On June 1, 2022, US President Joe Biden announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine. According to the US Department of Defense, the volume of the new package is $ 700 million. The total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $4.6 billion. side.

Military expert Andrey Frolov — on whether Germany will supply IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine

On June 1, German Chancellor Scholz announced plans to transfer IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The decision immediately caused increased attention, since for the first time it came to the supply of Western-made air defense systems to Ukraine. Before that, only portable complexes were supplied to Kiev.

Military expert Belousov named three problems with the supply of German IRIS-T air defense systems to Kiev

Germany is ready to supply Ukraine with modern IRIS-T air defense systems, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. However, the Bundeswehr has no extra systems, and the production of new ones will take several months. "Newspaper.Ru" was looking into what IRIS-T is capable of and why there may be difficulties with its supplies to the APU.

President of Ukraine Zelensky promised children air defense better than the "Iron Dome"

Ukraine will create an air defense system that will be "stronger" than the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system, President Vladimir Zelensky said. He did not name specific deadlines for the implementation of the project, but noted the importance of completing the "construction of air defense" as soon as possible. Back in mid-February, the media reported that Israel refused to sell Iron Dome missile systems to Kiev. Air defense supplies from Germany will take several months.

The West is preparing for war before starvation rations

It is quite difficult to unambiguously assess the effectiveness of the actions of the Ukrainian ground air defense during the current conflict. At the time of the collapse of the USSR, it could be considered almost the best in the world in terms of the quantity and quality of air defense systems and air defense systems per unit area of the country. During the post-Soviet period, the Ukrainian air defense was not updated and gradually degraded.

A big threat to Turkey: The US has created four more new bases in Greece

Greece has approved an agreement on mutual defense cooperation with the United States. America gets four new bases at its disposal, writes Haber7. Turkey is sure that they are being created not against Russia, but against itself. Readers offer to deploy Russian air defense systems in response.

Russian S-300PM2 Favorit systems destroyed Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles. This was reported on June 2 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Canadian military accused the Chinese Air Force of repeated cases of dangerous rapprochement with the Canadian CP-140 aircraft, which monitored possible violations of UN Security Council sanctions against the DPRK, the CBC reported on Thursday.

The tender for the supply of heavy transport helicopters Schwerer Transporthubschrauber (STH) to the German Armed Forces has ended.

The administration of US President Joe Biden plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAVs that can be equipped with Hellfire missiles.

The private Turkish company Baykar, engaged in the production of drones, decided to transfer the Bayraktar TB2 aircraft to Lithuania for free. The company announced this on Twitter.

The Russian Defense Ministry, during a special military operation in Ukraine, uses Su-25SM3 attack aircraft with protection from portable anti-aircraft missile systems of foreign production.

The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned about reports of a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry understands Turkey's concerns in connection with threats to national security emanating from the border areas of the SAR.

The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told Ankara on Thursday that Washington opposes Turkish military operations in northern Syria, as they could further destabilize the situation in the region and undermine efforts to combat ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).

To equip the military from the United States and other NATO allies of Warsaw with weapons and equipment, Poland has begun construction of an armory for the US army. It is expected to complete the construction of the facility in 2024.

Wang Xianjui: Russia has taken countermeasures against NATO expansion in several directions

The NATO summit is approaching, at which the participating countries will discuss the possibility of Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. Moscow cannot put everything on the Turkish veto against the expansion of the bloc, writes Huanqiu Shibao, and will use its own countermeasures. There are at least four of them.

Western countries are trying to involve neutral states in the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by roundabout maneuvers.

Support for Ukraine is weakening. America has already achieved everything it wanted

Speaking at a forum in Davos, Kissinger warned the West that Russia should not be defeated, writes iDNES. He simply transferred to European soil a change in the narrative in the conflict that began in the United States. This means that Washington has already achieved everything it wanted, and therefore is not interested in continuing the fighting.

Warsaw and Kiev merge in an embrace to spite the Kremlin

Poland is completely safe, despite the "aggressive policy" of the Kremlin, which carries a potential threat to the democratic community, said the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. He spoke on May 26 at a briefing after the Defender Europe 2022 exercises with the development of combat interaction between the Polish and American militaries.

Where did the special operation in Ukraine lead European security

Russia's special operation in Ukraine has forced the EU to seriously think about its security policy, writes the "Diary". How has the European Union changed and where is it moving in its three most difficult areas – energy independence, migration and defense? Europe has achieved little, but there are more and more problems, the author of the article is sure.