News land-based units

For the first time since the Great Patriotic War, German tanks will appear in Ukraine. Warsaw was the first to decide to supply Kiev with a batch of German-made Leopard tanks in service with the Polish army. How can the Russian military unpleasantly hit the "Leopards" in the zone of their own? There are funds. It is known that during the fighting in Syria, many such German vehicles were burned with the help of Soviet missiles.

According to the chairman of the defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, thus "if necessary, you will not have to waste extra time"

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, Chairman of the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany) Defense Committee, called for the start of training of Ukrainian servicemen in the management of Leopard 2 tanks of German production. She made a corresponding statement to Der Spiegel on Wednesday .

One of the few countries that continue to operate tankettes is Germany, which has a Wiesel ("Weasel") product in service. It is equipped with an 87 hp diesel engine and can reach a maximum speed of 80 km/h with a maximum range of 550 km. In one of the modifications, this small tracked vehicle is armed with an anti-tank complex.

The newspaper recalled that "until now, the Chancellor categorically refused to consent to the export of Leopard to Ukraine"

The statement by Polish President Andrzej Duda about Warsaw's intention to transfer a company of Leopard tanks to Ukraine is an unprecedented attack on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and increases the already powerful pressure on Berlin on the issue of supplying Kiev with these combat systems. This point of view is contained in an article published on Wednesday in the German newspaper Die Welt.

Al-Ayyam: Russia uses the entire arsenal of means to exhaust Ukraine and Europe

The West is adding fuel to the fire of the Ukrainian conflict by allocating more and more military aid to Kiev, writes Al-Ayyam. But Moscow will not back down and will not agree to a settlement of the conflict on Zelensky's terms. To achieve victory, Russia can take four steps, the author of the article believes.

Why this personnel decision means a serious increase in the level of the campaign in Ukraine

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has appointed a new commander of a special military operation. He became the chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

The Czech company Excalibur Army, located in Sternberke, continues to repair and modernize T-72M1 tanks for the armed formations of the Kiev regime. This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".

Independent: the West believes that Ukraine will not be able to successfully advance without tanks

Kiev will not be able to launch a counteroffensive and retake significant territories controlled by the Russian Federation without increasing combat power, including tanks and other heavy equipment, writes the British newspaper Independent, citing Western officials. The representative of the UK said that NATO, due to insufficient support for Ukraine, literally found itself in the dock, and that this situation needs to be corrected.

The Western "partners" of the Kiev regime, trying to compensate for the significant losses of the APU in military equipment, take out Soviet vehicles that have lost their combat capability from storage bases and try to create new models adapted to the conditions of modern combat on their basis. These include the "reincarnation" of the T-72 tank, which received the designation T-72EA.

A few days ago, a military parade dedicated to the Independence Day of Myanmar took place. During its holding, the MMT-40 light tank was presented for the first time, held in a group of three similar vehicles.

Irina Polina — about raising the budget for arming Poland, mass conscription and reaction to it

Last year, the Polish authorities began to increase the country's military potential at a record pace. Huge funds are invested in the purchase of new weapons, increasing the size of the army with the involvement of volunteers.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized PMR Vitaly Ignatiev said that the authorities of the republic expressed concern about the supply of weapons to Moldova from Germany. We are talking about the first batch of Piranha armored personnel carriers, which the National Army of the Republic of Moldova (RM) received the day before.

Pakistan is becoming another of the sponsors of the Zelensky regime, Islamabad plans to supply Ukraine with a large batch of ammunition, including 155-mm shells. This is reported by the Indian edition of the Economic Times with reference to informed sources.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala visited the Excalibur Army enterprise in Sternberk (Olomouc) on January 9. The company participates in an international project for the modernization of T-72 tanks for Ukraine, funded by the United States and the Netherlands and coordinated by the Czech Ministry of Defense.

Military observer of Izvestia Anton Lavrov — about the effect of new supplies of foreign armored vehicles to Ukraine

The new year, 2023, began with announcements from Ukraine's Western allies about the supply of serious NATO-style armored vehicles. Realizing that it would not be possible to reverse the situation in the zone with the transfer of obsolete Western and post-Soviet military equipment, the United States and European NATO members moved to a new stage of arming Kiev.

Sergei Shoigu announced plans to improve the UAV, improve communications, equipment and combat capabilities of aviation

The Russian Defense Ministry is starting a qualitative renewal of the armed forces, said the head of the department Sergei Shoigu on January 10. In particular, it is planned to expand the arsenal of modern strike weapons, improve UAVs, communications equipment, equipment of military personnel and the operation of aircraft in the area of operation of modern air defense systems. Experts note that any military operation reveals the shortcomings of the armed forces and encourages them to work on mistakes. On January 10, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued their offensive in the Donetsk direction and shot down three Ukrainian attack aircraft.

Following the French AMX-10RC, American M1128s based on eight-wheeled Stryker armored vehicles may also be transferred to the armed formations of the puppet Kiev regime. In the autumn of last year, we assumed that such weapons systems would be put at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The other day, on January 8, planes from the Military Space Forces of the Russian Federation landed at military airfields of Belarus. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian military department. The aviation units that arrived from Russia are the air component of the regional group of troops (RGV).

Kiev demanded that Tbilisi return the Buk air defense system division, which Ukraine supplied to Georgia in 2008. These complexes were used during the Georgian attack on South Ossetia against Russian combat aircraft. Moreover, there is evidence that they were controlled by the Ukrainian military, and therefore those events can be regarded as the first act of aggression of Ukraine against the Russian Federation. Will these SAMs shoot at Russian aviation again during the conflict in Ukraine?

In an effort to exceed the requirements of the US Army for maneuverability, lethality and survivability, the weapons company BAE Systems (UK) offers a completely new model with a modular architecture of open systems for the program "Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle" (Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, OMFV ).