Russian losses

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Russian losses remain high:

  • 1440 KIA
  • 2 Tanks
  • 4 AFVs
  • 93 Artillery systems
  • 3 MLRS
  • 2 Air defense systems
  • 2093 UAVs
  • 16 UGVs
  • 597 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
  • 5 Special equipment
  • 3 Cruise missiles

Ukrainian General Staff Morning Report

Operational information as of 08:00 on August 17, 2026, regarding the Russian invasion

Glory to Ukraine!

The 1,636th day of the Russian Federation’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun.

A total of 236 combat engagements were recorded over the past day.

Yesterday, the enemy conducted a missile attack with 12 missiles and 82 airstrikes, during which 255 guided aerial bombs were dropped. Additionally, the attackers used 11,783 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,309 shellings against communities and our troops’ positions.

The communities of Korenok, Ulanove, Buniakyne, and Seredyna-Buda in the Sumy region were subjected to hostile artillery fire. Additionally, areas around Velyka Chernechtjyna, Stepanivka, and Ulanove in the Sumy region were hit by airstrikes.

Over the past day, the air force, missile units, and artillery within Ukraine’s defense forces attacked 12 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated.

On the Northern Slobozhansky and Kursk fronts, our defenders repelled an enemy attack during the past day. Meanwhile, the attacker conducted two airstrikes with six guided aerial bombs and 44 shellings against our troops’ positions and communities, including two with rocket artillery.

On the Southern Slobozhansky front, Ukrainian units repelled 17 enemy attacks. The attackers attempted to advance in the areas around Lyman, Kozatja Lopan, and Izbytske, as well as towards Okhrimivka, Kruhłe, and Dvoritjanske.

On the Kupyansk front, three attacks by occupation forces were recorded in the areas around Kupyansk and Kurylivka, as well as towards Novoplatonivka.

Attempts to penetrate our defense were repelled on the Lyman front, where occupation forces attacked eight times in the areas around Lyman and Dibrova, as well as towards Karpivka, Ridkodub, Novoselivka, and Drobysjeve.

On the Sloviansk front, the enemy conducted 20 assault attempts in the areas around Kryva Luka, Zakytne, and Riznykivka, as well as towards Rai-Oleksandrivka and Mykolajivka.

On the Kramatorsk front, occupation forces attacked three times towards the communities of Jurkivka and Dibrova.

On the Kostiantynivka front, 26 attacks were recorded. The attackers conducted assault attempts in the areas around Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, and Ivanopillia, as well as towards Rusyn Jar, Novoselivka, and Stepanivka.

The highest number of assault attempts was recorded on the Pokrovsk front, where our defenders stopped 33 attacks. The enemy was active in the areas around Bilytske and Serhijivka and also conducted assaults towards Svitłe, Kutjeriv Jar, Novyj Donbas, Shevchenko, Novohryshyne, Myrne, Udatne, Molodetske, Novopidhorodne, and Novopavlivka.

On the Oleksandrivka front, the attackers conducted an attack towards the community of Jehorivka.

On the Huliaipole front, occupation forces attacked 19 times. The enemy attempted to advance in the areas around Hirke, Zaliznytjne, and Huliaipilske, as well as towards Tjarivne, Rivne, Rizdvianka, and Kopani.

On the Orikhiv front, our defenders stopped an enemy attempt to advance towards Novojakovlivka.

On the Dnipro front, the enemy made no assault attempts over the past day.

On the Volyn and Polissya fronts, no signs of the enemy forming offensive force groups have been detected.

In total, Russian attackers’ losses over the past day amounted to 1,440 personnel. Additionally, the following were neutralized:

  • 2 tanks
  • 4 armored fighting vehicles
  • 93 artillery systems
  • 3 rocket artillery systems
  • 2 air defense systems
  • 3 missiles
  • 16 ground-based missile systems
  • 2,093 unmanned aerial vehicles
  • 597 vehicles
  • 5 units of special equipment

Join the defense forces! Together we will win! Glory to Ukraine!

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  2. MXT

    Off-Topic, Trump throws South Korea halfway under the bus 

    “Donald Trump orders his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ‘significantly reduce’ the joint military exercises between the US and South Korea – because it is too late to completely stop them. He writes this on his own social media platform Truth Social. The annual exercise ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’ starts tomorrow, according to Al Jazeera.

    The decision is based on his ‘very good’ relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he writes, adding that the military exercises are expensive and send ‘inappropriate and hostile signals.’

    North Korea has said that it views the planned exercise as an escalation from previous years and intends to respond to ‘the new threat level with a new level of deterrence,’ according to a statement from the foreign ministry cited by Al Jazeera.

    Donald Trump ends his post by pointing out that South Korea recently declined to participate in the ‘nuclear dismantling of Iran.'”
    https://omni.se/trump-skar-ner-pa-militarovningar-med-sydkorea-berommer-kim-jong-un/a/PdaLB0

     

        1. Umlaut

          Yes. It is just so conspiratorial that I cannot go along with it. On the other hand, if you hear hooves clattering outside, it is probably a horse and not a zebra. 

    3. CB500four

      Well, what can you say, it’s not surprising, he has coddled Kim before.

      It seems that if a leader is a dominant, crazy psychopath, he is immediately impressed by that person and wants to please them.

      But if a leader is a diplomatic, empathetic humanist who bases their decisions on what is best for the country’s inhabitants, and discusses their decisions with others, Trump despises them and bullies and distances himself from their country.

      He is an inverted version of a good leader. 1/Called=Trump

       

    1. MXT

      Doesn’t seem like it yet, anyway. There were attempts earlier to get across, but they had to back out again. Logistics are difficult. But it feels like it might be time again soon.

      We’ll probably notice if there are reports of increased drone attacks in the area, then it might be time.

  4. maggan

    11783 suicide drones, even though they have a low hit rate, that is far too many.

    The hit rate is probably quite high. If the Russians were aiming at strategically important targets, they would probably have won by now. “Lucky” that they are targeting civilian targets. 🤮

    Don’t misunderstand this as me being a Russian troll, I’m surprised that Ukraine can boast this much without breaking down. Ukrainium! Slava!

    3. CB500four

      It is an incredibly high number, compared to, for example, Estonia’s border with Russia, which is only 290km, that makes 40 drones/km, that is, one drone every 45 meters. Terrible.

      Imagine the amounts of batteries, explosives, fiber, plastics that must be around the front line.

  5. MXT

    ** The “Kamensk-Shakhtinsky Combine” plant was hit. On the night of August 16, 2026, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the “Kamensk-Shakhtinsky Combine” plant in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, Russia. This defense industry enterprise produces solid rocket fuel for multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) such as “Uragan,” “Smerch,” and “Tornado-S,” as well as various missile and aviation systems. Its products are directly used to supply the Russian army.

    Given the importance of the facility, the enemy had prepared accordingly: almost all of the plant’s key workshops were protected by anti-drone systems and surrounded on all sides by earthworks. The Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully bypassed several levels of air defense – from “Pantsir” systems to S-300s – and inflicted at least 5 hits on different workshops of the plant.

    Several air defense vehicles were also hit. The consequences for these are being clarified.

    Traces of a fire were detected at the position of one of the air defense systems, likely a “Pantsir S-1.”

    Traces of a fire were also detected at the positions of multifunctional radar systems for illumination and guidance of the S-300/400 complex. Annotations made by Exilenova+/world.militares **

    https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3mtbgnrku7c2b

  7. MXT

    ** Russia, North Korea to continue cooperation ‘in all sectors,’ Putin says on Korean Liberation Day.
    Cooperation between Russia and North Korea would continue “in all the sectors,” Putin said in his message, while Kim praised ties that had “carried forward the history of common struggle for justice and precious traditions of friendship,” according to Reuters. **

    https://kyivindependent.com/russia-north-korea-to-continue-cooperation-in-all-sectors-putin-says-on-korean-liberation-day/

  10. Proxima

    In yesterday’s thread, USS Doris Miller was mentioned. The USA’s next aircraft carrier. “Doris” is in this case a male name. He was a sailor and is said to have performed outstanding feats at Pearl Harbor. Came from a poor family that was also dark-skinned. Truly impressive of the American Department of Defense to dare to name the ship “Doris Miller.” Aircraft carriers are otherwise named after presidents and admirals.
    I thought Trump wouldn’t be happy with that name, but he probably didn’t dare to change it. He settled for moving the “tower.” The entire Miller family was present when the shipyard did its “steelcut,” i.e., keel laying. I can only bow to the USA for daring to name the ship after a poor (but brave) black sailor. 🇺🇲

    5. CB500four

      Good, Trump probably doesn’t know the history, and hopes no one tells him either, because then it might have to be renamed.

      There have probably been some problems with those electromagnetic catapults as far as I understand, but they should be in working order now.

      Trump wanting to change them and move the towers is probably about him wanting to micromanage. He has seen Top Gun and other films from aircraft carriers and probably likes when they steam and roar.

      However, I don’t understand why anyone would rebuild the ships just because Trump wants it. The design of those can’t just be based on opinions, otherwise they are dumber than I could have imagined.

  12. Pehr

    ”Andrej Klepatj was the chief economist at a state-owned Russian bank when he warned about the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy in a speech. He has now been fired, reports the exiled Russian business site The Bell.
    – We cannot win this war of attrition. It is an illusion that Ukraine will collapse. Our costs are increasing, he said in the speech according to Reuters, predicting a social crisis as a result.
    He gave the speech at an economic forum in May, but it was published this week, according to TT.
    Klepatj worked at the Ministry of Finance for ten years before joining the state development bank VEB in 2014. Both VEB and Klepatj confirm to Reuters that he has left, but neither wants to say why.”
    https://omni.se/a/rrVKe0

  14. johan No.1

    Pehr probably wrote that but they tried to storm Ceuta again, Moroccan police stopped them.

    Why did they stop them if they were behind as everyone wrote?

    or were they not behind 🧐

    No one cares about Ceuta, several thousand roam around and cause trouble and those who live there are called nazis because they complain.

    The world has gone crazy.

    1. CB500four

      The world has probably always been crazy, but now that even the police chief has gone over to the dark side, the lunatics dare to come out of their holes.

  16. Pehr

    ”The Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg is sentenced to eleven years in prison, according to AFP. His party Yabloko, the last party opposing the Ukraine war, was banned last week.
    He is convicted of expressing contempt for Russia and its army, according to TT. During the trial, he reiterated his position that the war in Ukraine is a disaster for Russia.
    – No political upheaval is worth so many people’s deaths, he said in the courtroom according to the Russian independent Mediazona, and called for an immediate ceasefire.
    He also said that the case against him is political.”
    https://omni.se/a/V6aB8J

  18. johan No.1

    The Baltics are probably the litmus test.

    Russia has the history to know it can work but also knows they are balancing on a tightrope.

    Until 1991, they could do as they pleased.

    Exciting times, to say the least.

     

  19. johan No.1

    All articles about the Baltics 200 comments, “never”, “he is losing in Ukraine”, “he is not that stupid”.

    Good indicator that the psyops are underway to talk it down

  21. MXT

    Something very strange is happening across Europe.

    In the span of a single week, NATO countries have seen a remarkable series of incidents involving ammunition production, energy infrastructure, military facilities, and russian intelligence operations.

    Let me start with what we know.

    🇵🇱 POLAND

    On 7 August, Polish security services detained a russian citizen, recruited by russian intelligence, whose task was to execute a man holding both American and Ukrainian citizenship – in Warsaw.

    Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced it yesterday. According to him, this is the first time someone acting on russian orders has tried to kill an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country.

    🇩🇪 GERMANY

    On 6 August, a drone carrying explosives was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle airport – next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft. Two days later, two drones were spotted over the Bundeswehr base at Mechernich.

    Also not a rumor.

    🇮🇹 ITALY

    A fire in the powder compression department at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant in Colleferro, southeast of Rome, was followed by a massive explosion. No one was killed. The plant produces 155 mm artillery ammunition supplied to Ukraine through European partners.

    🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS

    Within a few hours at Europe’s largest port: a transformer fire, a major power failure, an emergency shutdown at the ExxonMobil refinery in Botlek, and then an explosion at the Gunvor Energy refinery and terminal that killed one worker and injured six.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if russia is responsible for all these “accidents”.

    I wrote about this problem two years ago. Back then, Europe was already experiencing an extraordinary wave of suspicious incidents:

    🇱🇹 IKEA set on fire in Vilnius.

    🇬🇧 An arson attack on a Ukraine-linked warehouse in London.

    🇩🇪 Sabotage plots against military and industrial targets in Germany.

    🇨🇿 Attempts to attack infrastructure in the Czech Republic.

    🇪🇪 An attack on the car of Estonia’s interior minister.

    🚆 Attempts to disrupt European railway systems.

    📦 And later, incendiary devices sent through European logistics networks – including devices that detonated or ignited in Germany, Poland and Britain.

    At the time, people could argue these were isolated incidents.

    Today, we know much more. European investigators and courts have connected multiple sabotage operations directly to networks organized or coordinated by russian intelligence.

    The pattern was real. It was simply diagnosed late.

    That is the design. Hybrid war works by staying below the threshold at which any single incident forces a response. Every event, taken alone, is deniable. Only the sequence gives it away.

    So when another extraordinary cluster of explosions, fires, drones, power failures, and intelligence operations appears across Europe in one week, perhaps we should stop treating every incident as if it exists in a vacuum.

    Europe no longer has the luxury of automatically assuming accidents and coincidence.

    Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe. Sabotage. Arson. Cyberattacks. Assassination plots. GPS interference. Attacks on logistics and critical infrastructure.

    These are not theoretical threats. They have already happened.

    https://x.com/i/status/2089120519861784673

  24. MXT

    Off-Topic, electricity price.

    Johan, I guess we have to put up with that if it means we buy less gas from Russia!

    “Europe’s low gas reserves and rising gas prices could push up Swedish electricity prices this winter. If gas flows remain low and hydropower is limited, Swedish prices risk approaching the higher German levels, warns Bixia’s electricity market analyst Johan Sigvardsson.– If things get really bad for us, we will get closer and closer to the German electricity futures, he tells EFN. A mild and windy autumn, on the other hand, could dampen the price increase. Gas futures have risen by over 40 percent in the past six weeks.”

    https://omni.se/a/0pglJ0

      1. MXT

        Early winter can probably be that if El Niño will have an effect on us. Late winter is a bit more random but if we are unlucky it can instead become really cold.

    2. MXT

      The forecasts for El Niño point even more towards it possibly being the strongest since 1950. It is not impossible that we will have bad luck with freezing cold in January and February when the gas starts to run out, the wind turbines stand still, and the electricity price peaks.

      Johan, when you change the roof, take the opportunity to add extra insulation!

      2. Pehr

        I read that there were fears it would be the strongest since the extreme super-El Niño of 1877–1878.
        However, our country managed quite well then.

      3. CB500four

        I predict a fairly warm autumn and a snow-poor Christmas, but colder after New Year with a locked high pressure from mid-January that brings temperatures down to -30 for one or a couple of weeks. After that, windier and milder, spring begins at the end of March. So stable periods but great variation between the periods.

         

  25. MXT

    Off-Topic Israel.

    This is not just any anonymous nutcase holding this view, but their Minister of Security. The Palestinian propaganda that tries to portray Israel as Nazis unfortunately does not seem so far from the truth; that statement could just as well have come from a Nazi and been said about Jews during World War II.

    “Israel’s far-right Minister of Security Itamar Ben-Gvir explicitly calls for mass murder in Gaza. Several media outlets quote his statements on a podcast run by former October 7 hostage Rom Braslavski. – I think we should carry out targeted eliminations of 30-40 people in Gaza every night, says Itamar Ben-Gvir on the podcast and continues: – Not only those who threaten us right now. These are people who do not deserve to live. They are not even human. The statement, which comes amid negotiations about an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, has barely been noticed in Israeli media according to AP. Similar statements have previously been widely condemned, and several have been reported to the International Criminal Court for incitement to genocide.”

    https://omni.se/a/ExKg3A

    1. Pehr

      Read it.
      Completely absurd, and the fact that the person in question is not excluded unfortunately says a lot about Netanyahu’s leadership and government. That it does not immediately lead to a government crisis is in itself astonishing.
      Note also that Israelis and Palestinians ARE fundamentally the same people, which Israeli researchers have been able to prove using DNA.
      Moreover, not only Europe’s support is at risk, but also its most important ally, the USA. Vance has already shown where he stands.

    2. CB500four

      That statement should be condemned in strong terms. Summon every Israeli ambassador.

      There is something very rotten in Netanyahu’s regime, and now that support from the USA is starting to crack, they should probably be a bit careful.

  27. MXT

    ❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian drones continue to destroy 🇷🇺Russian logistics in the temporarily occupied territories.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    1. Pehr

      Unfortunately, the rumor was not true: A Ukrainian military expert named Kyrylo Sazonov claimed, referring to sources within the Ukrainian military intelligence service (HUR/DIU), that Ukraine had blown up a train in Siberia.

  29. Pehr

    ”Generation Z meets the Cold War – this is how military technology is being digitized from the field
    When Lukas Nilsson participated in the Aurora combat exercise, his unit was immediately taken out – because the weapons were locked to 1980s wired technology. Through the incubator Strilab, young soldiers and reserve officers are now taking matters into their own hands.
    Lukas Nilsson is 19 years old and one of the participants in this summer’s Strilab – the Life Guards Brigade’s own incubator where reserve officers and soldiers, who are also students, develop military technology that solves problems from the field.
    The initiative is driven by reserve officers Jakob Blomqvist and Fabian Duke. Inspired by the startup world’s agile working methods, and with instructors from Silicon Valley, the idea behind the five-week summer program was that insights from field exercises would quickly be transformed into concrete operational solutions.
    Lukas Nilsson himself experienced the need for new technology during his conscription at Kungsängen Garrison. There he participated in the Aurora 26 combat exercise – an exercise in which Ukrainian drone pilots also took part.
    – We had very old equipment, which meant we had to use wires to connect the weapons. Because of that, we all had to stand in the same place. The opponents, who had a drone, saw us very quickly and sent artillery at us so we were simply taken out, he explains.
    The experience made him want to modernize the so-called fire control chain – the path from detecting a target to the firing order reaching the weapon. Today it partly relies on radio from the 1980s and wired communication from the 1990s that requires specially trained operators.
    Together with Albert Oscarsson, a reserve officer in indirect fire and an engineering student, Lukas Nilsson has therefore developed the app Eld.
    The solution is a plug-in to the mobile command support system ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit) that covers all fire control for an entire brigade. Instead of reading orders manually over the radio, the information is sent digitally directly to mortars, artillery, drones, and missiles.
    Jakob Blomqvist describes a situation within the Armed Forces where state-of-the-art technology is mixed with significantly older equipment.
    – The personal equipment – that is, the individual soldier’s and officer’s gear – is quite modern. We are far ahead there with modern weapons and uniforms. But if you take, for example, a mortar, the equipment and the basic principle have hardly changed since World War II.
    He describes a mix of radios from the 1980s and newer systems that simply do not communicate with each other.
    – People have to sit and manually reinterpret messages between them. The development potential lies in bringing these together, like how civilian companies started using APIs and cloud services ten years ago so that systems automatically communicate with each other. This development is now happening in the military worldwide.
    Why do you want this development to happen within the Armed Forces instead of companies?
    – Both are important, but we have learned from Ukraine that the most successful units have internal development teams. By having the military solve military problems, we can adapt faster to survive and operate better. At the same time, we build a muscle that facilitates cooperation with civilian companies, says Jakob Blomqvist.
    How quickly can a new product start being used in the military under today’s regulations?
    – Faster than you think. My experience does not match the image that it always goes slowly and bureaucratically.
    As an example, Jakob Blomqvist mentions Eld, which started when one of his soldiers, who was studying at KTH, was programming a fire control calculator in his spare time.
    One and a half weeks later, it was tested on conscripts.
    – We can go from an idea on paper to field testing in ten days. Today, we talk about months to get systems out to combat units, which previously would have taken years, he says.
    Lukas Nilsson was one of the conscripts who tested the prototype.
    He was inspired and continued working on the app. Now he will work full-time on it for a year together with Albert Oscarsson before starting studies in engineering physics.
    But aren’t there already such solutions on the market, or why do you want to make your own?
    – In the military, there is something called PC-SKER (PC-based Fire Control Calculator), but it is not issued to us – we only get the old stuff. Also, Sweden has a very special fire control system that differs from the rest of NATO. Every time you build a new system, it has to be customized; off-the-shelf products built for NATO standards don’t work. We need to build our own solutions, otherwise, there are none, says Lukas Nilsson.
    The team has now contacted other units to test Eld, including in Sollefteå and Falun, while waiting for the product to become officially security approved.
    Jakob Blomqvist is surprised at how quickly the participants in Strilab developed their solutions.
    – I thought they would build simple “widgets,” but they built complex software in just five weeks. A big difference today is the support from AI when writing code, which makes the process incredibly faster. Our instructors from Silicon Valley explained that you can throw out the old schoolbook on agile development; software is no longer programmed just by hand, he says.
    Connectivity the biggest technical challenge
    Ewa Skoog Haslum, vice admiral and head of operations management at the Armed Forces Headquarters, was also present at the conclusion of Strilab. She is impressed by the participants’ drive.
    – Good leadership also means actually allowing something to be new and different. I come from an organization where that has not always been the case. The exciting thing here is not just the gadget or the innovation itself, but how we can think differently and create adaptability.
    Regarding adaptability, she points out that the war in Ukraine has taught the entire Western world a lesson about it.
    – Old truths are no longer truths; we can really question them, especially regarding combat technology. Unmanned systems are one such part. Many think it’s just about flying vehicles that shoot, but in Ukraine, a very large part of the unmanned systems is about logistics. That is something that will affect our entire society.
    Do you see any obstacles or dangers with automation? What can be automated more, and what needs to remain analog to ensure resilience?
    – There is an incredible amount we need AI for to increase the pace; otherwise, we will lose the war. And we will win. So far, I don’t see that AI can handle judgment; that is still a human ability. But we must implement rapid data processing much faster than today. I have almost 40 years of experience and maybe some judgment, but the question is how you create judgment in a world where you have only lived with the technology for 50 years?
    What would you say is the Armed Forces’ biggest technical challenge?
    – It is the word connectivity, that is, how we get different systems to connect and be integrated with each other to achieve speed. Today, it is easy to have partly separate systems for the sake of robustness, but then we lose time. We can’t keep fiddling with USB drives. The ability to connect with each other is probably the biggest technical challenge we have today, says Ewa Skoog Haslum.”
    https://www.nyteknik.se/foersvar/generation-z-moeter-kalla-kriget-sa-digitaliseras-militaer-teknik-fran-faeltet/4485417

    1. Pekka

      This article you are posting is very important and I almost think it deserves a whole blog post.
      I myself am quite surprised at how openly they describe what happened during the exercises and why.
      It feels like they are starting to get the measures right now, even though there is still a long way to go.

  30. Pehr

    Off topic
    Support for Krasnov has dropped to 33 percent, according to a new opinion poll from Reuters/Ipsos. The figure is the lowest so far during his presidency and two percent lower than earlier in August.
    1,166 adult Americans have responded to the opinion poll, and the margin of error is three percent.
    https://omni.se/a/rrVJBm

  32. johan No.1

    The problem with the USA is probably that they were our allies.

    China, Iran, NK all get to us through Russia.

    If the USA leaves China alone, we are in a bad position.

    2. Pehr

      ”Latvia wants seven billion euros in next year’s EU budget to cover the costs of the hard line against Russia, reports Politico. That corresponds to half the country’s defense costs during the seven-year budget period.
      A growing Latvian opinion believes that the countries bordering Russia bear an unreasonably large cost for the military buildup and the economic loss caused by the closed trade route eastward.
      The country is taking loans to protect EU countries further away from Russia, and a large part of the money is spent on weapons from richer countries like Germany, France, and Sweden, according to Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs.
      – Our budget deficit is soaring, and with that debt we are paying for the defense of all of Europe, he says.”
      https://omni.se/a/M7a860

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