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"The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Chinese drone with Canadian parts inside, CNN reports.

According to journalists, the Chinese Mugin-5 drone was shot down near Slovyansk. The Ukrainian military found parts of manufacturers from Canada and Taiwan in it.

The Chinese company "Mugin Limited" confirmed that it was their drone, and called the appearance of the UAV on the territory of Ukraine "a deeply unfortunate incident." Both companies have assured that their products are subject to export controls and provided "in accordance with applicable export laws" and that they are prohibited for any illegal or military use."

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"Slovak Cabinet of Ministers approves the transfer of 13 MiG-29 to Ukraine - Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger

"The government has approved an international agreement on the transfer of Slovak MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine. We have made a decision in a constitutionally pure form. President Zuzana Chaputova has been informed about everything", the prime minister said.

In addition, Slovakia will transfer the Kub air defense system.

Poland will hand over 4 more MiG-29s, Andrzej Duda said during a press conference with the Czech president yesterday.

"In the coming days, we are handing over four fully operational aircraft to Ukraine. The rest of the aircraft are being serviced and prepared", the Polish president said."

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"A convoy of Bradley and HMMWV BMPs, and the MRAP Cougar.
Footage from western training grounds."

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"Prigozhin directly accuses the Russian MoD of purposefully cutting ammo supplies in order to prevent Wagner from taking Bakhut under any circumstances, because "Soledar was enough". He revealed it in a heated interview published today. "

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5 days ago: The Ukrainian crews have completed intensive training in the use of Leopard 2 tanks in Germany and are now ready for action.

This is what the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reports, adding that the training ended with a live ammunition exercise at the Bergen camp.

In particular, it was about attack and retreat maneuvers. The aim is to make the forces of the country attacked by Russia capable of "fighting completely independently" with the Leopard 2, the "most modern" tank Germany has "to offer," Brigadier General Bjoern Schulz said, commander of the Armored Troop School of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) based in Munster.

In platoons of four tanks each, the Ukrainian military opened fire on targets up to two kilometers away, destroying between 82 and 85 percent of them. For the German instructors, this is a "very positive" result.

Germany will supply 18 Leopard 2A6s to Ukraine, which is busy repelling the Russian invasion. Three more tanks of the same model will arrive in the former Soviet republic from Portugal.

The deliveries are part of the federal government's goal of equipping the Ukrainian army with a battalion of Leopard 2, a unit generally made up of 31 armored personnel carriers.

With Germany and Portugal, Poland, Norway, Spain and Canada contribute to transferring the tanks to the country attacked by Russia. Last February, the first four Polish Leopard 2A4s reached Ukraine. The German-trained Ukrainian servicemen will return to their homeland along with the tanks "in March".

According to General Schulz, the crews of the former Soviet republic "have not only proven to be incredibly motivated, but also very capable of learning both the technology and operating principles" of the Leopard 2s.

The officer added that it has been done " everything humanly possible to provide the best possible training.” For Schulz, "more would have been nice, but obviously the general conditions of the war do not allow it".

According to one of the German-trained Ukrainian servicemen, the Leopard 2 is “one of the most accurate weapon systems there is. Firepower and other resources will allow us not to fear an unexpected meeting with the enemy. We will be able to evade it quickly and destroy it with firepower.”

According to this source, the Russian departments are "very nervous" due to the imminent arrival of the Leopard 2 in the former Soviet republic. Meanwhile, the commander of the EU mission for military assistance to Ukraine (Eumam Ukraine), French squadron vice admiral Hervé Blejean, director general of the European Union General Staff, declared that Ukrainian troops are facing "the most dangerous phase of the war".

Kiev's army is, in fact, in defensive positions against more than 300 Russian personnel, "a tsunami of soldiers". According to Blejean, if the Ukrainian army can use "better tanks like the Leopard, it will be able to break through and counterattack".

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Ukrainian M 1097 Avenger

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"A visibly limping Putin arrived in occupied Crimea

Russian sources report Putin's visit to Sevastopol to «celebrate» the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea

Which, by the way, will be one of the items on Putin's list of accusations at The Hague Court"

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"The United States has confirmed that Chinese munitions were used against Ukraine. The US is also convinced that they were used by Russian troops."

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""We are trying to give Ukrainian tankers the maximum skills in the minimum time," - the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain shows how it prepares the crews of the future Ukrainian Challenger 2 tanks."

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"Canadian Bergepanzer 3 BREMs are on their way to Ukraine.

Bergepanzer 3 is a BREM of German-Dutch production based on the Leopard 2 tank. It is in service with more than 10 countries of the world, including Ukraine."