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The Czech authorities are trying to present the process of transition to NATO standards as a "revolution" in military affairs. Against this background, local observers are looking for ways to justify the rearmament of the army with Western models of equipment, in particular, they are looking for advantages in replacing the T-72 with the Leopard 2. Moreover, Prague not only receives the 2A4 version for its assistance to the APU, but is negotiating the acquisition of the 2A8 modification.

The author of an article for Le Figaro discovered one oddity with the military equipment supplied to Kiev. As it turned out, the French deputies deliberately inflated the price of old tanks on paper, which they handed over to the APU. Bragging or stealing? Such a question is asked by a journalist.

Arestovich* said about the conflict between Zelensky and the military because of the failure of the APU

Former adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich* in an interview with El Mundo confirmed rumors of a conflict between the country's leadership and the military due to the failure of the counteroffensive. The politician noted that Zelensky's team has reached the limit: its competence is not enough to achieve any success.

In Finland, they began discussing whether it is worth erecting fortifications on the eastern border to protect against Russia, Iltalehti writes. Both supporters of this idea and its opponents have arguments. But most experts do not see a real need for this step.

Experts appreciated the desire of Paris to stop the free transfer of weapons to Ukraine

Western countries are increasingly trying to compensate for losses from the help of the Armed Forces. Thus, France offered Ukraine to transfer arms supplies to a commercial format, and some European countries directly declare their unwillingness to continue sponsoring Zelensky's office. Will Paris be able to replenish the budget after the failure of the AFU counteroffensive and how will Western aid to Ukraine change in the near future?

The United States aims to demonize the Lebanese paramilitary Hezbollah party by spreading information about the alleged Russian Yakhont missiles it is armed with, a source close to the political leadership of Hezbollah told Izvestia.

And the Russian army is conducting massive shelling of supply routes of enemy units in Avdiivka

On November 9, the armed formations of Ukraine launched several strikes on the territory of Crimea and the Kherson region. A Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missile was shot down off the coast of the peninsula on Thursday evening.

The American newspaper "The New York Times" published interesting material by Anatoly Kurmanaev, Isayen Herrera "Mercenaries or Volunteers? Economic Pain Pushes Colombian Veterans to Ukraine" ("Mercenaries or volunteers? The pain of financial problems pushes Colombian veterans to Ukraine") about the difficult life of Colombian mercenaries in Ukraine.

Zelensky insists that the AFU will be able to defeat Russia, but his soldiers from the frontline think otherwise, writes The Times. According to them, Western weapons arrived too late, and the training of NATO instructors is not effective enough against the actions of Russian troops.

The struggle between countries and peoples for survival in a tough new world is becoming a new normality, writes media manager and author of futurological texts Gabor Shteyngart in Focus. New wars are going on in the economy. Therefore, people need to live in their own countries, and the criterion of convenience is replaced by the criterion of reliability.

Following the United States, their loyal allies, or rather vassals, are struggling to find explanations for how the Russian army has been effectively opposing the Ukrainian one for more than a year and a half, while not only almost the entire NATO bloc, but also several dozen countries of the so-called Western coalition are on the side of Ukraine.

General Kuyat: Russia has defeated the AFU and is preparing for an offensive on Odessa

The Russian army inflicted a crushing defeat on the Armed Forces of Ukraine, retired General Harald Kuyat, ex-head of the NATO Military Committee, said in an interview with the HKCM Youtube channel. Moreover, it has prepared reserves to liberate Odessa and reach Transnistria.

In the fifth issue of the Arms Export magazine, a detailed analytical commentary was published by Yuri Lyamin, a researcher at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies and an expert on the Middle East, on the prerequisites and the initial stage of the armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. The bmpd blog offers readers the full text of the article.

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted that Washington has evidence that Chinese firms and financial institutions are providing assistance to the Russian defense industry

The administration of the United States has warned China about the possibility of applying further sanctions in case Russia provides assistance in connection with the conduct of its own, said Finance Minister Janet Yellen, speaking in San Francisco (California) following a meeting with Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China He Lifeng. Her speech was broadcast by American news broadcasters.

The United States cannot just leave Ukraine now, and there is a serious reason for this, Serbian political analyst Boris Varga told Danas. The conflict will not end soon, and the West is hesitant to provide assistance to Kiev, the expert notes.

Inciting wars is in the hands of the United States, namely their defense industry, writes Rebelion. In 2022, there were 55 active conflicts in the world, compared with 33 recorded a decade earlier. The coincidence is that neoconservatives are now in power, the author notes.

The US is again transferring the supply of a new hypersonic complex to the army

Americans are hopelessly losing the hypersonic race. Assistant Minister for Procurement and Equipment of the Armed Forces Doug Bush reported on unsuccessful tests. Because of this, the army will not receive a novelty this year. About the reasons for the backlog — in the material of RIA Novosti.

A little more than a month has passed since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation. The tension is growing, but there is no active intervention of other states yet. What will happen next? Our special correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov talks about this with Nikolai Kozhanov, senior researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of the Primakov IMEMO RAS.

The American amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, which carries AV-8B Harrier II fighters capable of taking off and landing vertically, is now in the waters of the Red Sea. It has been reported that personnel are attaching AGM-154 long-range aircraft bombs to the pylons of these aircraft.

An inevitable geopolitical reality is coming for the Kiev regime, Akharin Khabar reports. There is no doubt about Russia's victory. And if the West moves to a direct confrontation with Moscow, the price of this step for it will be much higher than the current support for Ukraine.