Krieg in der Ukraine

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Die Niederlande haben am Montag das Minenräumboot Zr.Ms. Makkum außer Dienst gestellt. Es soll an die Ukraine übergeben werden.

Zr.Ms. Makkum heeft laatste zeemijn voor Koninklijke Marine geruimd


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Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time

Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity, according to soldiers, lawyers and Ukrainian officials. Entire units have abandoned their posts, leaving defensive lines vulnerable and accelerating territorial losses, according to military commanders and soldiers.

Some take medical leave and never return, haunted by the traumas of war and demoralized by bleak prospects for victory. Others clash with commanders and refuse to carry out orders, sometimes in the middle of firefights.

“This problem is critical,” said Oleksandr Kovalenko, a Kyiv-based military analyst. “This is the third year of war, and this problem will only grow.”

Although Moscow has also been dealing with desertions, Ukrainians going AWOL have laid bare deeply rooted problems bedeviling their military and how Kyiv is managing the war, from the flawed mobilization drive to the overstretching and hollowing out of front-line units. It comes as the U.S. urges Ukraine to draft more troops, and allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.

The Associated Press spoke to two deserters, three lawyers, and a dozen Ukrainian officials and military commanders. Officials and commanders spoke on condition of anonymity to divulge classified information, while one deserter did so because he feared prosecution.

“It is clear that now, frankly speaking, we have already squeezed the maximum out of our people,” said an officer with the 72nd Brigade, who noted that desertion was one of the main reasons Ukraine lost the town of Vuhledar in October.

The troops who walk away

More than 100,000 soldiers have been charged under Ukraine’s desertion laws since Russia invaded in February 2022, according to the country’s General Prosecutor’s Office.

Nearly half have gone AWOL in the last year alone, after Kyiv launched an aggressive and controversial mobilization drive that government officials and military commanders concede has largely failed.

It’s a staggeringly high number by any measure, as there were an estimated 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers engaged in combat before the mobilization drive began. And the actual number of deserters may be much higher. One lawmaker with knowledge of military matters estimated it could be as high as 200,000.

Many deserters don’t return after being granted medical leave. Bone-tired by the constancy of war, they are psychologically and emotionally scarred. They feel guilt about being unable to summon the will to fight, anger over how the war effort is being led and frustration that it seems unwinnable.

“Being quiet about a huge problem only harms our country,” said Serhii Hnezdilov, one of few soldiers to speak publicly about his choice to desert. He was charged shortly after the AP interviewed him in September.

Another deserter said he initially left his infantry unit with permission because he needed surgery. By the time his leave was up, he couldn’t bring himself to return.

He still has nightmares about the comrades he saw get killed.

“The best way to explain it is imagining you are sitting under incoming fire and from their (Russian) side, it’s 50 shells coming toward you, while from our side, it’s just one. Then you see how your friends are getting torn to pieces, and you realize that any second, it can happen to you,” he said.

“Meanwhile guys (Ukrainian soldiers) 10 kilometers (6 miles) away order you on the radio: ‘Go on, brace yourselves. Everything will be fine,’” he said.

Hnezdilov also left to seek medical help. Before undergoing surgery, he announced he was deserting. He said after five years of military service, he saw no hope of ever being demobilized, despite earlier promises by the country’s leadership.

“If there’s no end term (to military service), it turns into a prison — it becomes psychologically hard to find reasons to defend this country,” Hnezdilov said.

The AP learned of cases in which defensive lines were severely compromised because entire units defied orders and abandoned their positions.

“Because of a lack of political will and poor management of troops, especially in the infantry, we certainly are not moving in a direction to properly defend the territories that we control now,” Hnezdilov said.

Ukraine’s military recorded a deficit of 4,000 troops on the front in September owing largely to deaths, injuries and desertions, according to a lawmaker. Most deserters were among recent recruits.

The head of one brigade’s legal service who is in charge of processing desertion cases and forwarding them to law enforcement said he’s had many of them.

“The main thing is that they leave combat positions during hostilities and their comrades die because of it. We had several situations when units fled, small or large. They exposed their flanks, and the enemy came to these flanks and killed their brothers in arms, because those who stood on the positions did not know that there was no one else around,” the official said.

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89 vehicles are being donated by Canada to Ukraine to support various specializations, including ambulance, command post, engineering, electronic warfare and maintenance recovery.

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Die Vorträge vom Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2024, haben einen Schwerpunkt auf dem Konflikt in der Ukraine:

TherMAF 2024

https://www.milak.at/tmaf/rueckblicke/tmaf2024

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Ukraine conflict: Zelensky hands over first ‘Hell' cruise missile able to strike deep into Russia

The president announced the development from his official X (formerly Twitter) account on 6 December, saying that the missile that puts Moscow within range is now being geared up for full-scale production and operational use.

“The ‘Peklo' (Hell) drone-missile – our Ukrainian weapon with proven combat effectiveness. Today, the first batch was delivered to our defence forces. The mission now is to scale up production and deployment,” he said.

Zelensky did not disclose performance specifications for the turbojet-powered cruise missile, but Ukrainian media with links to the defence forces noted it can fly 700 km at a speed of 700 km/h.

https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/de ... nto-russia

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Ukraine – F-16 Sustainment Services

The Government of Ukraine has requested to buy the Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS); AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loaders (SKL); minor modifications and maintenance support; engine Component Improvement Program (CIP); spare and repair parts, consumables, and accessories; repair and return support; weapons software, weapons software support equipment, and classified and unclassified software and delivery support; classified and unclassified publications and documentation; personnel training and training equipment; studies and surveys; U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services; and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated total cost is $266.4 million.

The principal contractors will be Sabena, located in Charleroi, Belgium; Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, located in Fort Worth, TX; and Pratt and Whitney, located in East Hartford, CT.

https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major- ... t-services

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Drohnenabwehr – Deutschland liefert Kinetic Defence Vehicle an die Ukraine

https://www.hartpunkt.de/drohnenabwehr- ... e-ukraine/


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Gelieferte militärische Unterstützungsleistungen:

[...]

Gepanzerte Gefechtsfahrzeuge

• 103 Kampfpanzer LEOPARD 1 A5* mit Ersatzteilen (gemeinsames Projekt mit Dänemark) (zuvor: 88)

• 103 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAP)* (zuvor: 73)

• Munition für Kampfpanzer LEOPARD 2 (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*)

• Munition für Kampfpanzer LEOPARD 1*

Luftverteidigung

• 6 Luftverteidigungssysteme IRIS-T SLM* (zuvor: 5)

• 5 Luftverteidigungssysteme IRIS-T SLS* (jeweils bestehend aus zwei Startgeräten) (zuvor: 4)

• Flugkörper IRIS-T SLM*

• 12 Kinetic Defence Vehicle (Diehl Defence)*

• 4 PATRIOT Startgeräte (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*) (zuvor: 2)

• 57 Flakpanzer GEPARD mit Ersatzteilen* (zuvor: 55)

• 241.000 Schuss Flakpanzermunition GEPARD (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*) (zuvor: 176.000)

• 16 Luftraumüberwachungsradare TRML-4D* (zuvor: 14)

• AIM-9L/I-1 Sidewinder Lenkflugkörper

Artillerie

• 358.000 Schuss 155 mm Artilleriemunition (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*) (zuvor: 306.000)

• 25 Panzerhaubitzen 2000 mit Ersatzteilen (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*) (zuvor: 24)

Drohnen und Drohnenabwehr

• 398 Aufklärungsdrohnen VECTOR mit Ersatzteilen* (zuvor: 368)

• 393 Aufklärungsdrohnen RQ-35 HEIDRUN* (zuvor: 369)

• 32 Aufklärungsdrohnen HORNET XR* (zuvor: 18)

Pionierfähigkeiten

• Material für Kampfmittelbeseitigung (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*)

• 25 mobile, ferngesteuerte und geschützte Minenräumgeräte* (zuvor: 20)

Schutz- und Spezialausrüstung

• 15 Luftlandefahrzeuge Caracal* (zuvor: 8)

• 15 AMPS Selbstschutzsysteme für Hubschrauber* (zuvor: 10)

• 45 Tauchscooter*

• 277 Grenzschutzfahrzeuge* (zuvor: 276)

Logistik

• 262 LKW Zetros* (zuvor: 250)

• 78 Tankfahrzeuge Zetros* (zuvor: 70)

Durchhaltefähigkeit

• 393.000 Schuss Munition 40mm* (zuvor: 373.000)

• 15.000 120mm Mörsermunition*

• 19.480 Panzerabwehrminen (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*) (zuvor: 14.900)

• 220 Granatmaschinenwaffe GMW* (zuvor: 100)

• 200 Maschinengewehre MG4*

• Notstromaggregate

• 250 Zelte (zuvor: 200)

• 4.005 Sturmgewehre MK 556* (zuvor: 3.585)

• 420 Präzisionsgewehre HLR 338 mit 314.000 Schuss Munition* (zuvor: 340)

• 661 Gewehre CR 308* (zuvor: 561)

• über 60 Millionen Schuss Handwaffenmunition (aus Bundeswehr- und Industriebeständen*) (zuvor: 55,7 Millionen)

• 276.000 Tourniquet (zuvor: 233.000)

• 1 Million Notfalldruckverbände*

Militärische Unterstützungsleistungen in Vorbereitung/Durchführung:

[...]

Gepanzerte Gefechtsfahrzeuge

• 20 Schützenpanzer MARDER*

Luftverteidigung

• 2 PATRIOT Startgeräte*

• 4 Kinetic Defence Vehicle (Diehl Defence)*

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/ ... ne-2054514

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Ukraine’s Su-25s Seen Launching Hammer Rocket-Boosted Bombs For The First Time

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