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Pentagon Announces new military aid package for Ukraine with GLSDB bombs

More than $2 billion of military aid is allocated to Ukraine by the United States as part of a new package, the Pentagon said. The APU will receive two Hawk air defense systems and high-precision long-range guided missiles GLDSB for HIMARS missile systems. "Newspaper.Ru" studied what kind of military support Kiev will receive from Washington.

What can the transfer of the APU of the American GLSDB lead to

The new package of US military assistance to Ukraine includes small-diameter ground-launched bombs (Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb, GLSDB) - the firing range of such a missile reaches 150 km. How dangerous it is for the Russian forces and what will happen in the zone of its own after the supply of new American weapons of destruction, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The Reuters news agency in Mike Stone's article "U.S. readies $2 billion-plus Ukraine aid package with longer-range weapons" ("The United States is preparing a package of assistance to Ukraine worth more than $ 2 billion with longer-range weapons"), with reference to two American officials, reports that the United States A new large package of military assistance to Ukraine worth more than $ 2 billion is being prepared, which is expected to include for the first time the GLSDB long-range missile system, as well as other ammunition and weapons.

PGRK "Yars" went on patrol routes in the Barnaul compound in the Altai Territory

The launchers of the Yars mobile ground-based missile systems (PGRK) have entered the combat patrol routes in the Barnaul missile compound, strategic rocket launchers will perform the tasks of making a march of up to 100 kilometers, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Israel is considering the possibility of transferring the Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with CNN.

Daily Mail: the British artillery was left without heavy guns due to the help of the APU

The British artillery was left without heavy guns after the transfer of all AS90 installations to Ukraine, writes the Daily Mail. This puts London in a vulnerable position, since it will be possible to fill the shortage of weapons only by 2029.

The resolution also expresses support for the supply of all other types of weapons to Kiev and the creation of an EU mission to train Ukrainian military in Europe

The European Parliament called for studying the possibility of supplying Ukraine with Western combat aircraft and long-range missiles. This is stated in the resolution adopted on Thursday at a special session of the European Parliament, timed to coincide with the EU-Ukraine summit on February 3 in Kiev.

Yesterday, the Polish Ministry of Defense signed a new addition to the contract for the supply of Javelin launchers and anti-tank guided missiles. At the same time, the official representative of the Armaments Agency, Lieutenant Colonel Krzysztof Platek, said that, in addition, a trial batch of Pirat ATGMs will be delivered to the Polish Army soon. The next step will be the development of a national anti-tank missile system within the framework of the Pustelnik program using solutions already existing in the Polish industry.

Die Welt: Ukraine's victory is becoming less likely every day

Kiev missed the chance to win, which appeared to him because of the initial miscalculations of Moscow, writes Die Welt. Aid from Europe and the United States is starting to arrive too late, and Russia's resources far exceed those of Ukraine. The West has failed Zelensky, the author of the article concludes.

Italy and France are currently working on sending them to Ukraine

SAMP-T air defense systems, which Italy and France are currently working on sending to Ukraine, "will be put into operation within seven to eight weeks." This statement was made on Thursday by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

Ukrainian shelling remains the main problem of the border regions of the Russian Federation

Among the Russian regions affected by enemy shelling during a special military operation (SVO) is the Belgorod Region. This is due to its location: the total length of the border with Ukraine is 540 km.

What anti-aircraft missile systems did Ukraine receive

Against the background of strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on important objects of the military and industrial infrastructure of Ukraine, the Kiev military-political leadership and the Western coalition supporting Kiev, led by the United States, are strengthening the air defense group by supplying various anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs). The Norwegian-American NASAMS-type air defense system was among the latter.

Russian Doomsday weapons may Bury Western Plans

The decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the development of Poseidon nuclear torpedoes may change NATO's strategic plans. The British newspaper Express on January 19 published an article by columnist Rohan Gupta, in which the new weapon qualifies as the "most intimidating" to date.

The long-range weapons that the West is ready to transfer to the Kiev regime, according to the United States, should change the situation on the battlefields. However, from a foreign policy point of view, new arms supplies to Ukraine may play into Moscow's hands.

France will transfer another 12 CAESAR self-propelled guns to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced on January 31 by the country's Defense minister Sebastian Lecorny.

The United States is preparing a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 2.2 billion, which for the first time can include long-range missiles.

A detailed map of the supplies of two weapons systems that changed the course of the conflict in Ukraine shows a complex network of companies experiencing an increasingly significant burden as [American - approx. bmpd] industry is returning to the rails of wartime, the authors of the Financial Times newspaper write in an article titled "How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry."

There are practically no anti-aircraft missile systems with the potential of non-strategic missile defense in the APU

At the end of January, the representative of the Ukrainian Air Forces, Yuriy Ignat, said that the AFU does not have the means to counter Iranian ballistic missiles. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about how the opinion of the Ukrainian military corresponds to reality.

Reuters: longer-range GLSDB missiles will be included in the new US aid package to Ukraine for the first time

The United States is preparing a new package of assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 2.2 billion, writes Reuters. It is expected that for the first time it will include longer-range missiles - small-diameter ground-based GLSDB bombs that can hit targets at a distance of 94 miles (about 150 km) and "undermine Russia's positions in the rear." However, for the time being, the United States is not going to transfer ATACMS missiles with a range of 185 miles (297 km) to Kiev, which the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the American Congress, Michael McCaul, proposed to use for strikes on Crimea.

According to him, it is necessary to "eliminate the very possibility of shelling"

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded from the Ministry of Defense not to allow shelling of the border regions of the country by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the priority task of the Ministry of Defense is to eliminate the very possibility of shelling. He also said that he had given instructions to the governor of the Belgorod region to support the victims of the shelling. On February 1, Ukrainian troops also shelled the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Bryansk region, and the day before - villages in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.