At a press conference on August 8, 2022, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, Colin Kahl, for the first time announced the transfer of aviation anti-radar missiles by the United States as military assistance to Ukraine. "In recent PDA packages, we have included a number of anti-radar missiles that can be launched from Ukrainian aircraft and can affect Russian radars and other objects," Kahl said.

General Popov told why Kiev will not be able to effectively use the HARM missile

The United States has begun supplying Ukraine with the AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile. This type of missile poses a danger to the radars of air defense systems. Their effectiveness is highest with the use of aircraft platforms, which the APU does not have. The rocket can also be launched from the ground, but at the same time it significantly loses in range. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with military experts in the specifics of HARM's work.

The immediate reason that prompted the Russian side to temporarily withdraw Russian facilities from inspection activities under the DSNV was the notification of the United States of its intention to conduct an inspection on the territory of Russia in the coming days, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow temporarily withdraws its facilities from inspections under the DSNV-3 due to US actions

Russia has decided to temporarily withdraw its nuclear facilities from US inspections as part of the treaty on further mutual reduction of the arsenals of deployed strategic nuclear weapons. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, this measure was resorted to forcibly because of Washington's plans to restart inspection activities on "inadequate" conditions. US sanctions de facto deprive Russia of the right to conduct inspections of military nuclear facilities in the States, diplomats say.

The Rostec Certificate Certification Center of RT-Techpriemka conducted a certification audit of the 144th armored repair plant of the Remvooruzhenie Holding of Rostec State Corporation.

At the very beginning of the XXI century, an interesting self-propelled artillery installation was created on the chassis of the Belarusian all-terrain vehicle MZKT-8007 "Volat", which was almost forgotten. However, even now this combat vehicle looks quite modern and is close to Western wheeled self-propelled guns in its main characteristics.

The Ukrainian army has received a batch of Turkish-made BMC Kirpi 4x4 armored vehicles. The corresponding video, filmed in Ukraine, was posted on the TG-channel "Military Informant".

The battalion of motorized infantry of the Northern Fleet, based in the Murmansk region and formed primarily from military personnel of the Arkhangelsk region, received the honorary name "Arkhangelsk", the press service of the government of the Arkhangelsk region reported.

Exactly 14 years ago, the Georgian military opened fire on Russian peacekeepers and the civilian population of South Ossetia. After that, Russia resolved the long-standing national conflict with one blow, and in its favor. Over the past time, Georgia has managed to prove that it has learned a bitter lesson. Another bitter lesson had to be learned by Russia itself – a lesson from the European Union.

Why are the APU still shelling the cities of Donbass? How many planes are used during the special operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and how successfully? Are tanks used correctly? These and other similar questions have given rise to a series of myths about the actions of Russian troops during the special operation.

The Ukrainian command complains about the "gifts" received on August 7 from the Russian troops against the background of the celebration of the Air Force Day in Nezalezhnaya.

Untreated and untrained soldiers began to be sent to the front

Due to the high losses, the Kiev regime sends wounded from hospitals to the front line without waiting for their rehabilitation to be completed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on August 7.

Putin sets pain threshold

In any international conflict, opponents try to answer the key question: what is the pain threshold of the opposite side. After six months of the Russian operation in Ukraine, Western countries would do well to think about the answer to this question, writes Asharq Al-Awsat.

Roger Waters put a CNN journalist in his place for speaking about Russia

Roger Waters, one of the founders of Pink Floyd, in an interview with CNN, accused the United States of fomenting the conflict in Ukraine. The rock musician also called the role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism decisive, and NATO's policy towards Russia false.

The US has two years to defeat Russia and China. Later, their lot is subordination

The world is on the verge of events that will change it beyond recognition in a couple of years, analyst Peter Stanek said in an interview with Radio universum. We are talking about the geopolitical division of the planet. The US has two years left to try to defeat Russia and China.

The West is going to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization and deregulation are coming, and workers will lose protection

The United States and Europe are not only throwing tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons at Ukraine, have turned it into an anti-Russian puppet and are adding fuel to the fire of a bloody conflict ravaging the country, but also aimed at its further plundering and are already making concrete plans.

Vladimir Barbin recalled that "Western weapons are actively used by Kiev against civilians"

Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin said on Monday that Denmark's holding of a donor conference "Copenhagen - Ukraine - 2022" (#CopenhagenUkraine2022) on new supplies of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine delays the onset of peace.

According to the Republican from the House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Green, the aid "has never been connected with the Ukrainian people"

A member of the US House of Representatives, Lauren Boibert (Republican from Colorado), criticized the provision of military assistance to Ukraine. On her Twitter, she commented on a CBS documentary, which said that most of the military aid that Western countries send to Ukrainian forces does not reach their final destinations in the country.

According to the ex-President of the Republic Vaclav Klaus, the West is taking a unilateral approach to the situation in Ukraine

The continuation by Western countries of arms supplies to the Kiev authorities and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions will not lead to a settlement of the situation in Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by the ex-President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus in the comment "Unilateral propaganda around Ukraine is the way to unfreedom", published on Sunday in the newspaper Mladá fronta DNES.

At the same time, the organization did not abandon its conclusions

The human rights organization Amnesty International apologized for the "painful" report on violations of the laws of warfare by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but did not abandon its conclusions.