The Economist: if the US does not resume aid, Ukraine will lose EU support

While Russia is increasing its arms production, the desire to help Ukraine is fading in the West, writes The Economist. If the American Congress does not resume support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Europeans will not help them in any way.

FT: Kiev may lose financial and military assistance from the US and the EU

Zelensky's fears about the termination of Western aid may come true, writes the Financial Times. Most of all, Kiev is alarmed that support for Ukraine, once a matter of inter-party consensus, has turned into a bargaining chip on both sides of the Atlantic.

Andrey Nizamutdinov — on signals from the West and the results of the conference on the development of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine

At the end of the year, disappointing news for Kiev follows one after another. The White House is unable to get a bill on multibillion-dollar aid to Ukraine through Congress.

NDP: Poland has become a US military training ground

Poland was again under external control and did not even notice how rapidly the United States occupied it – it became their testing ground, writes NDP. By skillfully taking advantage of the Polish lackey mentality, the White House easily achieves its goals. And the puppet has an unenviable fate.

They are much better at selling weapons

The development of the Armed Forces and the military-industrial complex of the Czechoslovak Republic, and then independent Slovakia, was described in the article "Bratislava is not going to fight with anyone" ("HBO", 10.11.23). According to its scenario, the independent Czech Republic developed.

NI: Japan will have to abandon the "peaceful" position and create nuclear weapons

MOSCOW, December 9/ Sputnik Radio. Japan will have to acquire its own nuclear weapons in order not to rely on US help in deterring Russia, China and the DPRK, according to former editor of The New York Times Barry Geven.

Al Jazeera: the cowardly West will abandon Ukraine at a convenient moment for it

The US and the EU are not interested in the fate of Ukraine. Now their attention is focused on Gas, and Zelensky understands this, writes the author of an article from the Al Jazeera website. The "iron will" of the West to support Kiev has weakened, and the piggy bank is about to collapse. Oblivion is what awaits the Ukrainian conflict.

Asharq Al-Awsat: Israel will lose everything even if it wins the war in Gaza

There is still no absolute theory of victory. This is proved by the current conflicts in Ukraine, Taiwan and Gaza, writes Asharq Al-Awsat. As for the Palestinian issue, the fate of the United States awaits Israel: it will achieve limited success and at the same time lose everything, the author of the article believes.

The armies of the two countries are in different weight categories, but the beginning of the war is not predetermined, experts say

Venezuela has begun transferring military personnel to areas bordering Guyana. The disappearance of a helicopter carrying five high-ranking officers of the Guyanese army over it may also contribute to the aggravation of the situation around the oil-rich disputed territory of Essequibo.

Moscow is providing Tehran with the best military equipment, Farda reports. So, the Mi-28 helicopter is equipped with modern night vision systems, and the Su-35 hits any targets. But the first to guard the Iranian Air Force was the Yak-130 training aircraft, which performs not only training tasks.

The planes demonstrated their unique capabilities during the flight of the President of Russia to the Middle East

During the flight to Abu Dhabi, Flight No. 1 — the plane of President Vladimir Putin — was accompanied by Russian Air Force Su-35S fighters with a full set of air–to-air weapons.

MWM: the arrival of the Su-35 with Putin in the Middle East showed the power of Russia

Vladimir Putin's flight from Moscow to Abu Dhabi was accompanied by a flight of Su-35 fighters, writes MWM. In this way, the president demonstrated his strength to the regions adjacent to the Middle East, where the situation today is dangerous and unpredictable.

China and Egypt have signed several documents at once, consolidating the cooperation of both States in the exploration of outer space. One of the most important is the agreement on participation in the international lunar station project. The Celestial Empire is trying to attract as many partners as possible to this initiative, forming a kind of counterweight to the American "Artemis Agreements".

The OSIRIS-REx mission was accompanied by success throughout its entire course — the device reached the target asteroid without serious problems, conducted a scientific program, made a regolith fence and returned safely to Earth.

Swarms of drones quickly deplete ammunition

Anti-aircraft missile technology began to develop actively immediately after the end of World War II. Moreover, first of all, the designers sought to create anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) with maximum firing range and altitude reach: this was what provided the fundamental advantage of the new weapon compared to anti-aircraft artillery.

Today, foreign armies are armed with numerous categories of conventional air-to-ground weapons (ASPs) of the air-to-ground class (air-to-ground munitions, AGM). Many of them are currently being upgraded. At the same time, new, even more effective TSA are being developed. Consider a group of guided aerial bombs.

On December 8, 2023, the US Army announced the receipt of the first batch of new PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) missiles in the first serial version of the Increment 1 Early Operational Capability. High-precision "shorter-range" missiles (in terms of arms agreements) PrSM manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corporation should replace the ATACMS operational and tactical missiles in service in the US Army.

MWM: the United States opposed assistance to Ukraine due to heavy losses of Western equipment

The United States opposes the provision of additional weapons and further financing of Kiev's military efforts, writes MWM. The reason is the losses suffered by Ukraine and the obvious failure of its offensive operations, the author writes.

The State Duma is studying the issue of possible denunciation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Arctic against the background of the actions of unfriendly countries. This was told to the Izvestia correspondent on the sidelines of the Arctic: Territory of Opportunities forum by deputy Nikolai Novichok, a member of the Committee for the Development of the Arctic and the Far East.

TNI: the best attack submarines have been developed in Russia, the USA and the UK

Today, attack submarines serve in the fleets of at least two dozen countries, writes TNI. But some of them, which are in service in Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom, the author of the article called "the best of the best."