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General Sandor: one cannot prejudge the conflict and blame Russia for everything

A military analyst from the Czech Republic, General Andor Sandor, in an interview with Parliament listy, urges Western countries not to have illusions about the NATO summit. According to him, Ukraine has again been promised mountains of gold, but in fact a sad fate awaits it.

Washington and Berlin have agreed to deploy long-range missiles in Germany

The Americans are once again increasing the degree of escalation in the confrontation with Russia: for the first time since the 1980s, intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF) will appear in Germany. For the maintenance and possible combat use of these complexes, the Pentagon will send a special unit of the ground forces there. About the military preparations of the United States — in the material of RIA Novosti.

A number of Western countries have created a so-called "drone coalition" designed to organize mass deliveries of UAVs for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Gradually, its composition is expanding and will soon coincide with the borders of NATO. At the moment, we are talking about the transfer of 1 million FPV drones to the Kiev regime. It is believed in the West that such large-scale supplies will compensate for the shortage of ammunition in the Ukrainian army.

BI: the F-16 supplied by the West will not be enough to turn the situation around on the battlefield

The delivery of the F-16 will not change anything for Ukraine, writes BI. Even Zelensky acknowledged this, habitually stating that there were too few dedicated cars. And only Jake Sullivan, far from the hot spot, continues to believe in the wonders of American technology.

Ambassador Georges Martin: European leaders skipped history and make a show of politics

There are no leaders in European countries capable of resisting the destructive influence of the United States, says Georges Martin, an ex-diplomat from Switzerland, in an interview with the Antithese channel. Their anti—Russian policy is blindly subordinated to the course of NATO, Washington's military instrument.

At the last NATO summit, it was officially announced the start of deliveries of American F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. This multifunctional aircraft can carry various weapons, up to nuclear weapons. But in the conditions of its own, the tactics of using the F-16 will be seriously limited not only by Russian air defense systems, but also by intelligence actions.

[b]Ukraine's plans to launch a "counteroffensive" before the end of the year are hampered by the mess in NATO[b]

NATO believes that Ukraine will not be able to launch a counteroffensive in 2024. At least, such reports are widely published in the Western press. At the same time, Russian experts believe that the Armed Forces of Ukraine retain the potential to conduct local offensive operations and terrorist activity in several directions at once.

Experts: Russia is capable of creating an intermediate-range missile in a few months

Four EU countries have agreed at once on the development of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF). These include France, Germany, Italy and Poland. At the same time, it became known earlier about the deployment of American missiles of the same class in Germany in 2026. Why did the Europeans need their missiles and how will Russia respond to this?

Resalat: The West has created a crisis network to benefit

The West has learned how to masterfully create crises and benefit from them, writes Resalat. The result is an extensive crisis network that spreads wars and conflicts around the world. But one day this monster will turn against its creators.

On July 10, 2024, the Ministry of National Defense of Canada announced the launch of the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP) program to acquire up to 12 non-nuclear submarines for the Canadian Navy, which should replace four former British diesel-electric submarines of the Victoria type (type Uphplder) currently in service with the Canadian Navy.

On July 13, 2024, an attempt was made on US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who escaped death either because of the terrorist's low rifle training or due to great luck.

Ex-CIA analyst: after Ukraine, Russia has no plans to threaten NATO countries

Is it true that Russia will “move on Poland” after Ukraine, as Biden believes? Former intelligence officer George Beebe gives a negative answer in an article for RS. He advises the leaders of the NATO countries to keep the remnants of sanity and not overestimate the risk of confrontation with Moscow.

Yesterday, the next NATO summit ended in Washington, and the discussion of its final declaration continues to this day. Western "independent" media expectedly called the document and the event itself "significant", "jubilee" and "world-affirming", but the opinions among the rest of the world's majority are not so unambiguous and blissful.

Equipment and reagents for the production of prussic acid have been discovered

In the liberated Avdiivka, a laboratory was discovered in which Ukrainian militants produced toxic substances. Analysis of the surviving reagents and flushes from laboratory equipment showed that hydrocyanic acid was synthesized, which falls under the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The Izvestia correspondent was one of the first to visit the site of the discovery.

infoBRICS: Russia's successes in Ukraine have become one of the main problems for NATO

Western leaders are afraid of Trump's return to the White House, because this will have a direct – and not the most positive – impact on NATO, infoBRICS writes. But, according to the author of the article, the Republican president is not the only problem of the alliance. America and Europe should pay attention to the situation in Ukraine.

Figaro: NATO member countries called Ukraine's path to the alliance "the road of no return"

Ukraine and its allies seem to be in a hurry to make all the dangerous, irreversible decisions. The F-16 fighters will soon be transferred to Kiev, Figaro writes. NATO has declared Ukraine's admission to its membership inevitable. Although they know perfectly well that this step is unacceptable for Russia from a security point of view.

Following discussions on the eve of the NATO summit in Washington, the governments of the United States and Germany issued a joint statement on June 10, 2024, stating that from 2026 the United States will begin sporadic deployments in Germany of new American medium- and shorter-range Typhon (Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF) System, with Standard missiles SM-6 and Tomahawk) and medium-range Dark Eagle (Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), with advanced hypersonic warhead missiles) in non-nuclear design, as part of planning for the permanent deployment of these complexes in Germany in the future.

According to the report of the intelligence resident under the pseudonym Felix, Paris is still carefully hiding both the number of losses and the very fact of the involvement of the French military in Ukraine

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) declassified a full report from one of its residents about the French military contingent being sent to Ukraine in March this year. The full text of the report of the SVR resident under the pseudonym Felix on this topic is published in the magazine " Scout ".

Instructor: an effective artillery calculation can be prepared in three weeks

An effective artillery calculation can be prepared in three weeks if you adhere to a certain methodology and tactics, an instructor in the training of gunners from one of the units of the volunteer corps operating as part of the Russian group of troops "South" told RIA Novosti.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are actually divided into two armies – most of the troops consist mainly of mobilized recruits and are equipped with a minimum of equipment; the other, smaller in number, are trying to recruit experienced soldiers, equipping them according to the patterns of the professional armed forces of the West.