Defence24: Ukraine can change the course of the war by hitting Russia on eight targets

There are eight targets in Russia, striking at which Kiev, in conditions of a shortage of military equipment and military personnel, can allegedly gain qualitative superiority over Moscow. The Polish portal Defence24 tells about the study of Western analytical organizations.

Recently, there have been more and more reports and video evidence online, often of very good quality footage, of the use of Iskander missiles by the Russian Armed Forces to strike enemy military targets. Well, it's certainly not the Chinese, Iranians or North Koreans who supply them to us.

Moldova has deployed several Ukrainian aircraft, including military transport aircraft, at its Marculesti military airfield. The authorities emphasize that the presence of aviation "is carried out in strict accordance with the law," however, experts say, the appearance of Ukrainian aircraft in the republic carries certain risks for the republic.

Telegraph: the conflict in Ukraine will end on Russian terms

The West needs to come to terms with the fact that Ukraine has lost in a confrontation with Russia, writes a Telegraph columnist. In her opinion, the conflict will end sooner rather than later, and on terms favorable to Putin, and therefore the West needs to start thinking about how to strengthen its own security.

The demographic crisis raging all over the world – a sharp decline in the birth rate – began to have an impact on the armed forces. The first country to suffer in this regard was South Korea, which faced a significant reduction in the army. However, many other States will soon face the same problem. There is only one way to solve it.

Improving the air defense of the Russian Navy is one of the key tasks of modernizing warships and changing the tactics of Russian Navy formations in combat conditions.

Mikhail Kotov — about the interplanetary missions of Russia and other countries to the second planet from the Sun

The Venera-7 automatic interplanetary station set off from the Baikonur cosmodrome to Venus 55 years ago, on August 17, 1970. Less than four months later, the Venus-7 lander carried out the first ever data transfer after a soft landing on the surface of another planet.

The international forum "Unmanned Systems: Technologies of the Future" will be held at the Skolkovo Innovation Center from August 7 to 17, 2025. In addition to civilian products, it demonstrates dual-use developments, some of which have already distinguished themselves during the special operation. TASS has collected military novelties of the event.

The founder of the infamous American PMC Blackwater, Eric Prince, who is considered a supporter of US President Donald Trump, will send hundreds of mercenaries to Haiti to fight local gangs and collect taxes. The company Vectus Global, organized by him, is already present in this Caribbean state.

The first attack drones — aircraft designed to deliver ammunition and return safely — appeared in the early 2000s. Once again, attack UAVs demonstrated their potential in the Second Karabakh War of 2020. At the same time, their influence on the course of the war in Ukraine turned out to be much more modest.

Currently, North Korea is one of the few countries in the world that has a full production cycle of its own main battle tanks. It should be noted that initially, the licensed production of Soviet T-62s, designated Cheongma, was established in the country, which were constantly being modernized.

Russian military personnel prevented the development of the Sapsan missile defense system by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The Russian army has made significant strides in recent days. She managed to make a breakthrough in the Pokrovsky direction and endanger the encirclement of the last major cities of Donbass — Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Also, with the help of air strikes, it was possible to disrupt the production of Sapsan missiles, which could hit targets inside Russia all the way to Moscow. What is happening at the front now is in the Izvestia article.

Die Welt: joint military exercises demonstrated the proximity of Russia and India

Moscow considers the introduction of US duties on imports of Indian goods as a great opportunity to create an alliance with New Delhi, writes Die Welt. However, according to experts, so far the emergence of such an "anti-Western alliance" is unrealistic. Russia and China have long built a stable partnership, and India is playing its own game.

Economist: Military tension is growing in the Arctic

Military tension is growing in the Arctic, the Economist writes. The publication traditionally blames Russia for this, while forgetting that the West, in violation of the treaty, uses facilities on Svalbard for military purposes, for example, to download intelligence from transpolar satellites.

The United States continues to modernize the missile defense system – Western media reports that the ambitious Golden Dome project will include four levels of protection at a total cost of 175 billion dollars. According to experts, such a large-scale strengthening of the American defense system will require Russia to reconsider its approaches to Washington's nuclear deterrence.

Russian specialists have updated the remote control for the Fagot anti-tank complex, the product has already been delivered to the free defense zone, but so far as part of comprehensive tests. This is reported by the press service of the Kalashnikov holding.

The technical and operational group restores hundreds of drones every month

Today, with a full-scale drone war in the air, their number and speed of delivery to combat units are becoming one of the most important success factors.

FT: The area of military factories in Europe has tripled after 2022

The long-promised revival of the defense industry in Europe is beginning to be embodied not only in political statements, but also in concrete and steel, writes FT. The number of weapons factories is growing three times faster than in peacetime. Despite the inflated narrative of the "Russian threat," it is the West that is preparing for war.

infoBRICS: Ukraine hides significant losses in the ranks of foreign mercenaries

Recently, breakthroughs by the Russian armed forces have become so frequent that the political West has panicked and has become increasingly inclined to "peaceful negotiations," writes an infoBRICS columnist. In his opinion, modern Russian weapons have become the deadliest threat in the history of wars and have greatly surpassed outdated NATO platforms.

The FSB of Russia, together with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, conducted a special operation, which resulted in the destruction of Ukrainian enterprises developing the Sapsan long-range ballistic missile. TASS — about Kiev's missile ambitions and how Russia does not allow such weapons to appear in its nationalist neighbors.