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Ukrainian soldiers happy with fast, accurate Swedish howitzer Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russian forces on Saturday (December 17) in the eastern Donetsk region praised their Swedish-made self-propelled howitzer. The howitzer could be quickly deployed, is accurate, reliable and can fire 21 shots in less than three minutes, according to Ruslan, Ukrainian artilleryman operating on Archer. Sweden’s Ministry of Defence says eight of the Archer self-propelled howitzers were provided to Ukraine earlier this year. Kyiv largely relies on Western military aid as its troops clash with Russian forces.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives has voted for a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Republicans say ut will give them greater powers to gather evidence and enforce legal demands. Three Republican-led House committees allege bribery and corruption during Mr Biden's tenure as vice-president. He denies wrongdoing and the committees are yet to produce any evidence. Democrats claim the attempts to investigate the President are simply an extreme political stunt". Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.

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New cases of Russian forces using old equipment, particularly MT-LB armored tractors from the 1950s, have been recorded in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. That's according to Forbes. A recent Russian media report from the brutal battle for Avdiivka depicts at least one old MT-LB armored tractor armed with an old 2M-3 naval turret fitted with over-under 25-millimeter autocannons. "We've seen these MT-LB-2M-3s before. Sitting outside the workshop that apparently helps to produce them. Riding trains from Russia into the Ukraine war zone. Standing guard alongside civilian construction crews in occupied Ukraine, apparently in order to protect the crews -- then busy digging fortifications for the Russians -- from Ukrainian drones," the article reads. But the MT-LB-2M-3 in the recent media report is different than most of its vehicular kin. The 2M-3's guns are more flush with the hull of the MT-LB. The turret, in other words, is somewhat integrated with the vehicle that carries it. This is a change for the line of do-it-yourself MT-LB fire-support vehicles, which should be able to hurl 1.5-pound shells out to a distance of 2,500 yards at a rate of 300 rounds per minute per gun. The Russians began cobbling together the weird vehicles back in the spring, mixing and matching old stored hulls and turrets in what obviously was a desperate bid to make good escalating losses of modern combat vehicles in the now 22-month wider Russian war on Ukraine. In most cases, the 1950s-vintage MT-LBs and their even older 2M-3 turrets have been minimally integrated. Technicians apparently have just welded or bolted the two-ton turrets to the tractors without blending their hydraulics and electrical systems—and without rebalancing the MT-LB's center of mass.