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Boris Johnson proposed to arm Ukraine with fighters from the Second World War

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this week that Ukraine needs the simplest aircraft to combat unmanned aerial vehicles - such as British Spitfire fighters from World War II. Someone considered Johnson's words a joke, but the military columnist of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok thinks otherwise - an airplane from the past has some advantages over UAVS that are unexpected for the layman.

And when active actions on the contact line can resume

On November 23, Russian troops continued to advance in the Donetsk direction, and in other sectors of the front they continued to repel attacks by Ukrainian formations. On this day, the Ministry of Defense told about the release from captivity of 35 servicemen who were in danger.

The US Air Force has scheduled a presentation of the new B-21 Raider strategic bomber for December 2. As the American edition emphasizes 19fortyfive.com , the creation of this bomber aircraft is a "success story" of both the US aircraft industry and the American administration. After all, the program for the construction of the aircraft was completed on time, the manufacturer met the allocated budget.

On November 23, it became known about the use of Russian unmanned aerial vehicles "Mosquito" in a special military operation in Ukraine, designed to conduct aerial electronic and optoelectronic reconnaissance. Earlier in the reports of the Ministry of Defense, it was said about the successful work of the Lancet kamikaze drones in the area of their defense, which destroyed the Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft missile system and two American howitzers. Read more about the Russian UAVs involved in the SVO — in the material of TASS.

On November 21, Lockheed Martin published photos of the first assembled multi-purpose fighter F-16D Block.70, which will be delivered to the Bahrain Air Force.

NYT: an American missile fired by the APU went off course and hit a residential building

The US supplies Ukraine with obsolete weapons, writes the NYT. That is why in September, the American AGM-88B HARM missile fired by the APU went off course and hit a residential building. The West spends billions of dollars on military aid Kiev, but keeps the new equipment for himself.

The participation of about 1 thousand mercenaries from 54 countries was recorded

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (TFR) has established the facts of the supply of various weapons to Ukraine from 25 countries, the agency's telegram channel reported on Thursday.

According to The Spectator magazine, in return, Beijing promised to convince Moscow to abandon the use of nuclear weapons

The administration of US President Joe Biden forced Poland not to supply Soviet MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine in March after an insistent request from China, which fears an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict. This is reported on the website of the British magazine  The Spectator, citing sources in Chinese diplomatic circles.

The government reported on the production of products for the army and told about new social measures for the mobilized

Many private enterprises are ready to help provide the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with uniforms, protective equipment and other necessary products, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on November 22. He stressed that today the situation with the release of some types of weapons and army equipment has improved.

According to the newspaper, two-thirds of military support to Kiev was provided by the United States

The stocks of weapons in Western countries, including the United States, have reached critically low values due to supplies to Kiev, and the possibilities for their replenishment have been very limited. This was reported on Tuesday by the newspaper Le Monde .

TAC: Kiev will not give up the support of the West, no matter what Zelensky does

After the incident with the Ukrainian missile and Zelensky's attempts to ignite World War III, Western countries did not even think to reconsider their unlimited assistance to Kiev, writes TAC. Ukraine has an unconditional right to money and weapons, and the West will forgive its leader absolutely everything except independent attempts to negotiate with Moscow, the author complains.

Chemezov stated that Rostec supplies military products ahead of schedule

Rostec State Corporation enterprises produce military products in the framework of the state defense order ahead of schedule. This was told by the Director General of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov.

Electronic warfare (EW) units that perform tasks during a special operation to protect Donbass deprive the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of the ability to coordinate units and control soldiers on the battlefield. This was told by the correspondent of Izvestia Alexander Morozov.

We talk about the main achievements, difficulties and victories of the Rostec state Corporation, whose products can be found today in a variety of fields: from public transport to medicine and defense.

Three new fifth-generation F-35B Lightning-2 multi-purpose fighters arrived in the UK, which increased the total number of received vehicles of this type to 30 units.

The "newly minted" British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expectedly continued the policy of his predecessors towards Kiev. It is no secret that the UK is one of the main beneficiaries of the conflict in Ukraine and is interested in its continuation.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the first time published footage of the use of Mosquito drones in the zone of the special operation, using them against the communication systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Rostec State Corporation, Russia's largest industrial company, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. It unites about 800 scientific and industrial organizations in 60 regions of the country and provides stable employment for 600 thousand people. The corporation produces thousands of types of products for both military and civilian purposes and is a leader in the volume of state defense orders.

The second stage of the implementation of the Smart Shop digital platform has been completed at the UEC-Saturn enterprise (part of the Rostec United Engine Corporation), where gas turbine engines are produced. The product is developed on the basis of domestic digital technologies and allows you to monitor the performance of machines and product quality in real time. In the future, this platform will be able to be used for digitalization of other Rostec enterprises and Russian industry.

Politico: the Polish army is probably the strongest in Europe

Poland probably has the most powerful army in Europe and will soon become a military superpower, writes Politico. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about what the Polish Armed Forces are armed with now and whether the forecast of American journalists is real.