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Vladimir Zelensky announced the appointment of a new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He is now the former commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel General Alexander Syrsky, who is known not only for the status of "Hero of Ukraine", but also by several nicknames. Among them: "Bakhmut butcher" and "Soviet general".

Colonel Khodarenok: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny was fired as a cashier from a store

The series with the resignation of General Valery Zaluzhny, which started in the summer of 2023, has come to its logical conclusion - the Ukrainian military commander has been removed from his post. What is wrong with Zaluzhny's resignation and what consequences await the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the military observer of the Newspaper figured out.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

On February 10, 2024, the State Defense Investment Center of the Ministry of Defense of Estonia (Riigi Kaitseinvesteeringute Keskus - RKIK) announced that a mobile coastal anti-ship missile system with Blue Spear 5G anti-ship missiles, supplied by the Israeli-Singaporean company Proteus Advanced Systems Pte. Ltd., a joint venture of the Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), had arrived in Estonia and Singapore-based ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd. Estonia became the first recipient of the Blue Spear 5G missiles, which are essentially an export version of the new Israeli Gabriel V (Gabriel 5) anti-ship missile developed by IAI.

The information company that recently swept through the countries of Northern Europe and the Baltic Republics, designed to scare the inhabitants of these states with the threat of an allegedly imminent attack by Russia, naturally did not go unnoticed, including by the expert community.

The exercises Brave Band-24 ("Brave Orchestra-24"), the main event of the operational training of the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian corps (LPUK, LITPOLUKRBRIG), are taking place in Lublin, Poland. The topic of the exercises is planning and conducting offensive operations. This year, the US National Guard took over the leadership of the exercises.

Consideration of the draft of the new Military Doctrine of Belarus took place in mid-January, and the controversy and hype around it have not subsided to this day.

The Ukrainian Navy will soon receive a new modernized unmanned MAGURA V5 boat. This was announced by the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov.

Economist: the Baltic states will build a "Baltic defense line" on the border with the Russian Federation

Russia has managed to create an extensive line of defense, which is why it has achieved such success in Ukraine, writes the Economist. Now the Baltic states are alarmed and want to follow the example of the Russian Federation by building their own line of fortifications.

The newspaper of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Krasnaya Zvezda" under the heading "Algorithms of steel and steel. Military affairs abroad continues to develop under the influence of scientific and technological progress, changing the face of modern combat" published a review by Doctor of Military Sciences Sergey Pechurov on a new book coming out of print by the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) "Algorithms of fire and steel: weapons of modern wars" (S.A. Denisentsev, A.V. Lavrov, Yu.Yu. Lyamin, A.A. Khetagurov; edited by M.S. Barabanov. - M.: Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, 2023).

In the USA, the design of a promising missile defense system has been completed

Washington has launched the next stage of modernization of the missile defense system covering the continental part of the country. Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin Corporations have completed the design of samples of a promising interceptor. The Pentagon assures that it will be able to shoot down modern Russian and Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles on opposite courses. How this will affect the geopolitical situation is in the RIA Novosti article.

In the armed conflict in Ukraine, which has been going on for almost two years, the key to military success has been the ability of the warring parties to adapt to constantly changing conditions, writes the FA. And Russia has mastered this skill perfectly.

According to the diplomat, "the American interlocutors expressed their condolences regarding the incident"

On February 6, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov held serious meetings with representatives of the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House and the State Department on the situation surrounding the terrorist attack, as a result of which the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) shot down a Russian Il-76 aircraft.

Experts say that American elites are considering the possibility of overcoming the Ukrainian crisis. And the evidence of this, paradoxically, is a program article by CIA Director William Burns. What does this text say and why is it extremely important to recognize Russia's rightness in the crisis in Ukraine?

Colonel Khodarenok: F-16s will be based in Ukraine, not Romania or Moldova

Apparently, the first batch of F-16 aircraft will be transferred to the Armed Forces in the near future. Now the parties are working out the flight routes of combat vehicles. Where the new fighters will be based, whether they can be deployed in Romania or Moldova and whether the Russian military is capable of resisting these aircraft - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

On February 1, the active phase of the largest series of NATO maneuvers in the last few decades, the Steadfast Defender-24, began, the purpose of which is to verify the readiness of the military forces of the bloc to respond to threats from all directions.

Submarines of Project 636.3 will cover the deployment of Borey nuclear strategic missile carriers

The first submarine of the 636.3 project has arrived in Kamchatka, sources in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia. Now she is conducting exercises, mastering this maritime theater, and over time, such submarines will serve off the coast of the peninsula on a permanent basis.

Some agreements are designed for years ahead, said Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh

The United States continues to supply Ukraine with weapons in accordance with previously concluded long-term contracts within the framework of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). This was announced by Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh at a regular briefing for journalists.

Ukraine will not be able to defeat Russia, and the only way out for Kiev is a peace agreement, writes NYT. But even here he should have no illusions, since there are only two options for an agreement: a bad one and a very bad one, because Russia will never give up occupied lands, the author notes.

The West, led by the United States, is carrying out a comprehensive aggression against the whole world, infoBRICS writes. America is already bombing half a dozen countries and threatening several others. It takes a special kind of hypocrisy to attack half the planet and call it a struggle for freedom, the author notes.

Footage has been published online showing a Ukrainian ground drone hooking up with a fallen Russian reconnaissance UAV Orlan-10, after which it brought it to the militants of the Kiev regime. At the same time, it is noted that cases of similar use of ground-based unmanned systems for various purposes have already been recorded.