Tulsi Gabbard, an ex-member of the US Congress, said that if the US involvement in the diversions on Russian gas pipelines to Europe is proved, it will have serious consequences up to a "nuclear holocaust". Gabbard said this in an interview with the American Fox News channel.

The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) regularly publishes analytical notes on key developments in the field of defense and international politics. Naturally, the first place on the organization's website is given to the situation in Ukraine.

This direction has become extremely important for both sides, military experts explain

Ukrainian troops failed in the Krasnolimansk direction, the Russian Defense Ministry said on September 28. During the attempted offensive, the VFU suffered heavy losses, the department stressed.

Despite the colossal losses of personnel, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to concentrate manpower and equipment for the offensive on the territories liberated by Russia. What factors are forcing the Ukrainian command to launch rapid attacks and in which sectors of the front can they occur?

After the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the main tactical unit on the battlefield became the BTG – a consolidated grouping consisting of separate units of a regiment or brigade. In many ways, their widespread use was due to an acute shortage of personnel, which forced the formation of at least minimally staffed units, which became BTG battalions, reinforced with personnel and equipment.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the country's allies violate some agreements and do not provide military-technical support.

On September 14, 2022, fighting began on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which led to another escalation of the long-standing conflict between the two countries. The last such episode occurred in April 2021, when about 55 people died on both sides.

The American edition of Defense News published Joe Gould's material "US sees a chance to gain arms market share from sanctioned Russia" ("The US sees a chance to win back a share of the arms market from sanctioned Russia") about the benefits that the US government and American and Western arms manufacturers hope to extract on the world market from the inevitable significant drop in Russian defense exports in the future due to the large-scale sanctions imposed against Russia.

The Pentagon has published another list of weapons and military equipment that will be transferred to the army of the Kiev regime. This list suggests that the United States will continue to supply Ukraine with shock weapons, gradually increasing its supplies. If by now the United States has claimed that no more than 16 universal Haimars missile launchers have been delivered to the Kiev military, now it is planned to transfer 18 such MLRS at once.

The US Navy and the Marine Corps are partially merging to optimize the command and control of amphibious units in the Indo-Pacific region. It is reported that there are plans to create a task force that will directly work out new concepts.

Half of the total energy consumption by mankind is accounted for by heat, almost 50% of this amount is spent on heating and heating water in homes. For electricity — only 19%. From this it is clear that the issue of heating is even more important than the electric power industry, and without abandoning fossil fuels, a green transition is impossible here. However, as the new scientific work shows, hydrogen in this role is only an impossible dream.

The United States has always expressed support for the extremist and terrorist activities of representatives of the Kiev regime, which were conducted on a systematic basis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her author's program on Sputnik radio. Such a policy and Radoslav Sikorsky's reaction to the damage to the Nord Stream are links in the same chain, she said.

A close explosion of artillery ammunition damaged the Vector Pinzgauer 718 all-terrain vehicle of the armed formations of Ukraine.

Referendums increase the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons. This can no longer be treated as an "empty threat" by Putin

Referendums and the annexation of new territories to Russia have radically changed the situation in the Ukrainian conflict in favor of Moscow, writes Toyo Keizai. The struggle is entering a new stage. In this regard, Putin's warnings about nuclear weapons are not empty threats, the author believes.

Brigadier General of the US Air Force Pat Ryder said during a conversation with reporters that the Pentagon "together with its allies" intends to deliver "advanced air defense systems" to Ukraine. According to Ryder, earlier publications in the media that several NASAMS air defense systems are in Ukraine do not correspond to reality.

The age of the glass microparticles found in lunar soil samples coincides in time with several of the largest asteroid impacts on Earth

Planetary scientists have found microparticles of glass in samples of lunar soil collected by the Chinese probe Chang'e-5, whose age coincides with several of the largest asteroid impacts on Earth. They include a celestial body that killed the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago, the press service of the Australian Curtin University reported on Wednesday.

Yonhap reports that the country is likely to opt for the American company SpaceX or the European Space Agency

The authorities of the Republic of Korea are considering the possibility of refusing to launch their satellites with the help of Russian launch vehicles in 2022. This was reported on Wednesday by the Yonhap agency with reference to a document of the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Korea.

The Su-47 fighter, first flown on September 25, 1997 by Igor Votintsev, a test pilot at the Sukhoi Design Bureau, is considered one of the most unusual aircraft. First of all, due to its main feature – the reverse sweep wing. The digital control system and composite materials have become less noticeable externally, but no less advanced technologies in the Su-47.

The European Union and NATO are strengthening cooperation in the defense sphere. Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg said it was time to sign a new declaration of the two friendly organizations. According to him, this will protect the Western world from Russia and China. Further militarization of Europe and an increase in military spending are expected.

When will Europe finally learn to defend itself?

Politico states the complete absence of a unified defense policy in Europe. The author of the article writes about the diversity of military concepts even among the "mastodons" of the EU — Germany and France. The tone is set by marginals like Poland and the Balts, whose recipe is the same — the US military umbrella.