Ukranian recon battalion destroyed a Russian Pantsir SAM system
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-recon-battalion-neutralizes-russian-pantsir-s1-sam-in-kherson-region/

Ukraine urges citizens of Pokrovsk to evacuate post-haste: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-pokrovsk-df997d0f23bd7dcdfc6f20080ab133e7

Looks like the Russiqns are not slowing down on this axis - though it looks like it's a wedge that goes straight to the city... just what the Germans did for Stalingrad...

Germany will halt new military aid to Ukraine: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-halt-new-ukraine-military-aid-report-war-russia/

Germany has used up more than the 100 Billion Euro special budget that they allocated to both Ukraine and to rearm themselves, now the legally-binding Schuldenbremse (debt brake) comes into force and stops the government from spending more money. Which means that some of the promised IRIS-T may not be sent to Ukraine as Germany literally can't afford to produce and send them.

Germany could easily afford it if they taxed the rich in a fair way. The debt brake is only an issue because it's being used in conjunction with the mantra of "no new taxes." The debt brake is a sensible policy, but letting the rich of the hook is not.

Yeah, unfortunately the Donbas front is still pretty bad for Ukraine, Russia continues to progress.

I've seen Germans report on this and apparently it's being reported a bit deceptively.

German aid for the rest of 2024 which was already planned and promised will still be delivered, totalling 8bn euros, the 4bn euros promised for 2025 will still happen as well. Any new aid outside of that is the thing that is being paused for now, I believe? Germany plans on using the frozen Russian assets to try to fund further new aid to Ukraine.

Criss might be able to comment on it better.

https://youtu.be/nar-O0LEwqo?si=Tn55t1hW3KM_ig5Z

Covert Cabal did a video on the number of self-propelled artillery on the russian side that is remaining to give us some idea on how long that will last. He is saying that out of the 4200 SPG's, 4500 remain. However the daily reports of artillery destroyed every day is stunning.

You meant 2500, right?

Either way, the most important of the video is this chart here:

It shows that while Russia "only" lost about 40% of their SPGs, they lost much more of the more modern vehicles than their older counterparts - possibly because those are in a sorry state of disrepair and need longer to be put in combat shape again.

Another interesting tidbit is what he says at the end: That the backlog of vehicles to be repaired is growing fast and that they are falling further and further behind on the time schedule, especially with the tanks. In other words, it takes longer and longer for Russia to repair a vehicle and bring it to the front, which means that Russia can't keep their production numbers up and will sooner or later have to fight on foot. He also says that he's going to make a video about that soon, so we'll have a clearer picture about this soon.