• gressen@lemmy.zip
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    The £70 million ($88 million) package will be financed using interest accrued on seized Russian funds, marking one of the first instances of directly channeling confiscated Russian assets into Ukraine’s defense.

    There is a great difference between assets and interest on those assets. This article seems to confuse those two terms and they are not the same. No Russian assets were used to fund this equipment.

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    These missiles are actively used in the Raven air defense system, provided to Ukraine by the UK. According to recent information, Ukraine has received at least eight units of the Raven short-range air defense system from the United Kingdom, with five more currently being prepared for delivery.

    Designed to counter aerial threats such as Shahed-type drones, the system has conducted over 400 launches with a reported success rate of approximately 70%.