime Minister. >

Good news! >

Holy shit CV-90 is amazing news!
Ukraine now has like a lot of good armor. Like 400+
Thats great. In the beginning of the war, our defenders did marlvels and inflicted heavy damage upon Russians using our domestic BTR-4E. We lost a lot of them defending our land. This type of tech, its such an improvement! I hope it will help us free our land!