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290,000 additional artillery shells equates to tens of thousands of young Russians that will never make it home to their families for Christmas. It's also hundreds, if not several thousand tanks, IFVs and artillery pieces from the Soviet stockpile that Russia will never be able to replace. Finally, it keeps Ukraine in the fight and forces Russia to spend billions more dollars on their pointless war, further exhausting their foreign currency reserves, increasing inflation inside Russia and further damaging the purchasing power of the average Russian.
is sending CB90 river boats to Ukraine, joining the initiative by Sweden 
and The Netherlands 
. Finland did not announce the quantity of boats that they'll send.
en.defence-ua.com
is sending armored personnel carriers, tactical vehicles and mortar rounds.
euromaidanpress.com
released it's first tranche of 2024's $5 billion usd worth of financial aid under the Ukraine Peace Facility. also voted to accept the proposal that all interest made from frozen Russian assets in Europe be sent to Ukraine. That amounts to approximately $3.3 Billion usd per year. The first transfer of such funds will take place in July of this year.
Lol, 80%+ of Ukraine is not occupied and Russians lose thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of men and hundreds of armored vehicles and artillery pieces for each additional 1% that they take. Outside of Mariupol, all of Ukraine's large cities are still standing and none are under immediate threat of falling. Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Kramatorsk, etc, etc.
estimated Russian losses at 315,000 KIA / WIA / MIA. They also estimated that Russia has spent at least $211 Billion usd during the war and has deeply damaged their foreign currency reserves, while spiking inflation inside Russia. Some 30%-40% of the enormous Soviet stockpile that was left to them has also been exhausted, with losses happening at a far greater rate than Russia can replace them.
The main goal of the West is and has always been to spend small amounts of money (relatively speaking) to support the Ukrainians in exhausting Russia's Soviet stockpile and, thus, their ability to project "hard" power in the region and to quell their attempts to remake the Soviet Union by force. Simultaneously, the West has achieved its secondary goal of growing NATO and lengthening its border with Russia, for geostrategic purposes.
has announced a new defense package for Ukraine, consisting of 19 additional Leopard 2A4 MBTs. The tanks are being refurbished from existing Spanish stockpiles and will be sent to Ukraine later this year. 
, Poland 
, Italy 
and Spain have established a new armored vehicle coalition for Ukraine to provide them fresh reinforcements of armor. Germany announced that they will send an additional 100 IFVs. This announcement for Spain represents the second official announcement coming out of the Ramstein 20 meeting.
and Portugal 
have officially joined the Czech 
led initiative to purchase artillery shells for Ukraine from outside the European Union . Sweden will donate $108 million usd to the coalition, while Portugal will donate $32.6 million usd.
Lol, 80%+ of Ukraine is not occupied and Russians lose thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of men and hundreds of armored vehicles and artillery pieces for each additional 1% that they take. Outside of Mariupol, all of Ukraine's large cities are still standing and none are under immediate threat of falling. Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Kramatorsk, etc, etc.
Just yesterday at the latest Ramstein meeting USA
If the collective West has to send an insignificant $100-$150'ish billion usd to Ukraine each year to ensure that Russia continues to take territory at a snail's pace, that's money extremely well spent. When USA passes their next large tranche of funding for Ukraine, it's going to be even kore nightmarish for the Russians in their attempt to advance. They're trading so much for so little right now. As Ukraine's artillery shell stockpiles increase throughout 2024, it's only going to get worse.
