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Will the US make a decision on the supply of Western fighters to Ukraine

Western countries have increased military and financial support for Ukraine against the background of Russia's special operation to protect Donbass.

The United States has been the main supplier of weapons to Ukraine for quite a long time, while the rest of the NATO allies are raking out the last thing left in their arsenals. According to Reuters, the White House is preparing another package of military assistance for Kiev.

Intense missile strikes prevent the VFU from concentrating forces for a counteroffensive, experts say

The Russian aerospace forces launched a group strike with high-precision long-range weapons at the storage sites of ammunition of Ukrainian troops. As a result, a large number of Western-made shells and missiles were destroyed, which the Ukrainian command was preparing for a counteroffensive.

FAZ: Ukraine asked Germany for Taurus cruise missiles

Ukraine has officially requested long-range Taurus cruise missiles from Germany. This was reported on May 26 by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) with reference to the German Defense Ministry.

Sohu: Russian Iskander-M in Belarus will make the West tremble with fear

Moscow and Minsk have made a decision that will make the West tremble, writes user Sohu. They agreed to deploy Russian nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, including the Iskander-M missile system. This powerful system will put enormous pressure on NATO countries.

The Canadian government intends to provide the Ukrainian army with another package of military support, which will include AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. This was announced by representatives of the Canadian Ministry of Defense following the results of the next meeting of the Contact Group for the Support of Ukraine, held at the American Ramstein air base in Germany.

Below are the briefing materials of the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, as presented by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

"Guancha": in Ukraine, the F-16 will not be able to compete with the Russian Su-35

To strengthen the AFU after the defeat in Artemovsk, the West decided to provide them with F-16 fighters. But do not hope that these planes will turn the tide of the conflict, warns the user of "Guancha". In the conditions of Ukraine, they will be deprived of advantages and will be vulnerable to the Russian Su-35.

Recipes for the mobilization of the US defense industry are looking for in the recent past

Alarm bells are ringing in the Pentagon. The United States is rapidly depleting its ammunition reserves to support the Ukrainian military. Moreover, this support is provided against the background of a serious backlog in the supply of weapons to Taiwan under contracts worth more than $ 14 billion.

Drones – in every home and for every occasion

Replacing people with robots in war is becoming the most important means for Washington to preserve its global hegemony. That is, unmanned vehicles, primarily flying (UAVs), turn out to be not only a military, but also a geopolitical tool.

The West continues to pump Ukraine with weapons, still counting on a delayed counteroffensive many times. Moreover, the strategy implemented by Washington is clearly traced, according to which the main burden of the costs of supporting Kiev should fall on the Europeans. Even relatively small EU countries, forgetting about their own economic and military interests, are increasingly beginning to participate in joint EU programs to finance the production and procurement of weapons and ammunition for the Armed Forces.

The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, said that 24 EU countries have joined the initiative to expand the production of 155 mm artillery shells

The EU countries delivered 220 thousand artillery shells and 1,300 missiles to Ukraine in 2023 for a total amount of €800 million. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel at a press conference following a meeting of the EU Defense Council.

Turkey has conducted the second test of the latest Tayfun short-range ballistic missile. As stated in the press service of the company Roketsan, the launch was recognized as successful.

Finland officially became a member of NATO on April 4, 2023. During the ceremony held in Brussels, the country's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto handed over a document on accession to the North Atlantic Treaty, which means the completion of the procedure (documents on the accession of new members are stored in the United States).

A video shot by a drone camera has been published online, which captures the defeat of the Ukrainian T-72B tank by two Russian FPV drones.

Launches of anti-aircraft guided missiles by the Ukrainian Patriot air defense system could be carried out by diverting interference

Patriot anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) lost all 32 missiles while trying to shoot down the Russian hypersonic missile "Dagger". In this tone, Military Watch Magazine (MWM) writes about it. Why the SAM began to fire at false air objects one by one, having spent all the missiles, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

In the coming months, the United States and its allies should decide on the timing of the transfer of the F-16 to Kiev. Now the parties are discussing how many cars to put. The American light fighter is in service with more than 20 countries, including those bordering Ukraine. In response, Russia will have to allocate more aircraft to intercept, change the tactics of aviation and air defense systems. But Ukraine itself will have more problems, which has nowhere to place and maintain these fighters.

The Belarusian military is taking measures after the incidents in the Bryansk region

Fighter aircraft and air defense forces of the Republic of Belarus (RB) have been put on high alert. Minsk explained the adoption of these measures by "incidents in the Bryansk region", namely the crash of several Russian manned aircraft of different classes on May 12-13.

The European Union deeply regrets that the Fifth Chemical Weapons Review Conference in The Hague ended on May 19 without any significant results, the official representative of the European Foreign Service (EMU) said.

On May 21, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 375 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 37.4 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $40.2 billion.