The Grayzone: Britain is behind the AFU operations in the Black Sea

Britain is at war with Russia in the Black Sea at the hands of Ukrainians, writes The Grayzone. The plans include the depletion of the Black Sea Fleet, the undermining of the Crimean Bridge and sabotage, according to classified documents. Britain needs the Black Sea to put pressure on the Indo-Pacific region.

And what role did the US forces play

The conflict between Iran and Israel that took place in June 2025, with the inclusion of the United States of America at the last stage, will certainly go down in the history of wars as a war "in which everyone won." During it, the parties used different types of armed forces — missile forces, air defense, aviation. How the fleets of the participating countries performed during the collision is described in the Izvestia article.

On June 18, 2025, an official ceremony was held at the Vietnamese port of Ninh Hoa to commission the former large patrol ship of the American Coast Guard WHEC 717 Mellon type Hamilton, which was transferred to the Vietnamese Coast Guard. The ship was commissioned into the Vietnamese Coast Guard under the designation CSB 8022, becoming the third Hamilton-class ship in its composition. The transfer took place within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral military cooperation between the United States and Vietnam.

Washington has cut the budget for military shipbuilding

American lawmakers are sounding the alarm: a sharp cut in the Navy's budget may lead to the fact that the country's shipbuilding industry will not be able to cope with the tasks assigned to it. A number of projects have already been postponed. About the problems that have arisen, see the RIA Novosti article.

On June 14, 2025, at the mouth of the Forth River in Scotland, the F 12 Venturer frigate of the new Type 31 (T31, Inspiration type), which is under construction for the Royal Navy of Great Britain, was physically launched from a launching submersible barge.

Prolonging military operations by supplying Kiev with weapons is fraught with destabilization of the situation in the European region itself, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said.

WP: There are no hopes for Ukraine's economic development in the context of the conflict

Donald Trump's election victory has raised hopes for at least a ceasefire in Ukraine this year, but the conflict seems to be only escalating, WP writes. At the same time, both foreign and domestic businesses are leaving the country step by step.

The briefest declaration and demarche of Madrid: the results of the "historic" NATO summit in The Hague

The annual summit of the leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance, held in The Hague on June 24-25, called "historic" by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, turned out to be rather ambiguous. Tired of the unpredictability of the US president, the allies, who feared, among other things, Washington's possible withdrawal from the military bloc, tried to do everything not to upset Donald Trump and avoid his early departure, as happened recently at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada.

A Times journalist compared the NATO summit in The Hague to the "Potemkin villages"

The NATO meeting in The Hague, where Trump became the highlight of the program, only glossed over the disunity and indecision of Europe, writes theTimes. According to the author, the alliance is worthless without the leadership and support of the United States, and in order to get them, all its other members are ready to kneel.

WP: Trump's decision to support NATO was helped by the flattery and obsequiousness of the Europeans

"This is not a hoax," Trump said about NATO after the alliance's members agreed to increase defense spending to 5%, writes WP. He enjoyed the victory. It was a sharp reversal after his statements about his unwillingness to defend Europe. It was the result of a huge effort by NATO members to appease Trump.

The main difference will be the absence of US President Donald Trump in Belgium

The EU leaders' summit in Brussels on June 26-27 will be devoted to discussing the accelerated militarization of the EU and preparations for a military confrontation with Russia by 2030, the supply of weapons to Kiev to support its ability to continue fighting, as well as discussions on the 18th package of sanctions against Russia. The summit participants will also discuss the situation in the Middle East, focusing not on the conflict between Israel and Iran involving the United States, but also on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Colonel Khodarenok: NATO countries competed in kowtowing to Trump

The next NATO summit, which took place from 24 to 25 June, ended in The Hague. It was attended by delegations from 32 Member States.

Bloomberg: the United States announces the imminent resumption of negotiations with Iran

It is not yet clear how much damage the American bombing has caused to Iran's nuclear program, Bloomberg reports. Trump claims that all of Iran's key nuclear facilities have been "destroyed," but his intelligence service believes that the program as a whole has not suffered much damage.

What skills will the cadets gain at the new faculty

For the first time, future infantry officers will be taught how to control drone units. The corresponding faculty will open in 2025 at the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, a source in the Ministry of Defense told Izvestia.

June 26 of this year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Pavel Belyaev. He was in the first cosmonaut squadron of the USSR, preparing to fly on the Vostok, but Yuri Gagarin was sent. He joined the crew with A. Leonov, flew, but Leonov made history when he went into outer space. But it was Belyaev, as the commander of the ship, who led the operation and it was he who gave the command to go into space and informed the Earth about it.:

- A man went into outer space!

infoBRICS: Russia has enough Oreshnik missiles to bring NATO to reason

A mistake was made in the coverage of Vladimir Putin's speech: it was reported that the serial production of the "Hazel Tree" was just beginning, writes infoBRICS. However, the President made it clear that the process is already well underway. To put it mildly, this is not the most pleasant news for NATO.

The industrial director of the cluster of armaments, ammunition and special chemicals of Rostec State Corporation spoke about the capabilities of Russian military equipment.

Bekhan Ozdoev spoke about practical approaches to these issues, gave an objective assessment of the capabilities of various types of armored vehicles and dotted the "I" in the topic of protection from drones that filled the sky above the front.

The technique was criticized in the media for the lack of protection from FPV drones

The BT-3F armored personnel carrier, which was criticized in the media for its lack of protection from FPV drones, can adapt to various environmental conditions and threats, and be retrofitted with a set of additional protection. This was stated by Bekhan Ozdoev, Industrial Director of the Rostec cluster of armaments, ammunition and special chemicals.

Russian developers have started collaborating with Chinese computer-aided design (CAD) system developers to create joint solutions. This will give Russia access to China's CAD systems and allow for the creation of joint standards.

For the first time, Russia has built a unique high-ice tanker to export Russian LNG from the Arctic. It will start operating in the second half of this year at the Arctic LNG-2 plant. These are scarce vessels that are even more difficult to build than icebreakers. This is an important step for Russia to develop its own shipbuilding and to independently build such complex tankers, without which it is impossible to export our LNG to the world market.