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The CIA is convinced that China is considering supplying weapons to Russia for the war against Ukraine, CIA Director Bill Burns told CBS News. He called any arms transfers "an extremely risky and unwise gamble". Burns stressed that Beijing has not made a final decision yet. At the end of last week, US Secretary of State Blinken also said that China is considering providing arms support to the Russians. Beijing denies this. Burns says the US
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On the other hand, in the same context, the American CNN network highlighted three weapons that it said changed the course of the war in Ukraine, which entered its second year two days ago.
The network indicated that many expected a quick victory for Russia when it invaded Ukraine, but this did not happen due to many factors identified by experts, including high morale and superior military tactics on the Ukrainian side as well as general Western arms supplies.
And there are weapons that really helped change the course of the war, and the Ukrainians used them with amazing effect.
Javelin missiles
At the start of the war, combatants on both sides expected Russian forces to reach the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, within days. And the Ukrainians needed a weapon to deal with this attack, and they found this in the Javelin anti-tank missiles, which are carried on the shoulder, which means that they can be used by one individual.
The reason for the popularity of this weapon is its ease of use, as it is described as a "hit and forget" weapon. Once the fire is fired from it, the operator can hide while the missile finds its way to the target.
This was of great importance in the early days of the war, with the Russians' tendency to stay in columns while trying to enter an urban area. A Javin missile could be launched from a building or from behind a tree, and the launcher would disappear before the Russians responded.
Himars systems
It is a combat-proven precision offensive weapon system that is suitable for all weather conditions and can be used around the clock, lethal and responsive.
  It is a 6-ton truck carrying a pod that can fire six missiles almost simultaneously, send its explosive warheads past the front lines of the battlefield, then quickly change positions to avoid a counter-strike.
Mark Kankian, a consultant in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says that if the javelin was the iconic weapon for the early stage of the war, the HIMARS is the iconic weapon for the later stage.
  HIMARS fires munitions called the Unidentified Multiple Missile System with a range of 70 to 80 kilometers, and its tracking guidance systems make it extremely accurate, about 10 meters away from its intended target.
Bayataktar TB2 aircraft
  And it became one of the most famous marches used in the Ukraine war, relatively cheap and made of ready-made parts and recording its killing operations in the image.