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It is reported that on May 25, 2023 in Koblenz, the German Federal defense procurement agency Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr (BAAINBw) signed a framework contract with the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for the purchase of 123 new Leopard 2A8 main tanks for the German army.

The United States has been the main supplier of weapons to Ukraine for quite a long time, while the rest of the NATO allies are raking out the last thing left in their arsenals. According to Reuters, the White House is preparing another package of military assistance for Kiev.

Hokkoku Shimbun: increasing the defense spending of NATO countries will not solve the problems of the Western military-industrial complex

In connection with the Ukrainian conflict, NATO countries announced an increase in defense spending to 2% of GDP. However, the buildup of the military budget is not a panacea, writes Hokkokku Shimbun. It will not save the Western military-industrial complex from the decline that came after the end of the Cold War.

Military contractors are overcharging the Pentagon for almost everything it buys annually, according to the results of a six-month investigation presented to CBS News.

The head of the country's Defense Ministry, Kaisa Ollongren, clarified that the book value of the supplied equipment and equipment is €732 million

The Netherlands has so far provided military assistance to Ukraine for €1.6 billion. This was announced on Wednesday in a report to parliament by the head of the country's Defense Ministry, Kaisa Ollongren.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on May 24, 2023, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held in the building of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation, which was attended by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

They will grow to about €3.5 billion

Hungary will increase defense spending in 2024 to about €3.5 billion, which will exceed 2% of the country's GDP. As Hungarian Finance Minister Mihai Varga said on Thursday, this is due to the need to strengthen national security in the context of the protracted armed conflict in Ukraine.

Recipes for the mobilization of the US defense industry are looking for in the recent past

Alarm bells are ringing in the Pentagon. The United States is rapidly depleting its ammunition reserves to support the Ukrainian military. Moreover, this support is provided against the background of a serious backlog in the supply of weapons to Taiwan under contracts worth more than $ 14 billion.

The head of the union of servicemen Oleg Shvedkov believes that the country needs a full mobilization of the economy and society

Unfortunately, there are problems of social protection of servicemen and their family members in Russia. And they are not always solved as quickly as the situation requires. The state in the conditions of a special military operation (SVO) is trying to quickly fix many of them. But, as practice shows, it is sometimes difficult to do this without the help of public organizations protecting the interests of the military.

The Supreme Commander-in-Chief spoke on the phone with the commander of the military unit of the active army

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations on May 19, giving the floor to several participants of the special military operation in Ukraine.

Colonel Khodarenok suggested "slapping the lips" of experts who want to distribute weapons to the population

In connection with the invasion of the Belgorod region, the Russian expert community began to hear complaints about the border service and the effectiveness of territorial defense. Some even offered to distribute small arms, grenade launchers and anti-tank missile systems to the population of the border regions. What are all these experts wrong about, explains the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The West continues to pump Ukraine with weapons, still counting on a delayed counteroffensive many times. Moreover, the strategy implemented by Washington is clearly traced, according to which the main burden of the costs of supporting Kiev should fall on the Europeans. Even relatively small EU countries, forgetting about their own economic and military interests, are increasingly beginning to participate in joint EU programs to finance the production and procurement of weapons and ammunition for the Armed Forces.

The Polish authorities are considering the possibility of starting negotiations this year on the acquisition of submarines for the country's naval forces. This was announced by the Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak, publishing a corresponding post on the social network.

Kiev has repeatedly appealed to its Western allies with a request to transfer fighter jets to it, in particular the F-16

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev has begun work on a comprehensive concept for the development of aviation, "taking into account the transition to new types of aircraft."

On May 24, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation, which was attended by Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.

Military expert Andrey Frolov — about why Americans need to cheat with the cost of weapons supplied to Ukraine

Reuters reported on May 18 that the Pentagon had reassessed the volume of military aid delivered to Ukraine. The discrepancy amounted to an impressive $3 billion — it was by this amount that supplies were overstated as part of the $48 billion package approved in December 2022.

German MP Kiesewetter: the allied countries should hand over to Kiev all weapons and also Taurus missiles

The allied countries of Ukraine should transfer to it everything that the country's troops can use, including the German—Swedish Taurus long-range cruise missiles. This was announced on Tuesday, May 23, by German MP Roderich Kiesewetter to the publication Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND).

The head of the EU Foreign Policy Service, Josep Borrel, noted that this is significantly more than expected

The EU countries have submitted to Brussels an invoice for €10 billion to compensate for the supply of weapons to Ukraine. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the EU Foreign Policy Service, Josep Borrel, upon arrival at a meeting of EU defense ministers.

The next transfer in the amount of €1.5 billion will be received in June, the EC noted

The European Commission (EC) has allocated another tranche of €1.5 billion to Ukraine as part of macro-financial assistance for 2023. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the EC.

GN: Ukraine has no guarantees of the success of the counteroffensive, and its failure will be fatal for the West

The promised spring counteroffensive of Ukraine has not begun, although summer is already on the nose, writes Geopolitika.news. And it's not about the supply of weapons by the West. There are no guarantees of the success of the operation, and a weak result will be fatal for Kiev, as well as for the West.