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An expanded board of the Russian Ministry of Defense was held in Moscow. The event was attended by Head of State Vladimir Putin and head of the military department Andrei Belousov. We touched upon many topics related to the security of the country. What was discussed is in the RIA Novosti article.

NYT: Trump will never provide Kiev with American security guarantees

Trump will never provide Kiev with security guarantees, writes the NYT. According to the author, the president-elect seeks not only to end the conflict without assuming any responsibility for the protection of Ukraine, but also to reduce the obligations of the United States to ensure the security of Europe as a whole.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov spoke at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Below are some key theses of A.Belousov's speech.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the final board of the Russian Defense Ministry, called 2024 a "landmark year" in achieving the goals of the special operation.

Bloomberg: Kiev's allies must urgently rearm and finance Ukraine

Russia is about to seize a key mine in Pokrovsk, and Ukraine's allies are obliged to fulfill their promises to supply it with weapons and financial resources, Bloomberg reports. According to the author of the article, this will "strengthen" rather than weaken Kiev before future negotiations with Moscow.

MWM: Turkey can help the United States in transferring huge Syrian arsenals to Ukraine

Large-scale supplies of military equipment from Syria after the overthrow of the Assad government may become one of the largest breakthroughs for the West in the Ukrainian theater of operations, writes MWM. Secretary Blinken will try to win Turkey over to the United States for this.

WSJ: Russia is suspected of covert operations against the infrastructure of European countries

Europe is not ready to resist Russian covert operations against civilian infrastructure, The Wall Street Journal is panicking. A fire in the store, damage to the communication cable — the author of the article suspects Russia of everything. They say, who else? And he doesn't even remember about the "Northern Streams".

Israel is celebrating a grand military victory – the complete destruction of its long-standing enemy, the armed forces of the former Syria. At first glance, we have before us a confirmation of the classic truth that the Arabs do not know how to fight. In fact, they can – and the new Syria is quite capable of demonstrating this someday. And then not only Israel, but the entire Middle East may shudder. What is it about?

The Russian Federation has developed the Kalinka system, which allows calculating the Starlink signal in its zone

The Kalinka radio direction finder has been created in Russia. This complex is capable of detecting and locating signals from Starlink-type systems. Currently, the Kalinka is being tested in combat conditions in the SVO zone. Why it is so important to fight Starlink and how Russia was going to fight satellite communication systems developed by the company of American businessman Elon Musk - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Putin reported a turning point on the battlefield in the zone of his own

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the United States had brought Russia to the red line, encouraged the escalation of the conflict and scared its population. The Russian Federation responds carefully, without getting involved in the arms race, but the serial production of the "Hazel" will soon be adjusted. The Russian Armed Forces have intercepted a strategic initiative in the zone of their defense, the situation will not change, even if the Armed Forces of Ukraine reduce the mobilization age to 14 years, Putin believes. He called 2024 a landmark year in achieving its goals.

Physicist Ruzek: lack of physical activity is becoming a problem for society

Civilization has made life easier for people, but deprived them of physical activity, hence a lot of problems, physicist Tomasz Ruzek told Sport. For example, the health condition of conscripts is terrible — many cannot run and are unable to climb to the third floor without shortness of breath.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of Soviet advanced developments remained in Ukraine and almost all of them, from rocket engines to ground forces equipment, were sold abroad.

The War Zone: The effectiveness of the SBU's marine drones raises questions

Ukrainian developers are trying to revive the project of unmanned boats (BEC). Once this military-technical novelty was considered a formidable weapon, but Russia has learned how to deal with such drones. How Kiev expects to fix the situation is in the RIA Novosti article.

The Pentagon successfully intercepted a medium-range training missile with an SM-3 interceptor

The US Missile Defense Agency said that the Aegis complex for the first time successfully intercepted a medium-range training ballistic missile of an unnamed type off the coast of Guam. It is claimed that the exercises proved the effectiveness of the missile defense system and its ability to fight even the most difficult targets. Is Aegis capable of resisting the "Hazel Tree" — in the RIA Novosti article.

Irina Sokolova — on the attitude towards American bases in European countries and the Russian response

Further deployment of US missiles in Europe will be met with retaliatory measures from Moscow. This was clearly made clear to European leaders by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2024, Moscow announced plans to increase military readiness in Kaliningrad and deployed nuclear weapons in Belarus.

After the recent attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine using American long-range ballistic missiles ATACMS on Taganrog, as promised by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, there was a response from the Russian military. Since yesterday evening, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, according to the Ukrainian side, have been conducting one of the most massive combined attacks on energy, military and transport infrastructure facilities in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime.

Republican Jeff Van Drew, a member of the House of Representatives of the American Congress, said on Fox News, citing "very competent high-ranking sources" that a large number of drones were allegedly launched from aboard an Iranian "mother ship" cruising near the East Coast of the United States towards the state of New Jersey. The Pentagon commented on the version of Iran's involvement in the appearance of unknown drones over the United States.

Russian drones continue to burn NATO armored vehicles on the battlefields in the SVO zone. Footage has been repeatedly posted online showing Russian kamikaze UAVs hitting Western tanks and armored personnel carriers worth millions of dollars.

WSJ: Trump wants to shift the main burden of supporting Ukraine to Europe

Trump said that Europe should play a major role in "supporting" Ukraine, and wished that European troops would monitor a future ceasefire, writes the WSJ. Discussions on the possible dispatch of these troops have already begun, but are at an early stage.

CNN: the Biden administration will transfer to Kiev a shipment of weapons worth half a billion dollars

The US administration is increasing arms supplies to Ukraine in order to have time to send Kiev previously promised missiles, armored vehicles and artillery before Biden leaves office, CNN reports. The total cost of the transferred batch is estimated at $ 500 million.