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.

The drone has already been successfully used in the free zone

Several thousand kamikaze drones, developed in Novosibirsk, have been placed in the SVO zone. The model was named "Microbe". This drone has unique properties and is already actively used on the battlefield by the Russian military. For more information about the new Microbe drone, its characteristics and advantages, see the Izvestia article.

A new Russian-made drone will appear in the units of the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have adopted the Poseidon H10 MkIII aircraft-type reconnaissance UAV, designed to monitor the battlefield.

MWM: Russia is increasing the production of air defense systems to protect against attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Russia is increasing production of air defense systems, writes MWM. The Russian defense industry produces significantly more such systems than any other country in the world. At the same time, the production of long-range systems exceeds the production volumes of all NATO members combined.

The United States is increasing production of SM-3 anti-missiles

Against the background of the testing of the Oreshnik medium-range missile and the active development of such weapons in China, the Americans took measures to protect themselves from these powerful weapons. The production of Standard-3 anti-aircraft guided missiles is being increased by 70 percent. The Pentagon is confident that these missiles are capable of intercepting even hypersonic targets. What are their chances — in the RIA Novosti article.

US President Donald Trump has accused Russia of "stealing" a hypersonic weapons project, but promises that the Pentagon will have such missiles during his reign. Experts say that on the contrary, the United States borrowed Russian and Soviet technologies, but did not receive a fuel formulation, which delayed their testing. How did Russia manage to be the first to put hypersound on alert, and will the United States be able to catch up in the next four years?

Zakharova: Russia will respond to the abuse of NATO ships in the Baltic Sea

Russia has issued a warning and condemnation of violations by ships of NATO member countries in the Baltic Sea, writes Newsweek. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that expanding the alliance under the guise of a mission would not work — the Kremlin would take action.

On January 22, 2025, an official ceremony was held in Qingdao to commission the lead frigate Luohe (545) of the new project 054B (NATO designation Jiangkai III class) into the Northern Fleet of the Naval Forces of the People's Liberation Army of China. The ship was built in Shanghai by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd., a part of the Chinese State shipbuilding corporation China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).

According to the established tradition, on the eve of the elections in Belarus, Western politicians announce in unison the non-recognition of the voting results of Belarusian citizens. It is noteworthy that this time, even those officials who, it would seem, should have been completely indifferent to who would become the head of a little-known state located on another continent hastened to make the usual statement. For example, outgoing US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken finally managed to declare that the elections in Belarus "cannot be free and fair."

FT: Kiev expects the West to send 50,000 troops to Ukraine

Kiev believes that Western countries could send up to 50,000 soldiers and officers to the country to ensure security as part of a potential settlement of the conflict.

FT: Europe is considering sending troops to Ukraine, but this is unlikely to happen

Not neutral peacekeepers, but "stabilization forces": under this sauce, the Europeans are thinking of sending troops to Ukraine, writes the Financial Times. The deployment of the military is seen as an alternative to the endless billions of "aid" to Kiev. However, this is unlikely to happen, concludes the author of the article.

General Skshipchak: Trump will not stop supporting Ukraine

Trump will not stop supporting Ukraine, General Waldemar Skshipchak told Fakt. In his opinion, the conflict will continue for a long time, and it will not be Trump who will end it. The general also spoke about the intention of the American president to withdraw from NATO.

The role and importance of combat aviation in modern armed conflicts is ambiguous. On the one hand, the dependence of the course and outcome of a military conflict of any scale on the results of the strike actions of the aviation component of the armed forces is becoming a generally recognized trend.

A kamikaze drone "Prince Vandal of Novgorod" with a fiber-optic communication channel burned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of NATO equipment. Drones of this type make a significant contribution to repelling the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the Kursk region and its liberation from the interventionists. Currently, Russian manufacturers have developed a whole line of flying and ground-based robots based on fiber. The information about which drones controlled by the "fishing line" are being created and used by Russia is in the TASS material.