The French company Naval Group announced the keel laying ceremony of the second of 12 minesweepers ordered under the rMCM project on June 14 in Lanester.

On June 17, 2022 at Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. (as part of the Chinese State Shipbuilding Corporation China State Shipbuilding Corporation - CSSC) on Changxing Island in Shanghai, a ceremony was held for the launching (actually withdrawal from the dry construction dock) of the third Chinese aircraft carrier under construction, named Fujian (Fujian, tail number "18") in honor of the eastern province of the PRC of the same name. The aircraft carrier Fujian, designated as Project 003, will become the largest warship of the PLA Navy.

The Japanese command has sent a flotilla of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces to the Pacific Ocean, which will visit a number of countries, and will also participate in several international exercises, Kyodo reports.

How sanctions affect Russia's military-industrial base

Economic sanctions were supposed to paralyze the Russian defense industry, but this did not happen, writes Air Force Magazine. Russia has large stocks of materials, and restrictions cannot affect some industries at all, the author of the article notes.

Domestic developments of the military-industrial complex are capable of surprising and sobering people who are hatching aggressive plans against Belarus and the Union State, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at a meeting on the state and development of microelectronics on June 14.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a joint press conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and the prime ministers of the three Baltic states in Vilnius on Tuesday. Naturally, the main topic at this event was the supply of weapons to Ukraine. It is noteworthy that all the rhetoric of the head of the German Cabinet resembled boasting to representatives of junior members of the EU and NATO. 

Russia is introducing criminal penalties for military personnel defecting to the enemy – and this will directly concern, among other things, current events in Ukraine. Why was there no concept of "going over to the enemy's side" in the Criminal Code before, what tricks are used to justify treason, and how will the new changes concern the Russian non-systemic opposition opposing the special operation?

Ukraine has become an international terrorist center, and up to 330 thousand people are participating in the cyberwar declared by Russia, said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the Board of Sberbank.

The radio in the command control room does not stop talking for a minute. Duty is combat duty. Work is in full swing day and night, the coordinates of the targets are received around the clock. Izvestia correspondent Kirill Olkov on Thursday, June 16, was able to observe the work of the Iskander missile system.

The Telegraph: two former American servicemen were captured in Ukraine

Two former American soldiers, 39-year-old Alexander Drucke and 27-year-old Andy Huhne, were captured during a "fierce battle near Kharkov with Russian troops," they participated in hostilities on the side of Kiev, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph. The publication believes that this is the first case of the capture of American citizens, and it may become the subject of political bargaining between Moscow and Washington.

Publications in the Western media that the Russian authorities may allegedly announce an additional conscription for the SPIEF are unreliable information stuffing. This was announced on Thursday, June 16, by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

False flags of Ukraine

Western media talk about Russia's "war crimes" in Ukraine, but independent journalists present data that prove that these are all falsifications, Pechat writes. We are talking about operations under a false flag, which are carried out in order to cause hatred of the Russians.

On June 15, Xi Jinping held telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin

The website "Guancha" tells about telephone conversations between the leaders of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Readers note the importance of this call and share their thoughts on its details.

Arahamia: APU lose up to 1 thousand fighters a day in Donbass

Every day, the Ukrainian military lose from 200 to 500 people killed in the Donbass, says the head of the faction of the ruling Servant of the People party, the head of the delegation to the negotiations with Russia, David Arahamia. However, the main problem of Kiev is the lack of weapons and ammunition. According to Arakhamiya, there is "no place" for negotiations with Moscow yet.

A landing party of the leaders of the leading Western countries – France, Germany and Italy - has arrived in Kiev. As the Ukrainian authorities themselves admit, the guests came to persuade Zelensky to start reconciling with Moscow. As if by coincidence, on the eve of this visit, several prominent Western figures announced at once that the Ukrainian army was losing and could only be saved by direct military intervention by NATO. Why are such appeals needed?

Ukraine has recognized the insufficient effectiveness of weapons supplied by the West, reducing the scale of their use. This is reported by the military correspondent of RIA Novosti Andrey Kotz.

General Vladimirov: the Ukrainian military is not capable of using Western equipment

Western media report that the Ukrainian military cannot effectively use samples of weapons and military equipment supplied to them by the United States and European countries. Why - "Newspaper.Ru" was dealt with together with military experts.

Biden: The US will allocate additional military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine for $1.2 billion

US President Joe Biden announced additional military assistance to Kiev in the amount of $ 1 billion. The package will include howitzers and shells, ammunition for jet systems and anti-ship missiles "Harpoon". Another $225 million will also be allocated for humanitarian aid. The Pentagon reported that since February 24, the United States has allocated $5.6 billion to Kiev for defense purposes.

The West is increasingly pumping Ukraine with weapons. The Americans spent another 700 million dollars on this as part of the "aid package". However, the armies of the DPR and LPR have studied overseas and Western European "gifts" quite well. About how foreign samples showed themselves and why Kiev is not particularly happy with the supplies, — in the RIA Novosti material.

Preparations for the NATO summit on June 29-30 were the central topic of the meeting of defense ministers of the alliance countries held in Brussels, Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg said.