In the account of the American company Planet.Labs, which is engaged in satellite sensing of the Earth's surface (often in the interests of the American military department), photographs have appeared that allegedly depict the airfield in Novofedorovka.

As stated by the head of the CAA of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky, the radiation background after the impact remains normal

At least three shell hits were recorded in the area of the storage of radioactive isotopes of the Zaporozhye NPP, the head of the military-civil administration (CAA) of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky said in his Telegram channel on Thursday.

According to the publication, Kiev has so far lost 63% of coal deposits, 11% of oil deposits, 20% of natural gas deposits, 42% of metal deposits and 33% of deposits of rare earth elements "and other critically important minerals, including lithium."

Erdogan is playing a risky double game

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing a dangerous double game, establishing relations with Russia while his Western partners are doing exactly the opposite. The authors of the article in the Financial Times believe that the Turkish leader should behave carefully when playing this political poker.

Why has Turkey not joined Western sanctions and will it help Russia circumvent them

Why has Ankara not joined the Western sanctions regime against Russia? The author of "European Truth" names a number of reasons. Many in Turkey are convinced that the blame for the conflict in Ukraine is not Russia, but the United States and NATO.

Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Armenia on March 12 in Antalya

The Turkish TV channel A Haber reports, citing a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry, that regular talks between Yerevan and Ankara may take place in the near future. It is highly likely that in September the delegations of the two countries will hold a meeting on the territory of Turkey.

On August 10, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, informed foreign military attaches at a briefing about the holding of the X Moscow Conference on International Security.

Everyone who has ever tried to find sunken treasures knows that this is a very costly and technically complex event. The SeaSearcher underwater drone, developed under the guidance of engineer Tim Reynolds, who heads the Wild Manta company, will help facilitate the work of underwater treasure seekers.

RG managed to talk with Vladislav Lobaev, a leading Russian expert in the field of sniper weapons, the creator of ultra-long-range rifles. He told how his rifles proved themselves in their own, whether a sniper can destroy a missile system and why high-precision rifles are so slowly being adopted.

Ukraine and Turkey are actively cooperating in the creation of active protection complexes (KAZ) for armored vehicles. Back in the fall of 2017, a contract was signed with the Turkish firm Aselsan on the production of a local version of the "Zaslon-L".

Russia has temporarily frozen the mechanism by which the Americans carried out inspections on its strategic facilities. Such inspections are implied by the START Treaty, the provisions of which Joe Biden recently proposed to preserve and transfer to the new one. Does this mean that Moscow has rejected Biden, and that there will be no new Strategic Arms Treaty?

China said that the Zircon missile system is the main trump card of Russian President Vladimir Putin and noted that the United States has "cause for concern." This was announced on Wednesday, August 10, by the deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly Literary Russia, military journalist Alexey Borzenko in an interview with the 360 TV channel.

On August 10, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the work of the calculations of the self-propelled artillery installation (ACS) "Msta-S", which hit the equipment and positions of Ukrainian militants.

Self-propelled artillery installations "Msta-S" are loaded with ammunition "Krasnopol" when it is necessary to hit enemy fortified points with "jewelry precision", it follows from video materials about the course of the special operation provided by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The satellites will be used to obtain data on the Earth's surface and observe the atmosphere of our planet

China successfully launched 10 Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D remote sensing satellites and six Yunyao spacecraft into orbit on Wednesday. This was announced by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

Initially looking promising, the Antares launch vehicle has become quite problematic in recent years. Its creation required the cooperation of the United States, Ukraine and Russia, which is practically impossible in the light of the current geopolitical situation. The solution to the problem will be the transition from Russian engines to those created in America. And the key role in it will be played partly by the Ukrainian company Firefly Aerospace.

Mikhail Kotov — about what went from Baikonur together with the Khayyam satellite

The Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage launched on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It launched the Khayyam satellite, built in Russia by order of Iran, and 16 small spacecraft into the orbit of our planet. The latter are micro- and nanosatellites created by leading universities, commercial companies and non-profit organizations.

The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle launched yesterday delivered a number of satellites to the calculated orbit, including CUBESX-HSE-2 vehicles, as well as SXC3-214 MIET-AIS, which received engines based on the plasma of the new VERA development and created in Russia by MEPhI engineers.

The UEC-UMPO enterprise of the United Engine Corporation has started implementing a new program to improve the reliability of AL-31ST gas turbine drives with a capacity of 16 MW intended for Gazprom facilities.

During a special military operation in Ukraine, Russia is increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In 2023, the Russian military may use heavy attack drones S-70 "Hunter", writes Peter Suchiu, a columnist for the American publication 19FortyFive.