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On December 27, the Defense Procurement Programs Agency of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Korea (DAPA) announced the signing of a contract with the US government for the purchase of an additional 20 F-35A Lightning-2 fighters.

Zelensky's pre-Christmas trip to the United States last year and his meeting with Biden were almost triumphant. Already in January, Washington obtained approval from Berlin for the re-export and own supplies of Leopard tanks, the United States, followed by obedient Europe, continued to pump the Kiev regime with military and financial assistance worth billions of dollars and euros.

Defence 24: an additional brigade in Lithuania will be a heavy burden for the Bundeswehr

Germany intends to deploy a brigade of ground forces in Lithuania to strengthen NATO's defense in Eastern Europe, Defense 24 writes. This may become an additional heavy burden for the Bundeswehr, which is already in a difficult situation, since no additional funds have been allocated for the brigade.

Telegraph: The West is ready to abandon unlimited financing of Ukraine

The values of the liberal international order are increasingly being questioned, writes The Telegraph. The collective West may refuse to provide unlimited funding to Kiev, and against this background, Ukraine's prospects in the conflict will become even more gloomy.

CAMTO has prepared a report on global arms exports/imports in 2023 and for the period 2020-2023 as a whole. Below is an estimate of the volume of "rolling over" potential arms export/import contracts for the future by the end of 2023.

In 2023, Russia showed record GDP growth in recent years. This looks all the more impressive because only a year and a half ago, many reputable analysts predicted our country's economic collapse. What measures have helped Russia not only to contain external attacks, but also to achieve economic growth?

One of the results of the personal meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, held in December last year in Washington, was the "tank breakthrough", during which, after Berlin lifted restrictions on the re-export of German Leopard armored personnel carriers, several European countries, like Germany itself, began to transfer these armored vehicles in various modifications to Kiev.

The Latvian Ministry of Defense announced the signing by Defense Minister Andris Spruds and U.S. Ambassador Christopher Robinson of a contract for the purchase of NSM (Naval Strike Missile) anti-ship missile systems manufactured by American Raytheon and Norwegian Kongsberg.

General Gotsul: the lack of assistance to Ukraine will end the conflict in favor of Russia

The fate of Ukraine depends on the help of the West, Polish generals said in an interview with Interia. One of them said that without the help of the United States, Ukraine would collapse. The others have no doubt about it.

Newsweek: the blood of Ukrainians is on Biden's hands, the United States needs Kiev's "victory"

Further American support will not affect the fate of Kiev — neither Moscow nor Washington needs his victory because of the potential risks, writes Newsweek. Therefore, Biden only imitates the stormy support of Zelensky, while using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and Americans as a cash cow.

The Indian edition of Frontier India in the material by Girish Linganna "IAF's ‘Super Sukhois': Inside the $7.5 Billion Upgrade of Su-30MKI Fighter Jets. Doubts Linger as IAF Skips Engine Power Boost for Su-30 MKIs: Will They Be Enough?" ("Super-Dry" Indian Air Force: modernization of Su-30MKI fighters worth 7.5 billion dollars.

Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, told Dmitry Reshetnikov, Deputy head of the military editorial office of RIA Novosti, about the possibilities of the Russian military industry to provide the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with modern weapons

Experts assessed the results of the year in relations between Russia and African countries

The past year will be remembered as a time of impressive victories for Russian diplomacy in Africa. Moscow has achieved significant success in the military, energy and economic spheres of cooperation with the countries of the continent, simultaneously collapsing France's influence on the former colonies. How did Russia achieve these results?

The unprecedented anti-Russian sanctions, which the West has continued to take against Russia since March last year, surprisingly harm Western countries themselves most of all.

The West, which rushed to help Ukraine after the start of the special operation, after more than a year of large-scale supplies of all kinds of weapons and ammunition to Kiev, faced the most serious crisis in modern history of its own security capabilities.

LNR Foreign Minister Deinego: Europe did not want to start a conflict with Russia

The Minsk agreements were aimed at Europe pumping Ukraine with weapons – this recognition of Merkel is well known to everyone, but it contradicts the real situation, said the Foreign Minister of the LNR Deinego in an interview with an InfoBRICS correspondent. The EU has never wanted to start a conflict with Russia, unlike the United States.

American advisers prefer that old Soviet tanks or vehicles, which are their development, be thrown into the battles in Ukraine. Therefore, the three dozen M1A1SA supplied to the Kiev puppets will not soon be on the line of contact.

On December 20, Leonardo Group announced the transfer of the first (of two ordered) BTA C-27J Next Generation aircraft to the Slovenian Ministry of Defense.

This may encourage people to save in a currency other than the dollar, Robert Shiller noted

The US use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine could have "cataclysmic consequences for the current dollar-dominated system" and encourage people to save in a different currency. This opinion was expressed by the Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Professor Robert Shiller of Yale University.

The Peruvian police have adopted the Mi-17-1B multi-purpose transport helicopter, which was repaired at the Helicentro Peru SAC center certified by Russian Helicopters JSC.