Alexey Pavlovsky drew attention to the fact that the cost of military assistance from the Australian side to Ukraine exceeded $400 million

Russian Ambassador to Australia Alexey Pavlovsky did not rule out the delivery of decommissioned F-18 Hornet fighters of the Australian Air Force to Ukraine.

The local airfield will become a major aviation base of "trucks"

By the end of the year, a military transport aviation regiment (VTA) will appear in Tambov. To base it, the airfield infrastructure will be seriously expanded, after which it will become a major aviation base.

A brigade of Germans on a permanent basis in Lithuania, the eastern flank of NATO "turnkey" and tanks for Ukraine. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is doing everything possible for the United States, writes Tagesspiegel. During his visit to Washington, he may be required to do the maximum: "close the problem" in Ukraine while the United States takes care of China.

Without the slightest exaggeration, we can say that the events related to the recent actions of the Russian PMCs "Wagner Group" have shaken the whole world. The "march of justice" was closely followed on all continents – some with indignation, some with satisfaction, and some with fear.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland will strengthen its border, сообщаетTVP.info . Wagnerians in Belarus are dangerous primarily for Ukraine, but also potentially for Poland and Lithuania. This means a more complex phase of hybrid warfare, Kaczynski said.

The plan for Ukraine's accession to NATO, proposed by France, only at first glance looks like a way to provide it with reliable and concrete security guarantees, writes NDP. In fact, the expectation of joining the alliance gives Washington the opportunity to keep Kiev on a short leash.

According to Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, "in this form, guarantees cannot take place"

Austria, like other neutral states, wants its status to be taken into account when discussing possible security guarantees for Ukraine. This was stated on Thursday by Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer upon arrival at the EU summit in Brussels.

According to the publication, this requires the consent of all members of the association

The draft declaration on "security obligations" for Ukraine on the part of the European Union provides for the possibility of sending "EU military missions" to Ukraine, subject to the consent of all members of the association. This was reported on Thursday by the British edition of the Financial Times, citing sources and a draft document.

According to the agency, they disagreed on the ways to implement the conflict resolution process

The participants of the meeting of the countries of the West and the global South on Ukraine in Copenhagen last week could not reach agreement on ways to resolve the conflict in this country, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

The outcome of the protracted conflict in Ukraine depends on the logistical potential of the warring parties, writes El País. However, according to the author, there is one simple way to complete it. This method has already been successfully tested in the Balkans.

The choice is really simple: between triumph and disaster

The Ukrainian campaign did not go at all as originally conceived. Now it is more than obvious. Actually, this statement has already become a commonplace.

The ministry noted that high-precision strikes were carried out on their facilities in the Sarja area in the Idlib de-escalation zone

Precision strikes by Russian aviation will continue until the complete elimination of militants involved in provocations in the Syrian province of Idlib. This was stated on Wednesday by Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria.

The West provokes Russia in vain, Al Hadath reports. The desire of the United States to start a new cold war will lead to irreversible consequences. Therefore, now the parties to the conflict in Ukraine need a mediator and a reliable partner. Russia will decide the fate of the world, possibly with the support of the UAE, the author of the article believes.

If Ukraine is not accepted into NATO, individual countries of the alliance can send troops to support the Armed Forces, writes the user AgoraVox, referring to the ex-secretary General of the bloc Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Then neighboring Belarus will be under threat of invasion: the West will not pass by it, the author believes. But Minsk is not defenseless.

Kurt Campbell, the White House Senior Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific region, is confident that Australia, Britain and the United States will be able to cope with the problem of creating nuclear submarine forces for Australia.

All new frigates and corvettes will be armed with "Zircons", the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, said the other day. The hypersonic anti-ship complex entered the army quite recently. About what the flotilla will become — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has begun the formation of a separate Azov flotilla with a location in Mariupol. This statement was made by the so-called Center of National Resistance of Ukraine, working under the control of the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The conflict in Ukraine has shown that American technology is actually too complex and prohibitively expensive, writes TNI. If its production and maintenance are not simplified, it will simply be unsuitable for use on the battlefield.

The General Directorate of Armaments (Direction générale de l'armement - DGA) of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France reported that on the evening of June 26, 2023, the first test launch of the demonstrator of the French experimental maneuvering hypersonic aircraft VMAX (Véhicule Maneuverant eXpérimental) was carried out from the DGA test range in Biscarrosse in the south of the Atlantic coast of France. The launch was carried out using a geophysical rocket as an upper stage and declared successful.

The projectile is effective against surface and underwater targets thanks to the homing system, said Mikhail Kettuev, a representative of the concern "Marine underwater weapons - Hydropribor"

The TE-2 electric torpedo, developed by the Marine Underwater Weapon - Hydropribor concern (part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation), is capable of rising to the surface after passing the practical firing distance. This was told to TASS by the representative of the concern Mikhail Kettuev during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2023).