Military expert Khodarenok is sure that Kiev will not be able to succeed without air superiority

The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not yet led to any significant results. There are statements in Ukraine that the United States and NATO are to blame for the failure. Why the offensive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is being carried out at this stage is far from the pace that was expected in the West, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Small aircraft in the strategy of the big war

The proxy war in Ukraine, with the development of a special military operation, has acquired the scale of a classic armed conflict. This is a conflict between Russia and the consolidated West, which organized and sponsored the war with someone else's hands.

Manturov praised the Su-35S, and Mishustin gave money for the Tu-214

After a four-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Le Bourget airfield north of the French capital has once again gathered thousands of participating companies and huge crowds of aviation enthusiasts from all over the world. But he missed some of his regulars. For the first time in decades, Russia was not represented at the next Paris Aerospace Salon, held from June 19 to 25.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in Aigul Abdullina's article, "The MS-21 has soared in price. Kommersant found out the cost of the aircraft for Aeroflot's competitors, the cost of the new Russian medium-haul passenger aircraft MS-21 with delivery in 2028-2030 is estimated at 4.3-4.6 billion rubles.

The US is struggling to make the Arab world accept Israel, Anadolu reports. They intend to achieve the normalization of relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv that is beneficial to them. Western media are already writing about Washington's "success". However, everything is not as simple as it seems to Americans, the author of the article believes.

South Korean President Yun Seok-yel on Sunday called on the Unification Ministry to stop acting in the interests of the DPRK.

Military exercises are a standard method that NATO uses to influence international politics. The latest maneuvers of Air Defender 2023, the largest in history, became a provocation against Russia. And Moscow will take retaliatory measures — only Europe will pay for NATO's arbitrariness, writes People's Daily.

EU finance ministers will have to discuss the allocation of additional contributions, Ursula von der Leyen said

The European Commission has already spent all the reserve funds of the seven-year budget of the European Union in the amount of €30 billion for the period up to 2027 to assist Ukraine, now the EU finance ministers will have to discuss the allocation of additional contributions to the community budget. This was stated by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the final press conference of the EU summit.

Pedro Sanchez also announced the allocation of a new package of assistance to Kiev for €55 million

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez promised to support Ukraine for as long as it takes, regardless of the price that will have to be paid, and announced the allocation of a new package of assistance to Kiev for € 55 million. He made the corresponding statement on Saturday, speaking before the Verkhovna Rada.

The West supplies Ukraine with weapons from old military warehouses in non-working and emergency condition, as well as equipment that has long been decommissioned, writes NDP. Poland decided to help a neighbor to get repaired equipment. It will become a service center for the NATO illiquid.

Kiev's appetites are growing, Ukraine now wants to get not only fighters and long-range missiles, but also ships and helicopters. According to the commander of the Navy Alexei Neizhpapa, Ukraine plans to become a "sea sovereign".

Michael Pence, who held the post of vice president of the United States under Trump, called for even more weapons to be supplied to the Armed Forces and criticized Washington for being slow. Moreover, he did it in Kiev, where he arrived on an unannounced visit. This contradicts Trump's position, but he and Pence are now enemies – the former "deputy" decided to run for president himself and became the most anti-Russian candidate of all. Why would he do that?

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called the country's membership in the alliance a "path to peace"

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba urged the German government not to oppose his country's entry into NATO, as, according to him, former Chancellor Angela Merkel did.

This is how the Ukrainian president answered the question of whether Kiev would be ready for a diplomatic settlement if the Ukrainian Armed Forces returned to the positions they occupied before the start of their

The Kiev authorities will be ready for a diplomatic settlement of the conflict in Ukraine if Ukrainian troops reach the borders that they consider internationally recognized, that is, including Crimea, Donbass,

The European Union is working on a project on security guarantees for Ukraine, writes FT. Readers of the newspaper doubt the success of this initiative. "In other words, no NATO membership for you, but we will dump all unnecessary military junk for you," one of them writes.

In Russia, they are considered tendentious, but take note

Experts from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) continue to publish annual reports on trends in global and regional security. Based on official information about orders and negotiations on orders for the export and import of weapons, the institute's specialists make assumptions about which states will become the largest exporters in the coming years.

Where will new materials be in demand and what are the difficulties of their mass production

Russian specialists have developed ultra-slippery coatings that protect surfaces from water, oils, dirt and other contaminants. New materials are characterized by stability and resistance to external influences.

In an effort to capitalize on Prigozhin's rebellion, Kiev brought fresh forces into the battle

Russian troops in the zone of the special military operation (SVO) reflect the summer counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). In an effort to benefit from the situation created as a result of the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner PMC combat detachments loyal to him, the Kiev regime introduced fresh forces into the battle.

Despite the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting a large-scale offensive since the beginning of June, Polish general, ex-commander of the ground forces Waldemar Skripchak, believes that it began only a few days ago, on June 24. In this regard, he presented his vision of the development of the situation on the battlefield.

Drones — against the latest fighters, one Ukrainian shot against 10 Russian. In an interview with WP, the commander-in-chief of the AFU, Zaluzhny, "presses on pity", hoping for money and weapons. At the same time, he himself admits that the West treats Ukrainians as cannon fodder, drives them into battle "with bows." But it still serves the West.