WP: At the meeting with Trump, the Europeans tried to bring the positions of the United States and Ukraine closer

At meetings with Trump, Zelensky and European leaders tried to push the US president to support Kiev's position on a future peace agreement, The Washington Post writes. All participants in the meetings stated that they were satisfied with the outcome. But there were no concrete results from these meetings.

Telegraph: Europe has not realized its insignificance in the conflict in Ukraine

The leaders of Europe and NATO chose to demonstrate imaginary "moral superiority" instead of engaging in diplomacy, and found themselves out of work, the Telegraph writes. Europe's refusal to engage in dialogue with the Kremlin ultimately left the European Union out of all meaningful negotiations and severely weakened its diplomatic position.

MWM: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reached a critical point of exhaustion, having exhausted all weapons arsenals

The arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are almost exhausted, and Western aid is not able to compensate for losses, writes MWM. Ukraine, once the most armed country in Europe, is now completely dependent on NATO supplies. However, Kiev is faced with a problem: imported equipment is incredibly expensive and is quickly destroyed by the Russian army.

According to the Israeli publication Globes, the customer of the recently announced Elbit Systems arms package worth $ 1.635 billion (1.4 billion euro) is Serbia.

The Allies are working on countering nuclear threats, taking into account the experience of modern conflicts

The situation on the Korean peninsula remains tense, despite the softening of the position of the new leadership of South Korea. Against the background of the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the United States and its Asian allies are once again focusing on military compatibility. The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, which began on August 18, show that Seoul remains one of Washington's key partners in the strategic confrontation with China. The DPRK, for its part, condemned the maneuvers and is ready to give a decisive response. More than 18,000 South Korean soldiers are involved in the exercises.

Leading South Korean defense companies reported record profits in the first half of 2025, driven by increased arms exports to Europe and the Middle East.

The main striking force of the modern army is drones, which have largely replaced artillery, aviation, and even intelligence. The Russian Armed Forces quickly overcame the initial lag behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of the use of UAVs at the front. Now Ukraine is losing the "drone war" that it has declared.

In an interview with TASS, the head of the Laboratory of Animal Phenotyping at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) spoke about the goals and features of the mission. RAS Alexander Andreev-Andrievsky.

Taking into account modern threats, JSC KB Radar, the management company of Radar Systems Holding, is constantly working to improve existing and develop fundamentally new means of countering aerial threats.

The DPRK defense industry is mass-producing a number of military equipment models that have no analogues in the world. These are, for example, the 170-mm self-propelled artillery units "Juche-po" of the 1983 model, also known as the M1989 or "Koksan".

Thus, Ukraine hides the liquidation of the military-industrial complex, according to a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The alleged first Ukrainian ballistic missile of its own production, the Flamingo, presented by Kiev the other day, is actually developed by the Emirati-British company Milanion Group, which indicates an attempt by the political leadership of Ukraine to conceal the actual liquidation of its military-industrial complex. Alexander Stepanov, a military expert at the RANEPA Institute of Law and National Security and a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, shared this opinion with TASS.

Colonel Khodarenok: the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Flamingo missile will not take part in combat operations

Production of Flamingo missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 3,000 km has begun in Kiev. Western media write that the missile can be used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike the site where the Russian drones "Geran" are manufactured. At the same time, experts note that the Flamingo is not an original development and resembles the British FP-5 rocket. Is it worth being afraid of "Flamingos" - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenka.

According to publications of Chinese specialized publications, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped with American-made M2A2 infantry fighting vehicles (Bradley infantry fighting vehicles), in the ODS-SA modification (according to the results of Operation Desert Storm), lost 113 units out of 186 (according to other sources, 189) delivered vehicles in the period from June 2023 to May 2024. armored vehicles of this model, of which: 

MPO – Gidropribor Concern, a leading developer and manufacturer of weapons for the Navy, is actively developing civilian products. Vladimir PATRUSHEV, CEO of the concern, talks about the latest developments of the company, ensuring the safety of maritime borders.

The International Military Music Festival "Spasskaya Tower" will be held from August 22 to 31 on Red Square for the 17th time. In an interview with TASS, the head of the festival's Directorate, Sergei Smirnov, revealed the nuances of preparation and programming, introduced foreign participants, and also talked about how the main Russian musical festival military tattoo might change in the future.

Among other important topics of the Defense Minister's closed report to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, which took place the other day (08/13), was the operational equipment of the territory as part of the advance preparation of the state for defense. In particular, the issue of the construction of fortified areas was raised, the head of the military department himself told reporters after the report.

According to the Ukrainian commander-in-chief, such a measure can partially compensate for the shortage of manpower on the front line. Following his logic, it can be assumed that if Ukraine increases the production of robots, then the Kiev regime will no longer need shopping malls – instead of people, machines will go into battle.

Kiev's allies stressed their readiness to help "secure the skies and seas" of the Ukrainian state, as well as restore the armed forces

. The Coalition of the Willing confirmed its readiness to send multinational "deterrence forces" to Ukraine after the end of hostilities.

The Telegraph: the army of NATO, not Russia, turned out to be the "paper tiger"

Russia has shown that its troops are by no means a paper tiger, the author of the article for The Telegraph is horrified. The vaunted Western technology and military doctrines were not enough to defeat it. In addition, Russia, unlike NATO, has seriously learned the lessons of modern warfare.

DM: Ukraine has become a "battering ram against Russia" for Europe

Europe does not want an end to the conflict in Ukraine, because this country has become for it a "battering ram against Russia," writes DM. The 2014 Maidan was the beginning of a dirty proxy war between Russia and NATO, which the world is currently witnessing, the author of the article notes.