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On October 14, 2022, a ceremony was held in Bremerhaven (Germany) to hand over to the Egyptian Navy the lead frigate Al-Aziz (tail number "904") of the MEKO 200EN project, built by the German shipbuilding association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), in a series of four ordered ships.

The newspaper does not exclude that Italy and Spain may supply Ukraine with Aspide short-range anti-aircraft guided missiles

Italy, presumably, will supply Ukraine with Spada medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems. As the newspaper La Repubblica reported on Saturday, citing sources in NATO, such readiness was announced on Wednesday at a meeting of the alliance's defense ministers in Brussels.

NATO will soon hold "long-planned" exercises on nuclear deterrence forces. Among the members of the alliance, the United States, Great Britain and France have nuclear weapons. The question now is what consequences this action may have, Javan writes.

American billionaire Elon Musk commented on the statement of the Pentagon representatives after his decision to refuse further financing of the Starlink satellite communication system in Ukraine. Recall that Musk previously stated that he could not continue to provide Ukraine with Internet from his company Starlink for free, since traffic in this country is a hundred times more active than for ordinary households. And immediately offered to solve the issue of funding to the Pentagon.

The journalists of the American edition of Politico learned exactly what Kiev requested from the Pentagon as part of the next military assistance. Journalists note that there are currently "tons of lists going around in official offices in Washington, although we were reliably informed that this one is the most up-to-date." Among Kiev's wishlist are no less than 300 tanks, 1000 BPM, 30 MLRS HIMARS and their derivatives, 250 15-mm artillery systems, 500 ATGM, 1000 MANPADS and many more, so to speak, in small things.

Wolfgang Schmidt earlier spoke in support of the position of the German government regarding the supply of heavy weapons to Kiev, which still avoids transferring such equipment to Ukraine

The chairman of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, sharply criticized the statements of the head of the department of the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Wolfgang Schmidt, who compared calls to supply Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine with the hopes of the Third Reich for a V2 ballistic missile.

According to the newspaper, this topic has been raised recently at several meetings, including with the participation of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

The United States authorities are dissatisfied with the pace and volume of economic assistance that their European allies are providing to Ukraine, this topic has been raised recently at a number of meetings, including with the participation of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. This was reported on Saturday by The Washington Post, citing sources.

On October 14, 2022, the US Department of Defense announced the allocation of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 725 million.Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 has now reached approximately $17.6 billion. The total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $ 20.3 billion.

Romania will voluntarily allocate $1.4 million to strengthen the defense capabilities of the countries of the Black Sea region and Jordan - Mass media

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made it clear this week that the United States and its NATO allies have almost exhausted the possibilities of providing Ukraine with modern weapons. Washington is increasingly talking about reducing stocks to such a level that in the event of a further escalation of the conflict in Europe, the US army will have nothing to fight with and defend its allies. Despite the fact that just further military assistance to Kiev can provoke a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.

According to MEP Serhiy Lagodinsky, Ukrainians have the right to self-defense

The German Union-90/Green Party overwhelmingly voted at the party congress in Bonn on Saturday in favor of increasing arms supplies to Ukraine.

As Andriy Melnyk noted, Kiev needs Germany to take on long-term commitments regarding military support for Ukraine in the coming years

The former ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk proposed to the Chancellor of the Federal Republic Olaf Scholz to form a tank alliance in Europe in order to establish early deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Kiev. Melnik stated this in an interview published on Saturday with the newspaper Welt am Sonntag .

During one of the demonstrations, the collection of signatures against sanctions against the Russian Federation was launched

Several hundred supporters of the "Sovereign and People's Italy" party took part in a rally on Saturday in the square of the Holy Apostles in the center of Rome, a TASS correspondent reports.

Germany has supplied Ukraine with weapons worth 1.5 billion. euro, about the same amount was counted in the Bundeswehr after the last delivery of equipment to the APU. On the eve of the Germans pleased Ukraine with engineering equipment.

Nahman Shai made his statement after The Washington Post published information according to which the United States and its allies believe that Iran can supply Russia with a batch of ballistic missiles.

The Hungarian Parliament may ratify the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO on October 24

Finnish Socialist MEP Eero Heinjaluoma claims that Hungary, one of the two countries that have not yet ratified the application of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Alliance, will vote for the membership of these countries in the Alliance at the parliament session on October 24.

According to the Defense Ministers of Ukraine and Germany, on October 11, 2022, the German side handed over to the armed forces of Ukraine the first set of the IRIS-T SLM medium-range anti-aircraft missile system of the new production of the German company Diehl Defense (as part of the Diehl Group). The transfer, as stated, was carried out on the territory of Poland near the Ukrainian border, and on October 12, the complex was delivered to Ukraine, becoming the first modern Western-made medium or long-range air defense system delivered to Ukraine.

The AFP news agency reported earlier that the ambassadors of the EU countries agreed on the creation of a mission to organize training events for Ukrainian servicemen in several EU countries

The operational command of the EU mission to train the Ukrainian military will be stationed in Poland. This was stated to journalists on Wednesday by Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak following a meeting of the contact group for the coordination of military assistance to Ukraine.

The Western press has published a framework list of weapons that Ukraine is asking NATO countries to provide. The Ukrainian delegation addressed the defense ministers of the North Atlantic Alliance countries with this list today.

For years, the War on Terror dominated the U.S. Army Association's exhibition, which featured heavy armored vehicles and ways to protect soldiers from improvised explosive devices. But this week, during the ongoing special Russian military operation in Ukraine, drones and artillery, including jet, are coming to the fore.