The United States has sharply increased purchases of uranium-235 from Russia. Thus, the volume of nuclear fuel supplies to this country from the Russian Federation increased 2.2 times compared to the same period in 2022, according to the data of the American statistics Service.

In what condition are the Navies of the countries of the Black Sea basin

The importance of the Black Sea for ensuring the security of Russia, Europe and military operations in the Middle East has been growing since 2010 and until now. There are several reasons for this. This is the proximity of the region to the armed conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq and Nagorno-Karabakh. This is the deployment of anti-missile defense (ABM) launchers and US medium-range cruise missiles in Deveselu (Romania). And, of course, Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

Rubin Design Bureau has presented new versions of submarines for the Russian Navy and international customers. "Amur-1650" is designed primarily for export. A submarine of this type with a displacement of about 1800 tons is based on the Lada project 677.

The BRICS countries, whether they want it or not, will have to face the "pillars of US hegemony," says the author of the Agoravox foreign blog. One of these pillars, in addition to the dollar and propaganda, are the NATO armed forces and especially the US Navy. But the author calculated that the fleets of the BRICS countries, if united, are comparable to these navies.

The active development of unmanned naval vehicles by the Turkish defense forces the Greek navy to seek measures to counter them. To date, Ankara has at least 4 types of BPA – ULAQ, SANCAR, SALVO and Marlin.

The Vietnamese Navy has completed the modernization of two Petya II–class frigates - this is how NATO designates the patrol ships of the Soviet project 159, which are used for air defense and patrol.

Over the next seven years, the share of machine tool imports in Russia should be reduced to less than 50%, including through the construction of new Russian production facilities. This was announced during the discussion at the X International Forum "Technoprom-2023" by Alexander Nazarov, Deputy Director General of Rostec State Corporation.

Su-30SM fighters destroyed several boats and amphibious assault boats at the gas platforms

East of Snake Island on August 22, the aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a high-speed military boat of the American production Willard Sea Force with a landing group of the VFU.

Ka-52 attack helicopters have become one of the most effective combat vehicles in the course of its

The Ukrainian counteroffensive has been going on for several months. But so far, the VFU has not been able to even get close to the main line of Russian defense.

Experts assessed the role of Russian minefields in the failure of the APU counteroffensive

For almost three months, Ukrainian formations have been continuing attacks in order to at least get closer to the first line of Russian defense. As it turned out, one of the main obstacles to this was extensive minefields. Why did mines turn out to be such a powerful weapon against the Armed Forces of Ukraine that even the advertised Western equipment did not help in solving this problem?

Colonel Khodarenok described how the Wehrmacht tanks were unable to change the course of the Battle of Kursk

80 years ago - on August 23, 1943 - with the liberation of Kharkov, the Battle of Kursk ended. In terms of the number of troops, forces and means involved, it surpassed both the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad. About the confrontation between the armored forces of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army and why the newest German tanks "Tiger" and "Panther" did not help Germany to win - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

According to the newspaper, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny decided to follow this advice

The United States and its allies believe that one of the reasons for the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is too large a dispersion of forces in several directions, and strongly recommend that Ukraine concentrate its main forces in a single direction.

The 82nd airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian army, which the AFU command recently deployed for an offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, immediately after the start of the fighting began to lose equipment.

In three months of a disappointing counteroffensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not come close to their goal, writes The Economist. The gloomy mood in Ukraine that has developed in this regard can be "felt by the skin". Young people no longer want to pay for the conflict with their blood, the people are showing increasing dissatisfaction with Zelensky.

Arms supplies to Ukraine, which are implemented by the Netherlands and Germany, make NATO a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, writes Evrensel. According to the author of the article, such a policy of the West only aggravates the international situation, bringing the world closer to nuclear war.

The country has already provided military assistance to Kiev totaling €1.2 billion

The Finnish authorities are preparing another package of military assistance for Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the government of the country Petteri Orpo at a press conference in Kiev.

President of the Republic Gitanas Nauseda recalled that his country has approved a long-term plan of military assistance to Ukraine, the monetary value of which is €200 million

Lithuania will continue to pursue its line of assistance to Ukraine with the supply of weapons and training of military personnel. This was stated during a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky by the President of the Baltic Republic Gitanas Nauseda, who is in Kiev on an unannounced visit, his press service reported.

Vyacheslav Filippov — about why the German government removed from the budget the item on the annual mandatory allocation of 2% of GDP for defense spending

Since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been repeating as a mantra that Germany will spend at least 2% of national GDP on defense every year. He confirmed these intentions at the NATO summit in Vilnius in mid-July.

Washington will only tighten its foreign policy towards Russia and China to prevent radicalization at home, writes Geopolitika.news. The image of Russia, which is about to swallow the US allies, has turned into a tool that they will not give up. Meanwhile, the situation in the world is heating up.

Back in mid-July of this year, it became known that the specialists of the Russian S7 Group began to create a domestic training aircraft, which is so lacking in the country — it was named S7 Tango.