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Was really pleased with the social media shade that Germany was throwing.

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Thanks a lot

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The high number of ZSU wounded and declared in good medical condition to return to service is always a good sign of motivation and morale. Thanks again Don and Tom.

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Thanks for the updates. All of them. Havent commented on all, but they were all informative and intersting. To a wvarying degree worrying. The attacks from Russia in the Donbas region doesnt stopp, and while the tempo is glacial they are taking more land. At some point Ukraine needs to stop these attacks. But it seems to me that Ukraine is trying to wear down Russias ability to wage war. By attacking oil refeneries, airbases, ammo dumps and so on. Might work. I certainly hope so. For a second I also hope they learn how to switch units without all these unfortunate incidents. And lets hope for some serious changes in GenStab U while we are ar it?

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Перша допомога на полі бою і медевакуація - це те, можливо єдине, що дякуючи партнерам і їх допомозі в ЗСУ наближається десь до стандартів НАТО.

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It could be that Ukraine has the best tactical drone teams in the world.

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Безпілотна складова будується з нуля відносно недавно. Тоді як медична складова натомість приклад успішних реформ. Таких прикладів не так багато. Можливо ще +- вдала реформа харчування. Вдала реформа речового забезпечення. І можливо все...

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Thanks Don and Tom. Looks like Russia is facing a fairly hard deadline mid-2025. May no one aid them to avoid this

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Now that's a proper German joke. Thanks for the updates :)

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I'm curious about the EU vote how are the votes tabulated and whats the story on how n=many votes does each member get Thanks for this report Don

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Still justifying the Molotov - von Ribbentrop Pact after all these years? Stalin would be proud.

I sure hope that someone is listening to Ryan O’Leary.

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Thank you. I will eagerly read you next week.

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"Sometime earlier this year Ukraine said they had 80,000 dead and 400,000 wounded. Ryan O’Leary says the number of Ukrainian dead is between 100,000 and 150,000"

Just to note. It was not "Ukraine" who said about 80K KIA but the blogger who referred to anonymous source. Neither figure of three (80K-100K-150K) can be confirmed with the open sources.

One of the few serious articles on the topic:

https://tyzhden.ua/bojovi-ta-nebojovi-vtraty-ukrainy-u-2022-2023-rokakh/

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