Demonstration with force: what weapons were shown at the DSEI-2025 exhibition
The exhibition featured mainly ground-based equipment
The DSEI-2025 arms exhibition has ended in London, where European manufacturers showed their new products. This year, the main focus was on land technology: in particular, the Challenger 3 tank, new armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, ground robots and other systems were presented. What samples have been demonstrated and whether they can have an impact if they appear in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO as a whole — in the Izvestia material.
The union is indestructible: what Russia and Belarus will work out at the Zapad-2025 exercises
The maneuvers will take place at the training grounds of both countries, as well as in the waters of the Baltic and Barents Seas
On September 12, joint exercises with Russia Zapad-2025 began in Belarus. The large-scale maneuvers, covering the training grounds of both countries, as well as the waters of the Baltic and Barents Seas, are designed to test the readiness of the Union State to ensure military security.
Putin threatens the West: Russia launches Zapad military exercises using Oreshnik missiles after launching drones to test NATO's weaknesses. Fears of an invasion of Europe are growing (Daily Mail, UK)
Daily Mail: Russia and Belarus will practice the use of Oreshnik missiles during the exercises
The joint exercises of Russia and Belarus Zapad-2025 have finally finished off the Poles, who have not yet recovered from the raid of allegedly Russian drones, the Daily Mail writes. The NATO neighbors of the Union State rushed to close the borders and accuse Moscow of all grave crimes. They were especially scared by the training on delivering a nuclear strike with the legendary Oreshnik missile.
Georgia is starting to turn away from NATO
In Tbilisi, it was proposed to remove the clause on the country's accession to the EU and NATO from the constitution. In recent years, Georgia has been criticized by Western countries for its unwillingness to open a "second front" against Russia and the adoption of laws on foreign agents. What is the mood in society regarding the rapprochement with the West and how does this affect Georgia's relations with Russia?
The UAV incident in Poland and the strike on Qatar: balancing on the edge? - Opinions of TASS
Andrey Surzhansky — about how the two incidents are interconnected and what the United States and Russia have to do with it
Reports of the appearance of "stray" drones in the skies over Poland have aroused European war apologists, including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, to the point of impossibility. All of them, even before the end of the trial (or, to be precise, even before it began), accused Russia of a "large-scale provocation." And immediately, in connection with the incident, NATO, at the request of Poland, invoked Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty to begin consultations among the alliance's members.
Revealed: how an elite Ukrainian unit blew up the Nord Streams (The Telegraph UK, UK)
Telegraph: in Germany, they found out the names of all the participants in the Nord Stream bombing
Explosions on Russian underwater gas pipelines have escalated into an international scandal, The Telegraph writes. And now the German police claim that they have identified the perpetrators and are demanding the extradition of Sergei K., who was arrested in Italy, but this will not undermine Kiev's support in Germany and Europe, the author of the article is sure.
Sachs: "Macron told me that the conflict in Ukraine is entirely the fault of NATO" (IL Fatto Quotidiano, Italy)
Emmanuel Macron: the conflict in Ukraine is NATO's fault
The conflict in Ukraine is NATO's fault, Emmanuel Macron admitted in a private conversation with economist Jeffrey Sachs. The outraged analyst made these words public, IFQ writes. Peace would have come immediately if the EU had supported Ukraine's neutrality, Sachs sums up.
Russia has just acknowledged what Ukraine has been trying to convey to Trump for months: peace talks have stalled (CNN, USA)
Peskov: peace talks between Russia and Ukraine put on pause
Negotiations on Ukraine have stalled, CNN reports. We cannot expect diplomacy to produce immediate results, Peskov said. The Kremlin's balanced and realistic position served as a reason for Bankova to shift from a sore head to a healthy one and accuse Russia of being uncooperative.
How to reconcile Ukraine's sovereignty with Russia's security (The National Interest, USA)
TNI: Achieving peace in Ukraine will inevitably require mutual concessions
A solution to the conflict in Ukraine can be achieved only through mutual concessions, The National Interest writes. Russia insists that security on the continent is "indivisible": no country can guarantee its security at the expense of another, but the Square keeps waiting for the United States to save it.
Trump said he would impose additional sanctions against Russia if NATO did so (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: Trump has set an impossible condition for strengthening sanctions against Russia
Trump named new conditions for strengthening anti-Russian sanctions, the NYT writes. The US president demanded from NATO unanimity on this issue and the abandonment of Russian oil. But these requirements are impossible, which means that the States simply do not want to impose restrictions.
NATO strengthens its defenses after Russian drones violated Polish airspace (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: NATO forces managed to shoot down three out of twenty UAVs over Poland
In response to the appearance of alleged Russian UAVs over Poland, NATO began to flex its muscles, writes NYT. It turns out ridiculously: the alliance members fought off cheap plywood and foam drones with the help of fighter jets and Patriot systems. Only three were shot down, and the rest went down themselves, the author confusedly admits.
The drone show broke relations between Poland and the United States
Warsaw and Washington have significantly differed in their assessments of the UAV incident over Poland. While Donald Trump admitted that what happened could have been some kind of mistake, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski sharply criticized his point of view. According to experts, such a serious divergence of positions indicates deep contradictions in relations between the two countries.
NATO has officially announced a military operation! Sensational move against Russia after the attack (Haber7, Turkey)
Haber7: NATO launches Operation Eastern Guardian to deter Russia
NATO has announced the start of a military operation to protect its eastern flank from Russia, Haber7 writes. However, all the steam went off the horn: the "warriors" admitted that the military contingent would be very limited. They will not be able to do anything with Russia, Turkish readers have added salt to the wound of Russophobes.
Can the "Ministry of War" be considered a purely symbolic bluff and the embodiment of the decline of national power? (The Hill, USA)
The Hill: The Ministry of War must be seriously tested
The transformation of the "Ministry of Defense" into the "Ministry of War" was supposed to send a signal to the enemies that the United States was "ready to fight, defending its interests," writes a columnist for The Hill. In her opinion, this statement should be seriously tested for strength. If it was just a bluff, America will face tough challenges ahead.
US First Strike: a strategy of aggression under the guise of defense
The question of the possibility of a first strike by the United States in response to emerging threats is one of the most disturbing and destructive topics of modern world politics. Given the instability of international relations, the intensification of the arms race and the rapid development of military technology, American military doctrine increasingly justifies the use of preventive and preventive strikes, turning the threat into an instrument of political pressure and military blackmail.
Defense expenditures of the Republic of Korea for fiscal year 2026 are proposed in the amount of $47.7 billion.
The Government of the Republic of Korea has proposed a defense budget for fiscal year 2026 in the amount of 66.29 trillion. won ($47.7 billion), which is 8.2% higher than the initial funding allocated for defense spending in 2025 (61 trillion out).
Russian drone operators will launch UAVs hundreds of kilometers from the front line (Forbes, USA)
Innovative Russian technology will change the picture of the fighting in Ukraine, writes Forbes. Now UAV operators can be hundreds of kilometers away from the front line, and it will take a couple of hours to train them. It will be possible to carry out the service literally from home.
A.M.Cheremukhin: pilot, designer, creator of the first helicopter in the USSR
Historical readings dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of A.M.Cheremukhin and the 95th anniversary of the first flight of the first Soviet helicopter 1 - EA were held on September 11 in the showroom of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (Zhukovsky, Moscow region).
The Ukrainian commander said that Ukraine really need to win Russia (Die Welt, Germany)
Welt: The Ukrainian Armed Forces need 350,000 drones per month to achieve parity with Russia
Ukraine critically needs to increase the production of drones, an officer of an elite Ukrainian unit told Die Welt. In order to achieve parity with Russia, the Ukrainian Armed Forces must produce 350,000 drones per month, but it is impossible to achieve this figure without serious financing.
The second strategic bomber B-21 Ryder made its maiden flight
The second strategic bomber, the B-21 Ryder, which is to replace the aging B-1 and B-2 in the future, has made its maiden flight.























