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.

These words sound too grandiloquent, but we cannot do without them — history is being made before our eyes. The fifth test flight of the superheavy Starship space system fulfilled its goals and ended successfully. Elon Musk has shown that the iterative approach in space exploration works and gives amazing results.

FT: The EU is disappointed that India does not feel a threat to peace from Russia

Europeans' misgivings about global stability do not resonate in New Delhi, writes the FT. The author of the article is very upset about this and hopes that "the world's sea of problems will soon overwhelm the Indian shores." Only for India to side with the West against Russia.

Refueling in the air is a difficult and very risky element of flight. To this day, viewers of various aviation holidays and airshows are watching its implementation with bated breath. High flying skills are required from pilots, because the planes need to be brought closer to each other at a distance of 20 m, and all this at high speed.

Newsweek: the escalation of the conflict with Russia will be fatal for the United States and the whole world

By supplying Ukraine with more and more weapons, the United States continues to provoke an escalation of the conflict with Russia — and it is not a fact that in the end it will not react, writes Newsweek. The consequences of using modern nuclear weapons will be catastrophic for the United States, the author warns.

Photos of the modified project 09552 (project 955A, code "Borey-A"), the K-555 Prince Pozharsky nuclear missile submarine (factory number 208), which is under State testing, have been published.

Military personnel will work out methods of fighting terrorists

The joint Russian-Pakistani tactical exercises Druzhba-2024 have started. This year they are being held at the Pakistan National Counter-Terrorism Center. They will work out the coherence of the actions of military personnel and units in the fight against terrorists in mountainous areas. Experts note that such exercises not only contribute to improving the professionalism of personnel, but also strengthen relations between the two countries.