The Dawn Of Deterrence: Listing #Romania’s Recent Arms Acquisitions 🇷🇴
Updated with:
- Programme To Acquire 276 MBTs [Candidate: K2 MBT]
- Programme To Acquire 110 Wheeled Self-Propelled Guns
Full list: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2023/08/the-dawn-of-deterrence-listing-romanias.html
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1699755232119419023
Belgium intends to achieve the 2% defence spending target by 2035. They deliberately postponed this by eleven years, hoping that the situation in Eastern Europe will stabilise, thereby avoiding the need to reach the 2% threshold altogether.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1699752929568186392
You can criticise Hungary, but at least it made clear its position. Belgium, on the other hand, portrays itself as part of a coalition of staunch allies, but when it comes to delivering the expected level of support, its commitment appears less resolute than it claims.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1699750644008022511
What is happening in Palestine is apartheid.
That the U.S. government is standing by and allowing this to happen proves the contradictions in how it's foreign policy fights one form of oppression and ignores another.
https://twitter.com/Issaamro/status/1699438168791978319
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1699726729596616901
🇺🇸#US intends to send more
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1699680566348492805
🇺🇦 MT-LBa received a 14.5-mm remote weapon station, smoke grenade launchers and steel sheets fixed on the sides for additional protection
East Front
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1699681827118526785
🇷🇺 Wargonzo:
"🇺🇦 regained recenly lost positions in Serebryansky forrest"
Could be this area
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1699677806089605159
also 🇺🇦 advance on Novoprokopovka from eastern side (Rabotino Sektor)
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1699674843136847951
⚡️Russian attacks kill 19, injure 48 in Ukraine over past day.
Russian multi-weapon attacks against Ukraine killed 19 people and wounded 48 over the past 24 hours, damaging homes and civilian infrastructure, regional authorities reported. https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attacks-kill-19-injure-48-in-ukraine-over-past-day/
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1699697869773590626
Leak: Surviving Wagner terrorist group leadership is assembling at the Molkino GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) military base in Krasnodar Krai to hold a council meeting to elevate the commander with a call sign "Lotus" as new leader after Prigozhin's death.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1672338025731469312
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1699685823090942067
Трофеї.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/herooftheday10/status/1699669694632886377
Звільнені позиції на півдні, та біля Кремінної. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699670331407872482
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/herooftheday10/status/1699670331407872482
Полонений зек підор попався, хотів на волю, поїхав вбивати, таких можна і не брати, закопувати, схід.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/herooftheday10/status/1699669580539420785
Another general has been jailed in #Russia
Major General Konstantin Ogienko has been sent to a pre-trial detention center on corruption charges. Until recently, he commanded the air defense army defending #Moscow.
The general was jailed for a bribe of 30 million rubles and land fraud. According to the investigation, Ogienko could sell land plots belonging to the air defense army for development.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1699682101254124014
Screen cap from video. There may be some cosmetic damage.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/nadinbrzezinski/status/1699590108482289701
⚡️ Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that it is extinguishing a massive fire at a warehouse in the Moscow region.
The area of the fire is over 1,000 square metres.
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1699591151966187574
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1699595823581999427
⚡️ Moscow Mayor Sobyanin said that tonight in the Ramensky urban district, air defence forces allegedly stopped an attempted drone attack on the Russian capital. Emergency services are working at the scene.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1699591151966187574
⚡️ Two UAVs were shot down by air defence systems, one crashed outside the city in the western part of Rostov and the other in the centre. As a result, several cars were damaged, Rostov Region Governor Golubev said.
Video from local social media.
Warning: The video contains foul language!
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1699591062879084869
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1699596510650851705
⚡️ Zaporizhzhia region - air raid alert, RMA.
Immediately go to the nearest shelter.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1699595374300692508