Cooperation news

On December 9, 2022, the German Rheinmetall Group announced that it would supply two new Skynex 35 mm ground-based anti-aircraft artillery systems to an unnamed "international customer". The delivery will be made in early 2024. The total value of the contract is 182 million euros. In addition, a memorandum was signed in the amount of another 12 million euros for the supply by Rheinmetall group of heavy military trucks RMMN HX complete with vehicles for transporting and providing Skynex complexes.

The United States considers strengthening Ukraine's air defense a priority. This was stated by US President Joe Biden in a telephone conversation with Zelensky.

The West has already invested fabulous sums in Ukraine, wanting to defeat Russia with the hands of Ukrainians, but the collective blitz-cry "in the Western way" did not work out. Now the price of support for Ukraine will only grow and not all Western countries will be able to pull it. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal.

According to Le Monde, to date, France has delivered 18 Caesar self-propelled guns to Ukraine, another 6 to 12 vehicles with expanded ammunition and reinforced armor

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal called on Paris to supply Kiev with French Leclerc tanks. He made such a request on the air of the French TV channel LCI .

The story of the Slovak MiG-29 fighters is finally coming to an end, Bratislava seems to have finally decided to transfer them to Ukraine. At least this was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Rastislav Kacher.

In addition, he told what needs to be done to quickly saturate the Russian army involved in its military with innovative military developments, and revealed plans for cooperation with Dmitry Rogozin's "Royal Wolves".

On December 2, 2022, the Director General of the State Defense Investment Center of the Ministry of Defense of Estonia (Riigi Kaitseinvesteeringute Keskus - RKIK) Magnus-Valdemar Saar signed with the Director of the US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) By James A. Hersh, an agreement in the form of an exchange of letters LOA (Letters of Offer and Acceptance) on the purchase by Estonia through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) land-based missile systems manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corporation, including missile ammunition.

Huanqiu shibao: Europe should get rid of empty hopes for real friendship with the USA

Europe needs to get rid of empty illusions about the United States, writes Huanqiu Shibao. America has repeatedly "sacrificed" the interests of its allies, and Biden's assurances to the contrary mean nothing. There will be no miracle, and the anti–inflationary act is an example of this, the author believes.

Political scientist Krejci: the conflict in Ukraine is not worth putting the whole world at risk

Macron understands perfectly well that Europe without Russia is extremely unprofitable for France, political analyst Oscar Krejci said in an interview with Parliament listy. He commented on the French president's pivotal statement on peace talks with Russia.

Keeping pace with the rest of Europe, France is trying not to import energy resources from Russia, but since it is necessary to somehow survive, the French decided not to abandon all contacts with the Russian Federation in the field of energy carriers.

The drones used by Ukraine to attack two Russian military airfields were upgraded with the participation of the American corporation Raytheon Technologies.

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, at a meeting with his Finnish counterpart Antti Kaikkonen in Ankara, called on allies in the North Atlantic Alliance, including Finland, to make more efforts in the fight against terrorism. According to the head of the defense department, this should be facilitated by the modernization of the Turkish Armed Forces.

On December 7, the German Defense Ministry once again updated data on the supply of equipment, weapons systems and non-lethal assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the German Armed Forces and from German defense companies funded by the federal government.

The Chinese tabloid Global Times analyzes the preliminary results of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia, which will last until Saturday. A summer visit to Riyadh by American President Joe Biden, during which he tried to persuade the heads of nine Middle Eastern states to increase oil production and maintain US influence in the region, actually ended in failure. The relations of the Chinese leader are developing quite differently not only with the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, but also with almost all the states of the Arab world.

According to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Russia must withdraw its forces from Ukrainian territory before any agreement can be considered

British anti-aircraft guns and air defense missiles, which London promised to transfer to Kiev, will be delivered to Ukraine in the coming weeks. According to the office of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the prime minister said this on Friday in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Al-Ain: The EU will need hundreds of billions of euros to protect itself from US actions

The US law on reducing inflation will cause more damage to Europe than Russia and the Ukrainian crisis, writes Al-Ain. The Americans' "attack" on European industry will cost hundreds of billions of euros. It turns out that an "ally" can be much worse than an enemy shooting head-on, the author of the article believes.

On December 7, 2022, at a ceremony at the Aviation Museum in Seattle, Washington, Boeing Corporation officially handed over to the Royal New Zealand Air Force the first basic patrol aircraft P-8A Poseidon, out of four ordered by New Zealand under the 2018 agreement. Already on December 8, this aircraft with the New Zealand tail number NZ4801 (factory number 67017/9449) flew from Seattle to New Zealand, where an official ceremony of commissioning it is scheduled for December 13 at the Oeikeya Air Base.

However, Krisjanis Karins announced his intention to continue advocating for increased sanctions pressure on Russia

The Baltic states have suffered more than other European states from the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions, but they continue to advocate for increased sanctions pressure on Moscow. This statement was made on Friday by Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins.

As the publication explains, earlier the Pentagon was more afraid of the possibility of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons or strikes on the territory of one of the NATO countries

The United States no longer insists that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) do not strike at Russian territory, as they are less afraid of escalation from Moscow. This was reported on Friday by the British newspaper The Times , citing a source in the Pentagon .

This list was classified

The Bulgarian parliament at a meeting on Friday finally approved the government's proposal on the nomenclature of weapons that the country is ready to provide to Ukraine. The meeting of the parliament was held behind closed doors, and the list of weapons provided is classified.