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General Kivinen: there is no military threat from Russia to Finland

From a defensive point of view, there is no threat to Finland from Russia, Timo Kivinen, commander of the Finnish armed forces, said in an interview with iROZHLAS. Despite the fact that Helsinki is now in NATO, it is used to relying on itself and has accumulated a lot of experience in traditional defense, the general added.

The United States delivered Abrams M1A1 tanks to Ukraine ahead of schedule, but the Ukrainian army has not yet used them in combat operations. This is reported by Business Insider.

Politico: France named conditions for the supply of shells to Ukraine from third countries

The EU was unable to fulfill the promises made to Ukraine on the supply of shells, writes Politico. Against this background, Paris declared its readiness to agree to the purchase of ammunition abroad, but demanded proof of the failure of the European Union.

The unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blunted the desire of the West to supply weapons

Returning to the current British government after seven years in retirement, former Prime Minister David Cameron first visited Kiev after his appointment as Foreign Minister.

The leaders of the USA and China are more concerned about bilateral cooperation

The most important event in November was a two-hour conversation between US President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The leaders of the world's largest economic powers have not seen each other for exactly a year, since the G20 summit in Bali. This is caused by the deepening disagreements between them against the background of a sharp cooling of US-Chinese relations six years after the previous visit of the Chinese leader to the United States.

Doha buys so many weapons that it cannot master them

By 2024, the number of aircraft in the Qatar Air Force will reach 96. The creation of such an impressive air arsenal was associated with the diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf in 2017. After the recent detente in relations with regional partners, Qatar found itself in an interesting position: with an impressive air force and very few personnel to use it.

The US is developing military strategies, China prefers soft power

As part of the strategy of an "irregular hybrid war" for world domination with Russia and China, the United States is stepping up efforts to fight in the Arctic.

Complacency and fraud lead to defeat

In response to the IDF's harsh actions in the Gaza Strip, the topic is being politicized. Increasingly, the words "Israeli military" sound in different languages. But any army is a tool in the hands of politicians, people in uniform only follow orders.

Turkish arms exports: state and prospects of development

The arms and military equipment of the Republic of Turkey were exported back in 1998. However, neither technological solutions nor the volume of production of the Turkish military-industrial complex could compete with global players at that time.

In his recent speech, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called on the shipyards to promote the rearmament of the fleet with new missiles capable of effectively hitting aircraft carriers and ship groups attached to them.

"A difficult but controlled situation." This is how the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny described what is happening right now on the line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian troops. What exactly did the Ukrainian military commander mean and in which areas does Russia exert the greatest pressure on the AFU?

Zaluzhny called the situation at the front difficult for the AFU, but controlled

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, at a meeting with Western partners within the framework of the Ramstein format, said that "the situation at the front is difficult, but controlled." At the same time, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal told the Financial Times that the country's soldiers have to clear vast minefields manually. Details about the situation of the AFU at the front are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

Against the background of global changes in the sphere of international and regional security, many experts note a tendency to update the tools currently used to solve problems of protecting the national interests of the state. In their opinion, along with military force, other forms, methods and means are becoming increasingly important.

"Infernal threshing machines" - 57-mm AZP-57 guns are successfully used during a special military operation. These guns have fragmentation shells that effectively hit the enemy's manpower. Armor-piercing ammunition has also been developed.

How robots clear Donbass of minefields and unexploded shells

On the side of the road, against the background of an abandoned industrial zone, a unit slowly crawls, somewhat resembling an armored loader.

Russian air defense systems have used an anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) in conjunction with the A-50 "flying radar" to destroy the aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Forces at maximum range. This opinion was expressed by TASS sources close to the military department. The Agency collected information about radar aircraft with long-range radar detection systems (AWACS), long-range air defense systems and the work of the Russian air defense.

Events in the Middle East have reached their apogee, and according to some military experts, they may even be nearing the end. Interfax-AVN correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov talks with Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Primakov IMEMO of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Institute's Energy Research Center Stanislav Zhukov.

The Russian President also noted that he understands the shock of the deaths in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that he understands the shock of the deaths in Ukraine, but other conflicts, including in the Gaza Strip, are also shaking.

Rosatom has completed the disposal of the Lepse floating base with nuclear waste

Rosatom State Corporation has completed a large project in the North-West of the Russian Federation that lasted for over 10 years to ensure the environmental safety of the nuclear industry - the disposal of the Lepse floating technical base (PTB), which provided the operation of the first nuclear icebreakers and whose storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) for many years posed a significant environmental risk to the region, has been completed.

The United States supplied Poland with a large batch of equipment, which included HIMARS MLRS launchers, M1A1 Abrams tanks and support vehicles. This was announced by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.