Renaud Girard: "The birth of the multilateral accession movement"

Gone are the days when the "non-aligned" countries were pacifists, squeezed between the blocs of the USA and the USSR, writes Renaud Girard in Figaro. Today's "non-aligned" India or Serbia will give a hundred points ahead in terms of pragmatism to the toughest Western players.

Was it possible to stop the conflict in Ukraine?

From the very beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, the United States claimed that Putin was not interested in dialogue. But if so, why were negotiations held? In addition, there are facts that indicate that it was the West that did not allow Kiev to negotiate with Moscow at the initial stage of the conflict, writes TNI.

The successful counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv direction gave a boost of optimism to both Kiev and its Western allies. However, yesterday's news about the upcoming referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Kherson region, the liberated part of the Zaporozhye region pretty spoiled the mood of both the Ukrainian authorities and the West.

The Kharkov offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces clearly demonstrated the operational crisis that has developed at the front. It began to be planned a few months ago due to a sharp increase in the number of Ukrainian troops during the ongoing emergency mobilization.

The airborne troops of the Russian Federation are solving the most difficult and responsible tasks during the special operation to protect Donbass, their combat strength will increase. This was announced on September 21 by the country's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

A partial mobilization was announced in Russia on September 21. The country's leadership avoided this measure for seven long months. But now it is finally clear: it is almost impossible to successfully complete a special military operation by the peacetime army. We need more people, more trained infantry. About what areas of development of the Armed Forces were outlined by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu — in the material of RIA Novosti.

"The Kremlin's press service has published a decree on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation," the report says. "Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation." We are transmitting the full text of the document," the Kremlin's press service said. RIA Novosti publishes the full text of the decree.

When modernizing military equipment, it is necessary to carefully study foreign samples, Vladimir Putin pointed out

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded in the shortest possible period to increase the volume and reduce the production time at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of the country.

The United States Navy continues to decommission Ticonderoga-class cruisers. Therefore, last week a farewell ceremony was held with the missile cruiser USS Monterey.

The Chief of Naval Operations of the US Navy, Admiral Michael Gilday, gave a detailed interview to the American edition of Defense One. In it, he told a lot of interesting things about the strategic plans of the American fleet against the backdrop of an unstable global political situation.

It became known that the command of the US Navy was interested in the Greek port of Alexandroupolis with the aim of possibly creating another American military base there. It is noteworthy that there is already one NATO base in Greece with the predominant presence of the American military there (in addition to the Greek ones). This base is located in the north of the island of Crete in Souda Bay.

The German Naval Yards in Kiel (German Naval Yards Kiel) presented a corvette of a new design at the SMM 2022 exhibition that recently ended in Hamburg. According to the company's press release, the new Seaguard 96 is "an innovative high-end corvette suitable for the full range of naval operations."

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko held a meeting on the development of the high-tech industry "Quantum Computing".

Slovenian media reported that Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have reached a new agreement on the exchange of military equipment in order to provide military assistance to Ukraine. According to the agreement, Slovenia will transfer 28 M-55S tanks to Ukraine from the storage of the Slovenian army, which represent one of the most radical options for the modernization of the old Soviet T-55 tank. In return, Germany will transfer to the Slovenian Ministry of Defense 40 units of modern military vehicles with a wheel formula of 8x8 - 35 trucks and five tankers.

Ukraine will receive modern Western-made tanks, but there is no decision on the timing. The Pentagon is considering the issue of supplying tanks to the Ukrainian army, but a decision on them has not yet been made. This is reported by the New York Times.

Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Francois Bausch announced on September 15 the purchase of 80 command, communications and intelligence (CLRV) armored vehicles for the country's Armed Forces.

The timing of the deployment of additional "Breakthroughs" in parts of the Western Military District will depend on the fulfillment of the state defense order, the Izvestia newspaper reported

The latest T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks will be additionally delivered to parts of the Western Military District (ZVO). This was reported by the newspaper "Izvestia" with reference to a source in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. This decision is associated with the need to respond to the strengthening of NATO units stationed on the western borders of the Russian Federation.

The Russian anti-tank complex "Kornet" will have the ability to hit enemy armored vehicles equipped with active protection complexes. The new "double start" algorithm has already been applied as part of the initial field tests. This was told by the industrial director of the Rostec arms cluster, Bekhan Ozdoev.

On September 19, Switzerland signed a contract for the purchase of 36 fifth-generation F-35A Lightning-2 multipurpose fighters.

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan may receive part of the combat aircraft of the former Afghan army for helping the Americans in the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan. Washington hopes to establish closer cooperation with Dushanbe and Tashkent.