Chapter 1429: The Polar Bear Opens Its Mouth

Although New Zealand's military strength can be said to be very low, there is a US military base in New Zealand, which is not very large, but it represents a considerable force. Even the energy group cannot cause trouble under the current situation.

The excuse of the energy group this time is to conduct military exercises, but there are no good exercises in the South Pacific region. There is nothing here, and there are no strategic locations. Conducting exercises here is simply nonsense. Who would believe it? What about this?

Another excuse is to exterminate the pirates here. Although there are pirates here, they are not the same as those in Somalia. Because the society here is relatively peaceful, the pirates' way of doing things is also relatively gentle. The crew on the ship are even like friends. They just detain you for a period of time, and then you will be fine after your boss pays you. Their openings are also much different from those in Somalia. They will never ask for millions or even Tens of millions of dollars, at most one hundred thousand dollars, the bosses will not go to war for such a small amount of money, after all, the money is insignificant compared to their profits.

Li Cong thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of any reason, but No. 2 is not a person who can be idle. This guy replaced No. 1 and followed Li Cong to make trouble. This guy quickly thought of the hot pot of the Energy Group last month. The city imported 3,000 tons of mutton from New Zealand. At that time, some pirates went to ask them for money, but in the end, when they saw that the goods were from the energy group, they let them go. It seemed a little unkind. But now there is no other excuse except for this reason. So many media in the world are paying attention to super battleships. If there is no reason, how can they easily use such a large warship?

It's just that Li Cong always looks uncomfortable about the cannon hitting mosquitoes, what's so wrong???

Didn't wait for Li Cong's reaction from here. The pirates over there immediately sent people over, willing to withdraw from this sea area, and willing to dedicate the things they robbed over the years to Li Cong. Li Cong and some senior cadres can swallow eggs right now, What the hell are these pirates, why don't they have any Caribbean spirit, why did they surrender before the fight started. Such a person is not worthy of the word pirate at all, such a person is simply garbage among pirates, Li Cong scolded for almost five minutes.

"Damn it, flatten their pirate island for me." Li Cong ordered immediately after the pirates had all retreated. In fact, it is also to verify the ability of the super battleship, how long does it take him to build a small island less than one square meter.

Following Li Cong's order, more than a dozen frigates around quickly sailed towards the periphery. They will keep a distance of 30 nautical miles from the super battleship. They are the minions of the super battleship. When a super battleship wants to attack a place, their task is to guard the super battleship well, especially some flies flying from the sky.

Watching the frigate gradually go away, Li Cong felt that the combat operations of these guys were good. Before he started to praise him, he felt the 300,000-ton warship shake violently.

It turned out that the super battleship fired four defensive shells towards its surroundings. It turns out that there are four cannons around the super battleship that cannot be attacked. Their task is to continuously fire defensive shells towards their surroundings during combat. It is as if there is a defensive net within a range of hundreds of meters around yourself. It is simply impossible for enemy planes to rush in. Of course, underwater is impossible to defend, and those submarines can come in, but the anti-submarine net of the fleet is not for display. So far, there are only a handful of submarines that can rush in, and the group fleet has never encountered it. Adversary.

But Li Cong felt a pain in the flesh when he saw the shells flying out. Damn, such defensive shells can only last for less than 30 minutes. This fucking one is worth 100,000 yuan. He will soon catch up with a missile , If this is a war, it will cost at least 50 yuan a day. Just opening this protective cover will cost a fucking 5 million yuan a day. It's not bad, my super battleship only costs two million dollars a day in peacetime, while an aircraft carrier of the US military costs 180 dollars a day, the combat power of my super battleship can definitely be as high as five The above-mentioned aircraft carriers will be even more powerful if they have mastered the air supremacy, and the ground attack power of ten aircraft carriers cannot keep up.

Watching the flying shells instantly turn the island into a sea of ​​flames, if there are people on it, no, let alone people, even mice can’t live, the whole land can be turned up, the general field battle The fortifications are useless at all. This is definitely a super weapon of war and an absolute trump card in Li Cong's hands. Of course, there are still many functions that have not been tested yet, but Li Cong has already figured out his future use. Well, if this is combined with the sea base, it is like a floating island, which can definitely be used to threaten people without fighting.

"Have you ever tried to install air cannons on this super battleship? If so, I don't know how much the range can be? How about the power?" Li Cong suddenly thought of a way to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the super battleship. The eyes of the bosses of the military industry department are also brightened. Why didn’t they think of this matter? The air cannon is now a half-hidden weapon of the group. Although the United States has not figured out such things on the surface, they still have to It's clearer.

"The range of our air cannon is nearly 500 air miles, and its power is definitely much stronger than the current artillery. I think we can modify a few cannons on the ship to become air cannons. Of course we won’t use it unless it’s absolutely necessary, sir, do you see?” It’s not that no one brought it up, it’s just that they won’t say it without the words from above, and it would be a taboo if it was leaked. things.

"Well, your idea is good. It can be implemented." Li Cong officially approved it, and the combat effectiveness of the super battleship became stronger.

Li Cong is busy attacking New Zealand, but there are also a small group of people in the northern hemisphere who are restless. These people are Great Russia, which has just taken advantage of it. When Sequoia used to dream, it can be said that they dreamed that they would have many outlets to the sea, but they have not achieved their goal all the time. They have always hoped that their Black Sea Fleet can rush out, but they have fought the Russian-Turkish War for hundreds of years. They didn't let themselves go out either, and now they can obtain a territory in the Mediterranean Sea without relying on war. Although Corsica is a bit inferior compared to Gibraltar, this can be regarded as a huge victory.

Great Russian President Vladimir is very happy today. How about being squeezed out by the other three major forces? I am not comparing myself to them. I just want to compare myself with my predecessors. After all, we have not really reached the point of being a world power. Even during the Cold War, we have not really been on an equal footing with the Americans. Although tens of thousands of people have been lost now, the result is indeed very brilliant. We have our own port in the Mediterranean, so we held a grand welcome party in the Kremlin, looking at Americans and energy groups There is no news at all. In their opinion, such a small victory is simply too ordinary, and there is nothing to be happy about at all. This is what the world will look like from a different position. The redwood tree has been in the world for too long. Victory has been achieved. Such victories are also important now.

For this reason, Vladimir also became the president of Sequoia this year. It feels really good to be in power once. He is the president of the country, this is no joke. He also has his own abilities. Since he came to power, he has been slowly expanding towards the west. Now the small countries between them and Europa have also announced that they have joined Great Russia. In fact, it is because Europa does not want these poor countries to join. At present, there is only one Poland left. This smelly and rotten Poland is very depressed when I think about it. Someone was sent here and they refused, and the refusal made Great Russia very shameless, so Vladimir was looking for an excuse to wipe out Poland. He thought very well, and there should be no powers in the world here. Want to get your hands on the plan? Europa has already indicated that he is not interested, and the energy group seems to have nothing to do with this place, right? Otherwise, they should have started working long ago.

In fact, this guy guessed a little wrong. Is the Polish government a fool? They can’t see the mainstream form in the world. Even if you don’t join a powerful country, you have to have a powerful backer. If not, how could they possibly Would it be so bold to reject Vladimir? This guy thought that Poland might have made some verbal promises from Europa, and Europa wanted to use this place as a buffer between the two countries. , Poland has been taken down by the political department of the energy group. This happened a few years ago. They would not have the guts to poke at the back without the energy group. Europa already knew the news, yes Richard Liang told them inadvertently. First of all, they are really not interested in Poland. The shadow of the energy group, his current strength is not very strong, and there will be no good results if he goes against him.

Poland, the full name of the Republic of Poland (Polish: lska), is a country in Central Europe, bordering Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and Russia to the northeast. , facing the Baltic Sea to the north. Poland's important geographical location and terrain have led to successive years of wars and disputes in history. The territory of Poland has also changed repeatedly over the centuries. After 1990, Poland's status in the European Union and on the international stage has also increased day by day. Poland was previously a member of the European Union, NATO, the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the WTO. After the great change, because after the establishment of Europa and Great Russia, it seemed that their strategic position dropped all of a sudden, and neither side had any intention of absorbing them. They all hope to keep such a place as their buffer. Otherwise, if Europa and Great Russia directly border each other, there will only be conflicts every day.

The national population is 68.501 million (March 22, 2042), which is an increase of 271,000 compared with the total population in the last national census in 2032, and the growth rate is 0.71%. Among them, the female population is 40.067 million, and the male population is 28.432 million. The ratio of male to female population is 100:109. Among them, the female population increased by 353,000, while the male population decreased by 84,000 compared with 2032. The urban population of Poland is 23.169 million, accounting for 60.2% of the total population of the country, while the urban population accounted for 61.8% in 2042; at the same time, the rural population of Poland was 15.332 million, accounting for 39.8% of the total population of the country, while in 2042 The proportion of the year was 38.2%. Polish ethnicity accounts for about 98% of the total population, in addition to German, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Lithuanian, Jewish and other ethnic minorities. Germans make up 1.3%, Ukrainians 0.6%, and Belarusians 0.6%. . The official language is Polish. Catholicism accounts for 95%, Orthodox, Protestantism and other denominations account for 5%. The currency used is the zloty. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer small currencies in the world. Because of the relationship between international settlements, Poland uses RMB and US dollars the most internationally, and sometimes uses euros, making these three currencies very popular in their country. Language is Polish.

Poland covers an area of ​​more than 310,000 square kilometers. Located in the northeast of Central Europe, it borders the Baltic Sea to the north, Germany to the west, and Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south. The east and southeast are connected with Belarus and Ukraine, and the northeast is connected with Lithuania and Russia. The coastline is 528 kilometers long. Most of the whole territory is a slightly undulating low plain (average altitude 173 meters). It is low in the north and high in the south, and there are many moraine lakes in the north. There are low hills in the south, and near the Czech border are the Sudeten Mountains and Beskid Mountains. The terrain is low in the north and high in the south, and the central part is concave. The plains below 200 meters above sea level account for about 72% of the country's area. The main mountains are the Carpathians and the Sudeten Mountains. The larger rivers include the Vistula River (1047 kilometers long) and the Oder River (742 kilometers long in Poland), among which the Vltava River (435 kilometers long) is known as the mother river of Poland. 99.7% of the country belongs to the Baltic Sea Basin, of which the Vistula River Basin accounts for one-half and the Oder River Basin accounts for one-third. The largest lake is Lake Hinja Devi with an area of ​​109.7 square kilometers. The whole area belongs to the temperate broad-leaved forest climate transitioning from oceanic to continental climate. From west to east and from north to south, the oceanic climate gradually decreases and the continental climate gradually increases. The annual precipitation is 450,800 mm, and the southern mountainous area can exceed 1,000 mm. . Forests account for 28% of the country.

The capital, Warsaw, has a population of 1.615 million (2001) and an average annual temperature of 9.6°C. Warsaw, the largest city in the country, is the largest center of industry, trade, science and culture, and the largest transportation hub. Located on the central plain of the country, it is located on the west bank of the middle reaches of the Vistula River, covering an area of ​​450 square kilometers. Inhabited in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, the city was first built in the middle of the thirteenth century and became the capital in 1596. It has been under foreign rule for more than 200 years since the beginning of the eighteenth century, and it has been the capital of Poland since 1919. In 1920, the population exceeded one million, making it one of the largest cities in Europe at that time. Severely damaged in World War II, it was quickly rebuilt after the war. There are many industrial sectors, and the machinery manufacturing industry is the most famous, including electrical machinery, precision machinery, machine tools, aircraft, automobiles, agricultural machinery and other departments. Chemical (pharmaceutical, plastic, chemical fiber), textile, food processing and other industries are also well developed. It is also the largest printing industry center in the country. There are many institutions of higher learning such as the Polish Academy of Sciences, many research institutions and societies, and the country's largest comprehensive university. Known for its high degree of greening, the urban area has a green area of ​​126 square kilometers and 67 large and small parks. The northwestern suburb of Zelazowa Wola is the hometown of the musician Chopin. In Polish, Warsaw is called Warsawa. Legend has it that a pair of lovers named Walsey and Shawa bravely resisted the king's obstruction and finally became husband and wife. People admired the brave spirit of the young lovers so much that they named the city after them, which was later shortened to Warsaw.

Although they did not have much contact with western Europe in history, and were devastated by the Germans during World War II, their history with Great Russia was not very good. The most important one was the Katyn incident.

Katyn event (re). Also known as the Katyn Massacre and the Katyn Forest Massacre, it refers to the incident in which about 22,000 Polish soldiers, intellectuals, politicians and public officials were killed by Soviet troops in the Katyn Forest, Kalinin and other places in the spring of 1940 during World War II ; A total of about 22,000 Poles were killed. Among them, more than 4,000 people were killed in the Katyn Forest; in 1943, Nazi Germany, which discovered the bodies of Polish soldiers, claimed that the murder was done by the Soviet Union, which was denied by the Soviet Union; until 1990, when Polish President Jaruzelski visited the Soviet Union It was not until the Soviet Union officially admitted that it took full responsibility for the Katyn incident; in April 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the release of the historical documents of the Katyn incident held by Russia.

On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched a blitzkrieg against Poland. Occupy the western part of Poland. On September 17, the Soviet Union entered Poland from the east, occupied all Polish territory east of the Curzon Line, and captured about 250,000 Polish officers and soldiers. The Soviet Union then interned Polish officers and soldiers separately in a number of newly built prisoner-of-war camps. Among them are the three prisoner-of-war camps of Starobelsk, Kozelsk and Ostashkov. A total of 15,131 Polish prisoners of war, including 9,000 officers, were held.

On April 13, 1943, the Nazi German government, which invaded the Soviet Union, announced that a mass grave of Polish soldiers massacred by the Soviet military was found in the Katyn Forest area near the German-occupied Soviet city of Smolensk. On April 15, the Soviet Union issued a communique categorically denying this. It is claimed that these Polish prisoners of war fell into the hands of the German army after the German army invaded the Soviet Union and were killed by the German army. Since then, both the Soviet Union and Germany have organized investigation teams to go to Katyn to conduct on-the-spot investigations, but neither has achieved definite results. after the war. The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal also avoided making a clear statement on the Katyn incident during the trial of Nazi German war criminals, making it an unsolved mystery. Sequoia is very clear about these things. This is when the Soviet Union was using their powerful influence to adapt the facts, but the facts are the facts after all. There will always be a day when we will see each other again.

Since then, the Polish side and the international community have raised doubts and engaged in heated debates on the Soviet government's statement many times, but the Soviet government has always adhered to its established position. After Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet party and state in 1985, the Soviet Union and Poland formed a joint committee of free historians to conduct in-depth and detailed research on a large number of documents related to this incident. On April 13, 1990, when Polish President Jaruzelski visited the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union formally acknowledged full responsibility for the Katyn incident.

According to the latest research by Polish, Russian, German and Lithuanian historians, 12.13 million Soviet prisoners of war were imprisoned in Poland between 1919 and 1921, of which 65,000 to 70,000 returned to Russia, and more than 6,000 became White Guards (in Poland, Germany, Romania, and the Baltics country), 2,000 people became Polish residents and naturalized. So, a total of more than 45,000 people were turned into bones in the death camps.

In retaliation for Poland's brutal treatment of Soviet prisoners, on March 5, 1940, the People's Commissar of the Interior of the Soviet Union (Minister of Internal Affairs) Beria wrote a report on the execution of more than 20,000 prisoners of war and prisoners, mainly Polish officers. It was submitted to Stalin and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) for approval, and was immediately approved.

In early April 1940, the execution of Polish prisoners of war officially began. Hundreds of captured Polish officers were taken from the above-mentioned three prisoner-of-war camps into cars and secretly transported to Katyn Forest, where they were executed. The executioners stood behind the Polish prisoners and shot them in the back of the head with pistols. After the burial, Soviet personnel spread a thick layer of soil on it. Soon, the second batch of prisoners of war was transported to the same place to be treated in the same way. Until mid-May of that year, the Soviet side executed a total of 4,421 Polish prisoners of war in the Katyn Forest. They were buried in 8 large pits covered with pine and birch trees. In addition to the Katyn forest, the Soviet side also shot 3,820 people in the Starobelsk prisoner-of-war camp, 6,311 people in the Ostashkov concentration camp, and 7,305 people in other prisoner-of-war camps and prisons in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. . Including the 4,421 people executed in the Katyn Forest, a total of 21,857 people were included, including about 15,000 captured Polish officers and soldiers.

Regardless of this matter, the three partitions of Poland in history were all directly related to Great Russia, in May 1772. Tsarist Russia, Prussia, and Austria held talks in Petersburg and signed the first treaty on the partition of Poland on August 5. Accordingly, Poland lost about 35% of its territory and 33% of its population, and Poland became a protectorate of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. January 23, 1793. Russia and Prussia signed an agreement on the second partition of Poland in Petersburg. After the second partition, Poland became a small country with only 200,000 square kilometers of territory and a population of 4 million. It became a puppet state of Tsarist Russia. Do not declare war or make peace with foreign countries. On January 3, 1795, Russia and Austria signed the third agreement to carve up Poland. On October 24, Prussia also signed the agreement. According to the agreement, Poland's territory was all divided up. "Russia annexed Lithuania, Courland, West Belarus and western Warren, and pushed the border to the Neman River-Bug River line. A total of 120,000 square kilometers and a population of 1.2 million; Austria occupied Krakow, Lublin Including the whole of Lesser Poland and part of the Masovia area, a total of 47,500 square kilometers, with a population of 1.5 million; Prussia won the rest of the western region, Warsaw, and part of the Masovia area, a total of 55,000 square kilometers. The population is 1 million." At this point, the Polish state, which had existed for more than 800 years, perished. Summarized in the process of partitioning Poland three times, Tsarist Russia occupied about 62% of the original Polish territory, a total of more than 460,000 square kilometers; Prussia occupied about 20%. A total of about 141,100 square kilometers; Austria occupied about 18%, a total of about 121,800 square kilometers. After these three partitions. Poland was subjugated, and Poland disappeared from the map of Europe for 123 years.

With great difficulty, they established their own country after World War I. However, it was divided again during World War II. From October 1938, Hitler raised the issue of the Polish Corridor to Poland and threatened Poland with war. On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact and a secret protocol dividing spheres of influence (the Soviet Union has always denied the existence of the secret protocol). On September 1, 1939, Germany raided Poland with a blitzkrieg and quickly occupied most of Poland's territory. The Polish army and civilians fought bravely. On September 17, the Polish government fled abroad and first formed a government-in-exile headed by General Sikorski in Paris. After the defeat of France, the government-in-exile moved to the United Kingdom in 1940. At the same time, on September 17, Soviet leader Stalin (ИосифВиссарионович Сталин) ordered 600,000 Soviet Red Army troops to cross the Soviet-Polish border, enter eastern Poland, and occupy Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in order to establish the Eastern Line of Defense. On September 18, the Soviet army and the German army joined forces in Brest-Litovsk, and the German and Soviet armies divided Poland along the line of the Pisa River-Narev River-Vistula River-San River. On September 28, the German army captured Warsaw and Poland fell again. The Polish people started the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War.

In 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and occupied all of Polish territory, and then the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with the Polish government-in-exile. In 1942, the government-in-exile established the National Army in the country. In the same year, the Polish Communists supported by the Soviet Union established the Polish Workers' Party and the People's Army, and launched an arduous struggle against the Nazi occupying forces underground. For this, many people paid their precious lives. In 1943, due to the Katyn Forest incident, the government-in-exile broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union again.

With the development of the war situation, the counterattack of the Soviet army gradually pushed the front into Poland. On New Year's Day in 1944, under the initiative of the Workers' Party, the National People's Representatives Conference was established, with Beirut (les 最眀erut) as chairman. On July 22, 1944, the National People's Congress formed the Polish National Liberation Committee in Chelm, and promulgated the historic "July Declaration", announcing the birth of a new Polish state.

In August 1944, the Soviet Red Army advanced to the outskirts of Warsaw. In order to obtain greater benefits from the nascent Polish state authority, the British government-in-exile,

He ordered the underground national army in Warsaw to launch an uprising. This is the famous Warsaw Uprising.

According to the decisions of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the eastern and western borders of Poland were determined. The Curzon Line was the Polish-Soviet border in the east. Wess demarcated into the Polish side of the border. In this way, the territory of Poland moved westward by more than 200 kilometers as a whole, and its area was also reduced by about 76,000 square kilometers compared with before the war, which was a loss of about 20% of its territory.

In World War II. The Polish people made great sacrifices for the anti-fascist war, and about 6 million Polish soldiers and civilians died in this war. Many concentration camps where the Nazis massacred Jews and other civilians were found in Poland, the most famous of which is Auschwitz (tz). Among all the participating countries, if calculated according to the proportion of population. Poland is the country with the heaviest casualties.

Generally speaking, redwood trees have owed a lot to the Polish people in history. Although redwood trees developed a relatively terrifying power in Poland during the Cold War, they are now weakened to the point of failure. Of course, most of them are It was the ability of the Americans in the ten years from 1990 to 2000, and later it was ravaged by the energy group, and now it can only linger on.

After rejecting the "good intentions" of Great Russia, Poland also began to prepare for war. They knew the neighbor's temperament well. Regardless of whether it was the Tsarist Russia period, the Soviet Union period or the current Great Russia period, they would fight if they disagreed. They did not impose any sanctions on themselves economically, but they did so militarily. The two countries are not at the same level at all, but the Polish government is very good at doing things. As early as a few years ago, it gave the United States and the energy group a large military base in the border area, and it is also the largest military base of the two powers in Eastern Europe. In the past, the two countries had a lot of infighting in Poland. Their respective losses are not small, but now that the army is pressing down on the border, it seems that their own affairs can be let go. If this place is occupied by Great Russia. Then there is no need to keep this base, just like the energy group's base in western Europe. There are 10,000 people inside you, and 100,000 people are watching you outside. Can't move at all.

Immediately after being rejected, there will be other arguments. Great Russia used a cross-border incident that year as a reason to demand that the Polish side hand over the murderous 32 Wehrmacht soldiers, otherwise it will exercise its own rights. The Polish side naturally doesn't know where to find murderers for Great Russia, because there is no such thing at all, where can they find them for you? This is obviously untenable. They don't know how to deal with Great Russia. They can only ask for help from energy groups and Americans on the one hand. I even sent a message to Europa. On the other hand, they ordered the whole country to The army has started a first-level combat readiness to prevent Great Russia from jumping over the wall in a hurry.

Great Russia saw that Poland had such an attitude. You, a small country like me, dared to resist one of the four great powers. Your country is much stronger, right? Great Russia, which felt that it was too embarrassing, immediately began to mobilize. The Belarusian Ukrainian Legion that was originally near the border was immediately transferred to the border, and the deep group in the interior also started. Mobilized, a sound rail line could have sent them to the Polish front in a day.

It can be said that there is only one number of armies in Belarus and Ukraine, and Belarus can basically be ignored. Ukraine’s military strength is not bad, but self-defense is fine, and it is difficult to say about aggression.

After Ukraine withdrew from the Soviet Union and declared independence, it inherited the troops and corresponding facilities of the three former Soviet military districts (Kiev Military District, Odessa Military District and Transkarpaqian Military District) in its territory. The Ukrainian army has thus become one of the few powerful armies in Europe, equipped with nuclear weapons and modern conventional weapons and equipment.

The number of the Ukrainian army at that time was about 700,000. The army consisted of 14 motorized infantry divisions, 6 air defense brigades, 8 artillery brigades, 4 tank divisions, 3 artillery divisions and 1 special forces brigade; the air force included 3 Group Army (more than 1,000 fighters), 7 armed helicopter regiments and 1 independent air defense group army. In terms of nuclear weapons, Ukraine had 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles at the time, and about 2,600 tactical nuclear weapons.

As of the beginning of 2022, the number of active-duty Ukrainian military personnel has dropped sharply to 196,000. The primary reason for the retirement of a large number of officers and soldiers is insufficient military expenditure and poor treatment of troops. Many military officers have been waiting for the housing promised by the state since the last century. Currently, about 48,000 military officer families are in line to claim, 13,000 of which have been waiting for more than 10 years. Salary is also unsatisfactory. The monthly salary of contracted privates is 870 hryvnias (about 8 hryvnias per US dollar), and the monthly salary of corporals who have served for three years is 1,100 hryvnias, which is only half of the national average salary. The monthly salary of a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander who has served for 18 years is only 2,500 hryvnia, which is much less than that of middle-level government officials. With this meager salary, officers and soldiers still rely on it to support their families and pay rent. Therefore, it is not surprising that a large number of officials take off their military uniforms and leave. In 2029 alone, 2,500 officers will choose to retire, of which 2,000 are still on contract. This momentum has yet to be contained.

The army is not only an armed system to defend the country, it is also a big school that trains young people. But this training system has also collapsed, and it is no longer honorable to join the military camp. Although many young people still try their best to join the army, some even pay bribes to the military service committee to cover up their health problems. But all this is not because of the glory of being a soldier, but because of the high unemployment rate (especially in remote areas), young people hope to use the soldier as a springboard to enter the police and security services.

Due to the serious shortage of long-term military expenditures, by 2028, only 31 of the 112 active fighters of the Ukrainian army, only 10 of the 24 bombers, only 6 of the 12 reconnaissance aircraft, and only 8 of the 39 attack aircraft can take off for combat. In other words, only 30% of the air force has combat effectiveness. In 2029, this situation has not changed.

In addition, the combat readiness level of armor and artillery units is only 60%. The development work of the missile system has been advanced. Fighter planes and tank groups have no money to improve. The state of the Navy is even worse, with only 30% of the warships left over from the Soviet Union still in service. And there is no place to repair these ships, because the shipbuilding industry is effectively paralyzed.

At present, the per capita military expenditure of the Ukrainian army is only 6,000 US dollars, 8 times that of Russia, and 23 times that of France. The army can only meet 20% of the demand for military materials and equipment, food security can only achieve 60-70%, fuel expenditure can only guarantee 10-12%, and the security rate of digital communication systems is only 2%. New equipment is even more unpredictable. Throughout 2029, no new equipment was purchased, and only 2 pieces of equipment were modified - a BMP1U infantry fighting vehicle and a T64B tank.

The combat training of the Ukrainian army is also very bad. In 2028, ace pilots will only have 50 hours of flying time. In 2029, the average flight time of pilots will be only 4 hours. For comparison, this indicator for NATO troops is 120 hours. On average, shooting training is conducted once every three years. Considering that the military service period of non-contract soldiers is only one year, only one of the three recruits has the opportunity to shoot. In the Soviet period, shooting drills were held every six months. (To be continued..)

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