Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

"Valery Solodchuk (born 24 March 1971 - allegedly died 24 November 2024) is an officer of the Russian Army. He holds the rank of lieutenant general, and is commander of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces."

"Solodchuk graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in 2012, and between 2012 and 2014 commanded the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division of the Russian Airborne Forces. Between fall 2014 and late spring 2015 he was commander of the 1st Army Corps (DPR), operating in Donetsk, Ukraine of the 12th Reserve Component Command of the Southern Military District."

"At the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Solodchuk's command led the unsuccessful Battle of Kyiv. Invading from Belarus, a substantial portion of the 36th Army were stopped, then repelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces west of Kyiv in March, 2022."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Solodchuk

NATO Shows Interest in Ukrainian Acoustic Detection Networks for Air Defense

The defense ministries of some NATO countries have highly praised the potential of acoustic air threat detection systems based on the experience of using the Ukrainian Zvook and Sky Fortress systems.

The Economist reported on this.

After the Ukrainian systems successfully proved themselves on the battlefield, the ministries of defense of several NATO countries began purchasing acoustic equipment for their national air defense systems.

The European defense giant Thales has begun work in this area and plans to present its own acoustic network to detect aerial threats next year. And the Polish company Advanced Protection Systems has resumed work on a similar system.

According to General James Hecker, Commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe, the Ukrainian experience is at the heart of this excitement. He describes the Ukrainian innovation in acoustic monitoring as “extraordinary.”