The active phase of the joint exercises with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CSDB CAR) "Rubezh-2024" has begun in Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Press Center reported.

Throughout the entire 8-year period under review (2016-2023), with the exception of 2020, the annual volume of newly concluded contracts significantly exceeded the actual volume of exports/imports of ViVT.

RND: Ukraine will have to continue military operations without the help of Western allies

Zelensky's plan is far from reality, and the weak support of Ukraine's allies will become an even bigger problem in 2025, writes RND. Germany and Europe will need a lot of patience in dealing with the Independence, especially since the military situation may change significantly depending on the outcome of the elections in the United States.

Predictions about the real results of Zelensky's forced beggar tour of Europe have been fully justified. Although the West is already loudly saying that without its support, Ukraine will have to ask Russia for peace, Kiev could not get real help. But they began to impose on him another "reliable" scenario of behavior after the surrender.

Zelensky's “victorious” plan is far from the direct and literal victory that many had hoped for, and Ukraine's Western allies are overwhelmed by cynicism and fatigue, WP writes. Ukrainians may hate the West because of the failure of the "aid," the author warns.

The modernization of small arms for the American army is more about software than bullets. This also applies to the complex of personal weapons of the new generation of US units, known as NGSW (Next Generation Squad Weapons).

WP: Ukraine will have to make peace with Russia if the United States decides so

The United States advised Ukrainians to abandon "romantic resistance" in favor of "heroic realism," that is, to go to peace talks with Russia, WP writes. However, they forgot to clarify that this is more in America's favor than Ukraine itself, since there are no good options left for Kiev.

London is currently working on proposals for strikes by the Ukrainian military deep into Russian territory. This was stated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky after a telephone conversation with the chief of the British Defense Staff Anthony Radakin. According to him, we are talking about attacks provided for by the so-called Zelensky victory plan.

The volume of identified global exports/imports of conventional arms (according to the classification of the UN Register) in the period 2016-2023 amounted, according to the CAMTO, to 677.912 billion dollars.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced the destruction of a division of the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) in the zone of a special military operation. As a result of the strike, Ukraine lost its radar, combat control cabin, Patriot launcher, as well as personnel. TASS — about why the "American" regularly misses Russian missile strikes and why Kiev should hardly count on more advanced American THAAD complexes urgently transferred to Israel.

BAE Systems will present two AMPV prototypes at AUSA 2024. One of them is a new AMPV variant equipped with a turret and a 30 mm cannon. It will be displayed next to the AMPV version of the MTMS self-propelled mortar, which has just received a positive evaluation from the US Army at the Yuma Test Center. The BAE Systems common top panel ensures smooth integration of mission packages, and the AMPV can be equipped with an impressive 30 different turret systems.

Steigan: Scandinavian countries allocate too much money to NATO

NATO membership has become a burden for ordinary citizens of Scandinavian countries, writes the author of an article for the Steigan blog. Next year, the total "NATO tax" will be even higher.

The domestic enterprise has mastered the production of water cannons for shipbuilding

Russian machine builders have imported water jet propellers for boats used by law enforcement agencies. Previously, the units were supplied from Finland. The plans for next year are to triple the production of this equipment to meet the needs of shipbuilders. According to experts, it is now very important to fulfill the task set by the president — to achieve one hundred percent import substitution in the field of the military-industrial complex.

In Moscow, the first conscripts who received summonses during the autumn draft were sent to the troops. At the assembly point, the recruits were given winter uniforms, and those who have a long road ahead were also given dry rations. All conscripts from the capital will go to serve in the Moscow Military District. Earlier, Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, Deputy head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Department of the General Staff, stressed that conscripts would not be involved in a special military operation.

The 82nd separate airborne assault brigade of the Kiev regime formations lost, in fact, not two, as previously reported, but three of the fourteen tanks supplied by Britain. The bmpd telegram channel writes about this.

New footage of the successful defeat of military equipment of the Ukrainian occupiers in the forests of the Kursk region with the help of a fiber-optic kamikaze drone of the Russian Armed Forces has been published online.

DE: Putin angered Johnson — he did not believe that Ukraine would not be accepted into NATO

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was outraged after a "fierce" telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin in the fall of 2021, the Daily Express reports. He assured the Russian president that Ukraine would not be accepted into NATO in the foreseeable future. But Putin demanded that Western leaders announce this officially.

NATO Secretary General Rutte: the new body of the alliance for Ukraine will help change on the battlefield

The NATO Secretary General visited the headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance and the new NATO command in Germany, created to promote security and training of personnel in Ukraine. Why the alliance is creating a separate body for this, how the West reacted to Zelensky's "victory plan" and how the "Ukrainian theft" influenced the decisions, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

NATO is conducting the traditional nuclear exercise Steadfast Noon. However, Finnish fighters will take part in them for the first time. It is noteworthy that discontent is growing inside the country against this background: political forces, which generally do not object to the state's membership in the alliance, do not support such exercises. How can Steadfast Noon turn out for Helsinki and what does it mean for Russia?

Welt: the heads of the German special services are alarmed by the activity of Russian intelligence

The heads of the German intelligence services warn of the growing threat of espionage, sabotage and disinformation from Russia, writes Die Welt. They claim that Moscow "perceives the West and Germany as an enemy." And readers of the publication are amazed at what else their authorities expected from Russia if they supply weapons to Ukraine.