Trump accused the United States of "practically forcing" Putin to unleash a military conflict with Ukraine

Former US President Donald Trump criticized the current American leader Joe Biden. According to him, the rhetoric of the administration provoked the beginning of Russia's special operation in Ukraine, writes Newsweek.

The fighters of the Donetsk Republic not only repel enemy attacks, but also achieve success at the front

In the northern and southern sectors of the front in the area of the SVO in the past weeks, not everything went well. Using the tactics of flying detachments, the advantage in numbers, intelligence data and modern Western combat control systems, Ukrainian troops were able to launch a counteroffensive.

The Allied forces prepared for defense, which allowed them to give a worthy rebuff to the enemy

The Russian armed forces and units of the People's Republics of Donbass fought defensive battles on October 8 and 9.

In response to the SBU terrorist attacks, Russian missiles damaged the control, energy and communications systems in several areas

Kiev will have to redirect funds for military operations against Donbass civilians to restore destroyed communications, experts interviewed by Izvestia believe. They called the damage caused to Ukraine significant.

Russia responded to the attack on the Crimean Bridge with strikes on critical military and energy facilities throughout Ukraine. As a result, many large cities of the country were left without electricity, there are problems with communication. Is this missile attack the beginning of a new stage of the special operation, will it cool the military ardor of Kiev or will new strikes be required on important infrastructure facilities of Ukraine?

According to the press secretary of the Russian leader, no decisions have been made to change the status of its own to WHO and to impose martial law in certain regions

The explosions in Ukraine and possible negotiations between Russia and four Western countries were the main topics of a briefing on Monday by the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

On October 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council via videoconference.

Kyrgyzstan, which was supposed to host the military maneuvers of the CSTO "Indestructible Brotherhood" from Monday, canceled the exercises at the last moment. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic did not explain this decision in any way. In Bishkek, the incident is associated with the participation of the military from Tajikistan, with which there was a conflict recently. Moscow cites other reasons – Western sanctions and Kyrgyzstan's attitude to its actions in Ukraine. What was the determining reason?

TFO is preparing to receive the third of six non-nuclear submarines of the 06363 series

In the near future, the combat strength of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy will be replenished by a new unit — the non-nuclear submarine of project 06363 "Magadan". Construction of a series of six submarines of this project for the Pacific Fleet began in 2017 at the Admiralty Shipyards shipyard in St. Petersburg. The Magadan is already the third submarine to leave for the Far East. And after it, the fourth one will be completed — "Ufa". How will these submarines change the combat capabilities of the fleet and what are their features?

As the press service of the Eastern Military District reported on October 9, 2022, a new large diesel-electric submarine B-602 "Magadan" of the 06363 project of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) arrived at its base in Vladivostok. The submarine completed the inter-fleet transition from the Baltic Fleet to the Pacific by the Northern Sea Route, having covered more than nine thousand nautical miles.

As reported on the web resource forums.airbase.ru , On September 30, 2022, in St. Petersburg at Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC, a flag-raising ceremony was held for border ships, boats and support vessels on the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank PPK-831 project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with the factory number 057 (onboard number "457"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. It became the eighth ship in the series of Project 22120. Earlier it was reported that the ship was to be named "Roman Chemeryuk", but to date there is no information about the assignment of this name to it.

On October 7, 2022, in Vyborg, at the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC JSC), a solemn ceremony of launching the project 23550 head border patrol ship of the 1st rank of the ice class "Blizzard" (code "Ermak"), which is being built for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, was held") with the factory number 235.

The machine tool division of JSC Concern Kalashnikov manufactured and shipped 35.7% more products in the three quarters of this year than last year. These are turning and screw–cutting machines, special equipment and repair services for spindle assemblies totaling 285 million rubles (against 210 million rubles in 2021).

The Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Poland have been selected as sites for hosting the first European quantum computers, she said The European Commission on Tuesday.

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDELS, a division of General Dynamics Corporation) has officially presented the concept of a promising AbramsX main tank, which is an evolution of the American M1 Abrams tank. A video with a prototype demonstrator of the AbramsX tank has been published.GDELS itself stated that the AbramsX should become a "bridge" from the Abrams tanks of the latest modifications of the M1A2 SEP v.3 and SEP v.4 to a promising tank.

Germany, along with France, are becoming the main sponsors of the Zelensky regime in Europe, while the UK has switched to training military personnel of the Armed Forces. After the French promised Kiev a new batch of 155-mm Caezar self-propelled guns, the Germans announced the imminent delivery of air defense systems and tanks to Ukraine.

Ukraine has received another batch of Slovak self-propelled artillery Zuzana 2, self-propelled guns are already on Ukrainian territory. This was announced by Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nagy.

Although no one is in a hurry to transfer armored vehicles to Kiev

The process of supplying weapons and military equipment to Ukraine by the countries of the "collective West" (this concept is broader than NATO and the EU) is becoming not a decisive, but an important factor in the ongoing military operation in this country.

The roots of China's rocket and space power go back to the USSR

Recent events in East Asia have once again drawn attention to the escalation of tensions, military capabilities and combat readiness of a number of countries. First of all, this concerns China.

Ukrainian President Zelensky urged the West not to wait until Russia strikes with nuclear weapons, but to launch a preemptive strike — without specifying whether it is nuclear or not. Many Western analysts, meanwhile, have no doubt that Russia is preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons somewhere on the territory of Ukraine. What does the Russian military doctrine say about this? And why, from a military-technical point of view, does it make no sense to use tactical nuclear weapons, but should we start with strategic ones? Naked Science understands the details.