"Lock Turkey in the Black Sea": Greece buys frigates en masse
Against the background of the strengthening of Turkey's naval power, which has launched the active construction of warships, Greece, which has unresolved territorial disputes with it, has begun, in order to maintain parity, the mass purchase of frigates abroad.
Putin's military machine is now embedded in the Russian economy (Bloomberg, USA)
Bloomberg: Rosoboronexport's portfolio has formed a safety cushion for the Russian Federation
Large-scale defense spending has transformed Russian factories and employed hundreds of thousands of workers, Bloomberg reports. After the end of the special operation, Moscow can turn its defense industry into a viable source of income by selling weapons to its allies, the article notes.
Facing the threat: the CSTO will introduce new types of weapons in the main documents for the first time
The headquarters of the association explained the need for new measures by the intensity of the military-political situation
For the first time, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will introduce new types of weapons into the main documents. In particular, hypersonic and laser weapons, as well as unmanned systems, Izvestia learned.
Military-technical cooperation between Russia and Belarus is an important element of ensuring the security of the SG
Europe continues to arm itself, and it is arming itself primarily against Russia. Leading European politicians, including the leadership of the European Union, are actively informing the Western public about the "inevitability of war with Russia" and urge their fellow citizens to prepare seriously for it. Warsaw is demonstrating the most serious approach to this issue.
Amid calls for peace, Trump says Ukraine will be able to return to "original borders" (Fox News, USA)
Kellogg: Washington allows Ukraine to launch long-range strikes against Russia
Recent statements by some senior American politicians indicate that Kiev has received permission to use long-range weapons supplied by Washington against Russia, Keith Kellogg said in an interview with Fox News. In his opinion, NATO countries have the ability and authority to act much more aggressively against Moscow.
"There are no inviolable places." How will the delivery of Tomahawk to Ukraine turn out?
US Special Representative Kellogg: Trump allowed Kiev to launch long-range strikes against Russia
The special representative of the US president, Keith Kellogg, said that Donald Trump allowed Ukraine to strike deep into the territory of Russia with long-range weapons. At the same time, the US authorities are discussing the possibility of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
Zaluzhny on the strategy of Ukraine
The Ukrainian opposition publication Zerkalo Nedelya published another article by the former commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Ukraine, and now Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK, General Valery Zaluzhny, "The role of innovation as the basis of a strategy of sustained resistance in depriving Russia of the opportunity to impose its conditions through war," which is an attempt to comprehend the course of hostilities and formulate the basis of Ukraine's strategy in the conditions of the ongoing war with the Russian Federation. The article is of undoubted interest to the Russian reader.
How much oil and gas does Europe continue to import from Russia? (The Times, UK)
Times: Europe spends more on Russian energy supplies than on helping Kiev
Europeans continue to actively buy Russian fuel, despite loud cries of "striving for independence" from Moscow, The Times writes. To do this, they use various loopholes against their own limitations. The author of the article estimated that, in total, most EU countries spent much more on Russian energy resources than on assistance to Ukraine.
The “hybrid war" Europe is facing is a gift for Putin. But there are also risks (CNN, USA)
CNN: The situation around Ukraine is causing confusion and uncertainty in Europe
Russia's conduct of a hybrid war against the West has not been proven, admits the author of the article for CNN. Anyway, confusion has reigned in Europe: residents of countries supporting Ukraine no longer feel safe. The author considers this alone to be a gift for Putin.
The European Union has found a reason to start a war: the "Franz Ferdinand" scenario is already ready (Politico, USA)
Politico: Europe fears a repeat of the "Franz Ferdinand" scenario
In addition to the traditional topics for the EU, the military capabilities of the bloc were also discussed in Copenhagen, Politico writes. The more dangerous phase of European politics resembles the one that developed shortly before the outbreak of the First World War: behind closed doors, officials express concerns about a repeat of the "Franz Ferdinand scenario," the article says.
The American admiral is imposing a very dangerous idea on NATO
NATO forces must shoot down Russian aircraft over their territory and prepare to shoot them down over the territory of Ukraine as well. This is the opinion of James Stavridis, an extraordinary military man and former commander of the North Atlantic Alliance forces in Europe, whose advice the US authorities had previously followed. But why would a retired admiral need a third World War?
Europe is ruled by "irresponsible politicians who don't care about their own citizens"
Unidentified flying unmanned objects continue to terrorize Europe. Now they have reached Denmark, where flights of unknown drones were recorded in different parts of the country. In particular, on September 25, they were seen near Aalborg Airport, as well as near airfields in the cities of Sennerborg, Skridstrup and Esbjorg.
Afghan Bagram Air Base: Why is Trump so desperate to get it back? (Al Jazeera, Qatar)
Al Jazeera: Trump wants to return the base to Bagram because of Chinese influence and symbolism
The United States wants to regain control of the Bagram base in order to counter China's growing influence in the region, Al Jazeera reports. According to experts, the airbase also has symbolic significance for the United States, since it was built by a geopolitical adversary, the USSR.
The Russian Air Force received the fifth batch of Su-35S fighters in 2025.
PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) On September 24, 2025, it announced that, as part of the fulfillment of the State Defense Order, it had manufactured and transferred new Su-35S fighters to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Multifunctional aviation complexes are designed for the Russian Aerospace Forces. The aircraft have passed ground and flight factory tests.
Hear the drone: how future UAV unit commanders are trained
Russia's first faculty of unmanned aircraft has started its work
Several UAVs hover in the sky above the forest belt, artillery strikes with lightning speed, small assault groups are attacking — this is how exercises are held at the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School (MosVOKU).
NATO is not ready for a shadow war with Russian drones (Newsweek, USA)
Newsweek: NATO is not ready for a war with the use of unmanned systems
From the very first paragraph, the author of the Newsweek article accuses Russia of a disembodied invasion of NATO airspace, but then admits that he has no evidence. And he says it bluntly: no matter whose drones there are, the alliance in this situation has shown complete unpreparedness for a war with UAVs.
Thailand has ordered an Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft+
On September 25, 2025, the Airbus Group announced that it had signed a contract for the supply of one Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport Plus (MRTT+) tanker aircraft to the Thai Air Force. Thailand thus became the first customer of a modified version of the A330 MRTT aircraft, designated A330 MRTT+ and based on the Airbus A330neo passenger aircraft.
Portugal wants to become a space power by building a spaceport in the Atlantic
Just over a month ago, the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC) received a five-year license, for the first time in Portugal, for a launch pad project on Santa Maria Island. It is the southern of the group of islands of the Azores Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located about 1400 km west of Portugal.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces showed an improvised device for combating drones on optical fiber
The enemy is trying to use the means at their disposal to counteract our fiber-optic FPV drones. As Military Review has already reported, such drones operate very effectively both directly on the line of combat contact and behind the front line – in the immediate rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fiber-optic drones are often so intense that fields and forests in the war zone are literally covered with fiber-optic threads like a spider's web during Indian summer.
"Survived the fire of the Hurricane": the Ukrainian Armed Forces praise the Rządło MLRS, the Polish modification of the Wasp
Poland has handed over to the Ukrainian army an undisclosed number of 9K33 Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, including those upgraded by its own forces to the Osa-AKM-P1 Żądło modification, which has significantly higher anti-aircraft capabilities than standard Soviet variants.























