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How much do you care about Ukraine when fuel costs $5 per gallon?

Ukrainians are increasingly concerned about whether the West is ready to pay the economic price that will be required to protect their country. Against the background of incessant inflation, dependence on Russian energy resources and internal problems in Western countries, assistance to Ukraine is gradually fading into the background.

Despite Ukraine's desire to receive heavy armored vehicles and combat aircraft, the West will not do this. As French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited Kiev, explained, there is an agreement not to supply some types of military equipment to Ukraine.

A regular meeting of the working group under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers on electronic warfare (EW) was held in Yerevan on June 16.

Russia will complete the plant for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela, said the owner of the Kalashnikov group of companies Alan Lushnikov.

The Polish Ministry of National Defense intends to purchase Leonardo Group AW-149 helicopters, despite the fact that it previously refused to purchase them as part of a project to purchase a medium multi-purpose helicopter.

The Ukrainian Air Force was replenished with helicopters, Slovakia handed over a batch of rotorcraft to Kiev. According to the Minister of Defense of the Republic Yaroslav Nagy, helicopters have already joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During the visit of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to the main Ugandan Air Force base in Entebbe on June 16, 2022, the first Russian-made Mi-28NE combat helicopters received by the Ugandan Air Force were demonstrated. Three Mi-28NE helicopters can be counted on the video and photo materials from Entebbe, there are no side numbers on them, but the identification marks of the Ugandan Air Force are applied on the tail. Earlier, deliveries of combat helicopters of this type to Uganda were not reported.

On June 16, 2022, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Jordan and the Commander of the Jordanian Armed Forces, Major General Youssef Al-Khnaiti and the Commander of the Jordanian Air Force, Brigadier General Mohammad Hiyasat, signed an intergovernmental agreement with representatives of the US government and Lockheed Martin Corporation (in the form of an exchange of letters of Offer and Acceptance - LOA) on the supply of Jordan through the American programs of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of the first eight Lockheed Martin F-16V Block 70 fighters of new production.

The Kiev regime is in a hurry to throw into battle all the human resources and materiel at its disposal. However, the West supplies the APU not only with conventional combat systems that do not require a high level of training, but also with individual copies of high-tech equipment, which requires the qualification of personnel.

Argentina will buy American CH-47 Chinook helicopters instead of the Russian Mi-26, Defense News reports, citing military sources in Buenos Aires.

From Russia — with bullets: why do American special forces need Russian machine guns

Experts in the United States have repeatedly called Russian weapons obsolete. But now the US Department of Defense is offering American companies to develop an analogue of Russian weapons, National Interest reports.

How did Putin get so much power in Africa?

Many were surprised that African countries abstained during the vote on the UN resolution condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine, writes La Vanguardia. The author of the article decided to figure out how Moscow gained such influence in the region.

New heavy equipment, money and intelligence — that's what the West promised Kiev as part of the third package of military assistance. The amount is more than a billion dollars. However, the Ukrainian authorities are still not happy. About what exactly they will receive and what they are dissatisfied with — in the RIA Novosti material.

In Ukraine, the problems that arise with foreign-made weapons delivered to the country are increasingly being voiced. First of all, we are talking about problems with heavy weapons that are supplied to Ukraine. Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Denis Sharapov shares his "feelings" about this with foreign reporters.

Pumping Ukraine with weapons leads to a confrontation between the United States and Russia, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov believes. He stated this in an article on the pages of the American magazine Newsweek.

The United States has suspended the sale of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Ukraine. This is reported by Reuters.

Putin: The era of the "unipolar world" has come to an end, and Asia and China are new centers of world development

The President of Russia in his speech at the SPIEF said that the United States is pursuing a policy of "predatory colonialism," writes "Guancha". Readers of the publication support the message of Putin's speech and note that it is impossible to speak differently with the West because of his shameless behavior.

The contract for the supply of S-400 air defense systems to India is being carried out on schedule, without disruption, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Interfax.

The Japanese command has sent a flotilla of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces to the Pacific Ocean, which will visit a number of countries, and will also participate in several international exercises, Kyodo reports.

As reported by the American edition of Politico in the article by Lara Seligman "U.S. officials weigh doubling the number of rocket launchers sent to Ukraine ("U.S. officials are considering doubling missile systems sent to Ukraine"), the U.S. Department of Defense is inclined to send four more combat units as military assistance to Ukraine vehicles of the M142 HIMARS ground-based missile system, in addition to the four combat vehicles included in the military assistance package announced on June 1, 2022.