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19 members of the US House of Representatives opposed the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine. They published their statement on this issue on July 7.

According to a survey by the Nezopont Center, 88% of respondents are convinced of the need for an immediate ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations

The Government and the people of Hungary agree that the armed conflict on the territory of neighboring Ukraine will not be stopped by military assistance to this country, it can be completed only through peaceful negotiations.

On July 7, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling up to $ 800 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to more than $ 41.3 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $44.1 billion.

The UK will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine. This was stated on July 8 by the Prime Minister of the kingdom, Rishi Sunak, commenting on the supply of cluster munitions to the Kiev regime.

CPVS: RF expresses concern over violations of deconfliction protocols over Syria

The Russian military expressed concern about violations of deconfliction protocols in the skies over Syria by the US-led international anti-terrorist coalition in Syria, noting nine such recorded cases over the past day. This was announced at a briefing on July 8 by Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria.

The United States uses security as an excuse to deceive other countries and make them pay for American hegemony, writes Global Times. That is why NATO members such as Hungary, France and Turkey are unwilling to obey Washington, which has led to a lack of consensus within the bloc on key issues, including the choice of the Secretary General.

Melnik rudely replied to German deputy Stegner because of criticism of the supply of cluster munitions

On July 8, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Melnyk insulted Bundestag deputy from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Ralf Stegner and other Western politicians in response to criticism of the supply of cluster munitions to Ukraine.

According to the colonel of the operational reserve of the French army, Caroline Galacteros, such a decision can be made at the NATO summit

NATO countries, in view of the lack of consensus on Ukraine's accession to the alliance, may offer Kiev at the Vilnius summit on July 11-12 guarantees of the participation of third forces in the current conflict under certain conditions. This opinion was voiced in an interview with a TASS correspondent by Colonel of the operational reserve of the French army Caroline Galacteros, who heads the Paris-based analytical center Geopragma.

After the modernization, Leclerc has changed seriously, but it is not entirely clear whether it is for the worse.

Western and Russian tank-building schools have been developing almost in isolation from each other for decades. Western tanks did not fight with trained units equipped with modern Soviet/Russian-made tanks, so it was impossible to clearly understand whose tank school was better able to cope with the requirements of the battlefield.

Everything that happens in Ukraine is subject to the rules established by the Kremlin and the CIA, writes Newsweek. For example, the United States promised not to fight directly in Ukraine, and Russia promised not to take the conflict beyond its borders. The author found out what other unspoken agreements American intelligence has with Moscow.

Catherine Colonna noted that the French side intends to strengthen the country's potential "in the long term"

France is preparing a new package of military assistance for Ukraine and intends to continue supporting Kiev as long as necessary. This was stated by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

Speaking in March 2023 at the symposium on combat operations of the Association of Aerospace Forces (AFA Warfare ), the head of the Pentagon profile Department Frank Kendall (Frank Kendall) this is how he described the problem faced by the US Aerospace Forces: "We are united in our commitment to modernize the Aerospace Forces and implement the changes we need to be competitive with our task - China, China, China".

The United States is discussing the supply of "least dangerous" cluster munitions to Ukraine. Despite Washington's attempts to "smooth the corners", the world community is outraged by the Pentagon's willingness to send inhumane weapons to the conflict zone. Why did the United States think about the transfer of cluster munitions to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and what conclusions follow from this?

The head of the Crimea Aksyonov reported that the air defense forces shot down a cruise missile in the Kerch area

The air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian cruise missile near Kerch, said the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov. The missile's defeat was caught on video. Telegram channel Mash suggests that the target of the strike could be the Crimean Bridge. Traffic on it was suspended for some time. In Kiev, the bridge was previously called the "number one target" for the Ukrainian military.

Military expert Khodarenok believes that the Russian Armed Forces need regular units of drones

The armed conflicts of the coming century will be distinguished by the massive use of unmanned systems controlled by artificial intelligence. How is the situation with unmanned vehicles in the United Group of troops participating in the SVO, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Colonel Khodarenok believes that Kiev's failures dispel the myth of the military might of the NATO bloc

NATO told about the problems of the Ukrainian counteroffensive due to the terrain and the resistance of the Russian Federation. Journalists of the German edition of Bild state that "it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight with the Russians." The reasons and consequences of the failures of the Ukrainian counteroffensive were investigated by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The decision of the Turkish leadership to transfer the commanders of the neo-Nazi Azov battalion to Ukraine will remain unanswered only if it was part of a more complex and extensive deal, experts say. But, most likely, we will have to react: the violation of previous agreements breaks the usual pattern of relations between Russia and Turkey.

The Russian army got its hands on the most valuable trophy – the Franco-British Storm Shadow missile, with which the enemy strikes at rear targets from long distances. What are the features of this missile and how will the analysis of its "stuffing" affect the tactics of countering such complexes?

There was a joint declaration of Polish President Andrzej Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda. It says the following:

The German authorities are confidently leading the country entrusted to them to deindustrialization, including in the production of defense products. The first blow to the German economy was the adoption of the Kiev regime as a dependent. The second, affecting the German industry, was the rejection of the Russian market, of energy carriers from the Russian Federation and the unwillingness to deal with customers undermining the "Northern Streams".