Ukraine should not risk Western tanks, letting them break through the Russian defense, writes Newsweek. According to military experts, it is much more reasonable to sacrifice the old Soviet T-64. The "best" vehicles from the allies should be protected from enemy minefields and left in reserve — just in case.

Nigeria, whose authorities claim to dominate the Sahel region, actively buys military equipment on the world market. In particular, Russian Mi-35 helicopters are being supplied (the last known shipment took place at the end of July) and Chinese artillery.

Rosatom State Corporation has started the main stage of the construction of the Paks-2 NPP in Hungary. This was reported in the press service of the company.

One of the suppliers will be the European consortium Urenco, headquartered in London, said the head of the Ministry of Energy of the United Kingdom Grant Shapps

The UK will be able to provide Ukraine with 192 million pounds (about $ 244 million) for the purchase of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants, including from British companies. The head of the Ministry of Energy of the United Kingdom Grant Shapps told Reuters during his visit to Kiev.

Former first Deputy Chairman of VTB Andrey Puchkov has been appointed General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation reported.

The conflict in Ukraine has brought to a new level the use of unmanned aerial vehicles of both air and sea of various types. Both sides are actively using them and are working on the development of new and improvement of existing drones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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".

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.