Is the US starting to get tired of the protracted conflict in Ukraine?

Even close associates of Joe Biden doubt whether America will soon get tired of the burden of military aid to Ukraine, writes The Economist. According to the author, the future of U.S. support for Kiev depends on three factors: midterm congressional elections, the commitment of European allies and Ukraine's success on the battlefield.

The Army of Drones project, launched by the leadership of Ukraine, continues to raise funds for the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles. Through one of the platforms, it was possible to collect more than 510 million hryvnias. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.

Beijing demands that Washington abandon its plan to sell weapons to Taipei. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of China Tan Kefei.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers performed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea.

The United States is categorically against Iran transferring drones to Russia for use in Ukraine. According to the official representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, the threat of the introduction of new sanctions is hanging over Tehran.

Iran has a very large number of UAVs for various purposes. The same Mohajer-6 are produced mainly for the ground forces and the IRGC Navy and the Army, while, for example, the Aerospace Forces prefer to produce attack UAVs developed for them like the Shahed-129, Shahed-191, etc.

The prototype of the promising multifunctional fighter KF-21 Boramae generation 4++ performed its first flight, Bloomberg reports, referring to the defense Development Agency of the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea.

"Power plants, water substations, factories, distribution networks, transformer substations may be under the blows of American missiles." This is how LDNR representatives describe possible targets of new missiles for American HIMARS systems, which should soon be in Ukraine. Strikes can also be carried out on Russian territory. What can be opposed to this?

General Novikov explained how the Pass-1 mine clearance systems are used in Ukraine

The robotic mine clearance complex "Passage-1" is used by the Russian army during a special military operation in Ukraine. This was reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the specifics of the complex.

The layout of the vehicle in comparison with the tank has been seriously changed in order to give the best possible clearance capabilities. Unmanned and electromagnetic effects on mines significantly distinguish it from foreign samples.

The Media Club news agency, under the heading "Sanctions require complex solutions - opinion," published an interesting interview with Alexander Sivkov, Deputy General Director of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center JSC, director of the Center for Propulsion Systems (CPS), about problems with the production of propulsion steering columns (DRC) and thrusters in Russia and import substitution in this area of ship equipment equipment.

The President of the Russian Federation signed the law of 14.07.2022 No. 253-FZ "About the Military Innovative Technopolis Era; the document was published on the official portal of legal information on Thursday and will enter into force 90 days later.

On the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Iran, the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies "TSAST" ordered a public opinion poll from the SuperJob portal to study the attitude of Russians to cooperation between Russia and Iran against the background of sanctions pressure from the West.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the Vostok group involved in the special operation in Ukraine, gave instructions to eliminate the long-range rocket and artillery weapons of the Ukrainian army, from which the Donbass is being shelled, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed unique footage of how an aviation high-precision missile shot a blow of its "colleague" at a Ukrainian military facility.

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko, who oversees relations with the CIS countries and participated in negotiations with the Ukrainian side, in an interview with Interfax shared his assessment of the European perspective for Ukraine, told about Russia's requirements for a possible future agreement with Ukraine and the prospects for resuming the negotiation process with Kiev.

German MP: the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine increases the risk of the outbreak of World War III

Germany should choose the path of cooperation rather than confrontation with Russia, German politician Sevima Dagdelen said in an interview with GT. Western sanctions have not stopped the crisis, and Berlin "must immediately" stop the "suicidal economic war."

Will there be a war with Russia?

The American Conservative reflects on what the expansion of NATO means for the United States. According to the author, the Americans played a leading role in the process that is now taking the form of the second Cold War. The United States is acting foolishly, dismissive of Moscow's warnings that Russia would rather resort to nuclear weapons than admit the humiliation of its country.

The head of the American defense company Northrop Grumman, Cathy Worden, called on Western governments to give a "clear signal about the demand" for weapons for Ukraine so that the industry could provide the country with the necessary weapons.

The regular supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is fraught with the risk of exhaustion of weapons stocks in European states. This is reported by the Financial Times.