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African Union (AU) Commission President Moussa Faki Mahamat wrote on Twitter that the AU regrets Russia's decision to allow the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea to expire. He called on all parties to "resolve issues to allow resumption of safe transportation of grain and fertilizers from Ukraine and Russia to regions in need, including Africa." [DW]

So there is no question of condemning Russia, as some forum members hoped. There is also no differentiation between perpetrators and victims in this war.

South Africa, a close ally of Russia, no longer has to worry about Putin's imprisonment, since Putin let it be known that he would not participate in the summit of the BRICS countries and would instead bring forward his Mini-Me Lavrov. Putin is subject to an international arrest warrant issued by the ICC, which would have formally obliged South Africa to detain and transfer Putin if he arrived in South Africa.

It gets reported that russia focusse son not only filling up depleted mioenfields, which before were mostly formed by anti-armour mines, but now fills them up with especially anti-personnel mines. This reflects adfaptation to the chnaged tsatcics by Ukriane, from attempted mechanised assault to speed-of-boot-on-the-grounds. Probably over one third of the delivered Bradley have gone lost.


The British Challengers so far are reported and confirmed to not have seen any combat at all.



The losses amongst the French-delivered AMX light tanks are apparently high, Ukrainian commanders curse them for havign good eys and a nice Boom, but being totally unsufficiently armoured for battelfield action. Where so far crews of Bradleys and Leopards have escaped from total knockouts of their vehicles, the Ukrainians have suffered apparently several complete crew losses from the French vehicles when they got hit. There are complaints that some Wetsenr natiosn use Ukraine as a dumpster for old equipment they want to get rid of cheaply.



The Americans probably did it cleverly, the Bradley is said to no longer being fit for the modern battlefield'S threats, but is still good enough to also pose a serious threat due to its TOW2 and thermal and night vision. They want to replace it anyway, and loosing it in quantities in Ukraine does not reveal all too high technological insights for Russia. The germans on the other hand send the most modern of what they have, the Leopard-2A6, and these ending up in russian hands is a very different thing. Ther eis tehcnolkgy in them that Russia can exploit. We should have send Leopard-2A4s, like the others. It is rumoured that German weapon technology suffers in loss of reputation from the Leopards being done once and for all in Ukraine.



I fear the soon to be delivered Leopard-1A5s will suffer a comparable fate like the French AMX. Too weakly armoured.