Ukraine will supply Patriot complexes, how Russia bypasses the ban on the import of electronics and accusations against Bankman-Fried
Ukraine will supply Patriot complexes, how Russia bypasses the ban on the import of electronics and accusations against Bankman-Fried
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The United States this week announced the beginning of the Patriot anti-aircraft systems, which Kyiv needs from the very beginning of the war. The complexes can change the situation with rocket attacks on the Ukrainian economy, but hardly quickly – 90 people need to be trained to control the Patriot, and the duration of training normally takes months. American media remind that Dmitry Medvedev warns that the supply of Patriot in Moscow will be perceived as a step towards escalation of the conflict.
- Several US officials said CNN and Reutersthat the American leadership has almost agreed on plans for the supply of Ukrainian Patriot complexes. All that remains is official approval from Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and President Joe Biden. An official announcement could be made as early as Thursday, the newspaper writes.
- How many complexes will be delivered in Ukraine, the journalists were not told. The standard Patriot complex consists of a control center, a radar station and eight launchers, including the use of four missiles.
- The Patriot is the main long-range air defense system (up to 100 km) in service with the US Army and its allies. Until now, Western countries have transferred to Ukraine only less powerful and modern systems – two US-Norwegian NASAMS (range up to 50 km, Ukraine promised 8 in total, but the rest arrived no earlier than 2023) and old systems Hawk and Avenger. So far (for the last time – 29th of November) The US has shown that it will not have the increased capacity of the Patriot.
- Patriot systems are considered among the world’s most effective anti-missile and cruise missiles used by CNN. Their high probability of action is close to shooting down Russian missiles at a long distance from their targets. This could help the Ukrainian military to improve the effectiveness of air defense protection against attacks on energy infrastructure, while at the same time reducing the likelihood of new random hits not there. In addition, after two months of intense Russian shelling in Ukraine start to end missiles for the Soviet S-300 air defense systems, an integral part of the country’s air defense.
- If the decision is made, the Patriot complexes will be transferred to Ukraine in the coming weeks. But before they are put on combat duty, an indefinite period may pass. The fact is that the Patriot is one of the most complex complex systems that requires long-term training of a large number of personnel. total count is 90 people, training under standard conditions lasts for several months or more – the media often get vouchers for page U.S. Army with a Patriot Repairman position offering 63 weeks of training. However, in the course of the growing war, the US and Ukraine have already said that this could lead to a sharp reduction in the development of new equipment. So, the Ukrainian military grabbed several weeks instead of several months to work with HIMARS missile systems. This became possible after American engineers simplified significantly complex interface.
What do I do with this?
As a result of rocket attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, people with a high population density are without electricity, and many of them without heating. Any way proven it will be fine.
SANCTIONS
How Russia bypasses the ban on imports of microelectronics
Russia continues Western electronics despite sanctions and receives awards from manufacturers, election Reuters. In total, Russia imports electronic components worth $2.6 billion from April to November. Almost a third of this turnover, totaling $777 million, came from purchases from Western manufacturers, writes Reuters. A study on microcircuits from the American companies Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, as well as the German company Infineon. Deliveries through Turkish, Hong Kong and even Estonian companies. We retold the main thing from the investigation.
COUNTERSANCTIONS
Price ceiling response
The Russian authorities have decided on the answer to the oil price ceiling. Describing his draft presidential decree at the general convention, the authors Vedomosti, citing sources. From exotic ideas such as those proposed recently “half prices” resolved Depending on the decree, the most obvious from the very beginning: a ban on Russian companies from selling oil if the contract specifies a country that has joined the ceiling as a recipient, or if the contract specifies as a condition or reference price equal to the ceiling ($60 per barrel). The role of the decree will be rather symbolic – the countries that have joined the agreement on the oil ceiling still do not buy Russian oil, and other buyers are unlikely to participate in the contracts for the reference ceiling price.
What else happened
- EU does the next call on the ceiling of gas prices that has not been agreed upon for several months. With the European Commission, it remains the same: the mechanism for accepting the proposal automatically if the market price of the transition is 275 euros per megawatt-hour (about 3,000 dollars per thousand sides of cubic meters) and breaks away from European prices by more than 58 euros. Assuming the EU, the Czech Republic offers a threshold of €220 and a gap of €35. The main question for the ceiling is at what level it will not repel the already scarce LNG from the European market and cause prices to rise. If the review does not take place today, you will present it at the EU summit on Thursday, and then at a meeting on energy in the nearest territory.
- Great Britain in connection with the strikes of drones delivered from Iran on Ukraine introduced support against 12 representatives of the command staff of the Russian Armed Forces (10 generals, two colonels). Among them is the head of the Main Computing Center of the Ministry of Defense (MCC), Major General Robert Baranov, whom Bellingcat (recognized in Russia as a foreign agent and a special characteristic by the media) specifically called him responsible for compiling flight tasks.
- American Regulators accused the former head and founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, in developing a multi-year scheme to cheat detection, in the discovery of more than $ 1.8 billion in his company. Authorities of the Bahamas December 12 arrested Bankman-Fried, based on a classified indictment surveillance filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of York. The New York Times learned that the stories included wire fraud and collusion, securities fraud and money laundering.