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For this, Washington should make an appropriate decision, Alexey Reznikov said

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov believes that Kiev will receive tanks and fighters of Western production after the relevant decision is made in Washington in the future. He stated this in an interview published on Tuesday with the American newspaper Politico .

The Ukrainian army will soon be replenished with German self-propelled howitzers and MLRS systems. The delivery of an additional batch of weapons and equipment was promised to Zelensky by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who visited Kiev the day before.

The Hill: The US is very interested in strengthening Germany

The point of NATO's existence is no longer to contain Germany, as after the Second World War, writes The Hill. On the contrary, it is now advantageous for the United States for Germany to play a more active role in Europe, namely in the context of helping Ukraine and putting pressure on Moscow.

Government officials in Taiwan touted its leading position in the chip manufacturing sector, while appealing to the European Union to start negotiations on a trade deal, which Taipei has been seeking for a long time. This is reported by the Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun.

iDNES: Weapons stocks in Europe have been depleted. The question arose about the continuation of supplies to Ukraine

Some European countries have begun to wonder whether to continue to supply weapons to Kiev, writes iDNES. The fighting in Ukraine has devastated their reserves, which are very difficult to replenish in the current conditions. Russia is coping with this much better.

Military expert Yuri Knutov told about the NASAMS air defense systems delivered to Ukraine

Military expert Yuri Knutov on Wednesday, October 26, in an interview with Izvestia, listed the technical characteristics of the NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) put into service in Ukraine.

The commander of the armed forces of the Republic Valdemaras Rupshis noted that he can no longer, by transferring available resources to Ukraine, "undress the army"

The transfer to Ukraine of howitzers and anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) NASAMS, which are in service with the Lithuanian army, is impossible, as this will negatively affect the firepower of Lithuanian units. This was announced to journalists on Wednesday by the commander of the armed forces of the Baltic Republic, Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupshis.

The maximum amount of funds to pay for the state contract should not exceed 41.7 billion rubles

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order that allows Roscosmos to conclude a contract in 2023 for the performance of experimental design work (R&D), the result of which will be, among other things, the sending of astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023-2027. The relevant document was published on Wednesday on the legal information portal.

The President of Ukraine expressed regret that Kiev "does not yet have its own "Iron Dome"

Since 2014, Ukraine's requests for the supply of Israeli weapons, including the Iron Dome air defense and missile defense systems (air defense and missile defense), have not been satisfied by Israel. This was stated by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in a video message to the participants of the conference organized by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

WE: The US should not help Ukraine "too much"

The author of the Washington Examiner article supports those lawmakers who call for reducing aid to Ukraine. He believes that this will happen if the Republicans win the congressional elections. Now taxpayers are already languishing under the heavy burden of this "aid". America urgently needs to dump the bulk of it on Europe.

Subtitle: Huanqiu shibao: US anti-Russian actions will weaken the dollar's hegemony

Against the background of the Ukrainian crisis, the United States and Europe began to build a new economic order around themselves, writes Huanqiu Shibao. To succeed, they need allies. However, with sanctions against Russia, the West has undermined the world's confidence – not only in itself, but also in the dollar.

Ukraine needs a new air defense system, which it hopes to build with the help of foreign states. Kiev is counting on mass deliveries of anti-aircraft systems from Ukraine's "partners". This was stated by the Ukrainian president.

Ukraine will remain not only without Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drones, but also without a factory for their production. According to sources in Kiev, Baykar refused to build an enterprise for the production of UAVs on Ukrainian territory.

In order to somehow support the morale of the population and the military, the Kiev regime simply needs another fetishization of Western weapons. But if earlier such a "wunderwaffe" was the American MLRS HIMARS, which still belong to the class of offensive weapons, now the Ukrainian authorities are singing the praises of defensive weapons.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft government decree that permits the maintenance and repair of aircraft using non-original components manufactured "according to the procedures of countries that are leading in the global aviation community."

The German Air Force plans to modernize electronic warfare equipment used in aviation. In order to meet their needs, Israel and Germany have begun to jointly develop an electronic warfare system for Eurofighter Typhoon fighters.

WP readers: in the Congress, they said aloud about Ukraine what many people only think

Prominent party members of President Biden called on him to radically change his approach to what is happening in Ukraine, writes The Washington Post. On the contrary, he himself is struggling to maintain support for military operations against the backdrop of the tense situation that the coming winter promises to the region. In addition, Republicans threaten to cut payments to Ukraine if they take a majority in Congress.

Diagnostics-M Company presented six of its new developments to the attention of the professional community for the first time at the international exhibition Interpolitech-2022.

Iran surprised with an unexpected statement about signing a contract with Russia for the supply of 40 gas turbines. And in this case we are not talking about turbines for Russian gas pipelines, but about turbines for thermal power plants. Gas turbines are far from a mass commodity, and a contract for such a large number of turbines can claim to be the deal of the century. However, does Russia need so many Iranian turbines?

The Russian military has begun to carry out tasks in Belarus

Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said on October 17 that a regional grouping of troops, made up of Belarusian and Russian servicemen, had begun to carry out tasks to protect the Union State. Previously, the deployment and use of the forces and means of the two countries were practiced at various exercises.