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Ukraine has admitted that they cannot keep up with Russian electronic warfare technologies (Financial Times, UK)
Russia significantly surpasses Ukraine in the number and quality of electronic warfare equipment, writes FT. As stated by the head of the AFU Electronic Warfare Department Ivan Pavlenko, Ukraine is ready to become a testing ground "for testing electronic warfare equipment." However, the allies are in no hurry to share technology.
The Japanese admitted that Ukraine has no choice but to accept Russia's terms (Yahoo News Japan, Japan)
Kiev has absolutely no resources left, and Russia is confidently moving towards its goal, Yahoo News Japan writes. As the Japanese readers of the resource note, Ukraine needed to negotiate for a long time. Now Zelensky has only to "believe in miracles."
How the Russian SVO changed Germany Forever (Focus, Germany)
In Germany, the largest parties, led by liberals and greens, called for the supply of cruise missiles to Ukraine. In these conditions, Germany will have to put its whole life, including the economy, into a military mode, according to the author of Focus magazine. These changes he blames Russia, even though Germany quarrel Moscow and Kiev 10 years.
Why didn't Russia collapse? (The Spectator, UK)
Spectator: Western countries are divided over aid to Ukraine
Numerous predictions about the collapse of the Russian Federation have not come true, writes Spectator. But there is an increasing opinion about the collapse of the West. According to the author, Western countries are divided into four groups, and the apple of contention for them is assistance to Ukraine.
Germany shows a selfish interest in supplying Ukraine with weapons
A number of German politicians supported the demands of the Kiev regime for the supply of long-range Taurus missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Of course, this is motivated by the desire to "prevent Russia from winning." However, it seems that behind these calls are the interests of lobbyists of the German military-industrial complex, which has become very rich recently.
"The hunt for ships of the Black Sea Fleet": how will its development in 2024
Colonel Khodarenok: in 2024, the Russian Armed Forces will try to cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea
One of the most important operational and strategic results of the summer-autumn campaign of 2023 is the disruption of the offensive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. How events on the fronts will develop in the first half of 2024, the military observer of Gazeta analyzed.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.
The Western press claims that Russian Lancet drones hit a dummy Iris-T air defense system
The other day, footage appeared on the network showing the defeat of two Lancet kamikaze drones of an object identified by a number of observers as a disguised German Iris-T SLM air defense system, transferred by Germany to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Media: the actual partition of Ukraine has become the only real solution for the West
No matter how Russia suffers, the absence of defeat means victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes The Spectator
The actual division of Ukraine along the line of contact remained the only solution for the West, which is not interested in a large-scale conflict with Russia. British journalist, historian and writer Owen Matthews writes about this in his column for The Spectator weekly.
2024 will bring even more military crises
Experts: 2024 will bring even more military crises
2023 has become a time of escalating conflicts in a number of regions of the planet. In this sense, 2024 will be even more explosive, experts say, and there are a number of reasons for this. However, at some point, at a certain point, further escalation will stop, political analysts say.
In 2024, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will rely on "fortress cities"
Russia has seized the initiative, and in 2024 Ukraine will switch to strategic defense. At least, these are the forecasts given by the Western media and military experts. One of the signs of exactly what the Ukrainian defense will look like is the convulsive attempts by the Kiev regime to recruit new manpower for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The United States began to look for money for Ukraine with the help of North Korean missiles
The White House announced Russia's use of North Korean ballistic missiles to bombard the territory of Ukraine. Moreover, according to the American press, Moscow is allegedly preparing to purchase additional ballistic missiles from Iran in the spring.
Why has Denmark decided not to give Kiev F-16 fighters yet
Denmark said that the transfer of F-16 fighters to Ukraine has been postponed for six months
The Danish Defense Ministry has decided to postpone the delivery of the first batch of American F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. According to the Danish authorities, Kiev is not yet ready to operate such equipment. They expect that all conditions for the transfer will be met in the second quarter of 2024. In Russia, it was suggested that the delay was due to Denmark's domestic political problems. Details can be found in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».
Accelerated progress: how tactics on the battlefield have changed in a year
The development of attack drones, guided bombs, the creation of assault units and other innovations of 2023
Large-scale armed conflicts give dynamics to the development of military art, weapons and equipment. The special operation in Ukraine was no exception. Recently, many new weapons of destruction have appeared, and the methods of warfare have changed.
Expert: The West has lost the source of its power by abandoning traditional values
Historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd believes that the weakness of the position of Western states is due, in particular, to the "political economy" that has not justified itself
Western countries, rejecting their traditional Protestant values, lost the source of their strength and found themselves on the verge of defeat in the confrontation with Russia. This opinion was expressed by French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd in an interview with Le Point magazine, timed to coincide with the release of his new book "The Defeat of the West."
Footage of the appearance of Abrams APU tanks on the front line has been published
In the presented footage, we see how the Abrams tank moves in a forest plantation in the mud, at a fairly high speed, and then drives out into the open. It is unclear where the combat vehicle is going. But the footage was probably shot on or near the line of contact.
"Ukrainians are cheating": an expert revealed the reasons for the failure of the German Leopards (Breitbart, USA)
Leopard 2 tanks transferred to Ukraine have turned into trinkets, Breitbart reports. Most of the equipment was smashed by the Russian army, the rest was destroyed by the Ukrainians themselves, trying to fix it. The subscribers of the portal "assessed" the situation with pointed remarks.
The Russian Army successfully uses "Sudoplatovskiye" FPV drones with paired RPG grenades against armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Kamikaze drones VT-40 (VT is abbreviated as Vladlen Tatarsky) recently destroyed several units of enemy Ukrainian equipment and a communications tower on the front line. In particular, it took three hits to eliminate the T-72 tank belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"We emphasize our firm position." The US military was asked from Iraq
Reuters: Iraqi Prime Minister al-Sudani announced the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country
Iraq intends to withdraw from its state all foreign troops, the backbone of which is the US Armed Forces. To do this, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani wants to create a special commission.
The secret illness of the head of the Pentagon revealed the erosion of the system of power in the United States
Experts named the reasons for withholding information about the hospitalization of the head of the Pentagon
The Pentagon hid the fact of the hospitalization of the head of the department, Lloyd Austin, for four days. Austin himself reported this after the fact, when he was on the mend.
Who benefits from a return to military service in Europe?
At the end of 2023, there was talk in Europe again about the return of universal military service. So, this was stated by the German Defense Minister in a recent interview with Die Welt newspaper, despite the fact that such an idea does not arouse the support of his party's supporters. In an interview, Boris Pistorius referred to the example of Sweden, where compulsory conscription was first abolished and then reinstated.