🏹 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine Is Still Outgunned by Russia

⬛️ Even with the approval of new U.S. aid, most of the artillery Ukraine needs won’t get to the front until next year.

🔶️ The expectation is that Biden admin will spend much of 2024 rebuilding US stockpiles.

🔶️ US Army aims to produce 100,000 artillery rounds / month by end 2025.

🔶️ Most of the EU's target to get 1.4m shells into Ukrainian hands won’t get there until the end of 2024.

🔶️ So Ukraine’s partners on the continent are searching for suppliers outside of Europe to find enough artillery to keep Kyiv’s guns hot.

🔶️ Czech Republic appears to have sourced enough $$$ to buy 500,000 rounds of 155mm.

🔶️ Refurbishing old ammo is about 30% cheaper than buying new shells, but much of it comes from former Soviet satellites.

🔶️ For months, Ukrainian troops have been firing about 2,000 rounds/day, barely enough to sustain a defensive war.

🔶️ Russia is on track to produce 3.5 million rounds in 2024 and might be able to surge to produce 4.5 million by the end of the year.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/23/ukraine-war-artillery-shortage-production-military-aid-bill/

https://archive.ph/ziITj

🏹 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia is producing weapons and ammo beyond the needs for the offensive war against Ukraine...with increasing military spending and a war economy, “a large part of newly produced no longer goes to the front lines but ends up in the depots." - German MoD

🔶️ "He also warns of further military ambitions from Putin. Pistorius remarked, “One could be naive and say he is doing this out of caution. I, as a more skeptical person, would say in this case, he is doing this because he might have something in mind.”

🔶️ "Earlier it was reported that Russia’s defense industry significantly increased its production output in 2023. This expansion included growing the workforce to approximately 3.5 million people, implementing increased shift patterns, expanding existing production lines, and bringing idle production capacity back into service."

🔶️ "The British also reported, based on apparently leaked Russian documents, that Russia’s 2024 defense budget would increase to about $112 billion, around 6% of GDP, representing a 68% increase. This indicates Russia’s preparation for extended fighting."

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/04/25/pistorius-warns-of-russias-surplus-arms-production/

🚧 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine's fortifications in Zaporizhzia are steadily expanding, with new positions identified weekly and two main lines forming mirroring the Russian defences.

🔶️ The rear line is more complete although it still largely lacks the 'dragon's teeth' used as a secondary barrier.

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⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 Aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON departs from Norfolk, VA on for its new homeport in Japan.

USNINews: it will sail down the coast of the U.S., through the Caribbean Sea & enter the Pacific by rounding the southern tip of South America, arriving this summer.

- The carrier will be part of U.S. 4th Fleet’s Southern Seas 2024 event that will team Washington up with the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78), and Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall (T-AO-189)
- The carrier will embark with a partial air wing from Carrier Air Wing 7
- Southern Seas will have the U.S. group sail with warships from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay
- Washington plans to make port calls in Brazil, Chile and Peru
- An international staff will of about 24 officers from 11 partner nations will serve on the carrier (USNI)

- Following Southern Seas 2024, George Washington will relieve USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) as the forward-deployed naval forces (FDNF) aircraft carrier during a historic carrier swap at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., this summer
- This will mark the second time George Washington has served as the FDNF aircraft carrier, arriving in Japan in 2008 as the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be forward deployed to Japan before being relieved by Ronald Reagan in 2015
- Following the transfer, Reagan will head to Washington state for an overhaul before its permanent homeport assignment

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👮‍♂️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 500+ Americans arrested for criticizing Israel

🔶️ Protesters were arrested at schools including The Ohio State University, the University of Minnesota and Indiana University on Thursday, joining the fast-growing list of demonstrators who have been detained by police nationwide.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/25/university-protests-gaza-arrests-emerson-usc/

https://archive.ph/vVO7i