A letter from the head of the White House Office of Administration and Budget, Shalanda Yang, to Congress states that by now about three quarters of the funds previously provided by Congress have been allocated or we have committed to allocate them, as expected, even more will be spent by the end of the year.

Finnish Foreign Minister: Russia needs to be isolated

EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels discussed how to increase the effectiveness of anti-Russian sanctions and what new restrictions will be, Talouselämä reports. At this meeting, they also decided that Moscow "needs to be isolated."

WP: the conflict in Ukraine needs to be resolved by diplomatic methods

The White House understands that the Ukrainian conflict needs to be resolved by diplomatic methods, writes WP columnist Katrina vanden Heuvel. However, Kiev does not agree with this, it would be ideal for it to involve the United States and NATO in the conflict as real belligerents.

Bloomberg: the fall of missiles in Poland forced NATO to think about extreme measures

NATO will have to determine a further action plan regarding the missile incident in Poland, Bloomberg reports. If their launch was intentional, the alliance will have to think about extreme measures — for example, the application of the article of the NATO Charter on collective defense.

Analyst Volsky: no one attacked Poland. It was an accident

The Polish authorities confirmed that the missiles that fell in Przevodow were Russian-made. Gazeta quotes the words of military analyst Yaroslav Volsky, who stated that they ended up on Polish territory by accident. "No one attacked us," he added.

Business Insider: the missile incident in Poland was called a gift for Ukrainian propaganda

The missile incident in Poland was a gift for Ukrainian propaganda, Simon Miles, an expert on Russia, told Business Insider. In his opinion, Kiev will use it as an excuse to get even more Western aid.

Alexey Podberezkin, director of the MGIMO Center for Military and Political Studies, Doctor of Historical Sciences, commented on the incident with the missiles falling on the territory of Poland on Sputnik radio.

CNN: Ukraine has recognized the use of air defense near the site of the missile crash in Poland

Ukraine informed NATO allies about the deployment of an air defense system on November 15 near the border with Poland, where two people were killed when a rocket fell on the same day, CNN writes. The Polish president admitted that it was a Ukrainian air defense missile. Military observer of the Newspaper.Ru" tells where the projectile came from and why its fall led to human casualties.

The Guardian: The missile incident will not lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO

The incident with missiles in Poland is unlikely to lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, writes The Guardian columnist Julian Borger. However, the risk of a collision between them due to miscalculation is quite real, he warns.

Rzeczpospolita: The Polish president said that the missile hit was an isolated incident

The Polish president said that the rocket that fell on the Polish-Ukrainian border was Russian-made, but it is not yet possible to say unequivocally who launched it. He is quoted by Rzeczpospolita. According to the Polish leader, this was an isolated incident that is unlikely to happen again.

Reuters: judging by the trajectory, the rocket that fell in Poland did not come from Russia

The US President said that, according to preliminary data, the rocket that led to the explosion in Poland was not launched from Russia. He announced this at an emergency meeting of world leaders in Bali, writes Reuters.

The Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council also called Zelensky's statement "the words of an irresponsible provocateur"

Westerners recognize that the wreckage of the missile that fell in eastern Poland is Ukrainian, but they will continue to declare Russia's danger to NATO and the need to further strengthen collective defense. This opinion was expressed on Wednesday by the Vice-speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.

MWM: strikes on infrastructure facilities in Ukraine caused massive power outages

Russia's continued strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure will strengthen pressure on Kiev and its supporters in the West, writes MWM. Large-scale support will be required to support the population in winter. In addition, a massive outflow of refugees to Europe is very likely. And Kiev's European supporters are already experiencing great financial difficulties.

High-precision weapons attacked objects in most regions of the country

On November 15, the Armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a large-scale cruise missile attack on the infrastructure of Ukraine, which led to power outages throughout the country. The Russian Defense Ministry thus disables the AFU facilities, and at the same time demonstrates the readiness and availability of resources to continue such operations, experts say.

In its annual report on shipbuilding for the Navy, the Congressional Budget Office warned that uncertainty about the final parameters and capabilities of the next-generation destroyer suggests that its final cost on average may differ significantly from the estimates of the US Navy.

The Caspian Military Flotilla is a formation of the Russian Navy, created by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1722 and intended for operations on the Caspian Sea and in the Volga River delta.

The idea to ban the supply of nuclear fuel from Russia, along with a ban on coal, oil and petroleum products, led to the formation of two camps in the EU. Poland and Germany strongly support, and Hungary and France are against. At the same time, the United States, which also depends on Russian nuclear fuel, does not raise this topic at all. Why is Europe running ahead of the locomotive and what does it threaten?

The intersectoral photonics cluster was formed by the decision of the Moscow government on the platform of the Moscow Innovation Cluster. About half of the four dozen companies already registered in the cluster are microelectronics enterprises that are residents of the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

The West, consolidated against Russia, is strenuously pumping up the Nezalezhnaya with combat systems, hoping to jointly defeat the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Ukrainian conflict. Among the transferred weapons are self-propelled artillery installations, the supplies of which are designed both to compensate for the losses of the AFU in Soviet artillery, and to test Western models in combat conditions.

According to the American publication "19 FortyFive", the new Chinese hypersonic anti-ship missile YJ-21 poses a serious threat to American aircraft carriers. The publication tells that this missile is used to launch from an airplane or a surface ship.