‌Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

🇩🇪Merz: “My impression over the last few days is that Russia and America are finding common ground - over the heads of the Ukraine and thus also over the heads of Europe. That is why everyone is now looking at Germany. How quickly will the Germans be able to form a government after this complicated election result? That is really my priority now.”

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: Small update on the possible delivery of Taurus KEPD-350 to #Ukraine: Election winner and very likely future Chancellor Friedrich Merz commented on this today in an interview with FAZ and said Ukraine must be given the systems it needs for its defence.

This also applies to cruise missiles. Whether these cruise missiles will be Taurus KEPD-350 or another system will have to be seen and agreed among the European allies.

He is thus repeating earlier statements that he would like to consult both Great Britain and France prior to a delivery, as both countries have already delivered their own cruise missiles to Ukraine with Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG.

However, as I have already pointed out several times, I highly doubt that Starmer or Macron would oppose a delivery of Taurus KEPD-350. At the same time, we know from the conversation between high-ranking Bundeswehr soldiers leaked last year by the Russians that the Bundeswehr would be...

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‌IgorGirkin (Twitter)

RT @_FriedrichMerz: Dear Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUa, we stand with #Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war. (FM)

Dan (Twitter)

RT @praisethesteph: #Ukraine/#Russia 🇺🇦🇷🇺:

The 🇨🇿Gift for Putin (@DarPutinovi) initiative raised the target 70 million CZK (~$2.896 million) for the purchase of a UH-60A+ Black Hawk helicopter for 🇺🇦Ukraine. A total of 20,400 donors provided 72,219,584 CZK.

"We collect between 220k and 270k CZK a day (~$9.1k-11.2k), with Fridays and weekends being weaker. On Friday after the White House meeting, 800k CZK (~$33k) came in 40 minutes and the pace continued. We raised 3 million CZK (~$124k)".

The helicopter will be given to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR MO) that specifically requested it.

IgorGirkin (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: German Military Aid to #Ukraine updated with 👇

DELIVERED
— 2 IRIS-T SLS launchers

The delivery originally was made public during the last update of the government website made by the Press and Information Office on the 17th of February. However, they made a mistake during the update by merging two listed items and not marking it as a new delivery, so it went unnoticed by me and others.

The delivery was just once again confirmed by Germany's Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart.

🔗🇩🇪 deaidua.org
🔗🇬🇧 deaidua.org/en/

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: BREAKING: CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens agree (among other things) to exempt defence spending from the debt brake as soon as it exceeds 1% of GDP. According to Friedrich Merz, this also affects military support for Ukraine. This could mean a massive increase in #Ukraine aid!

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: Some brief information on the €3 billion in military aid for #Ukraine, which will most likely be approved at the beginning of next week.

If the funds had been approved in mid-January, around 60% of the package could have been delivered to Ukraine within 2025. Now that two months have passed, the percentage will certainly have decreased. Of course, I can't say how much because, with a few exceptions, it is not known what is included in this package.

However, as far as I am aware, the deliveries are to stretch until 2027 anyway. That being said, I would like to point out once again that this is not the only military assistance that Germany will be providing to Ukraine this year. The draft budget already included €4 billion in military assistance.

These have already been fully tied up in contracts. Just looking at assistance which will strengthen Ukraine's air defence, three IRIS-T SLM fire units, six IRIS-T SLS launchers and two...

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Dan (Twitter)

RT @historicfirearm: Here is a closer look at the fixed wing UAV armed with 4 shotgun barrels from SkyDefenders. Very interesting development.

#Ukraine #Drones #UkraineRussiaWar

‌The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @elisabethmalom1: Latest: The #Norwegian Army has dropped tennis balls on tanks to test new attack strategies for drones, drawing on tactics seen on battlefields of #Ukraine. Officials staged this evaluation as part of a NATO exercise last week.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/03/17/norwegian-soldiers-drop-tennis-balls-on-tanks-to-test-drone-tactics/

‌Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: My latest piece → The Bundestag’s Budget Committee has just approved approximately €11 billion in military aid for #Ukraine between 2025 and 2029. Part of this is the €3 billion package, a large part of which is to be delivered this year.

https://deaidua.org/news/2025/03/21/budget-committee-approves-multi-billion-ukraine-aid/

Def Mon (Twitter)

RT @AprilHuggett: I am proud to be a member of the @93Alcatraz battalion and even prouder to be a #Canadian soldier in #Ukraine

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: The German Ministry of Defence announced today that Germany alone plans to provide around 500,000 of the total of 2 million artillery shells that the EU intends to supply to #Ukraine this year.

This is an increase of around 130,000 artillery shells compared to the forecast published in late February, where the MoD stated that it plans to provide 370,000 artillery shells this year and hopes to deliver even more in the end. Just a guess from my side, but I assume that increase represents round about the number of artillery shells included in the €3 billion package for which the funding got approved in March.

According to publicly available information, Germany has already delivered 92,000 artillery shells this year — consisting of 23,000 122mm HE shells and 69,000 155mm HE shells.

‌Status-6 (Twitter)

RT @Sassovivente: NEW‼️— Multiple sources have confirmed to me that Marianna Budanova, wife of 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, was quietly flown to the 🇺🇸 US for advanced treatment in Dec. 2024 — over a year and a half after a suspected Russian poisoning that targeted her and other top Ukrainian officials in one of the largest assassination attempts of the war.

Her relapse, and the #US intelligence services’ reported role in facilitating her care, shows both the long-term effects of the chemical attack and Washington’s ongoing behind-the-scenes support for #Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian forces.

A few other #HUR officials were also sickened in the poisoning, but Marianna suffered more severely due to her smaller size, officials said at the time. An internal investigation is ongoing, though few details have been released. @Bellingcat and @InsiderEng are also digging into the case.

Marianna initially recovered after treatment in 2023 but fell seriously ill again at the end of 2024 — a common pattern in arsenic and mercury poisonings, according to experts.

Sources say American military doctors invited her through HUR to receive care in the US after learning of her deteriorating condition. In Ukraine, advanced treatment for heavy metal poisoning is limited.

Marianna has lived with her husband, Kyrylo Budanov, in “The Island,” a secure compound for intel workers in Kyiv, since the full-scale invasion started. She made her first public appearance since the poisoning at an event last month.

Her poisoning — as the wife of the top intelligence official in Ukraine — and her covert care abroad shows just how personal and persistent the threats remain for those on and off the front lines of the war in Ukraine.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: Eutelsat’s chief executive Eva Berneke told Reuters that Eutelsat has provided #Ukraine with its high-speed satellite internet for about a year, while the German government has borne the entire cost. This is a previously undisclosed assistance from the German government!

According to Berneke, less than 1,000 terminals are connecting users in Ukraine to Eutelsat’s network, while they are currently working on getting up to between 5,000 and 10,000 terminals and are in negotiations with the German government about financing the increase.