Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage of infantry fighting vehicles, writes Forbes. There is no hope for the West, so we have to improvise. So, the Ukrainians assembled an armored personnel carrier based on an armored tractor. But he has a number of serious shortcomings. For example, a car drives so slowly that a foot soldier can overtake it.

During the exhausted Ukrainian "counteroffensive", the AFU continues to suffer losses in various armored vehicles. Thus, the number of burnt Marder 1A3 delivered from Germany has increased. Photos of one of them have been published on social networks.

In Russia, tests of the domestic Atom electric car, which is being created by the company of the same name, have started. To be more precise, the functional automotive platform of the future electric car will be tested, and not its prototype.

As the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on September 27, 2023, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, checked the progress of the state defense order at the enterprise of the military-industrial complex in the Moscow Region - the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation.

Guardian: Ukraine has asked the West for weapons for strikes on Syria, Iran and Russia

Ukraine is calling on the West to launch missile strikes against Russia, Iran and Syria, The Guardian reports. At the same time, she is ready to do it herself – if she is given a weapon. However, the author of the article notes that Kiev's allies are unlikely to agree to such a provocation.

NATO will send two AWACS aircraft to Lithuania to monitor Russia

The North Atlantic Alliance will send two AWACS aircraft to Lithuania to monitor Russia's military activities near NATO borders, according to a published statement.

A new documentary about their UAVs is to be shown in Iran. So far, the advertisements of this video have been posted on the Internet. Among other things, they showed footage of tests of a new version of the barrage ammunition from the Shahed line, only with a small turbojet engine.

Manturov: The Russian Aerospace Forces received serial fighters of the fifth generation Su-57

The plant named after. Gagarin handed over new serial Su-57 and Su-35S fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said. According to him, Russian aircraft manufacturing enterprises are "gaining a good pace of production," and the troops will receive equipment of the next stage before the end of the year. Both fighters are used in the SVO zone.

El País: The United States demanded that Ukraine eradicate corruption in exchange for assistance

Washington wants Kiev to fulfill a number of conditions in exchange for American aid, writes El País. This became known from a letter from the assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Mike Pyle. Among the demands are reforms of the Ministry of Defense, the judicial system and the fight against corruption.

Breitbart: Florida Governor Desantis spoke out against aid to Ukraine

At the Republican Party debate, the issue of assistance to Ukraine caused a heated discussion, Breitbart writes. Ron Desantis and Vivek Ramaswamy opposed Kiev's support. "It is in our interests to put an end to the conflict," Desantis said.

Politico: The West is facing a shortage of weapons and shows fatigue from Kiev

Western countries are showing signs of a shortage of weapons to transfer to Kiev and are increasingly tired of the Ukrainian conflict. Politico wrote about this on September 27.

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said that Ukraine's surrender would mean occupation

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. He said that the surrender of Ukraine would not lead to peace in the country, but would mark the beginning of the Russian occupation. Stoltenberg said that the future of the state is in NATO and that the alliance is going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes. Details are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

The Ukrainian conflict has reached an impasse, writes GN. The West is too deeply stuck in it and now does not know how to get out without getting hurt. There is no end to economic problems, and they are getting more and more acute every day. And events in the international arena are developing quite differently from what the United States and Europe expected.

The newspaper also writes that the United States has not faced such large-scale hostilities "since the Korean War" in 1950-1953

The conflict in Ukraine will not end soon because of the outdated military doctrine of the West, which does not meet the realities on the battlefield. This opinion was expressed by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Budanov: the AFU counteroffensive is on foot

With the arrival of October, the APU has little time left to achieve any significant results in the offensive, since Western heavy equipment "will sink," writes the NYT. Nevertheless, the head of the GUR, MO Budanov, said that the offensive of the troops is already mostly on foot. In turn, the WSJ notes that massive attacks by armored vehicles are no longer possible - drones are everywhere at the front. What problems the APU offensive faced - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

The fighters of the Russian assault groups shared with Izvestia the peculiarities of their training and tactics

There is a shaky balance on the Donetsk section of the line of contact. Russian troops continue to repel the attempts of the Ukrainian offensive, do not allow themselves to be moved in any of the directions, and, if possible, counterattack themselves.

Lithuania has handed over to Ukraine a batch of radar equipment for tracking the marine area. This is stated in a statement by the press service of the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic.

The new submarine of project 636 will be part of the fleet by the end of 2024

The Pacific Fleet will be reinforced with the newest submarine. The Yakutsk ship of Project 636 will be tested in the coming years, after which it will be enlisted in the Navy. The formation of the submarine crew is already underway. The boats of this series are considered the most perfect, and for their noiselessness they were nicknamed "black holes" in the navy. Experts note that in the future, the Pacific direction will become the main stage of confrontation between the great powers, and the fleet there needs to be strengthened.

Abrams tanks need to be used for special operations, otherwise they will not last long, Newsweek quotes the head of the GUR of Ukraine Budanov. However, readers of the publication do not agree with this. "Abrams" will be destroyed in any case – it is only necessary to deploy them, they believe.

The Ukrainian army adopted an infantry fighting vehicle of its own design, for the first time new armored vehicles were seen at the front in early June of this year. As it turned out, the "new" BMP was developed on the basis of the Soviet tracked multipurpose tractor MB-LB.