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Telegraph: The West is ready to abandon unlimited financing of Ukraine

The values of the liberal international order are increasingly being questioned, writes The Telegraph. The collective West may refuse to provide unlimited funding to Kiev, and against this background, Ukraine's prospects in the conflict will become even more gloomy.

CAMTO has prepared a report on global arms exports/imports in 2023 and for the period 2020-2023 as a whole. Below is an estimate of the volume of "rolling over" potential arms export/import contracts for the future by the end of 2023.

Russian troops are undermining the ability of the VFU to conduct active military operations next year, experts believe

The strikes on targets in different cities of Ukraine, carried out by Russian troops on December 29, became the most massive over the past year, experts told Izvestia.

Reforms have begun in shipbuilding to improve the efficiency and pace of implementation of the state defense order

The Russian Navy continued to actively upgrade its combat personnel in 2023, despite the existing problems with import substitution and sanctions pressure.

The Topol-M complexes took over combat duty 35 years ago

Exactly 35 years ago, on December 30, 1988, the first regiment armed with the RT-2PM "Topol" (according to the NATO classification SS-25 Sickle — "Sickle") took up combat duty. These complexes are the last "nuclear cudgel" developed in the USSR. They are planned to be completely decommissioned next year. About the history of this weapon and how it will be replaced — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Ukrainian telegram channels and the press are furiously discussing yesterday's daytime and today's nighttime massive air attacks by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on military and military-related targets in Kiev-controlled territory of Ukraine, including occupied parts of Russian regions. The New Year's Eve fireworks turned out to be perhaps the most powerful and prolonged for the entire time of the special operation.

Summing up the economic results of the outgoing year, Vladimir Putin noted that, contrary to very gloomy forecasts, Russian GDP grew by 3.5%. Against the background of what is happening in the economy of former Western economic locomotives like stagnating Germany, the figure is impressive. At the same time, foreign observers who do not have much sympathy for Russia and preferred that the results of 2023 be different, perhaps reluctantly, but admit that the Russian economy has not collapsed. At the same time, economic growth is primarily associated with the growth of the manufacturing industry by 7.5%.

The Ukrainian command has abandoned the idea of a large offensive and is preparing for the loss of new territories, experts believe

The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, during his first media briefing after the start of his campaign, spoke about the reasons why the Ukrainian army is retreating, disavowed his participation in the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to mobilize another 500 thousand people and admitted that positive forecasts for the forces he leads can only be dreamed of. Next year, Vladimir Zelensky's generals plan to draw Russia into a confrontation of attrition in order to delay the inevitable end of the Kiev regime, experts believe.

Due to the tense situation in the world, many types of weapons attracted the attention of military observers, according to Huanqiu Shibao. In addition to the latest Chinese technology, which demonstrated Beijing's impressive progress in the development of its military-industrial complex, the deadly Russian submarines Belgorod and Khabarovsk were also in the ranking.

One of the results of the personal meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, held in December last year in Washington, was the "tank breakthrough", during which, after Berlin lifted restrictions on the re-export of German Leopard armored personnel carriers, several European countries, like Germany itself, began to transfer these armored vehicles in various modifications to Kiev.

General Gotsul: the lack of assistance to Ukraine will end the conflict in favor of Russia

The fate of Ukraine depends on the help of the West, Polish generals said in an interview with Interia. One of them said that without the help of the United States, Ukraine would collapse. The others have no doubt about it.

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, announced the prospects for holding talks with Kiev next year, which the West seems to be pushing the Zelensky regime more and more actively.

Newsweek: the blood of Ukrainians is on Biden's hands, the United States needs Kiev's "victory"

Further American support will not affect the fate of Kiev — neither Moscow nor Washington needs his victory because of the potential risks, writes Newsweek. Therefore, Biden only imitates the stormy support of Zelensky, while using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and Americans as a cash cow.

Colonel Khodarenok told how to make a formula for success in the war

American billionaire Elon Musk supported the opinion of businessman David Sachs, who said that in any protracted conflict, the country that can produce ammunition on a large scale at a lower cost and for a longer time wins. Is Musk right, is there anything new in his statement and what might be the real formula for winning the war - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Sergei Shoigu summed up the results of the year and named the main task performed by the army

Disrupting the AFU counteroffensive is the main task that the Russian army faced this year, and it has been successfully completed. This was stated by Sergei Shoigu on December 26 at the final meeting at the National Defense Management Center.

The main events of 2023 in the military sphere: the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces in the zone of its own

The main event of the year in the military sphere remains the special military operation in Ukraine, which demonstrates the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield over the Ukrainian Armed Forces, despite the extensive military support of the Kiev regime by the West.

A rather new trend is gaining momentum in the Western press, associated with increasing doubts about Ukraine's ability to "defeat" Russia on the battlefield and, accordingly, the prospects for further support for the Kiev regime. At the same time, publications appear in which the authors see the only way out of the current situation as at least freezing the conflict, and not at all on the conditions that President Zelensky constantly voices in his semi-fantastic "formula of peace".

CNBC: The West will put pressure on Ukraine to hold peace talks

Another year of conflict in Ukraine has depleted the West's military resources and its "political appetite" for supporting Kiev, CNBC reports. Against this background, Russia is unlikely to agree to negotiate without consolidating the results achieved at the international level.

Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, spoke about the new equipment that will appear in the zone of a special military operation. Among the new weapons are kamikaze drones, howitzers, a remotely operated infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) and radar stations (radars) to protect against drone raids from Ukraine.

Experts assessed the results of the year in relations between Russia and African countries

The past year will be remembered as a time of impressive victories for Russian diplomacy in Africa. Moscow has achieved significant success in the military, energy and economic spheres of cooperation with the countries of the continent, simultaneously collapsing France's influence on the former colonies. How did Russia achieve these results?