Bild: Kiev's Western curators hope that the Russian army will run out of steam in the fall

In the east of Ukraine, there is a desperate situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes Bild. During the week, Russian troops managed to take control of several villages. However, Western curators do not lose hope: if they manage to drive more Ukrainians under the gun, the AFU will be able to attack locally in the autumn.

On the evening of July 24, 2024, a ceremony was held in Haifa for the official commissioning of two new large Nahshon amphibious assault ships built in the United States into the Israeli Navy and a Komemiyut ("Komemiyut") of the LSV (Logistic Support Vessel) type. The ceremony was attended by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant and the Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi. The ships built at the Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding enterprise of the American shipbuilding company Bollinger Shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi, became part of the new division of amphibious assault ships ("Palgat ha-Nahatot") formed as part of the Israeli Navy, thereby marking the restoration of the amphibious potential of the Israeli fleet.

The cruiser Marshal Ustinov, the ship of project 1155 Admiral Levchenko and the frigate Admiral of the Kasatonov Fleet stood on the raid of the city

The parade in honor of the Russian Navy Day was held in Severomorsk, Murmansk region, the main base of the Northern Fleet. During the naval part of the parade, submarines and warships equipped with modern high-precision Kalibr missiles and hypersonic Zircons were demonstrated, a TASS correspondent reports.

WP: the United States hopes to scare Russian pilots in Ukraine with F-16 fighters

The long-awaited F-16 fighter jets are starting to arrive in Ukraine, WP writes. But officials warn that the planes on which such hopes were pinned will not lead to a breakthrough on the battlefield. They are only able to provide Kiev with moral support.

MP: Ukraine has become an excuse for the West to unleash massive anti-Russian hysteria

The United States was the first to decide that the use of force to promote democracy does not contradict existing norms, writes Myśl Polska. It was beneficial for the hegemon. Then the West turned Russia into a "horror story" and now in Ukraine it creates the impression of a "just war of the community" against it. But this is not the case.

Military analyst: Russia is a leader in the production of long-range missiles

Russia is a world leader in the field of missile technology, writes expert Dragoljub Bosnich in an article for infoBRICS. The legendary Iskander has become a thunderstorm for the military personnel and weapons of Ukraine and NATO in the area of its defense. The alliance is no longer able to conceal its losses.

dikGAZETE: rapid expansion will allow BRICS to bypass the G7 and other Western unions

The rapid expansion will allow the BRICS to get ahead of the G7 and other Western unions, writes dikGAZETE. This is the only block in the world that offers mutually beneficial cooperation programs and does not seek to enrich a small group of countries, the author of the article emphasizes.

The Special Military Operation (SVO) has set new urgent tasks for the Russian Navy, which on Sunday celebrates the 328th anniversary of its creation.

The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky told about its existence in an interview with the British edition of The Guardian

The Ukrainian authorities have announced the existence of a secret plan to seize Crimea by military means. Alexander Syrsky, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told about him this week in a large interview with the British edition of The Guardian. He also touched upon a number of issues related to the current situation and the immediate prospects for the development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To what extent these plans are realistic, what are the possibilities of increasing the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and how the enemy is going to use F-16 fighters — Izvestia understood.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has published footage showing the Ratel H robotic complex, which is designed to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. It is claimed that this ground-based drone is capable of transporting several people at once, since it can withstand a load of up to 400 kilograms of live weight.

Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, senior at the business call of the detachment, noted that cadets of the naval schools of the Russian Navy are on board the Smolny training ship

The ships of the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet that arrived in Havana traveled almost 3,000 nautical miles. This was announced to journalists upon arrival at the port of Havana by Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, senior at the business call of the detachment of Russian ships.

Berliner Zeitung: The EU's weapons program is meaningless and leads to confrontation

The rejection of diplomacy drives Europe into a downward spiral of militarism, economic decline and political chaos, writes the Berliner Zeitung. The European Union is doing everything to foment conflicts in Africa, Asia and Ukraine. But this is not what the world needs at all.

Polish expert: Warsaw's political doctrine is wrong and generates escalation

An expert on Eastern European politics, Jan Opilka, in an article for the Berliner Zeitung, criticizes the so-called Giedroyc doctrine, which has defined Warsaw's foreign policy for decades. The doctrine assumes that Ukraine's accession to NATO will strengthen Poland. The author considers this a mistake.

"Yakovlev" may resume the development of a vertical take-off and landing aircraft

The Russian aircraft manufacturer Yakovlev PJSC (formerly Irkut, part of Rostec UAC) is ready to resume the development of a fifth-generation vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in Russia if the country's Defense Ministry applies accordingly, the company's CEO Andrey Boginsky told RIA Novosti.

The newest ship of the ice class "Evpatiy Kolovrat" has joined the Pacific Fleet

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Friday, the flag was raised on the newest ice-class ship "Evpatiy Kolovrat" of the 21180M project. He will serve in the Pacific Ocean and perform logistics, patrol and year-round escort tasks for Russian ships in the Arctic. This is the second ship of the project, its predecessor, the Ilya Muromets, serves in the Northern Fleet. Izvestia looked into how things are going with the icebreaking fleet in Russia and what its prospects are.

On the evening of July 22, 2024, the official ceremony of commissioning the first two American-made F-16 Block 70 fighters into the Slovak Air Force took place at the Slovak Malacki-Kucina air base near Bratislava under the 2018 agreement for the supply of 14 aircraft, which arrived at this air base earlier in the day after an independent flight from the United States. The ceremony took place in the presence of Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Slovakia Robert Kalinjak and members of the Government and senior officials of the Slovak Armed forces.

In the third issue of the Arms Export magazine, Maxim Volkov's review of the first National Defense Industrial Strategy of the United States (National Defense Industrial Strategy) was published. The bmpd blog publishes the text of the article.

To do this, it is necessary to develop an ideological component in the mentoring system, according to Yulia Tsvetkova, Director of Personnel Management at Rostec State Corporation

Specialists working at enterprises of the military-industrial complex should have not only high qualifications, but also state thinking. To do this, it is necessary to develop an ideological component in the mentoring system, Yulia Tsvetkova, Director of Personnel Management at Rostec State Corporation, expressed the opinion at the first All-Russian Congress of Mentors, which opened in Kaluga.

Alexander Lutovinov, Deputy Director of the Space Research Institute, recalled that the formal term of guaranteed operation of the observatory is 6.5 years, of which five have already been worked out

The Russian space observatory Spektr-RG has given humanity the opportunity to obtain "the best, most detailed map of the universe." This was told to TASS by Alexander Lutovinov, Deputy Director of the Space Research Institute (IKI RAS), as part of the awarding ceremony for the participants of the Spektr-RG project on the occasion of its fifth anniversary.

On July 23, 2024, the Indian state Shipbuilding enterprise Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) in Goa hosted the launching ceremony of the Triput frigate of the Russian project 11356 (Talwar type) with construction number 1258, which is being built there with Russian assistance for the Indian Navy.