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Minister of the Armed Forces of France Sébastien Lecornu confirmed that France supplied the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a batch of 155-mm howitzers TRF1 which were written off the French Army.
According to the French Ministry of Defense, a large amount of military equipment has already been delivered to Ukraine, “covering the entire range of needs of Ukrainians.”
The supplies from France reportedly include anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, as well as “six 155-millimeter towed TRF1 howitzers, 18 CAESAR artillery installations, two Crotale systems,” as well as armored personnel carriers and multiple rocket launchers.
As for the TRF1s, the total number of howitzers that should be supplied to the Ukrainian military was not revealed but the first six systems are already in service with the AFU.
TRF1 is a French 155 mm self—propelled gun produced by GIAT. It can move independently at a speed of 8 km/h. 8 servicemen (gunner, commander, 2 chargers, charger operator, 2 correct, driver) are needed for its operation. The firing range is 24 km with conventional shells, the rate of fire is 6 rounds / minute.
Their transfer to Ukraine was announced in September. It was reported that the French military department bought them from the S2M-Equipment (former OMAT) company. In its turn, S2M-Equipment had bought 15 TRF1s after they were decommissioned from the French Army.
From 1984 to 1993, the GIAT association (now Nexter Systems) supplied 106 TRF1 guns to the French Army, of which only 13 units were in service with the French military until recently. According to open sources, 12 of them were in service with the French units in Djibouti. In April 2022, the unit reportedly sent the last four TRF1 howitzers for storage.
In France, TRF1 howitzers were replaced by CAESAR self-propelled artillery systems.
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Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron promised Zelensky to supply an additional batch of CAESAR self-propelled howitzers in addition to the eighteen that are already in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, a lot of them were already destroyed by Russian forces, and were put out of service by unprofessional Ukrainian soldiers.
Unlike the first CAESARs transferred from the French army, the new ones were first planned to be sent to the Danish army, but the Danes decided that Ukraine “needs them more.” In total, Kiev will receive 6 new self-propelled guns, delivery dates were not disclosed.
French media reported that about 20 Bastion armored personnel carriers will also be sent to Ukraine.
However, the military aid from France is not enough for the Kiev regime. On December 12, the head of the Ukrainian government, Denis Shmygal, called on the French authorities to supply French Leclerc tanks to the AFU.
Prigozhin said that the PMC “Wagner” has a battalion of foreigners, commanded by a retired general of the US Army.
“I have already commented that there are a sufficient number of fighters of foreign origin, including in response to a request from the Czech telegram channel neČT24, I mentioned the legendary “Czech Švejk Battalion”. There are not very many Finnish citizens in the Wagner PMC, about 20 people. But for obvious reasons, I can not give accurate information about them. As a rule, these are highly qualified specialists, very ideological and motivated. I have a very good opinion about the Finns on the battlefield. They are fighting in a British battalion (as part of the Wagner PMC), the commander of which is a US citizen, a former general of the Marine Corps.
Yes I applaud any and all Western personal serving with Russian forces on the front lines. Had I been 10 years younger I would have volunteered as a medical assistant working with Russian military units and where possible I would still help if I was needed or of use to our fighting units yes anyone with experience who loves the Motherland and her people should help in any way they can .But any Western volunteers arriving should be carefully security checked as a first step. Victory to Russia……
The Ukraine was the second largest tank force in Europe, now they need France to send tanks from a total force of less than 400, did any of these people ever do maths, or even go to school? Someone in the West needs to explain where the thousands of tanks Ukraine once had are today, and how they ended up there.
I’m pretty sure that there aren’t any tanks left on the entire territory of the failed Ukrainian CIA project. I mean, the Five Eyes media said that the Javelins had destroyed all the Russian tanks. How the Russians are still running around five oblasts with no tanks is certainly a mystery. Where the thousands of Ukrainian tanks went is anybody’s guess, but it certainly seems strange that the Ukrainians need a continual infusions of Soviet-era tanks from the former-and-once-again Nazi states that were in the Warsaw Pact. Ghost of Kiev? Snake Island? Ukretards are so mysterious!
Why western weapons keeps moving to the East? Because there are bridges over the Dnieper….. 10 months of war and those bridges are still there
But you would not want to upset the partners in business. Who cares for a couple soldiers if the dollars and euros continue to flow into the pockets of those big businessmen in russia. All strangly of nonrussian descent but thats probably just a unimportand detail.
The objective of Russia is to destroy all the military equipment of the West , so they let it come .
It may be better to let them come at the rate they can be destroyed than let them build up if they are hard to find and destroy.. after that selective bridges can be taken out to meter the rate.
Continued de-militarization of the West.
Well this proves america does not have more hotwizert to spare, and now france is the one providing system to ukraine. All 777 are destroyed? Now is time for Napoleon artillery.
It sounds like it
How much is all this costing France?
Not much as you can see they give their obsolete equipment that they were throwing out anyway …
So the 80ies are “IN” again?
Not one HIMARS or Caesar was destroyed, what is the great russian army doing? 🤡🤡🤡
So many emojis, Ihor, so many dead Ukrainian soldiers. Interesting how Ukretards moved from claiming that the Russians projected a three-day victory to saying that Clyde made the prediction. As usual, another Ukretard lie cut from whole cloth. Meanwhile, how’s the ATO coming? Got that last Moskal on the run from Donbas, Ihor?
The three days lie was in russian state owned media. It was so fun, like the other propaganda lies 😂😂😂
I was just in France. They should call it Frankenstan or Afranka…….I’m sure you can guess why.
I was expecting 40-60 percent white. It seemed more like 20 percent where I was the Paris area. I’ve heard Marseille has an even lower percent.
There is one solution for Europe to be saved. Farage in UK, Le Pen in France, Meloni in Italy, Vox in Spain, Afd in Germany, Orban in Hungary, Putin in Russia, Bernier in Canada, Trump in US and a lot of diapers for the crying Western liberals.
You’re at least as stupid as the average Ukretard with that kind of false binary bullshit. Nationalism is the passion of the idiots. It’s an emergency measure in Russia, but there’s not much separates MAGA cunts in the US empire from identitarian Ukretards. Both groups love fake history.
You sound like these libtard hohols. You must be a commie. Love Lenin much?
Nationalism is different from neo-Nazism. Nationalists support Putin while neo-Nazis support Zelensky.
Oh that’s something really fast, ffs 8km/h.
Anything given away is half thrown away…..
Drop a bunker buster or two on Macaroni’s residence…