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From Luxemburg With NLAW: How the Smallest Army in Europe Helped Ukraine Destroy russia’s Tanks

Luxembourg is preparing to send a consignment of military aid to Ukraine, March 2022 / Open source photos
Luxembourg is preparing to send a consignment of military aid to Ukraine, March 2022 / Open source photos

Or how Luxembourg's money at the start of the russo-Ukraine war helped pay for the supply of hundreds of NLAW to the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Today, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Parliament of Luxembourg, and thanked Luxembourg for military assistance.

It is worth recalling the report as of February 28, 2022, that Luxembourg was ready to provide 100 units of light anti-tank weapons "along with all-wheel drive vehicles". And in early May of this year, there were reports that during the war, Luxembourg gave to Ukraine military aid worth 50 million euros.

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Luxembourg is preparing to send a consignment of military aid to Ukraine, March 2022 / Open source photos

And this fact should be recorded in history: how the smallest army in Europe helped Ukraine with weapons and equipment from own reserves to destroy the tanks of the russian army, the largest army in Europe.

If you look at The Military Balance for 2021, you see that with a defense budget of 360 million euros, there are only 410 servicemen in the armed forces and 600 "bayonets" in the gendarmerie.

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Maneuvers of the Luxembourg army / Illustrative photo from open sources

The Luxemburg army has only 48 Dingo 2 armored vehicles, 42 Humvee vehicles, six 81-mm mortars, TOW and NLAW anti-tank missile systems, and one A400M military transport aircraft as part of a joint transport squadron with Belgium.

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Maneuvers of the Luxembourg army / Illustrative photo from open sources

And it seems that NLAW and vehicles from Luxembourg obviously weren’t odd at the beginning of the war to burn orc tanks and thus disrupt the Kremlin's "blitzkrieg".

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