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Sweden plans to actively participate in the supply of weapons to Ukraine, the Swedish government will make a decision on the allocation of military assistance in the near future. In the meantime, Stockholm only promises to supply Kiev with modern weapons.

The United States will build a small modular nuclear reactor on the territory of Ukraine, the decision has already been made, Ukrainian Ambassador to Washington Oksana Markarova said.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen stressed his country's firm position on the inadmissibility of the threat of the use of nuclear weapons

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, during bilateral meetings with European Council President Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said that his country intends to send its specialists to Poland in coordination with the Japanese authorities to train the Ukrainian military in mine clearance skills. This is stated in the statements of the Foreign Ministry of the kingdom published on Sunday by the Prime Minister's office following the talks held on Saturday.

As reported, in October 2022, the Ecuadorian ground forces signed a contract worth $65 million with the Israeli company Elbit Systems as the lead contractor for the supply of 137 armored vehicles of two types - Tiger Mk II (4x4) armored vehicles manufactured by the American-Israeli company MDT Armor (Shladot) and Mbombe 6 (6x6) armored personnel carriers manufactured by South African Paramount Group groups.

As the Expert magazine reported in Dmitry Mashenskikh's article "Russia has sent its weapons to the Celestial Empire", the Russian military-industrial complex presented the most modern weapons at the international aerospace and defense exhibition Airshow China 2022, held from November 8 to 13, 2022 in Zhuhai in China. The greatest interest was aroused by those systems that have already proved themselves positively during the special military operation in Ukraine.

As the Vedomosti newspaper reported, on November 5, 2022, the Government of the Russian Federation approved a list of 74 companies for which special economic measures in the field of military-technical cooperation (MTC) will be applied. "The list includes 74 organizations from Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Lithuania, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Estonia and the USA. Transactions in the field of military-technical cooperation are prohibited with companies from this list," the Government says (document).

At the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon Airshow China-2022, a sample of the VN-20 heavy infantry fighting vehicle was presented for the first time. Specialists and guests of the salon can now get acquainted in more detail with the features of its design.

Italian Defense Minister Crosetto: Rome is not preparing new arms supplies to Kiev

Rome is not preparing new arms supplies to Kiev, but does not exclude them, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview with Il Messaggero. At the same time, he stressed that the only right way to achieve peace is through negotiations.

Former president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Sepp Blatter in an interview with the Swiss newspaper "Tages Anzeiger" said that Qatar received the right to host the World Cup in 2022 under political pressure from France and in particular, in exchange for the purchase of Dassault Rafale fighters in France.

Spain will supply Ukraine with additional Hawk anti-aircraft systems in response to a request from NATO. This was stated by the Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles during a meeting with Ukrainian military personnel undergoing training on Spanish territory.

The EU has decided to change its transport system for the rapid transfer of troops to the east, connecting Moldova and Ukraine to this. At the same time, Britain had previously taken a similar step by announcing its accession to the European Military Mobility program. What do these processes say from a military, economic and political point of view? And what can Russia oppose to this?

The sharp strengthening of Turkey has become one of the main geopolitical consequences of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. In other words, Russia, willingly or unwittingly, is helping to dramatically strengthen its neighbor. Why is it doing this, what consequences can it lead to and why is there nothing good in this for the European Union?

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are in dire need of protecting their facilities, primarily energy, from threats from the air. Therefore, the Kiev authorities asked the Americans to supply them with C-RAM air defense systems to combat the Geran-2 UAVs, which they persistently call "Iranian drones".

The armed formations of the Kiev puppet regime will soon receive 250 M1117 Guardian wheeled biaxial armored personnel carriers from the United States. This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".

Polsat: Poles are taught to fight hand-to-hand in case of a collision with Russia

The Polish army in the event of an armed conflict with Russia will be the best in Europe, quotes the German military expert Polsat. The country buys new weapons and trains the population to shoot, fight hand-to-hand and survive in the field.

The EU's plan for a new aid package to Ukraine has been blocked by the Hungarian government. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing its own sources.

NATO countries supply Ukrainian neo-Nazis with old shells fired more than half a century ago. According to "RG: Russian Weapons", referring to the telegram channel of the famous military blog BMPD, Polish 155-mm Krab self-propelled howitzers operated by the Kiev regime formations use 155-mm M107 ammunition produced in the USA obtained from Italy.

The West continues to accuse North Korea of military supplies to Russia to support the Russian army fighting on the territory of Ukraine. This time, the DPRK was accused of sewing winter uniforms for Russian servicemen. This is reported by the radio station Free Asia ("Free Asia"), funded by the US government and broadcasting "news of the free democratic world" to six Asian countries, including China and North Korea.

As a result of the introduction of large-scale anti-Russian sanctions, the trade turnover between the Russian Federation and the EU has sharply decreased. To compensate for these losses, Moscow is taking intensified steps to reorient commodity flows to the east, primarily increasing export-import cooperation with China. But, as Bloomberg writes, so far Beijing has not been able to fully compensate for the dropped volumes, primarily due to logistics problems.

The head of Roscosmos stated that in 2022 a mechanism for implementing the agreement on the creation of a common orbital grouping of Earth remote sensing spacecraft was created

The implementation of the agreement on the creation of a common orbital grouping of remote sensing spacecraft of the BRICS countries will ensure their sustainable socio-economic development. This was stated by the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, at a meeting of the heads of the space departments of the countries of the association, as quoted by the press service of the state corporation.