📖 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 While it's true that Russia is constantly rebuilding its forces and trying to replace losses, including recruiting new personnel and creating new units and military districts, the reality differs significantly from what appears on paper.

🔶️ Frontelligence Insight has closely monitored multiple Russian units and noted a problem that has become more apparent since 2023 and continues to worsen in 2024: armored losses are being replaced by civilian vehicles such as vans, pickup trucks, and other unarmored vehicles

🔶️ We documented evidence of the replacement of T-72 tanks of various modifications with T-62 and T-55s in at least one tank unit. While we don't know the situation across all units, occasional videos of T-55 and T-62 in different areas suggest that this is not an isolated case

🧐 According to Oryx, since the start of the invasion, the number of lost vehicles has surpassed 15,000, as of around 2024/03/24, including 2,856 tanks, 135 helicopters, 106 aircraft, and 20 ships. Russia cannot replace such numbers within two years, despite the Soviet legacy

🔶️ In fairness, Russia still maintains an advantage over Ukraine in terms of replacement and substitution, as Ukraine has received minimal replacements since 2023, and its domestic production, while improving significantly, still lags behind in meeting frontline needs.

🔶️ Despite suffering losses in land, naval, and aerial vehicles, Russia has seriously expanded its UAV arsenal, potentially one of the most numerous in the world, consisting of hundreds of thousands of tactical reconnaissance, suicide, and bomber drones.

🔶️ Yet, newly formed units don't get vehicles per their organizational structure, sometimes resembling rifle units more than motorized or mechanized units. Furthermore, during the Avdiivka battle, the newly formed 25th CAA had to transfer its equipment to the 2nd and 41st armies.

🔶️ Considering the above, Russian forces went through transformation, acquiring new UAV and EW capabilities as well as valuable experience, while also suffering tens of thousands of vehicle losses and the loss of experienced officers and soldiers.

🔶️ It will take Russia multiple years to rebuild its army. Moreover, given the experience in the invasion of Ukraine, its post-2022 forces, previously organized in BTG units, will look very different - the future size and composition will depend on the outcomes of the war.

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💰 Bitcoin Difficulty and Hashrate Reach Record Highs as Halving Draws Closer

As of April 10, the difficulty of mining a block has intensified by 3.92% following the most recent adjustment. Concurrently, Bitcoin’s network hashrate also attained its highest level ever, as indicated by the seven-day simple moving average (SMA) metrics, which shows a peak of 641 exahash per second (EH/s). This uptick was due to block intervals shortening to less than 9 minutes on April 9, quicker than the typical 10-minute average.

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🇭🇰 Hong Kong set to approve spot #Bitcoin & Ethereum ETFs by Monday, Bloomberg reports.
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📈🚀GOLD spot reach a new All Time High, over $2420/oz!

🇭🇰🤝📈💰🔹H.K. Seen Approving Bitcoin, Ether ETFs as Soon as Monday

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🇫🇷🇷🇺 France buys more gas from Russia than any other EU country - Politico

France increased its purchase of Russian gas more than any other European country in the first quarter of 2024. More than 600 million euros worth of gas was imported during this period

The country's authorities say that the national energy company TotalEnergies' agreements with Moscow to buy gas were made long ago and are difficult to get out of.

"France is quietly stepping up payments for gas from Russia, while President Emmanuel Macron is loudly promoting himself as one of Ukraine's most ardent defenders," the article said.

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🇺🇸⚡️🇪🇺 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Where NATO Has An 'Enhanced Forward Presence' | April 10, 2024:

"On Monday, Germany sent an advance team of 20 soldiers to Lithuania, laying the groundwork for the recently discussed establishment of a permanent brigade in the NATO country.

According to Deutsche Welle reporting, the 5,000-strong strikeforce called Panzerbrigade 45 is said to become fully operational by 2027. The brigade will support the already existing so-called NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in the Baltic country, which, in contrast to Panzerbrigade 45, rotates its personnel regularly and was made up of soldiers from Germany, Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States as of December 2023.

As Statista's Florian Zandt shows in the chart [above], Lithuania is one of eight nations with such a force that's, according to NATO itself, "defensive, proportionate, transparent and in line with the Alliance’s international commitments and obligations".

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🇺🇸⚓ — 🏴 ZeroHedge | "We're Going To Lose A Major War": US Navy Deletes Photo Of Ship Commander Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope | April 11, 2024

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱❗️ — 🇺🇸 Former United States President Donald Trump:

With what’s going on with Israel, we could end up in a World War.

🇮🇷🪖⚠️ — 📰 Al-Arabiya: Two sources told CNN: Washington noted that Iran is moving military assets, including aircrafts and cruise missiles

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🇺🇸🇨🇺⚠️ — ⛓ Victor Manuel Rocha, former US ambassador to Argentina and Bolivia, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Miami for working as a spy for Cuban intelligence for four decades.

🔨 Rocha, 73, who lived in the city of Florida, was arrested in December. According to the Miami Herald, Judge Beth Bloom of the Miami District Court called the former ambassador "an enemy of the United States government."

"Your actions were a direct attack on our democracy and the security of our citizens. You turned your back on this country, a country that gave you everything."

😪 According to the Miami newspaper, Rocha, born in Colombia and naturalized as an American in 1978, apologized to the judge, the United States, and his family before the sentence was announced.

❌ "As a student, I was strongly influenced by the radical politics of the time," he said. "Today, I no longer see the world through the radical eyes of my youth."

‼️ Among the murky stories involving Rocha, one that stood out was a statement he made in June 2002, four days before the presidential election in Bolivia, in which he referred to then-candidate Evo Morales without mentioning his name.

💬 "The Bolivian electorate should consider the consequences of electing leaders somehow linked to drug trafficking and terrorism," Rocha said, suggesting that Morales' election could lead to a cut in US aid to Bolivia.

⁉️ The statement sparked outrage among the Bolivian population and, according to analysts, was decisive in Morales gaining last-minute votes and almost winning that year's election.

❗️ The Bolivian leader coined an immortal phrase: "My best campaign manager is named Manuel Rocha." After the former ambassador's arrest, suspicions grew that the 2002 statement was deliberate self-sabotage, considering Morales' strong ties to the Havana dictatorship.

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🇨🇳👺❔🇺🇸 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Kyle Bass Says Email Hacking By China Follows Exposé On Secret ChiCom Hypersonic Space Station Base In Argentina | April 11, 2024:

"Dallas-based hedge fund manager Kyle Bass claims the Chinese government hacked his email account after he quoted an article on X about a 'secret' space station base in the Patagonia region of Argentina that the Chinese military use "to steer their hypersonic weapons over the pole."

"The Chinese need this 'secret' space station in Argentina to steer their hypersonic weapons once over the pole. Milei should take it down (or somebody else will 🇺🇸)," Bass wrote on X.

Bass was quoting an article on X account Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense that wrote:

The space station can have a military role in tracking missiles & satellites in the southern hemisphere.

US Ambassador to Argentina Marc Stanley told the Argentine newspaper La Nación that he was surprised Argentina allowed Chinese armed forces to operate a base on its territory."

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