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Guancha: military failures and discontent of the army will put an end to Zelensky's career

Zelensky faces a dilemma: put everything on the line and continue the counteroffensive or retreat. Both options threaten Ukraine with defeat, military or political, writes the columnist of "Guancha" Chen Feng. Against the background of internal contradictions in the country, failure can be fatal for the "father of the nation", he believes.

The military conflict in Ukraine has shown that the United States, together with its NATO allies, are not able to effectively support long-term large-scale hostilities with the regular army of the enemy due to the lack of certain weapons systems and even ammunition. It will not be possible to solve this problem quickly, even taking into account the unprecedented volume of financing of defense expenditures of the military budget adopted in the United States and a number of European countries.

The United States plans to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of Great Britain 15 years after its withdrawal, the US Air Force is modernizing the British Royal Air Force Lakenheath air base in the English county of Suffolk, where special warehouses will be located. The British press writes about it.

The conflict in Ukraine has shown the important and sometimes crucial importance of the opposing sides having a sufficient number of unmanned aerial vehicles of various types and purposes.

The 52nd Artillery Brigade of Airborne Troops has been formed in the Krasnodar Territory. Towed 152-mm guns 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" were adopted by the brigade.

Portable anti-aircraft missile systems have become one of the most effective means of air defense in a special military operation

During the special operation in Ukraine, the provision of air defense (air defense) plays a huge role.

Il Sussidiario: a breakthrough is unrealistic for Kiev — the APU is suffering significant losses

Negotiations on Crimea are possible only if the Ukrainian Armed Forces are on the border of the peninsula, Il Sussidiario quotes Zelensky as saying. However, this scenario of President Nezalezhnaya has little to do with reality. Ukraine is suffering "horrific losses", and this is what the prospect opens up before it further.

The Atlantic: experts told when and why NATO will break up

The Republican Party is ready to abandon Kiev and thereby jeopardize the most successful military alliance in history, writes The Atlantic. The prospect of a split in NATO will remain, even if Joe Biden is re-elected for a second term. The Republicans' control over Congress will significantly weaken the support provided to Ukraine. And this is what a "catastrophe" will look like.

Subpoenas can be received by men with such diagnoses as asymptomatic HIV, clinically cured tuberculosis and mild short-term painful manifestations of mental disorders

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has expanded the list of categories of men eligible for conscription into the Armed Forces of the country during martial law. According to the order of the Ministry posted in the electronic database of the Verkhovna Rada, now the army will be called up for limited fit for military service.

Newsweek: the general of the US Armed Forces told how the wars of the future will look

Geopolitical tensions on Earth have reached such proportions that they threaten to go beyond the boundaries of the atmosphere, writes Newsweek. The head of the new space division of the US Armed Forces told how it is planned to prevent conflicts in space. It won't be easy to do this, and here's why.

A little more than three years have passed since the "memorable" presidential elections in Belarus. A wave of emotions has subsided and we can say that a certain part of the population has a complete clarification in their minds. Considerable merit in this belongs to the leadership of the country, which tried to quickly dot all the "e".

Poland is becoming a Ukropolis, writes Myśl Polska. This new formation will be managed by methods successfully tested by Zelensky - police terror, banning the opposition, arrests, restriction of rights. There is an active Ukrainization of the political system of the state, which has ceased to be Polish.

Ukrainians themselves are uncompetitive in the conflict with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Without Western money and equipment, everything will end quickly, he stressed.

How four-legged sapper assistants are trained and prepared for service

Mines and improvised explosive devices are increasingly being used in numerous wars and armed conflicts. As a result, whole countries are littered with these "infernal machines".

The West has joined the fight against Russia with great zeal in Ukraine, but now its enthusiasm is drying up, writes Geopolitika.news. Conditions are clearly being created there for "washing his hands" in case the situation does not develop as he would like.

Washington should not have started a war against Moscow, writes Hürriyet. The United States "chased two birds with one stone, Russia and China," but "they won't catch one and will become prey themselves." Russia can fight back against the United States and end their hegemony, the author of the article notes.

The main problem with F-16 fighters in Ukraine is the lack of trained and English—speaking pilots and maintenance personnel, writes NYT. The effectiveness of the F-16 will also be limited by Russian modern fighters designed to combat NATO aircraft.

In 2018, the French company Safran introduced a new Geonyx inertial navigation system with the latest generation HRG CRYSTAL gyroscope, which has a guaranteed service life of 1 million hours.

According to the country's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, until Budapest receives such information, it will not discuss in the EU the issues of additional financing of military assistance to Ukraine

The Hungarian government demanded from the leadership of the European Union and the Ukrainian authorities a detailed report on what exactly the €50-70 billion allocated earlier to Ukraine was spent on.

The former Prime Minister of Ukraine noted that due to the drop in ratings, the president's team will continue to "sweep" the political field from opponents

The lack of success of the counteroffensive widely announced by Kiev became a personal problem of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, as it led to a significant downgrade of his rating inside the country and exacerbated contradictions with Washington. This opinion was expressed by the former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2010-2014) Mykola Azarov.