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2naSalit

(104,625 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2026, 07:04 PM 15 hrs ago

Ukraine Just Handed NATO Russia's Weapons Secrets - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦



Ukraine has launched Trophy Lab, a secure platform that gives allied governments, laboratories, and defense manufacturers access to captured Russian missiles, drones, vehicles, technical reports, vulnerabilities, and even physical equipment for testing, while a new licensing system will reward Ukrainian battlefield innovators with at least 25 percent of the revenue generated by their inventions. The update also covers Ukrainian public support for sovereignty despite economic hardship, another $4 billion in allied military assistance, Patriot missiles and additional F-16s, Zelensky's warning about Putin's ambitions, divisions inside Europe over Russia and Ukraine's EU accession, political disputes involving Hungary and Poland, a possible front-line freeze, Russian threats to distribute strategic weapons, Putin's silence after major drone attacks on Moscow, the proposed U.S.-Iran agreement and renewed regional fighting, and the punishment imposed on an Iranian singer for performing without a hijab.
Chapters
00:00 Ukraine Opens Russia's Military Secrets
02:31 Battlefield Innovators Will Share the Profits
03:41 Ukrainians Choose Sovereignty Over Prosperity
04:16 Allies Pledge Another $4 Billion
05:40 Zelensky Warns Putin Will Not Stop
07:05 Europe Debates How to Handle the Kremlin
08:37 Hungary and Poland Complicate Ukraine's Path
10:28 Could the War Freeze Along the Front Line?
11:23 Russia Threatens to Arm the West's Enemies
12:27 Putin Stays Silent After Moscow Drone Strikes
13:46 The U.S.-Iran Agreement Faces Scrutiny
15:14 Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran Test the Ceasefire
16:56 Iranian Singer Sentenced to 74 Lashes
18:04 Why 21st-Century Warfare Favors Ukraine
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Ukraine Just Handed NATO Russia's Weapons Secrets - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦 (Original Post) 2naSalit 15 hrs ago OP
I hope Putin is having a hissy fit. riversedge 15 hrs ago #1
Yes. One of the trove of documents contains "How to evade Russian detection." erronis 15 hrs ago #3
Or heart failure. sheshe2 14 hrs ago #4
Wonder if NATO can embargo these from the US erronis 15 hrs ago #2

erronis

(24,884 posts)
3. Yes. One of the trove of documents contains "How to evade Russian detection."
Fri Jun 19, 2026, 07:34 PM
15 hrs ago

I can only reveal the first item which is: "Air drop barrels of rotgut vodka one hour before the attack."

erronis

(24,884 posts)
2. Wonder if NATO can embargo these from the US
Fri Jun 19, 2026, 07:32 PM
15 hrs ago

until it shows it supports NATO's mission.

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