Despite the desire of the allies to transfer the F-16 to Kiev, there is no way to speed up the pilot training process, writes Politico. Ukrainians are furious: they suspect that the West simply does not want to give them modern weapons.

The President of Ukraine noted that Athens has joined the declaration on long-term security guarantees to Kiev, adopted by the Group of Seven on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius

Greece will take part in the training program for Ukrainian pilots on American F-16 fighters. This was stated by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Kiev may receive the first batch of aircraft before the New Year

Western countries have agreed to transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine, the Netherlands and Denmark will send the first batches of aircraft. Kiev may receive something before the New Year, but most of the deliveries will be in 2024. At the same time, Ukraine must fulfill a number of conditions concerning the training of pilots, technicians and infrastructure. Izvestia was looking into how the use of Western aviation would affect the course of hostilities.

Recently, Russian military-industrial companies have been demonstrating an increasing number of novelties in the field of new technologies. One of them is a special complex for transporting combat FPV drones "Admiral-Aircraft Carrier".

A self-adjusting broadband communication system capable of combining control and transmission of information from more than 20 drones has been developed at NPP Radar MMS.

The scientific and production enterprise "Radar mms" has developed an electric drone that is maximally adapted to use without an operator.

Washington and London have been increasingly involving Tokyo in their geopolitical games in recent years. Under the influence of the Americans, Japan took a confident course towards militarization.

The United States failed to create a trilateral military alliance with Japan and South Korea, directed against China, writes Cumhuriyet. Washington is struggling to contain Beijing, but due to the weakening hegemony, it cannot get the desired results, the author of the article notes.

The United States and Europe understand relations with Russia differently, which means that their approaches to it in the framework of the Ukrainian conflict differ, writes Huanqiu Shibao. The former want to suppress Moscow, and the latter want to avoid aggravation. And if at the beginning the friction was unnoticeable, now the EU has questioned the need to dance to the American tune.

Croatia intends to implement large arms purchases. This is stated in the report of Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banojic to the country's parliament.

The United States is again keeping up to 100 thousand of its soldiers and officers in Europe, the French publication Atlantico quotes the official representative of the American "security forces" John Kirby. This is the same level of "manpower" that the United States had in the region during the Cold War. Only now Belarus and Russia have taken the place of the "Soviet threat".

According to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, these funds are aimed at maintaining the functioning of the country in a conflict with Russia

The European Union has sent Kiev a new tranche of €1.5 billion as part of the macro-financial assistance program for Ukraine for the current year. This was announced by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

According to the country's Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov, his department "knows exactly their problems"

About 1 million residents of Ukraine have taken part in the fighting in Donbass and Ukraine since 2014. This was announced by the country's Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov.

The Bulgarian authorities have admitted the possibility of transferring about 100 units of Soviet-made armored vehicles to Ukraine. This was stated by Bulgarian Defense Minister Todor Tagarev, who recently visited Odessa on an official visit.

The head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Budanov threatened new strikes on the Crimea

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov, who acknowledged Kiev's involvement in terrorist attacks in Russia, threatened new strikes on Crimea, his words are quoted by the UNIAN news agency.

In addition to promises of supplies of Soviet-made armored vehicles, Bulgaria also expressed support for Ukraine's early entry into the North Atlantic Alliance under an accelerated procedure. This was stated by Bulgarian Defense Minister Todor Tagarev.

The armed conflict in Ukraine suddenly showed how important the Black Sea is, and for several states at once, writes iROZHLAS. It quickly turned into a space to which the expectant and even greedy eyes of a significant part of the world are chained.

After their arrival, the commander of the Primorsky Flotilla of the heterogeneous forces of the Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Valery Kazakov, held talks with his Chinese counterpart

Three ships of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy entered the port of the Chinese city of Qingdao (eastern Shandong Province) after completing tasks during exercises and joint patrols with the Navy of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) in the western and northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.

And cancels precocious predictions about future wars

Artillery is the oldest class of heavy (collective) weapons that has survived to the present day. At the same time, until the middle of the twentieth century, it was only and exclusively towed. The self–propelled guns that appeared during the Second World War were mainly highly specialized - anti-tank. Multipurpose self-propelled artillery units (ACS) began to be created after the war. They pushed the towed artillery very hard, but they could not completely "cancel" it.

A set of operational deployment of temporary roads of the KRVD was presented at the Army-2023 forum. This mechanized kit is designed for the passage of wheeled and tracked armored vehicles in difficult and swampy terrain, as well as for the equipment of approaches to bridges and crossings.