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Bloomberg: the winter pause in the Ukrainian conflict will lead to the defeat of Kiev and its allies

The winter break will turn into big problems for Zelensky, the author of the article for Bloomberg writes. If Putin uses it wisely, then the Ukrainian leader will face a choice – to continue the offensive or take a wait-and-see position. Both options are dangerous and can lead to the defeat of Kiev.

At the same time, they suffer heavy losses and roll back

The armed forces of the Russian Federation stopped the attacks of three assault groups of the VFU in the Krasnolimansky direction — the enemy lost more than 50 people killed and wounded there and several pieces of equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on December 13. Experts note that in this direction, the VFU is trying to enter the rear of our troops in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. Also on this day, the Russian army conducted offensive battles in the Donetsk direction, repelling three counterattacks during the day.

The Republic of Korea became the eighth largest arms exporter in the world by value in the period 2017-2021. It accounted for almost 3% of global defense exports.

In Ukraine, they continue to announce the creation of new drones. In recent days, the Ukrainian press has posted a record number of publications about new developments in the field of unmanned aircraft for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. While it has come only to announcements, the "hardware" only promises to show new items.

MWM: Su-35SM fighter uses Su-57 technology

The Su-35 will be upgraded to the Su-35SM standard, MWM reports. It is noted that it uses a number of technologies and solutions used in the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter. Special attention is drawn to the radar station and the missiles that the aircraft will receive.

The head of the administration of the Mykolaiv region Vitaly Kim told about the next attack of kamikaze drones. At the same time, the Nikolaev governor said that Russia "puts silencers on Iranian drones," at least on some of them.

The United States this week may announce the dispatch of Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. Joe Biden will make the final decision on supplies, but the tone of publications in the Western media hints that this issue looks resolved. How will such actions by Washington affect the course of its military operations and what can the Russian Aerospace Forces oppose to the American air defense systems?

Poland has a little more than a year left for decisive actions to return its "Eastern Crosses", and maybe less… There are a number of impressive arguments for this.

The Senate Committee on National Defense was engaged in the execution of the budget of the Ministry of National Defense for 2022. Detailed information at the meeting on Tuesday was presented by the director of the Budget Department of the Ministry of National Defense Pavel Barchak. He recalled that the budget of the Ministry of Defense was planned to be 2.2% of the country's GDP. This year it amounted to 57.8 billion zlotys ($12.8 billion).

The US Air Force reported that on December 9, 2022, a successful flight test of a fully complete combat prototype of a promising American air-based hypersonic missile AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was carried out for the first time.

MWM: Iranian Air Force pilots are trained on Su-35

According to US officials, the pilots of the Iranian Air Force have begun training on Russian Su-35 fighters, writes MWM. With reference to US officials, the author of the article reports that a "full-fledged defense partnership" is emerging between Moscow and Tehran.

The crews of multi-purpose Su-35S fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces worked out the tasks of air patrol and cover for assault aircraft in a given area, as well as army aviation helicopters when air strikes were carried out on military facilities and equipment of Ukrainian militants in the zone of a special operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass. Footage of combat sorties was shared by the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, December 13.

Experts are increasingly calling the military campaign in Ukraine nothing less than a "drone war". Moreover, from the traditional use of drones to obtain intelligence, UAVs are increasingly being used to deliver high-precision strikes, especially at long-range targets. The ultra-efficient use of Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2" (Ukrainians have not been able to prove that these are Iranian "Shaheds") haunts Kiev, and they decided to prepare a "retaliatory strike" there.

The Indian tender for new carrier-based fighters for the newest aircraft carrier of its own design, INS Vikrant, may be completed in the near future. According to the Hindustan Times, the Indian Navy Aviation Command has identified an aircraft that will enter the aircraft carrier's wing.

An unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by the Austrian company Schiebel was tested in Finland as part of the Valvonta2 project, led by the Finnish Border Service and funded by the European Marine and Fisheries Foundation (EMFF).

The speaker of the AFU command, Yuri Ignat, said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation resumed the use of Iranian UAVs from a new series of deliveries in the special operation zone. It is noted that there have already been two attacks by "flying shahids", but the Ukrainian air defense allegedly successfully repelled them on the territory of the southern regions.

The Ukrainian army will soon receive the newest kamikaze drone, developed as a response to the Russian Geran drones, which have become a headache for the air defense of Ukraine. That's just the Ukrainian drone will differ in one feature - it will be "returnable". This was stated by the project manager of the concern "Ukroboronprom" Oleg Boldyrev.

FOCUS: Ukraine has made the weapons concerns of the West rich. They are fattening, as in the days of the Second World War

The arms business is booming primarily in the US, the EU and China, writes the author of the German magazine FOCUS. More recently, defense companies were considered unpromising. And today their shares have soared like the forces of evil: the peaceful post-war period in Europe has ended, their time has come.

The Atlantic: The US was afraid of the loss of military superiority

In America, they are frightened by the prospect of losing military-technological superiority in the world, writes The Atlantic. If Washington, which believes in the unconditional domination of its army, does not take action, it will weaken, and a new war will begin in the world, the authors believe.

On December 9, 2022, a ceremony was held at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai to hand over to China Eastern Airlines the first serial Chinese medium-haul passenger aircraft C919, designed and built by the Chinese state-owned civil aviation company Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).