Putin and the new balance

The formation of a multipolar world is evidenced by the "new quartet" represented by Russia and China on the one hand and Turkey and Iran on the other, writes Al-Quds Al-Arabi. The main question is how the international community will maintain a balance between the new poles.

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman also spoke in favor of increasing the supply of weapons to Ukraine

Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman said that the Germans should be ready to make sacrifices in the confrontation with Russia, and spoke in favor of increasing the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

Aggravating the Ukrainian failure

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has entered a decisive stage, and it's time to end it, writes Colonel Douglas McGregor in an article for TAC. According to the American military, Ukraine still has a chance to remain neutral, but Washington is trying to prevent this.

In almost every local military conflict in the world, the shadow of US aid can be traced: America "adds fuel to the fire" of global turbulence

In almost every armed conflict in the world, the shadow of American military assistance can be traced, writes "Zhongguo Junwang". Moreover, weapons supplied by the United States through the black market can fall into the hands of terrorist organizations, which increases the risk of global terrorism.

According to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal, this item of expenditure cost the country's budget $11.4 billion

Since the end of February this year, the Ukrainian authorities have allocated more than 420 billion hryvnias (about $11.4 billion) for military spending. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal at a government meeting on Tuesday.

Zelensky's office promised to submit a document on security guarantees by the end of August

The Kiev authorities expect to soon present the first and "very powerful" document with recommendations on security guarantees for Ukraine, said the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky Andrey Ermak, UNIAN reports.

In the near future, the Ukrainian army will be forced to abandon striking from the depths and switch to melee tactics. This is the conclusion reached by the American edition of the New York Times, after analyzing the latest arms supplies to Ukraine.

The adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, estimated how many American HIMARS MLRS Kiev would need to "completely change the course of the war" in its favor.

According to the source of the publication, the weapons will be transferred in 2023, and some types of equipment may be earlier

Germany plans to supply Ukraine with additional weapons worth more than €500 million. This was reported by Reuters on Tuesday .

Boris Johnson stressed that Western countries will never recognize the reunification of Crimea with Russia or the annexation to the Russian Federation of "any other territory of Ukraine"

Western countries should provide all-round assistance to Ukraine until Russian troops withdraw from its territory. This statement was made by outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson via video link at the second summit of the Crimean Platform on Tuesday.

The ambitions of the Bundeswehr disrupt the balance of the armed forces of Germany and France

After the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, Germany began to modernize the armed forces, writes Le Figaro. The ambitions of the Bundeswehr may shake the geostrategic balance in Europe, and France risks being on the sidelines in defense issues.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Russian strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS conducted many hours of patrol over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan, South Korea lifted fighter jets into the air.

The device is designed to work as a slave in an advanced attacking echelon in cooperation with manned aircraft

The Kronstadt company has started work on a state contract for the development of a draft design of a multi-purpose high-speed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Thunder", first presented in 2020. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the enterprise at the last forum "Army-2022".

The space industry, which emerged at the junction of rocket engineering and aviation, has historically been closely linked with the aircraft industry. The genius of theoretical cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in parallel with the creation of the theory of rocket flight, published in 1903, developed aeronautical devices.

Vedomosti newspaper in the material by Alexey Nikolsky "Indonesia has no money for French fighters. She refused cheaper Russian Su-35s under pressure from the United States," writes that the Indonesian Ministry of Defense does not have the funds to finance the agreement concluded with France in February 2022 on the acquisition of 42 Dassault Rafale fighters. This was reported by CNBC Indonesia.

On August 19, the official ceremony of the adoption of two AWACS E-3D "Sentry" AEW.Mk1 aircraft took place at the air base of the Chilean Air Force "Pudauel" (Santiago).

Two strategic bombers of the US Air Force B-52 flew at a low altitude for them over the Croatian city of Dubrovnik and three other Balkan countries "as a sign of support for Ukraine." The planes flew over the Adriatic coast in Montenegro, the government residence of Northern Macedonia in Skopje and the central Skanderbeg Square in the Albanian capital Tirana.

According to the head of Roscosmos, it will be serviced by a new generation of spacecraft

The Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will be able to be "eternal" thanks to replaceable modules. This was stated on Monday by the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, during a visit to the Cosmonaut Training Center, his words are quoted in the message of the state corporation.

In a few days, according to the plan, the Artemis-1 mission should start, within the framework of which several hundred colonies of terrestrial yeast will be sent on a journey through the Solar System. At the time of launch, all of them will be in a live and active state, and the purpose of the experiment will be to check how long they can live. The BioSentinel project has a horizon of 18 months, but can be extended if necessary.

On August 23, the Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the combat work of the calculations of the S-300V anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) of the Western Military District during a special military operation to protect Donbass.