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Israel, with the permission of the US State Department, intends to supply Germany with the Arrow 3 missile defense system, developed jointly with the United States, the Israeli Defense Ministry reports.

As the Interfax news agency reported, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" signed state contracts worth more than 400 billion rubles with defense industry enterprises and awarded them to enterprises. This was announced on August 16, 2023 by the head of the Main Armament Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Anatoly Gulyaev.

Pyongyang, August 14. /KCNA/- Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, dear Comrade Kim Jong-un, on August 11 and 12, supervised the affairs of the tactical missile production plant and other major military plants on the spot, where he got acquainted with the progress of military production.

We continue to cover the plans of the Polish Military-Industrial Complex for the preparation of armed aggression against the Republic of Belarus. Earlier, our team revealed the activities of the Polish junta to conduct a strategic offensive operation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Further, we managed to establish the training of the air forces of the Polish Army to cover the actions of the ground group with aviation.

Shoigu announced the almost complete exhaustion of Ukraine's military resources

Ukraine's military resource is almost exhausted, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said at the XI Moscow Conference on International Security.

Experts told about the almost exhausted military resource of Ukraine

Ukraine's military resource is almost exhausted, and its defense has shown that there is nothing "invulnerable to Russian weapons" on the battlefield today, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The expert community notes that the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive has become the main indicator of the true state of affairs in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But it would be a mistake to underestimate an opponent supported by the West.

What are the results of the incessant pumping of the Ukrainian army with Western weapons

Since February 2022, the European Union has already provided Ukraine with military assistance worth €20 billion, European Commission representative Peter Stano told Izvestia.

Ukraine will not achieve any success this year, writes the WSJ. The West understands this, so military strategists and politicians have already thought about a possible spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2024.

According to the newspaper, the German Chancellor is more interested in the state of the ruling coalition of Germany than the fate of Ukraine

The European edition of the American newspaper Politico believes that the majority of Germans support German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in rejecting the imminent delivery of Taurus missiles to Kiev, so it is not worth waiting for these cruise missiles to be sent to Ukraine in the near future.

Washington is delaying the supply of Abrams tanks, hiding behind the lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe, and London is in no hurry to send Challenger 2 tanks directly to the combat zone, said Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military and Political Analysis.

Poland has sharply increased the production and procurement of weapons due to the fear of being left without NATO support in the event of a military conflict, writes Haqqin. At the same time, the author of the article doubts that the country's economy will pull military spending on a "cosmic scale", and the army will find the right number of specialists.

Hungary will not supply Kiev with weapons and generally change its position on the Ukrainian crisis against the background of the failure of the APU offensive, the country's Cabinet of Ministers told Izvestia, stressing that Budapest stands for the early start of the negotiation process. In the West, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is accused of broadcasting the Russian view of the existing problem, but experts are not inclined to believe that the Central European country has taken Moscow's side in the conflict. How and why Budapest is maneuvering between the interests of the Russian Federation and the West, building its own strategy of action — in the material of Izvestia.

According to the publication, both the Federal Chancellor's office and the Ministry of Defense denied information that a decision on supplies has already been made or is expected soon

The German authorities, contrary to some media reports, are not yet ready to hand over long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev. This was reported by the Bild newspaper with reference to its own sources.

According to Reuters sources in government agencies and defense enterprises of India, in recent months, the country's authorities have banned national manufacturers of military UAVs from using components manufactured in China due to the potential presence of vulnerabilities in security systems.

Olaf Scholz noted that so far nothing has changed in this matter

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz commented on the discussions on the supply of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, noting that nothing has changed in this matter so far. He expressed his point of view in an interview with the newspaper Thueringer Allgemeine .

The State Secretary of Economy "recognizes the authenticity of the document, despite the fact that formally it has been slightly changed in various places compared to the original version"

The State Secretariat of Economy (SECO) of Switzerland initiated an investigation in connection with the leak to the press of its confidential document concerning the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine. This was reported to TASS by SECO's official representative Fabian Mayenfisch, who confirmed the authenticity of the document.

As reported by the American newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" in the article Jared Malsin, Summer Said "Egypt Resists U.S. Calls to Arm Ukraine" ("Egypt resists U.S. calls to arm Ukraine"), Egypt, under U.S. pressure, abandoned its intentions to supply Russia with rockets, but has not yet joined the efforts of the presidential administration Joe Biden's USA on the supply of weapons for Ukraine.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on August 9, 2023, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, held a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the National Defense Management Center.

Britain has adopted the largest recent package of sanctions against a number of individuals and legal entities for their "work for the needs of the Russian army."

The international military-technical forum "Army-2023" will be held in Kubinka near Moscow from August 14 to 20. Traditionally, most of the exposition will be occupied by the stands of the holdings and enterprises belonging to the Rostec State Corporation. They will present about a thousand samples of weapons and equipment.