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Netherlands Acquires Six DITA Howitzers for Ukraine’s Defense

The Netherlands has ordered 6 new 155 mm DITA self-propelled howitzers from the Czech Republic for Ukraine. This is reported on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands. The Dutch Defense Minister announced the new aid for Ukraine during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. In addition, the Minister also stated that the previous 9 ordered DITA systems had already been delivered to Ukraine this summer.

“Ukraine has a huge need for weapons and ammunition. Russia is deploying a huge number of personnel to the battlefield. We must continue to help Ukraine defend itself. That’s why, together with the Czech Republic and Denmark, we are working hard to deliver armored howitzers and ammunition next year,” said the Defense Minister, Ruben Brekelmans. https://mil.in.ua/en/news/netherland...ine-s-defense/

Orban said that the Victory Plan scares him and called on Scholz and Macron to start talks with Russia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the Victory Plan presented by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Ukrainian parliament on 16 October scares him. ‘What he outlined yesterday in the Ukrainian parliament is more than frightening. I am one of those who call on the European Union to change its current strategy,’ Orban wrote, Censor.NET reports citing LigaBusinessInform.

According to him, the EU ‘entered this war with a poorly organised, poorly executed strategy based on poor calculations’. The Hungarian prime minister believes that the EU should change its war strategy to a peaceful strategy, and for this purpose, the bloc should seek a ceasefire in Ukraine and negotiations. He urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron to ‘start negotiations with the Russians as soon as possible on behalf of the entire European Union so that we can find a way out of this situation’. Source: https://censor.net/ua/n3515448