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France has already spent around 120 million euros to help the Ukrainian army fight against the Russian invasion, according to information from L'Opinion. Since the start of the war, the French authorities have refused to communicate on the amount and nature of military assistance to Ukraine: our information is therefore neither confirmed nor denied by official sources. Other European countries have been much more transparent about the aid provided to Kyiv.

French aid is of several kinds. One of the most important contributions relates to satellite imagery . France has several observation satellites (Helios, Pléiades and CSO) which allow it to provide images several times a day to the Ukrainian general staff. It is likely that this will take place in close collaboration with the allies, in particular the Americans.

Light missiles. At the material level, France delivered at least three types of light missiles. Old Milan anti-tank systems (French-German manufacture) and Javelins, more recent machines acquired in the United States during the war in Afghanistan and stored since then. Mistral Very Short Range Anti-Aircraft Missiles (SATCP) were also supplied. We do not know the volume of these deliveries, but it is probably not very high, given the low ammunition stocks of the French army, pointed out by a recent parliamentary report.

The supply of its weapon systems was accompanied by the training of Ukrainian military personnel called upon to implement them. This took place before the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. “We did not sit idly by, even if we were not sure that Russia was going to attack”, assures a source familiar with the matter. It is unclear whether these trainings have continued since then and the conditions under which they were delivered.

In addition, fuel and uniforms were provided by France to the Ukrainian forces. On the other hand, no transmission systems: these come mainly from the United States, which thus ensures the security and control of the networks.

DiHK posted:

you can't really do anything about "racist grandpa" and this fits under that heading

Ghetto SuperCzar posted:

Azov sea is a uh, sea. It's not about the Azov Battalion, who is named after the sea.

forest spirit posted:

uh

uh you know Mel Brooks wrote The Producers, right

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

What the gently caress is happening

Crespolini posted:

oh, he just really loves the sea and tweets about it all the time. that does make more sense.

Crespolini posted:

oh, he just really loves the sea and tweets about it all the time. that does make more sense.

Barudak posted:

Fine, I'll bite, who the gently caress is Peter Coffin and why should I care?

Tiny Timbs posted:

Why do we care about some twitter rando

I don’t know why they post what they post, you’re the one that follows them

Telsa Cola posted:

It's very likely that it's because the city is the scene of probably some of the heaviest fighting that we know about, has held on stupidly long, and because from what we know the only Ukranian military forces in there are the Azov battalion and some Ukrainian Marines.

So yes, they get mentioned a lot because they are currently in like one of the major hotspots of the war, and have been for a bit.

Rust Martialis posted:

Crespolini posted:

oh, he just really loves the sea and tweets about it all the time. that does make more sense.

Coquito Ergo Sum posted:

"Mr. Politics Understander has logged on"

Achmed Jones posted:

where are you all even finding weirdos who support war crimes, and why are you talking to them?

i know a poo poo ton of progressive anticapitalists and none of them support putin for the really obvious reasons

are all the people youre talking about on twitter or something?

i keep hearing about how "the left" is pro-putin but i sure havent seen it

Achmed Jones posted:

where are you all even finding weirdos who support war crimes, and why are you talking to them?

i know a poo poo ton of progressive anticapitalists and none of them support putin for the really obvious reasons

are all the people youre talking about on twitter or something?

i keep hearing about how "the left" is pro-putin but i sure havent seen it

DiHK posted:

First of all, I am so bored with Larry Davids schtick but I don't wanna say anything about it because "jew hater". Anyway, sitcoms suck, moving on.

At one point I was watching a number of lefty tube people, including Peter Coffin. Then they all got a bit unsufferable so I stopped paying attention (this was around the time that the internet dweebs crucified that trans babe for doing satirical nazi cosplay).

Anyway, did Peter swallow the tankie pill? Sad if true.

Achmed Jones posted:

where are you all even finding weirdos who support war crimes, and why are you talking to them?

i know a poo poo ton of progressive anticapitalists and none of them support putin for the really obvious reasons

are all the people youre talking about on twitter or something?

i keep hearing about how "the left" is pro-putin but i sure havent seen it

KitConstantine posted:

To be fair he is a Ukrainian reporter on the ground. He's also from the area around the DPR and has visited Mariupol, which is part of why he's so focused on that area.

In other news - MAPS
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1513896679476723713?s=20&t=0atVDHPDuGWEdVhmW_kbjg
Again, not much change. Likely to stay that way for a couple days now that the bridge in Russia got blown up

TheSpamalope posted:

Everyone is like no we can't do that putin gonna get mad and do a big nuke. We better let him be a psycho piss baby cos if we don't he will nuke something!

Guess what idiot bozos? We got nukes to but putin doesn't scared of them at all and does anything he wants. Well I know how to fix it all big time. We gotta nuke a city but not Russian one oh no we nuke our own city. Then we tell pootin we gonna start nuking everything, his cities, our cities. We don't give a gently caress.

Pooptin will back down cos of being more crazy than him. Also we nuke the north pole.

Crespolini posted:

oh, he just really loves the sea and tweets about it all the time. that does make more sense.

Coquito Ergo Sum posted:

The left's response to the war has been so bewildering. I see so many people who I thought had normal brains cheering on Kadyrovites, and when I try to tell them that they're cheering on death camps for gay people (not to mention Bucha-type situations), all I get is "Mr. Politics Understander has logged on" or "What about Azov" other such responses.

Lima posted:

https://www.ft.com/content/e87fdc60-0d5e-4d39-93c6-7cfd22f770e8

Apparently UA forces foiled russian thermal camera drones with yoga mats.

(hmm can canon dslrs do thermal? )

Achmed Jones posted:

where are you all even finding weirdos who support war crimes, and why are you talking to them?

i keep hearing about how "the left" is pro-putin but i sure havent seen it

bad_fmr posted:

Not sure if this is a bait but have you seen the discussion in some of the other subforum on this very website?

Captain Kosmos posted:

There was a poster that had a friend that liked bearded soldiers.

The beard is not that big, but was hoping that the other guy's mustache makes up.