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Dimlee said:
Probably, the first such defence agreement in history? Where the commitment is measured in % of own GDP.
"Latvia has set the target for 2024, 2025 and 2026 of providing the necessary military support to Ukraine in the amount of 0.25% of the gross domestic product annually..."
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Maybe Biden should order $40 billions of "over priced" Latvian stuff.

Latvia's main exports are: wood and wood products, machinery and equipment, iron and steel, textiles and foodstuffs.

Latvia Exports

Exports in Latvia decreased to 1516.10 EUR Million in February from 1637.96 EUR Million in January of 2024. This page provides - Latvia Exports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
tradingeconomics.com tradingeconomics.com

And beautiful women, Latvian man shortage leaves women lost for love.
 
Snowman said:
And now some bad news
www.airandspaceforces.com

Russian Air Force Has Lost 10 Percent of Fleet in Ukraine

The Russian air force has lost just one-tenth of its fleet, the top U.S. commander in Europe Gen. Christopher Cavoli told Congress April 10.
www.airandspaceforces.com www.airandspaceforces.com

I thought the VKS' losses were much greater.
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But they lost ~50% of their most important asset - their AWACS-equivalent (only servicable frames counted). So a massive loss in detection and coordination capability.
 
WARSPITER said:
I would assume they also have some tractors ?
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They do.

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And they have Lumberjacks, too...
 

As Russia has intensified its air campaign against Ukraine in the last month, hammering its energy infrastructure and urban areas, no major city has been harder hit than Kharkiv.
Just 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border in northeast Ukraine, Kharkiv was already the most exposed to missile attacks and bombardment.

But the drying up of Western military support in recent months – as a vital U.S. military aid package has been stuck in Congress amid Republican resistance – has left Kharkiv even more dangerously unprotected.
"We have a catastrophic shortage of air defence systems," Governor Oleh Synehubov told Reuters, standing in the city's vast central plaza, Freedom Square. "Not only in the Kharkiv region, but throughout the entire country. Especially in the Kharkiv region."

The city is so near the border that Russian missiles can reach their target in less than a minute. The deployment of Ukraine's precious air defences, such as the U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, which are high-value targets for Russian airstrikes, has to be done more cautiously so close to enemy lines, officials say.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has urgently appealed for more air defence supplies from the West, said this week that almost a quarter of Kharkiv had been destroyed.

 
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