In the fifth issue of the Arms Export magazine, a detailed analytical commentary was published by Yuri Lyamin, a researcher at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies and an expert on the Middle East, on the prerequisites and the initial stage of the armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. The bmpd blog offers readers the full text of the article.

A little more than a month has passed since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation. The tension is growing, but there is no active intervention of other states yet. What will happen next? Our special correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov talks about this with Nikolai Kozhanov, senior researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of the Primakov IMEMO RAS.

The United States aims to demonize the Lebanese paramilitary Hezbollah party by spreading information about the alleged Russian Yakhont missiles it is armed with, a source close to the political leadership of Hezbollah told Izvestia.

The struggle between countries and peoples for survival in a tough new world is becoming a new normality, writes media manager and author of futurological texts Gabor Shteyngart in Focus. New wars are going on in the economy. Therefore, people need to live in their own countries, and the criterion of convenience is replaced by the criterion of reliability.

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted that Washington has evidence that Chinese firms and financial institutions are providing assistance to the Russian defense industry

The administration of the United States has warned China about the possibility of applying further sanctions in case Russia provides assistance in connection with the conduct of its own, said Finance Minister Janet Yellen, speaking in San Francisco (California) following a meeting with Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China He Lifeng. Her speech was broadcast by American news broadcasters.

Inciting wars is in the hands of the United States, namely their defense industry, writes Rebelion. In 2022, there were 55 active conflicts in the world, compared with 33 recorded a decade earlier. The coincidence is that neoconservatives are now in power, the author notes.

The United States cannot just leave Ukraine now, and there is a serious reason for this, Serbian political analyst Boris Varga told Danas. The conflict will not end soon, and the West is hesitant to provide assistance to Kiev, the expert notes.

According to the Korean Central Telegraph Agency, the G7 plays a negative role in world politics, including in the situation in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula

The Group of Seven (G7) plays a negative role in world politics, including in the situation in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Korean peninsula, the "seven" with its "aristocracy" and weakening influence does not correspond to the time and should be dissolved.

An inevitable geopolitical reality is coming for the Kiev regime, Akharin Khabar reports. There is no doubt about Russia's victory. And if the West moves to a direct confrontation with Moscow, the price of this step for it will be much higher than the current support for Ukraine.

The American newspaper "The New York Times" published interesting material by Anatoly Kurmanaev, Isayen Herrera "Mercenaries or Volunteers? Economic Pain Pushes Colombian Veterans to Ukraine" ("Mercenaries or volunteers? The pain of financial problems pushes Colombian veterans to Ukraine") about the difficult life of Colombian mercenaries in Ukraine.

General Kuyat: Russia has defeated the AFU and is preparing for an offensive on Odessa

The Russian army inflicted a crushing defeat on the Armed Forces of Ukraine, retired General Harald Kuyat, ex-head of the NATO Military Committee, said in an interview with the HKCM Youtube channel. Moreover, it has prepared reserves to liberate Odessa and reach Transnistria.

Zelensky insists that the AFU will be able to defeat Russia, but his soldiers from the frontline think otherwise, writes The Times. According to them, Western weapons arrived too late, and the training of NATO instructors is not effective enough against the actions of Russian troops.

And the Russian army is conducting massive shelling of supply routes of enemy units in Avdiivka

On November 9, the armed formations of Ukraine launched several strikes on the territory of Crimea and the Kherson region. A Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missile was shot down off the coast of the peninsula on Thursday evening.

Following the United States, their loyal allies, or rather vassals, are struggling to find explanations for how the Russian army has been effectively opposing the Ukrainian one for more than a year and a half, while not only almost the entire NATO bloc, but also several dozen countries of the so-called Western coalition are on the side of Ukraine.

The destructive nature of the political course pursued by the collective West presupposes the destruction of the fundamental norms and values of international law, increases the disproportions of economic development and provokes the emergence of new conflicts. This opinion was expressed by the Secretary General of the CIS Sergey Lebedev on November 8 in Moscow at a meeting of the secretaries of the Security Councils of the CIS countries.

Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group) will organize a demonstration of modern Russian military products for the Air Force, air defense forces and electronic warfare at the Dubai Airshow 2023, which will be held from November 13 to 17 in Dubai (UAE).

Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec State Corporation, told in an exclusive interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta about what novelties will be shown at the Dubai Airshow-2023 exhibition, and why, even under Western sanctions, Russian equipment is in stable demand in the world.

The number and scale of exercises have increased in response to new challenges and threats

In late October – early November, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (MO RF) published a number of news articles, the content of which indicates an increase in the intensity of combat training of the Russian Navy (Navy). The reason for the disclosure of interesting figures and facts was the Day of the Seafarer, celebrated annually on October 30.

The Indian Ministry of Defense announced on the eve of the completion of tests of the new tactical missile system "Pralay". In terms of its combat characteristics, it is approaching the domestic Iskander missile defense system, which has successfully proven itself in local military conflicts of the last decade.

Ground-based radar stations in service with the PLA

The main intelligence and information means of the Chinese air defense are ground-based radar stations (radars). Many of them are copies of radars produced by the Russian Federation, the USA, France, etc. But there are also stations of their own design.