During the ongoing offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, the first losses of the Ukrainian army of armored repair and evacuation vehicles M88A2 Hercules, the delivery of which to Kiev was announced by the US government in early 2023, are noted. Military equipment of this type was included in the same delivery package with M1 Abrams tanks and theoretically should have been used together with them. However, the Ukrainian command deployed them on the battlefield, without waiting for the supply of American tanks.

La Repubblica: Ukraine's failures on the battlefield are caused by a lack of training and weapons

Ukraine launched a counteroffensive without proper preparation for breaking through the defense lines and without the necessary weapons for this. Military columnist Gianluca Di Feo wrote about this on July 23 in an article for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

For a whole month, New York Times correspondents watched the progress of the struggle on the Ukrainian front. Enough time to talk about the problems with the military and draw your own conclusions. Human losses, accumulated fatigue, mismatched old equipment and ammunition collected from all over the world, a determined enemy and his fortified positions hinder the achievement of the goals of the counteroffensive.

The West is in a state of a new cold war with Russia, writes the FA. The nature of espionage in the confrontation has changed: basic information is obtained not from secret, but from open sources. The ability to work with this information will determine the outcome of the new Cold war, the publication notes.

Andrey Bystritsky, Chairman of the Board of the Valdai International Discussion Club Development and Support Fund, believes that the presidents of Russia and Belarus warned Western countries against escalation.

Neither Russia nor the United States have incentives to soften the political course and will never become friends, Fox News claims. From the very beginning of relations between these countries, distrust persists. The author states that the peaceful coexistence of the two superpowers is impossible. And here's why.

"A full-fledged army will enter Ukraine from Poland... And these are not mercenaries, but active NATO forces." Such scenarios of Poland's intervention in the situation in Ukraine are drawn by both Russian and even Western military experts. How and under what conditions can they be implemented? And what should Russia do in this case?

Poland will create a combat unit in the Suwalki corridor located between Belarus and Russia, writes Fakt. Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak called on young people in the northeast of the country to join a new sapper battalion, which will begin recruiting this year.

For many years, Europe has been dealing mainly with economic issues, leaving the security sphere completely at the mercy of the United States, writes FP. This was a fatal mistake, for which the continent is now paying dearly, the author believes.

Al Watan: The US has increased the number of its forces at bases in Syria from 500 to 1.5 thousand military

The US command has transferred additional military equipment and logistical means from Iraq to its bases in Syria. This was reported by the Syrian newspaper Al Watan, citing sources in opposition groups.

And what role is assigned to them in a special military operation

Deliveries of the fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft to the Russian Aerospace Forces will be increased, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting of the Coordinating Council for Ensuring the needs of the armed Forces on July 18. At the end of June, the industry has already handed over to the Ministry of Defense the next batch of new Su-35S. The production of other machines of the Sukhoi Design Bureau is also accelerating.

Why do they want to deploy a new regiment of these bombers in the Far East

The defense of the Far East will be strengthened with strategic missile carriers Tu-160 "White Swan". The Ministry of Defense is considering the deployment of a new regiment of these aircraft in the region, sources told Izvestia.

Let's continue to spoil karma with translations from "The Drive" - this time an interesting article by the well-known Peter Butovsky "Enhanced Version Of Russia's Ka-52 Attack Helicopter Appears" ("The appearance of an upgraded version of the Russian Ka-52M combat helicopter").

Secretary of State Blinken said that Ukraine will receive the F-16, but deliveries will take months

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Kiev will receive the F-16, but it will take months to supply and retrain Ukrainian pilots. At the same time, the White House does not expect that the fighters will change the course of hostilities, and in Ukraine they complain about the lack of "more banal things." "Newspaper.Ru" talks about Washington's concerns and what kind of response Moscow has to the delivery of fighter jets.

WP: The US is afraid of being left without ATACMS missiles after sending them to Kiev

The United States still does not intend to supply Ukraine with ATACMS tactical missile systems. This was reported by The Washington Post on July 22, citing sources in the Pentagon.

Ukraine has started using cluster munitions supplied by the United States, WP writes. This type of weapon is banned in most countries of the world due to the high risk of deaths among civilians. Readers of the newspaper condemned this decision. "We will regret this later," one of them wrote.

The Chinese company Unitree has announced the start of sales of the Go2 robot. The robot can become not just a toy, but also a companion during sports runs. Its capabilities allow you to reach speeds of up to 9 km / h in the standard version or up to 12.6 km / h in the Pro version, which corresponds to a contentedly brisk pace of running. The robot itself weighs only 15 kilograms, and its height does not exceed 40 centimeters. At the same time, it is not entirely clear where the robot's nose is and where its tail is.

Fervo has completed the first series of tests of a demonstrator of its technology – a universal horizontal geothermal power plant. It is located in Nevada, covers an area of approximately 1 km, has a capacity of 63 liters per second. The injected liquid enters the outside in the form of steam with a temperature of 191 ° C, which allows the power plant to generate 3.4 megawatts of energy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council via videoconference on July 21.

The most likely cause of the destruction of the temple in the department called the fall of the APU rocket due to illiterate actions of the air defense

Kiev's information about the defeat of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa as a result of a high-precision weapon strike does not correspond to reality. This was stated in the Russian Defense Ministry.