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According to Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Arvydas Anushauskas following the results of the US-led meeting in Brussels on October 12 in the Ramstein format, Lithuania will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine.

Belarus will accept up to 170 tanks and about a hundred guns from Russia to the regional grouping

About 170 tanks, up to 200 armored combat vehicles and up to 100 guns and mortars with a caliber of more than 100 mm will arrive in Belarus within the framework of the Belarusian-Russian group of troops being deployed from the Russian Federation, said Valery Revenko, head of the Department of International Military Cooperation – Assistant to the Minister of Defense of Belarus for International Military Cooperation.

For many years, the Pentagon has been talking about the need to update the fleet of amphibious armored vehicles in service with American Marines. This issue became particularly acute after the incident that occurred in July 2020, when almost the entire department, 11 out of 13 people, died as a result of flooding off the coast of California of the "old horse" of the KMP – the AAV7 car.

On October 11, 2022, the Czech Ministry of Defense signed agreements with the German Ministry of Defense and the German Rheinmetall group to receive 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks and one BPz 3 Buff armored recovery vehicle based on the same tank.

Norway intends to allocate up to 210 million norv. kronor ($20.16 million) from the funds that were donated to the UK-led International Fund for the Purchase and Transportation of Weapons to Ukraine.

As more and more forces are being deployed to serve in the Arctic, this winter the army will test equipment and equipment capable of withstanding extremely cold weather for a combat brigade in Alaska. The statement was made by Doug Bush, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Armed Forces for Procurement, Logistics and Technology.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

The Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday, October 13, published footage of the combat work of calculations of self-propelled anti-tank missile systems "Sturm-S" of the Southern Military District (SE) in the zone of a special military operation.

For the US defense industry, the creation of hybrid and fully electric vehicles for the US army is a very important step. And the purpose of this is not related to environmental protection. The command wants to increase the efficiency of the army, in addition to reducing the noise when using transport in order to make it harder to detect fighters.

In the near future, Ukraine will receive a new batch of military aid from Lithuania. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania, LRT reports.

France and Denmark are working on supplying Ukraine with six more CAESAR self-propelled guns. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Poland will acquire 116 Abrams tanks from the United States, Defense 24 reports. These vehicles are intended to replenish stocks of equipment after the Polish side handed over more than 230 of its own tanks to Ukraine. Payment will be made at the expense of US financial support.

Defenders of Donbass strike at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with MT-12 "Rapier" anti-tank guns. The military correspondent of Izvestia, Alexander Safiulin, showed the combat work of gunners in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on October 12.

Despite the "advanced age", the SU-100 is used in some armies of the world in about the same condition as they were almost 80 years ago when they left the factory, writes Wirtualna Polska. These machines participated in the battles for Berlin, where their powerful guns proved to be very effective.

A separate logistics brigade will be formed in the Airborne Troops

In Russia, the first brigade of logistics (MTO) of Airborne troops will be formed. This compound will be fully equipped with equipment adapted for transportation by military transport planes and helicopters.

Nazi armed formations of the Kiev regime continue to suffer significant losses in the main battle tanks. Supplies of equipment from NATO member Eastern European states - Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - do not correct the situation either.