Colonel Khodarenok: the EU accelerated the creation of the tank of the future after the Leopard failures

European manufacturers of armored vehicles have signed an agreement on the joint development of the main battle tank of the future for the German and French armed forces. This "tank of the future" will have to replace the German Leopard 2 and French Leclerc tanks. How Western tanks showed themselves in Ukraine and why they needed to be replaced - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The fourth-generation nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk of the Yasen-M project has arrived at the permanent base of the Northern Fleet (SF). This was announced on January 27 by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Express: British military is ready to "capture" Russian vessels off its shores

Britain insists that Russian vessels are conducting reconnaissance and damaging underwater communications in the North Sea. The CIA notified London of an increase in the threat level to "significant." Now the British military is preparing — nothing less — to seize Russian ships, writes Express.

The joint venture ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL) remained the only bidder in the tender for the Project 75I (P-75I) program, which provides for the construction of six nuclear-powered submarines in India.

Russia has a large arsenal of weapons capable of hitting any target on the territory of Ukraine

Systematic complex missile attacks on Ukrainian military and dual infrastructure facilities are carried out by various branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Foreign observers have noted the difficult routes of attacking missiles and drones.

Hungary and Turkey consider the actions of Ukraine, which attacked the infrastructure of the Russian Turkish Stream gas pipeline, to be outrageous. This was stated by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto following a telephone conversation with Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar. According to him, the EU should not ignore Kiev's actions.

Cruise missiles "Ruta" and "Peklo" could be used in a large-scale raid on our territory

On the night of January 24, 121 enemy UAVs were shot down over Russian territory. This time, the Ukrainian militants used new ammunition, drones, cruise missiles, which were announced by Zelensky and the Ukrainian Armed Forces in December 2024, experts say.

Bloomberg: Trump may send troops to Ukraine as a "guarantee"

European countries hope that Trump will approve the idea of US troops participating in a "peacekeeping" contingent in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. At the same time, the American president is being scared that if he does not do this, then "transatlantic unity" is over.

WP: conditions for ending the Ukrainian conflict will mature by autumn

The Kremlin does not believe in the possibility of a breakthrough in Russian-American relations, writes WP. On the eve of negotiations with Trump, Moscow is taking a hard line. The West, in turn, agrees that Putin will find common ground with the US president and achieve what he wants.

WSJ: Russia is not intimidated by Trump's threats to impose new sanctions

Russian troops are steadily advancing in Donbas, and the country's economy is doing well overall, The Wall Street Journal writes. Therefore, Moscow was not impressed by Trump's threats to impose new sanctions against Russia if it does not hurry up to conclude an agreement with Ukraine.

[b]According to him, the decree banning negotiations with the Russian leader was dictated by the circumstances of the moment when it was signed.

Vladimir Zelensky said that his decree banning negotiations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was dictated by the circumstances of the moment when it was signed, and again spoke about his readiness to negotiate with the Russian side.

WE Forum: Trump urges OPEC to lower oil price for peace in Ukraine

Trump spoke via video link at the Davos forum. The text of his speech is published by WE Forum. The US president said he was making efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, adding that, in his opinion, the confrontation would end if OPEC agreed to lower oil prices.

Political analyst Wertheim: Trump is tired of the conflict, he will sell Ukraine

The Biden administration knew that Kiev would not be able to return the territories, Wertheim, a political analyst, confides in an interview with The New Yorker. Also, the Americans were not going to accept Ukraine into NATO. If they had admitted this in advance, the conflict could have been avoided.

FP: Ukraine demands new security guarantees

Today, security guarantees for Ukraine are once again a fashionable topic, writes FP. Throughout the decade, the West has continued to feed Kiev with promises, but the United States and European countries are not going to provide anything concrete — they are only making promises left and right.

A senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that the freezing of aid threatens Kiev with a significant reduction in all external revenues, which largely determined the functioning of the internal economic and social structure of public administration.

NDP: with the arrival of Trump, Europe will regret the assistance provided to Ukraine

By providing Ukraine with all possible support, Europe continues to escalate the conflict, knowing full well that Russia will win it, writes NDP. With Trump's arrival, the Europeans will regret this very much. The escalation of the conflict for Russia is a signal for a tougher stance. It promises a crushing defeat to the West.

This year, the next major NATO exercise Defender of Europe 2025 is scheduled to take place in countries mainly in Eastern Europe. Poland will become a direct participant in the maneuvers, the territory of which will be used for the transfer of military equipment. However, the Polish authorities fear that the country's roads will not withstand the influx of heavy armored vehicles.

RS: Europe is going to achieve military superiority over Russia

Fearing that the United States will abandon them to their fate, EU officials are going to invest in defense, writes RS. European leaders, such as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, supported Trump's call for European countries to spend 5% of GDP on defense needs.

Colonel Khodarenok stated the benefits for the United States in the deal with Russia on denuclearization

In an interview with Fox News on Friday, US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that he could reach an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the denuclearization of Russia and the United States. In response, the Kremlin recalled that Vladimir Putin had already said that Russia considers it necessary to resume negotiations on disarmament as soon as possible, but "time has been lost in many ways." Who will benefit from such proposals and actions and why Washington is not acting in a friendly way, the military observer of the Newspaper figured out.Ru" Mikhail Khodarenok.

New navigation modules allow the drone to navigate not only by satellites, but also by mobile communication base stations

The production of key components for UAVs has been launched in Russia, sources in the military-industrial complex told Izvestia. This will allow us to quickly supply components to customers without complex logistics chains, simplify and speed up the assembly of drones.