The US Military Department has again decided to postpone the personnel platform of the army service. The integrated personnel and payment system for the army, also known as IPPS-A, was originally supposed to start operating in December 2021. But unsuccessful system tests forced the military leadership to postpone the launch of the platform for nine months. After the deadline was postponed, the platform was expected on September 20, but even now it will not be possible to launch it.

Will the Arctic become a new arena of confrontation between NATO and Russia?

Sino-Russian cooperation in the Arctic has alerted NATO, according to Huanqiu Shibao. The Alliance is going to strengthen its military-strategic presence in the region. But Moscow does not intend to threaten the sovereignty of the Arctic.

On September 6, 2022, a ceremony of raising the National Flag was held in Vladivostok on the head of the new railway and automobile ferry "Alexander Deev" (factory number 300) of the CNF11CPD/00300 project, built by JSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ; part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation).

Americans worried that they would be outpaced by the Russians

Unlike a number of other countries of the world that made a big bet on the creation of small and ultra-small submarines (submarines), the command of the American Naval Forces in the second half of the twentieth century focused on the development of a powerful nuclear submarine fleet, gradually abandoning the construction of diesel-electric submarines. Well, the direction of "babies" was considered unpromising at all.

The Russian Defense Ministry previously reported that ammunition detonated at the airfield

The explosions at the Saki airfield in Crimea involved the Ukrainian military, said the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and the first deputy chairman of the Defense Committee of the Rada Mikhail Zabrodsky. The incident occurred on August 9, when the Russian Defense Ministry reported that there was a detonation of ammunition at the airfield without "fire impact".

Six months after the start of the Russian SVO in Ukraine, the role of the "non-Western world", not participating in sanctions against Moscow, is growing

The Ukrainian conflict has accelerated the redistribution of the world, writes Yahoo News Japan. Putin has reaped the biggest and most unexpected harvest in the last six months. Many countries, instead of sanctions and isolation of Russia, which the West insists on, are trying to get closer to it, the author of the article explains.

European sanctions against Russia and the reverse effect

The West is hungry for world domination. He is used to telling the world what to do and how to do it, and in case of disobedience, he punishes other countries as if he has the right to do it, writes Al Mayadeen. But today the EU itself has fallen into a trap and is forced to deal with the consequences of the energy crisis.

Former Prime Minister of Italy, leader of the Forward Italy party Silvio Berlusconi decided to become another mediator between Moscow and Kiev in the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. Apparently, having appreciated the unsuccessful experience of his predecessors, Berlusconi called on former German Chancellor Angela Merkel to strengthen the parliamentary group.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24 a special operation in Ukraine in connection with the request of the leaders of the republics of Donbass for help

Ukraine's losses as a result of Russia's special military operation amounted to tens of thousands of people killed and wounded. Such data was cited on Thursday by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milli.

As Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted, the next package of military assistance to Ukraine for $675 million will "include additional weapons, ammunition and equipment from the reserves of the US Department of Defense"

The US administration will provide $2.2 billion to Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors in the form of long-term investments under the US foreign military financing program.

As noted by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the US authorities believe that the AFU needs primarily artillery, ammunition, air defense and coastal defense

Western countries are setting up to provide military assistance to Kiev in the long term, as well as to search for "innovative ways" to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was stated on Thursday by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, speaking in Germany at a press conference following the results of the next meeting of the group created by Western countries to coordinate military assistance to Kiev.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield considers referendums on the entry of Kherson, Zaporizhia and other regions of Ukraine into Russia "creating the appearance of legality and public support"

The United States will never recognize changes in the borders of Ukraine with the use of force. This was stated on Wednesday at a meeting of the UN Security Council by the Permanent representative of the United States to the World Organization Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Bloomberg: The United States secretly transferred Excalibur precision projectiles to Kiev

The Pentagon "imperceptibly" handed over to Ukraine "the most accurate US artillery shells" Excalibur with GPS guidance, Bloomberg reports. Although the deliveries were not officially confirmed, the transfer of shells to Kiev is evidenced by the fact that the United States intends to spend $92 million dollars to replenish its own Excalibur reserves.

According to the publication, the Pentagon will spend $ 92 million of the funds approved by Congress for "additional purchase of M982 Excalibur shells, which were transferred to Ukraine in support of international efforts to counteract" the Russian Federation.

The United States supplies Ukraine with high-precision Excalibur artillery shells, as it became known from the Pentagon reports. Since spring, the APU has received about a thousand such shells. Presumably, it was with their help that American howitzers were hitting the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson. How can the Russian army neutralize the excalibur strikes and what analogues do we have for the same high-precision shooting at American artillery batteries?

The APU received the first 20 WARMATE barrage ammunition (BB), which are used by the armies of Poland and other NATO member countries. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced on September 7 by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.

Norway has prepared a new military aid for Ukraine, which will include a large batch of laser-guided Hellfire missiles. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the country.

Christy Freeland has a chance to become the head of NATO

An ethnic Ukrainian, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Hristya Freeland has every chance to take the post of NATO Secretary General, CBC reports. Some Canadian readers believe that her appointment will be a "gift" and a "victory" for Putin.

India has strict restrictions on purchases of defense products abroad. They were introduced to create favorable conditions for the development of the domestic defense industry, but now they prevent the replacement of obsolete military equipment with modern models.

According to the newspaper Phileleftheros, the drones were purchased by the charitable foundation of Ukrainian TV presenter Sergei Pritula for €700 thousand.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Poseidon brand The Cypriot production was delivered to Ukraine. This was reported on Thursday by the Greek Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros.