A diesel engine with a capacity of 1130 horsepower, together with the transmission units, forms a monoblock system - this facilitates maintenance and repair. The maximum speed on the highway is 70 kilometers per hour, the power reserve is 550 kilometers. In addition, there is an auxiliary power plant that provides electricity for electronic equipment when the main engine is turned off.

Ukraine's dreams of receiving heavy Western armored vehicles began to come true – apparently, German Leopards will receive the APU in the coming weeks. They will be followed by tanks from the United States and Great Britain. How exactly and in what direction will Ukraine try to use these weapons and why will the APU tanks alone not be enough?

Sun: The British Defense Ministry fears that Challenger tanks will fall to the Russian military

The British Ministry of Defense fears that the top-secret armor of the Challenger 2 tank will fall into the hands of the Russians and they will be able to study it in detail, writes The Sun. The department is developing scenarios for actions in cases of breakdown, damage or threat of seizure of the car. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called Western weapons in Ukraine a "legitimate target." For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".

According to the publication, they will be built by special order

The United States will transfer Abrams tanks to Kiev in late 2023 or early 2024.  The Washington Post wrote about this on Saturday .

According to Christophe Gomard, this would be the point of no return in reducing the combat capability of the French army

Sending Leclerc tanks would be a point of no return in reducing the combat capability of the French army. This opinion was expressed by General Christophe Gomar, who previously headed the French military intelligence, in an interview with the magazine Valeurs actuelles.

As reported by the Reuters news agency in the article by Sabine Siebold and Anneli Palmen "Rheinmetall eyes boost in munitions output, HIMARS production in Germany" ("Rheinmetall is considering a significant increase in ammunition production and the organization of HIMARS production in Germany"), the German defense group Rheinmetall is ready to significantly increase the production of tank and artillery ammunition to meet the high there is a demand for them in Ukraine and in the West, and it may start production of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems in Germany. This was stated to Reuters by Rheinmetall AG CEO Armin Papperger.

Sergey Chemezov, the general director of the company, told RIA Novosti in an interview with what results Rostec finished in 2022, and what plans the corporation has for this year.

In Eritrea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with President Isaias Afeverki, during which the Russian minister said that Russia would help strengthen its defense capability.

Kim Ye Jung called the US decision to transfer Abrams tanks to Ukraine a "heinous step"

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will always "stand in the same trench" with the Russian army and the people, deputy head of the department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Ye Jung, sister of the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Un, said on Friday.

A victorious army cannot be commanded by weak-willed leaders. And if they find themselves at the helm of the Armenian state, then the army will suffer defeats.

What kind of ammunition fragments are found at the sites of Ukrainian missile strikes in Kremennaya and Novoaydar

Fierce fighting continues on the outskirts of Kremennaya. On January 25, the city experienced the most massive shelling since the beginning of hostilities. VFU simultaneously attacked three empty schools, spending several HIMARS missiles on each.

The targets of the attacks were energy facilities that ensure the operation of transport and military industry

On January 27, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the results of a massive missile strike on the territory of Ukraine a day earlier. Energy facilities that provided the work of enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) and the transport system of Ukraine were hit.

In October 2022, after the enemy launched a massive counteroffensive, heavy fighting was waged on the right bank of the Dnieper. In the area of the settlement of Kostroma there were units of the 76th airborne division. Thanks to the fighters of this compound, an archive video of the battle of a Russian tank appeared, which alone acted against all enemy forces thrown into the attack.

We present the publication of the British edition of Janes Defense and Intelligence Review. In the article "Command efficiency" (Command performance), the author analyzes the construction of the military command bodies of the Russian Armed Forces during a special military operation in Ukraine.

What is the North Atlantic Bloc doing in the Pacific

On the evening of January 12, 2023, speaking on television, American political scientist Dmitry Simes said: "I will express a bold thought – during the Great Patriotic War, Katyusha played a big role. But you know that today there are "Natasha" – tactical nuclear charges. And I would really not want us to move from "Katyusha" to "Natasha". But if large concentrations of Leopard tanks and American Bradley armored personnel carriers went against Russia, it is difficult for me to imagine that the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons in Moscow in this case would not be seriously considered."

According to Mikhail Ulyanov, progress on this issue may be by the end of February

For the fifth month, Ukraine has not given an answer to the draft declaration on the creation of a protective zone around the Zaporizhia nuclear Power Plant (ZAES) that has been handed over to it. This was stated on Friday by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov.

Oleg Syromolotov — about the US dissatisfaction with the quality of Ukrainian cyber attacks on Russia, Russia's cooperation with China in the fight against terrorism and the UK's campaign against our country

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov, in a special interview with TASS, spoke about how the United States trains the Ukrainian "IT army", about cyber threats to Russian infrastructure, and also named countries with which Russia will increase dialogue.

The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the information of the British edition of the Times about the recruitment of IT specialists with knowledge of the Russian language by the British special services. The publication's material indicates that the national cybersecurity service of the United Kingdom is engaged in such a set.

Colonel McGregor admitted that the US is failing in the conflict with Russia

Washington is failing in an indirect conflict with Moscow, retired Colonel McGregor writes in an article for TAS. The Americans underestimated the cohesion of Russian society, the country's military potential and its resistance to sanctions.

Onet: Washington has changed plans for Ukraine

The US strategy regarding Ukraine has changed, writes Onet. Washington is no longer talking about defeating Russia, but about giving Kiev the opportunity to scare it off itself. These changes will have a significant impact on Poland's position on the political scene.