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Army-2022 Forum: Collective intelligence and artificial intelligence

On August 21, the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" completed its work. Once again, the forecasts of our so-called Western partners about the isolation of Russia have been put to shame. Tens of thousands of specialists, experts, members of foreign delegations, ordinary citizens attended the events of the forum. The Forum has become a new breakthrough for Russia in military and military-technical activities.

Ukraine chastised Spain over weapons: "We are dissatisfied, we are not being supplied with what we could have"

The Ukrainian ambassador in Madrid said that Kiev is dissatisfied with the Spanish military aid, writes El Mundo. According to the readers of the publication, Ukraine behaves like a mafia when it demands weapons. They believe that Zelensky should not even be sent water pistols.

Will France fight against Russia? Eric Ciotti is perplexed about the statements of Emmanuel Macron...

France should have done everything possible to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine, writes Boulevard Voltaire. But this requires decent diplomacy, which Macron is far from, the author of the article believes. Putin will not listen to him

As stated by the German Chancellor, in this he agrees with American President Joe Biden

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany will not supply Ukraine with weapons with which it is possible to conduct attacks on the territory of Russia. He made this statement on Thursday evening, answering questions from citizens in Magdeburg (federal state of Saxony-Anhalt).

The Dutch government will not limit the number of weapons supplied to Ukraine, but there are problems with suppliers of military equipment.

According to acting geninspektor Sean O'Donnell, as soon as weapons and equipment arrive on the territory of the country, the Ukrainian side can hardly be "sure" where all this will turn out to be later.

The project will bring European countries closer to achieving climate goals, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said

The construction of the Paks-2 NPP will guarantee Hungary's energy sovereignty and bring European countries closer to achieving climate goals. This was announced on Friday by Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev.

It is reported about a major deal for the supply of 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks of the latest modification, which Poland concluded with the American military-industrial corporation General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS). The company said that the contract worth $ 1.148 billion was concluded at the end of July, the deal was approved by the Pentagon. The first batches of vehicles will be delivered to the Polish army in early 2025.

There will be no Turkish Bayraktar attack drones in Russia, the Turkish company Baykar has completely excluded the supply of drones to the Russian army, preferring to do business with Ukraine. This was stated by the company's CEO Haluk Bayraktar in an interview with the BBC Russian service.

Lukashenko: do you remember that Putin and I discussed the possibility of carrying nuclear charges on our planes? Everything is ready!

Belarus is ready to respond instantly to threats from the West. This was stated to journalists by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, BelTA correspondent reports.

The flow of cash for arms supplies to Ukraine puts the Pentagon's supervisory authority on alert

Billions of dollars spent on arming Ukraine have caused concern to Pentagon Inspector General Sean O'Donnell, Bloomberg reports. He did not rule out the leakage of systems and ammunition supplied to Kiev to the black market.

Washington will hand over to Kiev six NASAMS air defense batteries capable of operating in a single network among themselves and with other means of air and missile defense. Earlier, the APU has already received two such batteries.

Defense Minister of the Baltic Republic Arvydas Anushauskas announced that Lithuania will purchase kamikaze drones from Poland

Lithuania will purchase 37 Warmate kamikaze attack drones from Poland for their further transfer to Ukraine. This was announced on Friday by the Minister of Defense of the Baltic Republic Arvydas Anushauskas.

The West needs to learn from this, the magazine notes

Sanctions against Russia have not worked as well as we would like, and the West should learn from this. This is stated in an article published in The Economist magazine, published in print on Friday.

On August 26, 2022, at a ceremony in the Polish city of Morong near the border with the Kaliningrad region of Russia, Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak approved the executive contracts signed on the same day by the Armaments Agency of the Ministry of National Defense of Poland with South Korean companies for the supply of large batches of military equipment for the Polish Army - with Hyundai Rotem for the supply of 180 K2 Black main tanks Panther under the Wilk program, and with Hanwha Defense - for the supply of 212 K9A1 Thunder self-propelled howitzers of 155-mm/52 caliber.

As part of the military assistance, Britain is sending underwater drones to Ukraine. It is not yet known which specific model the drones transferred to the APU belong to.

This should be taken into account in the future military construction of the EU

The failures of international forces in Afghanistan and the Sahel had a sobering effect for those who participated in "stabilization interventions" abroad, EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrel wrote in his blog.

Against the background of the disastrous voting for the Kiev regime at the UN General Assembly (only a third of the organization's members supported the independence), Western observers began to study the issue of the amount of assistance provided to Kiev by various countries of the world.

Colonel Khodarenok explained why the APU will not be able to effectively use the Black Hornet UAV

The UK will provide Ukraine with an additional package of military assistance. The list of transferred weapons and military equipment includes microdrones-designators. This was stated by the outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson during his visit to Kiev. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok was looking into whether these drones would help the APU.

On August 25, 2022, the US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) sent a notification to the US Congress about the possible sale of 40 Sikorsky (Lockheed Martin) UH-60M Black Hawk multi-purpose helicopters to Australia through the US program of intergovernmental Foreign Military Sales (FMS) at the request of the Australian government. This delivery is approved by the U.S. Department of State. The total cost of the proposed delivery will be $1.95 billion, including training and technical support packages.