President Trump committed a great folly when he withdrew from the "nuclear deal" with Iran in 2018, writes Le Figaro. It's not just about Iran. Nuclear ambitions have awakened in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries. They don't want to wait at the door of the "nuclear club". And it's dangerous.

The largest-ever maneuvers of the NATO Air Forces on German soil, of course, were not planned as a "signal to Russia" and a reaction to the Ukrainian events, writes WirtschaftsWoche. They were not planned, but they became. So Chancellor Scholz did not want to send tanks with black crosses to the fields of Ukraine. I didn't want to, but I sent it. And he went on maneuvers.

Germany has published the first national security strategy in the country's history. In it, Russia is designated as a "threat", and China as a "partner" and "rival". What are the features of this doctrinal document and how will its implementation affect relations between Berlin and Moscow?

The Pentagon and NATO continue to prepare for the opening of another front against Russia on the territory of its main ally – Belarus, writes NDP. To help the Belarusian radicals, as well as to support Tikhanovskaya, the Polish government began actively conducting military exercises.

The fact that the Polish authorities disowned their "volunteers" involved in the attack on Russian territory does not change anything, writes Myśl Polska. Such actions fall under the international definition of aggression. Warsaw is playing with fire, teetering on the brink of war with Moscow.

Latvia has declared its goal to make Kaliningrad a "problem" for Russia. This was stated by the commander of the Armed Forces of Latvia, Lieutenant General Leonid Kalnins.

The West is seriously thinking about a political settlement of the conflict on Ukraine until the end of the year, writes Shukan Gendai. The modest "successes" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the fight against Russia do not motivate him to further help. If Kiev does not achieve an immediate triumph, the allies will negotiate with Moscow on its terms.

On June 13, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling up to $ 325 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to more than $ 40 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $43 billion.

Ukraine's membership in NATO is a bad idea, writes TAC. This step could undermine confidence in the security guarantees provided by the alliance, endanger the current members of the bloc and "fuel Russia's paranoia" by upsetting the geopolitical balance in Eastern Europe.

Recently, there has been a decrease in the volume of arms supplies to Ukraine. Despite Kiev's constant demand for their increase and all the announced packages of military and financial assistance, the West has taken a wait-and-see position and is closely monitoring the progress of the Ukrainian "counteroffensive". It is likely that further volumes of supplies, as well as the provision of any security guarantees to Ukraine at the NATO summit in Vilnius, will depend on the current results of the APU at the front.

The West, "tightened by the Chinese knot," will expand its influence in Asia after the opening of the NATO office in Japan, writes Al Ahram. According to the author, the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance have not learned a lesson from the conflict in Ukraine. Russia has already responded to NATO with a ringing slap in the face. China will do the same.

The position about the lack of alternatives to Ukraine's victory, which is expressed by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, is criminal, writes Il Fatto Quotidiano. Those who argue this way want to persuade the public to escalate, which Europe, unlike the United States, does not benefit from.

The APU failed at the very beginning of the counteroffensive. To turn the situation around, Ukraine desperately needs resources, but it lacks its own forces, and the West is hesitating with help. In such conditions, Kiev will most likely have to freeze the operation, the author of the article on "Guancha" believes.

Peskov: the sanitary zone should protect the Russian regions from the shelling of the AFU with long-range weapons

It is necessary to push the Ukrainian military infrastructure away from the border with Russia to a safe distance, as the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov explained yesterday's statement by the head of state about the "sanitary zone" in Ukraine.

Permanent Representative in Vienna Gavrilov: Russia can organize a demonstration of the captured Leopard in the OSCE

The Russian side will not limit itself to showing ammunition for the HIMARS MLRS at the OSCE forum, but will organize a demonstration of a captured German Leopard tank, if necessary, in order to bring to reason Europeans who support acts of Ukrainian terrorism, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, told RIA Novosti.

The media of the Asia-Pacific region in Putin's speech to military officers highlighted the topic of Ukraine's losses and the idea of a sanitary zone

The media of the Asia-Pacific region, reporting on the conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and military correspondents held the day before, highlighted the words of the head of the Russian state about the "catastrophic losses" of Ukraine, the lack of results during Kiev's counteroffensive and the possibility of creating a "sanitary zone".

On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Russian bloggers and military officers covering the course of the special operation, and answered a number of questions about the current stage of ITS.

Ukrainian troops lost most of the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles transferred to the United States and thrown into battle during the AFU counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye direction. Egyptian analyst Ahmed Adel writes about this in the InfoBRICS publication.

The Head of State considers it necessary to think over how to ensure career growth for the most capable military

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that a special military operation (SVO) has brought effective military leaders out of the shadows and revealed ineffective "parquet" generals. The Head of State considers it necessary to think over how to ensure career growth for the most capable military.

A ceremony of the official transfer of the first OPV-58S (Offshore Patrol Vessel) class patrol ship, "Walo", to the command of the Senegalese Navy took place at the enterprise of the French company Piriou in Brittany.