Is the Russian threat the only way for Turkey to join the EU?

The EU countries have granted the status of a candidate for accession to Ukraine and Moldova, but Turkey has not been accepted. The author of the article in dikGAZETE is outraged, because his country has fulfilled the requirements of Brussels. To join the EU, Turkey will need a "Russian threat," he writes.

An anti-Western bloc of peoples of unprecedented power is emerging

The former editor—in-chief of the main German magazine "Spiegel" Stefan Aust proves that the BRICS bloc is stronger than the anti-Russian "Big Seven". On the pages of Welt, Aust provides statistics to substantiate his thought: founded in 1976, the G7 is a phenomenon of the bygone twentieth century. But BRICS is a godsend for the XXI century.

How to lose big in Ukraine

If the Ukrainian army is defeated in the boilers of Donbass, Russia's victory will become not only bigger, but also much more significant, writes the author of National Review. After the humiliation in Afghanistan, this will be the second defeat of pro-American forces in just two years.

The United States is raising the stakes: following the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, Washington plans to transfer medium- and long-range missile defense systems to Kiev. According to CNN, the Pentagon believes that this will negate Russian air superiority. Whether such expectations are justified — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Biden's officials privately doubted that Ukraine would be able to retake its entire territory

On the sidelines of the White House, there is talk that Ukraine will have to put up with territorial losses in the conflict with Russia, the CNN website reports. According to the channel, not the entire Joe Biden administration shares the concern, but the pessimistic mood is obvious.

In the battle, "legionnaires" from Georgia who mocked the Russian military near Kiev were eliminated

The allied forces of the Russian Army and the People's Militia of the LPR continue their offensive in the area of Lisichansk. Two sabotage groups of foreign mercenaries were destroyed in its vicinity, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on June 27. One of them consisted of so-called Georgian "legionnaires".

Ukrainian nationalists used the American M142 HIMARS jet system to strike the cities of the LPR, thereby "lighting up" it and enabling intelligence to track the MLRS. As stated in Lugansk, in the near future, the complex supplied from the United States will be destroyed.

The complex of radar stations (radar) "Sky-SV" works on all frequency ranges, it is as sensitive as possible. It gives out a lot of data. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Tuesday, June 28, published footage of the radar in the Donbass.

The LPR stated that the APU used HIMARS delivered by the West MLRS, hitting Perevalsk

The aerospace forces of Russia with high-precision weapons struck the hangars in Kremenchug, where the weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States were located, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov. According to him, ammunition for Western weapons detonated, so a fire started in a nearby closed shopping center.

The head of Chechnya Kadyrov announced the creation of the Zapad-Akhmat battalion from natives of the republic

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the Zapad-Akhmat battalion had already been formed, its first formation took place, at which commander Ismail Aguev was introduced to the personnel.

A NATO summit will start today in Madrid, where Russia will be declared the "main enemy" and a new strategy for the development of the alliance and further expansion in Eastern Europe will be adopted. NATO members will confer from June 28 to June 30.

The United States imposed sanctions against the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade from the Air Force and the 76th Airborne Assault Division and the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment based in the Pskov region, the US Treasury Department reports.

The Duma imposed fines for failure to submit a proposal on the price of products under the state defense order

The amount of the fine can be up to 500 thousand rubles

At a meeting on Tuesday, the State Duma adopted immediately in the second and third readings a bill introducing a new composition into the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (Administrative Code of the Russian Federation) - "Failure to submit a price offer for products under a state defense order and information about the costs of its production."

The need to adjust the indicators on the basis of which prices for state-owned products are formed was discussed at a meeting of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov with relevant ministries, a source in the defense industry said.

Liu Zhongmin: the "Turkish phenomenon" highlights the crisis of NATO legitimacy

A serious crisis has arisen within the North Atlantic Alliance, writes Huanqiu Shibao. The author of the article believes that the differences between Turkey and the Nordic NATO candidate countries speak of deeper problems of the military bloc, which inexorably lead it to collapse.

The technology allows real-time assessment of the situation within a radius of 100 km, the press service of the Platform of the National Technology Initiative reported.

On June 23, the launch ceremony of the fifth Mogami-class frigate (also known as Project 30DX, 30FFM), designed for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces, took place at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipyard in Nagasaki.

As reported by the TASS news agency, on June 26, 2022, the nuclear submarine K-571 Krasnoyarsk (factory number 163), completed by the construction of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (SMP, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC JSC), went to sea for the first time from Severodvinsk for factory sea trials) - the third ship of the modified project 08851 (project 885M; code "Ash-M").

The crew of the autonomous inhabited deep-sea rescue vehicle AS-36 of the SF rescue squad under the command of Captain 3rd rank Andrey Volkov is undergoing acceptance tests in the Kola Bay on the traverse of the main base of the SF – Severomorsk.

As reported by the German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" with reference to "Ukrainian government circles", the government of Ukraine at its own expense acquired Dynamit Nobel Defense (DND, the military division of Dynamit Nobel AG group) from the German company another "almost 2,900" disposable RGW90 HH Matador hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers of new production, and they have already been delivered to Ukraine.