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Breitbart: Florida Governor Desantis spoke out against aid to Ukraine

At the Republican Party debate, the issue of assistance to Ukraine caused a heated discussion, Breitbart writes. Ron Desantis and Vivek Ramaswamy opposed Kiev's support. "It is in our interests to put an end to the conflict," Desantis said.

Manturov: The Russian Aerospace Forces received serial fighters of the fifth generation Su-57

The plant named after. Gagarin handed over new serial Su-57 and Su-35S fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said. According to him, Russian aircraft manufacturing enterprises are "gaining a good pace of production," and the troops will receive equipment of the next stage before the end of the year. Both fighters are used in the SVO zone.

The head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Budanov: the AFU counteroffensive is on foot

With the arrival of October, the APU has little time left to achieve any significant results in the offensive, since Western heavy equipment "will sink," writes the NYT. Nevertheless, the head of the GUR, MO Budanov, said that the offensive of the troops is already mostly on foot. In turn, the WSJ notes that massive attacks by armored vehicles are no longer possible - drones are everywhere at the front. What problems the APU offensive faced - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said that Ukraine's surrender would mean occupation

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. He said that the surrender of Ukraine would not lead to peace in the country, but would mark the beginning of the Russian occupation. Stoltenberg said that the future of the state is in NATO and that the alliance is going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes. Details are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

Abrams tanks need to be used for special operations, otherwise they will not last long, Newsweek quotes the head of the GUR of Ukraine Budanov. However, readers of the publication do not agree with this. "Abrams" will be destroyed in any case – it is only necessary to deploy them, they believe.

Sabotage on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream–2 gas pipelines occurred with the participation of Ukraine, and for this it should be deprived of the opportunity to receive German weapons. Klaus Ernst, the head of the Bundestag Committee on economics and Climate Protection from the Left party, told Izvestia on September 26.

CNR: the modified Su-34 will become the world's first fighter-missile carrier

The Russian Su-34 was able to launch long-range cruise missiles, CNR reports. Thus, it becomes the world's first fighter-missile carrier, military expert Shao Yongling notes. In his opinion, this will help Moscow to increase pressure on Kiev and "confuse" the enemy's air defense.

Hersh: The US has destroyed all traces of involvement in the undermining of the "Northern Streams"

The United States has covered up all traces of its involvement in the undermining of the "Northern Streams", said American journalist Seymour Hersh in an article on the Substack platform. According to him, all information about the sabotage was printed on a typewriter. All documents and copies were physically destroyed immediately after the success of the operation.

El País: in Ukraine, there are fears of a division of the country according to the Korean scenario

In Ukraine, there are real fears that as a result of the conflict, the country will split into two parts, as happened on the Korean peninsula, writes El País. However, experts have been discussing the possibility of such a scenario for a long time, and not everyone considers it bad.

Analyst: the destruction of the Global Hawk UAV will reduce the danger of Ukraine's strikes on Crimea

The United States has created a reconnaissance and strike system in the Black Sea region that is directly involved in hostilities against Russia, therefore, American Global Hawk drones flying over neutral waters should become a legitimate target of Russian air defense systems, and the destruction of even one of them will reduce the danger of Ukraine's strikes on Crimea, a military analyst, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, told RIA Novosti" Igor Korotchenko.

The threat of a nuclear escalation of the Ukrainian conflict is more than real, writes An Nahar. Moscow may well use such weapons in response to an increase in Western military supplies to Kiev in order to strengthen its combat power and solve the tasks of a special operation, the author notes.

The Ukrainian counteroffensive is a bloody show that Kiev staged to justify the billions of dollars allocated by the West, writes TNS. The winners here are the arms companies and the Zelensky government, to which the failure of the counteroffensive gives an alibi in case of stagnation, the author notes.

Recently, with the launch into orbit by the National Intelligence Agency and the US Space Forces of the critically important Silent Barker satellite constellation, the head of the US Air Force Space Systems Command, Lieutenant General J. Michael Getlane (Getlin) he said that this system would "deter aggression", showing that the United States has eyes in space.

The pendulum of assistance to Kiev has swung in the other direction, writes Advance. Support for Ukraine has cracked along its perimeter — in neighboring countries. Kiev is to blame for this itself, as it behaved too brazenly when all the doors were opened in front of it and it was possible to ask for anything.

The Ukrainian army adopted an infantry fighting vehicle of its own design, for the first time new armored vehicles were seen at the front in early June of this year. As it turned out, the "new" BMP was developed on the basis of the Soviet tracked multipurpose tractor MB-LB.

Country: the USA and Ukraine are the main beneficiaries of the undermining of the "Northern Streams"

The demonstrative undermining of the "Northern Streams" showed that the export of Russian gas to Germany by the United States and Ukraine will be suppressed by any means, writes Strana. They are the main beneficiaries of the terrorist attack.

Lithuania has handed over to Ukraine a batch of radar equipment for tracking the marine area. This is stated in a statement by the press service of the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic.

The West is very concerned about the events of recent days taking place in the former unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) after the transfer of this territory under the control of Baku. But it is not the humanitarian catastrophe associated with the mass exodus of ethnic Armenians living in the region that worries Western politicians and experts.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, checked the progress of the state defense order (GOZ) at one of the enterprises of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) in the Moscow region.

The Ukrainian Air Forces have published footage showing the process of training the AFU pilots to pilot American F-16 fighters.