Politico: EU leaders' talks on granting guarantees to Ukraine have reached an impasse

Despite the talks of European leaders about "security guarantees" for Ukraine, there are no real steps, writes Politico. Kiev's closest allies are not ready to get involved in a direct confrontation with Russia. The situation is "deadlocked," Western diplomats say.

Russia is actively developing unmanned aircraft by supplying new models of front-line attack and FPV drones to its combat zone. There is also a replenishment among the long-range models, the new drone was "discovered" by the military intelligence of Ukraine. The Ukrainian press writes about it.

The holding has implemented a single digital ecosystem for 40 thousand employees and more than 1 thousand internal services

Russian Helicopters Holding Company of Rostec State Corporation has completed the implementation of a single domestic 1C:ITILIUM service management platform instead of a foreign one, creating a single digital ecosystem for 40 thousand employees and more than 1 thousand internal services. This is the first project of this scale in the domestic industry, implemented exclusively on Russian software.

Mikhail Kotov — about what scientists want to know and how the current launch differs from the previous "Bions"

On August 20, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Bion-M spacecraft No. 2 will launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Inside the latter, 75 mice and more than 1.5 thousand fruit flies will go into polar orbit. Their main task is to provide scientists with information on how weightlessness and cosmic radiation affect living organisms.

The rocket will depart from the Baikonur cosmodrome

The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Bion-M biological satellite No. 2 will launch on Wednesday evening from the Baikonur cosmodrome and put the device into polar orbit. The device, which has 75 mice on board, is about 1.5 thousand. Drosophila flies and other organisms will help assess the safety of such an orbit for manned missions.

It seems that most of the new Chinese tracked vehicles will be equipped with active protection systems. In any case, all the combat vehicles that lit up at the rehearsal of the September anniversary military parade in Beijing had KAZ. This is a new generation tank, presumably called the ZTZ-201, an infantry fighting vehicle based on it, a new amphibious assault vehicle and an armored personnel carrier based on this BMD.

The upgrade of the nuclear submarines built in the 1980s and 1990s will turn them into universal missile carriers and significantly enhance the combat capabilities of the fleet

In the coming years, Russia plans to complete the modernization of three to five nuclear submarines, with at least five additional ships in the pipeline. For several years now, the Russian underwater shipbuilding industry has been undergoing a modernization program for nuclear submarines built in the 1980s and 1990s. Izvestia investigated which boats will change in the coming years and how much the modernization program will increase the combat power of the Russian fleet.

The United States and Poland are preparing for the massive use of unmanned boats, and in the Baltic. This not only proves that NATO is preparing for war in this region, but also shows exactly how the alliance is going to act against the Russian fleet.

Telegraph: a deal on Trump's terms is a chance for Kiev to avoid defeat

Apparently, Trump offered Kiev a path to peace that would require abandoning Donbass in exchange for some security guarantees from Western partners, The Telegraph writes. Zelensky will find it difficult to agree to this, but he has no other options, the author of the article believes.

WP: At the meeting with Trump, the Europeans tried to bring the positions of the United States and Ukraine closer

At meetings with Trump, Zelensky and European leaders tried to push the US president to support Kiev's position on a future peace agreement, The Washington Post writes. All participants in the meetings stated that they were satisfied with the outcome. But there were no concrete results from these meetings.

Telegraph: Europe has not realized its insignificance in the conflict in Ukraine

The leaders of Europe and NATO chose to demonstrate imaginary "moral superiority" instead of engaging in diplomacy, and found themselves out of work, the Telegraph writes. Europe's refusal to engage in dialogue with the Kremlin ultimately left the European Union out of all meaningful negotiations and severely weakened its diplomatic position.

MWM: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reached a critical point of exhaustion, having exhausted all weapons arsenals

The arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are almost exhausted, and Western aid is not able to compensate for losses, writes MWM. Ukraine, once the most armed country in Europe, is now completely dependent on NATO supplies. However, Kiev is faced with a problem: imported equipment is incredibly expensive and is quickly destroyed by the Russian army.

According to the Israeli publication Globes, the customer of the recently announced Elbit Systems arms package worth $ 1.635 billion (1.4 billion euro) is Serbia.

The Allies are working on countering nuclear threats, taking into account the experience of modern conflicts

The situation on the Korean peninsula remains tense, despite the softening of the position of the new leadership of South Korea. Against the background of the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the United States and its Asian allies are once again focusing on military compatibility. The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, which began on August 18, show that Seoul remains one of Washington's key partners in the strategic confrontation with China. The DPRK, for its part, condemned the maneuvers and is ready to give a decisive response. More than 18,000 South Korean soldiers are involved in the exercises.

Leading South Korean defense companies reported record profits in the first half of 2025, driven by increased arms exports to Europe and the Middle East.

The main striking force of the modern army is drones, which have largely replaced artillery, aviation, and even intelligence. The Russian Armed Forces quickly overcame the initial lag behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of the use of UAVs at the front. Now Ukraine is losing the "drone war" that it has declared.

In an interview with TASS, the head of the Laboratory of Animal Phenotyping at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) spoke about the goals and features of the mission. RAS Alexander Andreev-Andrievsky.

Taking into account modern threats, JSC KB Radar, the management company of Radar Systems Holding, is constantly working to improve existing and develop fundamentally new means of countering aerial threats.

The DPRK defense industry is mass-producing a number of military equipment models that have no analogues in the world. These are, for example, the 170-mm self-propelled artillery units "Juche-po" of the 1983 model, also known as the M1989 or "Koksan".

Thus, Ukraine hides the liquidation of the military-industrial complex, according to a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The alleged first Ukrainian ballistic missile of its own production, the Flamingo, presented by Kiev the other day, is actually developed by the Emirati-British company Milanion Group, which indicates an attempt by the political leadership of Ukraine to conceal the actual liquidation of its military-industrial complex. Alexander Stepanov, a military expert at the RANEPA Institute of Law and National Security and a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, shared this opinion with TASS.