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Roshel begins armored vehicle production in Ukraine

Canadian armored vehicle manufacturer Roshel has begun production operations in Ukraine. Roshel CEO Roman Shimonov confirmed the move during the “Defending Ukraine’s Future” security and reconstruction conference, according to Ukraine’s state news agency Ukrinform. “The facility was opened two...
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Russia And Ukraine Turn To Ground Robots For Frontline Resupply

Russia and Ukraine are turning to ground robots for resupply as both face challenges delivering supplies to front-line troops due to drone attacks.
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GTX said:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCw15rSK2bo
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Another stupid not very intelligent talk in the media about the "retaliation". It was just another raid.
While the number of drones was the record high (407 vs about 370 in the previous raid), the number of missiles was far from the highest since 2022.
I never stop wondering why the public and the media are so susceptible to the Kremlin's messages.
 
About losses. New interesting data source - Russian courts filing.
"Russian district and garrison military courts received more than 26,000 lawsuits to declare a person missing or dead in 2025. This is more than in the whole of 2024: at that time these claims amounted to 22.6 thousand."

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The wave of the missing. First half of 2025 sees more claims for MIA and KIA soldiers in courts than the whole previous year

Since the start of 2025, Russian courts have received 26,000 claims for recognizing people as missing. Taking into account last year, the number of such claims is approaching 50,00...
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SaparotRob said:
I've been mentioning to friends for a few years what made the Soviet Union powerful was the Ukrainian part.
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Over the years between 1950 and 1990, Ukraine had not only been the breadbasket of the USSR, but a significant source of resources, as well as a technological hotbed. After the USSR's breakup, modern Russia's decline was in my opinion in large part due to the loss of both fertile farmland and an educated manufacturing workforce located near resource extraction, although it's fair to say that the larger reason for Russia's decline was the rise of the oligarchy. But that oligarchy clearly had -- and still has -- problems growing corn, digging coal, or building ships and bombers.

It's no surprise that Russia invaded in 2022 trying to recapture those benefits. Perhaps had Russia done this in 1992 they would have succeeded. Even in 2014, maybe could have worked but I'm skeptical. But by giving the Ukrainians eight years of training and arming in a low-key war, Putin screwed up massively.
 
Thumpalumpacus said:
Over the years between 1950 and 1990, Ukraine had not only been the breadbasket of the USSR, but a significant source of resources, as well as a technological hotbed. After the USSR's breakup, modern Russia's decline was in my opinion in large part due to the loss of both fertile farmland and an educated manufacturing workforce located near resource extraction, although it's fair to say that the larger reason for Russia's decline was the rise of the oligarchy. But that oligarchy clearly had -- and still has -- problems growing corn, digging coal, or building ships and bombers.

It's no surprise that Russia invaded in 2022 trying to recapture those benefits. Perhaps had Russia done this in 1992 they would have succeeded. Even in 2014, maybe could have worked but I'm skeptical. But by giving the Ukrainians eight years of training and arming in a low-key war, Putin screwed up massively.
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To note that Ukraine was also the breadbasket (and "coal and iron ore basket") before 1950.
Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea were the most important for general cargo, dry bulk for the Empire and for the USSR and since the 1970s, for container shipping as well. Speaking about the latter, Ilyichevsk (now Chornomorsk) in Ukraine was the main port for containerised imports to the Russian Federation in the early/mid-1990s until Riga (and later, St.Petersburg) replaced it.
The Kuban region, another basket, was de facto Ukrainian until the Soviet collectivisation, purges and forced migrations. Old maps show that the Ukrainian ("Malorossian" in pre-1917 terms) language dominated the region.

One of the lesser-known facts about the Eastern Front of WWII: 25%-26% of Red Army personnel were Ukrainian. It was official data that didn't include Ukrainians who changed their identity to Russian in the papers in the 1930s after the famine, collectivisation and purges. The common phenomenon in the Soviet era: families changed their surnames to sound as Russian. For example, changing the typical ending "-ko", to Russian "-ov". Then, parents would put "Russian" in the mandatory field "nationality" of the birth certificate of their child to protect the child's future.
 
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