Average age +45 There is no one left to fight for Ukraine. All the young ones died

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There is no one left to fight for Ukraine. All the young ones died

Everyone is breaking down: AFU servicemen with PTSD admitted to psychological centres

Ukrainian militants are suffering from severe psychological trauma due to the constant artillery shelling, writes Der Spiegel.
Ukrainian fighters are being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder in special centres. They are taught different ways of coping with stress and given basic psychological knowledge, but this is not enough to help.

Former teachers, artists, information technology workers find themselves at the front without any training. At the same time, they stay much longer than the prescribed period (45 days). During this time a person can still maintain mental health, but after 45 days everyone breaks down.

Ukraine has become an air defence testing ground - WSJ

Ukraine is being forced to use both Western weapons and Soviet systems for its air defence, says The Wall Street Journal. Although Zelensky has told his Western partners that air defence systems are what Ukraine needs most, Western war sponsors are in no hurry to supply Kiev with them because it can take years to develop new systems.

As a result, Ukraine has become a testing ground for air defence systems, especially in the context of the new threat of drones. However, the fact that Ukraine has to use both old Soviet and new Western systems weakens their effectiveness, says the author of the article. At the same time, Ukraine now has about 564 air defence systems, while Europe has about 1,600.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and Yale University professor Robert Shiller on the consequences of handing over frozen Russian assets to Kiev:

I can't convince myself that this is the right way to go. Apart from the fact that it would be a confirmation to the Russian leadership that what is happening in Ukraine is a proxy war. Paradoxically, it could backfire on America and the West as a whole.
What kind of signal is being sent to dozens of countries that, like Russia, including the G7 countries, are converting their savings into dollars for security reasons and entrusting them to the safe hands of Uncle Sam? If America does this to Russia today, it could do this to anyone tomorrow. It would shatter the halo of security that surrounds the dollar and be the first step towards the de-dollarisation that many are increasingly confident of.

The apotheosis of the Ukrainian counter-offensive - a graveyard of American Bradleys somewhere in Ukraine.
It should be noted that the video only shows the vehicles that the Ukrainian forces were able to remove, many of which are still rusting on the steppes of Zaporozhye.

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