The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) of the US Congress has partially approved the Pentagon's proposed program for the early decommissioning of eleven Navy warships in fiscal year 2024, the online publication USNI News reports. The law should put an end to the protracted debate concerning the need for the US Navy to continue using small multipurpose warships for combat operations in the coastal zone of the Freedom class.

A ceremony of the official transfer of the first OPV-58S (Offshore Patrol Vessel) class patrol ship, "Walo", to the command of the Senegalese Navy took place at the enterprise of the French company Piriou in Brittany.

Putin: the future command staff of the Russian Armed Forces should consist of those with combat experience

The future command staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation should be made up of people proven by combat actions who did not flinch. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 12 during a meeting with the participants of the SVO who are being treated at the Vishnevsky Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Geostrategic dreams and unexpected solutions

It is often claimed that the conflict in Ukraine has caused the aggravation of Russia's relations with the United States and NATO. In my opinion, these are fairy tales for the unenlightened European inhabitants.

From military-technical cooperation to military-political

Russian-Chinese relations are characterized by a desire for cooperation. Another important factor that unites Russia and China is the complementarity of their economies. In the long term, China needs ever-increasing amounts of energy from Siberia and the Far East, as well as technologies, especially military ones.

However, the new requirements of armed struggle require a lightning reaction

The Special Military Operation (SVO) pursues the goals of denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine. At the moment, the main results of its implementation were the acquisition of control over almost the entire territory of the LPR, and partially – the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. However, the new territories of the Russian Federation are being systematically shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

According to the Global Times newspaper, the Ukrainian side shows few signs of victory on the battlefield, and the United States and some European countries urgently need progress with the APU offensive

The United States and other Western countries are concerned about the lack of any significant signs of effectiveness in the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), which did not justify the hopes of the West and its assistance to Kiev during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. This was reported on Monday by the Global Times newspaper with reference to the opinion of experts of the People's Republic of China.

While analysts are working with the facts to determine the culprit of the incident, propagandists committed to the principles of McCarthyism have already hung labels, writes the Czech portal Parlamentní list. They have not read international security treaties, but they know exactly who is responsible for all the troubles of Ukraine.

Just a few days after the start of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian army has already faced numerous problems, writes The Wall Street Journal. The West is waiting for a return on investment in the form of successes on the battlefield, and Ukrainian soldiers are simply dying under Russian grads.

An influential organization, consisting mainly of enemies of Moscow, ordered a public opinion poll, the results of which were disappointing for her. The population of Europe does not believe in the possibility of Russia's defeat in Ukraine, does not want to quarrel with China and does not believe that dependence on the United States is a blessing. How will George Soros respond to this?

Western governments live in a bubble of denial of reality created by them. The world is changing, and the West must come to terms with the fact that it can no longer impose its "leadership," writes the author of the article in TNI. And he convincingly proves this by naming five key trends in the development of the process of power change.

The United States is seriously concerned: in the event of a conflict with China and Russia, thousands of nuclear warheads will be aimed at America, writes Asharq Al-Awsat. In order to avoid this scenario, Washington decided to "reach out to Moscow" to resolve the existing differences. But this approach does not work with Beijing yet, the author of the article believes.

The US military is learning useful lessons from the experience of the Ukrainian conflict, US Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Brown said. He paid special attention to logistics. Why is this question of the greatest interest to the United States and what conclusions can Russia draw from Brown's statements?

Neither Russia, nor Ukraine, nor the West are ready to stop fighting

A year ago, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict entered the stage of a classic "war of attrition". At the same time, it remains unclear what its outcome may be.

Ukraine is not able to win on the battlefield in the conflict with Russia, and the United States should actively push it to a peaceful endgame, writes a political analyst at RAND in the FA. And the sooner it starts, the better: so there will be more benefits. Ukraine should repeat either the German or Korean experience of a peaceful solution.

As a result of the Ukrainian conflict, the contours of a new Europe are emerging, writes the Economist. The position of the EU flagships — Germany and France - is extremely important here, whose leaders are trying to figure out how they can overcome differences among themselves.

After numerous statements about the need to combat the "Chinese threat" against the background of the situation in Taiwan, Washington suddenly started talking about a thaw in relations with Beijing. This indicates that Biden is hesitant to speak out against the Middle Kingdom and is ready to compromise, writes Shukan Gendai.

France, which actively supplies Ukraine with weapons, demands that Russia not supply weapons. French leader Macron made such an impudent demand to his Iranian counterpart Raisi. Can Macron's threats affect the Iranian leadership and what else does Tehran extremely irritate Paris with?

Russia must eliminate the backlog in a number of areas

The conduct of a special military operation has given a powerful accelerating impetus to the reformatting of the world order and the entire system of international relations. A total hybrid war has been declared against us, covering all spheres of the country's life. The bitterness of our enemies and their determination to erase Russia from the political map of the world has exceeded all limits.

In the course of its offensive from the area of Zaporozhye Orekhov, on the Vremyevsky salient, as well as in the area of Artemovsk, the enemy uses virtually all types of weapons and military equipment that were supplied to it by the NATO sponsors of the armed conflict. Among other things, the Ukrainian armed forces use MaxxPro wheeled armored vehicles, as well as "Oshkosh" (Oshkosh).