Project Sword
Just when the West was not interested in Ukraine, things changed. The European Union spends another 50 billion euros, the United States continues to provide new **, and the Ukrainian military once again shouts "big **".
Recently, an emergency summit of EU leaders in Brussels reached an unexpected agreement to provide 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine over the next four years. The 50 billion euros are crucial for Ukraine** to pay pensions, salaries and other expenses. It is no exaggeration to say that this money solves the key financial problems of Ukraine in the next few years, and to a certain extent, alleviates the worries of Ukraine.
The speed with which the deal was reached was "staggering" compared to the previous delays, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had previously blocked aid, did not comment. On the eve of the summit, Orban showed some signs of backing down, but he did not make his position clear.
It is reported that in order to pass this agreement, the EU has taken measures to freeze the allocation of funds to Hungary in order to force Orban to submit. Hungary, for its part, refuted the EU's "blackmail", but judging by the results of the adoption of the agreement, the EU has achieved its goal.
The decision of the EU leaders sends a strong signal to Ukraine and the United States that Europe is united in support of Kyiv and hopes that the United States will follow suit, amid an uncertain future for Ukraine.
The European Union has passed a 50 billion aid plan to Ukraine, and the United States is not far behind, and it has recently been revealed that it plans to provide Ukraine with "land-launched small-diameter bombs", but the specific timetable has not been disclosed.
It is worth mentioning that this equipment has not even been equipped by the US ** team itself, and it is still in the test stage before entering service. Although the Pentagon said that it had successfully tested this ** for Ukraine, it will inevitably make people feel that the US military is using Ukraine as a ** testing ground.
The "Land-launched Small Diameter Bomb" is a new type of precision-guided munition with GPS guidance, capable of overcoming certain electronic countermeasures, and is an advanced long-range strike** that can hit targets up to 150 kilometers away. The munition combines the GBU-39 small-caliber bomb with the rocket engine of the M26 rocket launched by the Hippocampus rocket launcher, and is fired by rocket artillery systems such as the Hippocampus or M270.
However, the ** was originally planned to be delivered to the US military last year, but it was delayed to this year, and now it is the first to be put into the battlefield in Ukraine for actual combat testing, which inevitably makes people wonder if there will be some technical problems with this **.
Although the Russian side opposes this, it is very contemptuous, they believe that this ** is not special and is vulnerable to destruction by the Russian air defense missile system. It can also be seen from the decline in the performance of the "Hippocampus" that the improvement of the Russian air defense system is indeed very obvious, and the long-range strike effect of the Ukrainian army is not as good as before.
After the land-launched small-diameter bombs continued to send strong support signals from the United States and Europe, Ukraine's confidence also increased greatly. Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said he believes that the offensive of the Russian army, which began in November last year, will be "exhausted" in the early spring of this year, when the Ukrainian army will start a "new round of **".
Budanov's confidence seems to be very high, but he seems to ignore the fact that even if the Russian offensive is weak, the Ukrainian army also suffered heavy losses in the spring of last year, especially the main forces. Whether the Ukrainian army is capable of organizing ** again is a big question.
Moreover, even if the West re-aids it, the Ukrainian army does not have enough high-quality soldiers at present. With a large increase in the number of female soldiers in the army, and the average age of male soldiers is as high as 40 years old, it is difficult to say that such an army is capable of launching high-intensity offensives.
The Russian side did not care about Ukraine's claims, believing that Budanov's statement was more like a political game, which is most likely related to the current rumors of personnel changes in the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army. According to reports from the West, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Zaluzhny, is likely to be dismissed, and Budanov is one of the hot successors.
Captured Ukrainian soldiers said that Ukraine's problems seem to have eased for the time being, but the problems in the United States are getting worse, and Biden himself is in a storm.
Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee and Ways and Means Committee issued a joint appeal letter to White House adviser Edward Siskel, requesting archival records of Biden's 2015 speech to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and other relevant information, but the White House is trying its best to obstruct it, and this may involve the corruption of Biden and his son Hunter, the amount of corruption is expected to be as high as $5 million.
As a result, the three committees are jointly investigating Biden. Biden's approval rating was already worrisome, and he had a lawsuit in the first year, and the contradictions between Texas and the federal government continued, Biden had a lot of troubles, and it was not easy to deal with one of them.