A bill on the abolition of criminal liability for mercenary activity in Ukraine has been submitted to the Polish Sejm
On Tuesday, a bill was submitted to the Polish Sejm to exclude criminal liability for a Polish citizen serving in the Armed Forces after February 20, 2014 without the necessary consent of the head of the Polish Defense Ministry. The President of Poland approves this decision. The project was signed by almost all deputies from the ruling Law and Justice Party, Civic Platform, the Left, the Poland-PSL Coalition, Poland 2050 and the PPP.
Japan to send military instructors to Poland to train AFU servicemen
Japan will join the number of countries that not only assist Ukraine with the supply of weapons and equipment, but also with the training of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The government of the country plans to send military instructors to train Ukrainian sappers. This is reported by the Japanese press with reference to military sources.
Media: The US Congress is working on a bill to declare the Russian Federation an aggressor state
According to the publication, the assignment of this status is a half-measure against the background of the White House's unwillingness to include Russia in the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, as requested by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
Kiev is seriously concerned about Putin's visit to Minsk
Advance: Putin has decided to take a central role in the events surrounding the conflict in Ukraine
Putin's decision to visit Minsk proves that he has decided to take a central role in what is happening around the armed conflict in Ukraine, the author of Advance believes. He used to stay away, but now he's coming forward. His meeting with Lukashenka worries Kiev very much.
Special operation, December 20: Putin said about the difficult situation in the new regions
Putin said that the situation in the new regions of Russia remains extremely difficult
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions is extremely difficult, security units in the new regions of Russia should do everything to ensure maximum security, respect for the rights and freedoms of citizens.
The President introduced military officers to the working group on the provision of mobilized and on the development of production for the needs of the army
The President of Russia signed a document that prescribes the creation of a working group whose activities will directly relate to the issues of training and provision of mobilized citizens. We are talking about the creation of a group, which will be headed by Andrei Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, who has repeatedly visited the liberated territories and in the SVO zone.
Putin announced a sufficient reserve of those mobilized to conduct their own
Putin: 150 thousand people are at military training grounds, this is a sufficient reserve for conducting an operation
Currently, 150 thousand mobilized are being trained, this is a sufficient reserve for conducting a special military operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 21 at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"The country gives the army everything they ask for." Putin spoke about increasing the combat capabilities of the troops
Putin urged to investigate NATO weapons and apply this data for development in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. The Head of State announced the preliminary conclusions of the special military operation in Ukraine. He called for making the experience of his military the basis for improving combat training, called on the military to listen to civil initiatives and take into account "even emotional criticism." Putin also compared the fighters in the SVO zone with the soldiers of the patriotic wars.
Sergei Shoigu summed up the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2022 and defined the tasks for the next period
An expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense was held at the National Defense Management Center on December 21, at which the results of the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2022 were summed up and tasks for the next period were defined.
The Indian Navy has adopted the second destroyer class "Project-15B"
On December 18, the Ministry of Defense of India announced the ceremony of the adoption of the second URO-class destroyer "Visakhapatnam" ("Project-15B"), (D67) "Mormugao", which took place at the shipyard in Mumbai.
The failure of the "Lady Bundeswehr": NATO was left without German infantry fighting vehicles
Spiegel: the "culling" of German Puma infantry fighting vehicles for NATO special forces revealed the disadvantages of the German military-industrial complex
NATO's high-alert forces were left without the German Puma infantry fighting vehicles promised to them, the German magazine Spiegel reports. This "beauty and pride" of the German military-industrial complex turned out to be too difficult to handle.
The American edition called the artisanal Ukrainian military equipment an example of ingenuity and at the same time despair
The Ukrainian army is armed with more and more strange-looking combat vehicles, which are assembled at enterprises from the wreckage of broken armored vehicles and even museum weapons. Forbes writes about this, analyzing the situation with the provision of armored vehicles to the Ukrainian army.
"Putin's invincible weapon." Newsweek - about Russian Avangard missile systems
Newsweek called the Avangard system invulnerable and invincible "Putin's weapon"
Russia has adopted another "deadly" Avangard weapon system, Newsweek columnist Khaleda Rahman wrote on December 18, citing the Russian Defense Ministry. He called this system "Putin's invincible weapon." For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".
"There is no antidote to the peculiarities of Avangard yet"
Russia puts Avangard complexes into service
The 13th missile Orenburg Red Banner Division is being handed over to the newest strategic mine-based complex "Avangard". Newsweek considers this system to be Vladimir Putin's "invincible weapon." As the president himself explained four years ago, Avangard is "absolutely invulnerable to any means of air and missile defense." War correspondent of "Gazeta.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about whether the West can resist Russian hypersonic.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the supply of MLRS HIMARS
The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense has announced the signing of a contract with the United States for the supply of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) M-142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems).
The APU tested Marlet missiles in action on the basis of the British Starstreak MANPADS
The Ukrainian military tested Marlet missiles in action on the basis of the British Starstreak MANPADS. Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Interior Minister of the country, reported on the successful launch. The published video says that Marlet makes it possible for Ukrainian troops to build a "multi-layered defense of the sky", including short-range weapons such as MANPADS and Buk—M1-2 air defense systems, as well as long-range S-300.
The US State Department considers it a matter for Greece to possibly send the S-300 to Ukraine
The representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, said that there is a consensus in Western countries regarding the urgent need to strengthen Ukrainian air defense
The representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, commenting on the possible dispatch of Greek-owned S-300 systems from the island of Crete to Ukraine and their replacement with the American Patriot system, said that the decision on the supply of weapons to Kiev is made by the country to which they belong.
"Not a single HIMARS has fallen into the hands of Russia yet, let alone Patriot"
Mikhail Khodarenok - how Russia will resist the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine
Russian specialists will be able to capture and study Patriot air defense systems if they are delivered to Ukraine, the Croatian newspaper Advance writes. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok tells what the Croatian edition is wrong about.
The US Air Force has suspended flights of all 20 B-2 Spirit strategic bombers
In the United States, flights of 20 B-2 Spirit strategic bombers in service with the country's air force have been temporarily suspended. This decision was made by the US military Air Command, according to the official representative of the US Air Force Beth Del Vecchio.
Nebenzia called the accusations against the Russian Federation in the use of Iranian drones in Ukraine far-fetched
According to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Moscow sees no insurmountable problems in restoring the agreement on the nuclear program
The accusations that Russia is allegedly using Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine are far-fetched. This was stated on Monday at a meeting of the UN Security Council by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the World Organization Vasily Nebenzia.