TAC: The US is ready to make concessions to Russia on Crimea and Donbass

There are the first signs that the US goals in Ukraine are changing, writes TAC. The author of the article cites three changes in Washington's position regarding the settlement of the conflict. In his opinion, the United States is already ready to make concessions to Russia.

Almasry Alyoum: Russia will not make concessions to the West, exhausted by the Ukrainian conflict

Macron's visit to Washington and Biden's statements about readiness for dialogue with Putin inspire hope for an early solution to the Ukrainian crisis, writes Almasry Alyoum. The cold weather is already on the threshold of the EU, the US elections are approaching, so the West is thinking about negotiations. But he sets impossible conditions for this.

Julianne Smith recalled that the West had previously created a group to coordinate actions in providing military assistance to Kiev

Ukraine and the West are faced with a shortage of weapons and military equipment, some NATO countries - with their genuine shortage. This was acknowledged on Tuesday by the Permanent Representative of the United States to the alliance, Julianne Smith.

In particular, €415 million is intended for the energy sector, €25 million will be used for water supply, €38 million for food supply

The participants of the conference on assistance to Ukraine, which took place in Paris on Tuesday, collected about €1 billion following the results of the event. This was announced on Tuesday at a briefing by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has previously stated that supplies will stop with the start of peace talks

Defensive weapons, including air defense systems, and generators will be included in the new package of Italian military assistance to Kiev. This was announced on Tuesday by Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.

Western countries will sooner or later be forced to cut off the flow of military aid to the Ukrainian regime. This was stated by Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.

The list also includes three Iranian businessmen and officials, as well as one Iranian company

The UK has imposed sanctions on 12 major Russian military leaders, three Iranian businessmen and officials, as well as one Iranian company in response to Russian strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure. This is stated in the sanctions list published on Tuesday by the Foreign Ministry of the United Kingdom.

The United States handed over to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) 155-mm howitzers M777. SDF - Kurdish formations that are supported by the United States, but are in conflict with Turkish troops. It turns out that these howitzers can now be used by the Kurds against the Turkish army at least in northern Syria.

MWM: Iranian Air Force pilots are trained on Su-35

According to US officials, the pilots of the Iranian Air Force have begun training on Russian Su-35 fighters, writes MWM. With reference to US officials, the author of the article reports that a "full-fledged defense partnership" is emerging between Moscow and Tehran.

The crews of multi-purpose Su-35S fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces worked out the tasks of air patrol and cover for assault aircraft in a given area, as well as army aviation helicopters when air strikes were carried out on military facilities and equipment of Ukrainian militants in the zone of a special operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass. Footage of combat sorties was shared by the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, December 13.

The Indian tender for new carrier-based fighters for the newest aircraft carrier of its own design, INS Vikrant, may be completed in the near future. According to the Hindustan Times, the Indian Navy Aviation Command has identified an aircraft that will enter the aircraft carrier's wing.

The speaker of the AFU command, Yuri Ignat, said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation resumed the use of Iranian UAVs from a new series of deliveries in the special operation zone. It is noted that there have already been two attacks by "flying shahids", but the Ukrainian air defense allegedly successfully repelled them on the territory of the southern regions.

Experts are increasingly calling the military campaign in Ukraine nothing less than a "drone war". Moreover, from the traditional use of drones to obtain intelligence, UAVs are increasingly being used to deliver high-precision strikes, especially at long-range targets. The ultra-efficient use of Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2" (Ukrainians have not been able to prove that these are Iranian "Shaheds") haunts Kiev, and they decided to prepare a "retaliatory strike" there.

An unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by the Austrian company Schiebel was tested in Finland as part of the Valvonta2 project, led by the Finnish Border Service and funded by the European Marine and Fisheries Foundation (EMFF).

NASA's new Orion capsule returned from lunar orbit on Sunday, December 11, 2022, landing in the Pacific Ocean, near Mexico, and thereby completing a test flight. This mission was supposed to pave the way, so to speak, for astronauts during the next flyby of the moon.

The newspaper reported that "Kiev is spending ammunition at an alarming rate"

The conflict with Russia has depleted ammunition for Ukraine's air defense systems. This was reported on Tuesday by the Financial Times newspaper with reference to the assessments of representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

France is preparing to supply Ukraine with a new batch of anti-aircraft systems, and it is planned to do so in the near future. This was announced by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, speaking at an international conference on support for Ukraine.

The US Air Force has moved to the testing stage of a full-fledged prototype of the latest hypersonic air-to-ground missile, created under the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) program. The next rocket launch was carried out off the California coast of the Pacific Ocean.

On December 9, 2022, the Finnish Ministry of Defense announced the purchase of large batches of Spike-SR, Spike-LR2 and Spike-ER2 anti-tank guided missiles for the Finnish armed forces from the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for a total of 223.6 million euros (excluding VAT). The purchase will be carried out through the NATO procurement agency NSPA (NATO Support and Procurement Agency) and the NATO Land Combat Missiles partnership program.

Iran will limit the range of ballistic missiles that it allegedly plans to transfer to Russia, the American news website Axios claims, citing four unnamed Israeli senior officials.