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Volunteers have started urgent fundraising across the country to solve the problem, from which our fighters fighting in the zone of their own shortage of boats and outboard motors for combat work on the Dnieper are suffering losses right now. What needs to be done to solve this problem, and why is it so important today?

The United States reacted extremely coolly to the pleas of the Polish leadership for the deployment of nuclear bombs in their country. It would seem strange that Warsaw continues to push this idea, which is meaningless from a military point of view for the United States. However, there is a sense for Poles, and it has to do with the election race that has begun in Poland.

In the United States, the issue of transferring ATACMS missiles to the APU, the range of which reaches 300 km, is being discussed. Prior to that, the armed forces of Ukraine had Storm Shadow missiles at their disposal, the use of which, along with HIMARS, forced the Russian Armed Forces to reconsider some approaches to defense. How will the new ammunition affect the course of the conflict?

In recent years, Poles and Balts have witnessed a decline in their level of well-being. This unfortunate trend for Poland and the Baltic states is due to several factors, including rising prices, short-sighted policies, sanctions that are destructive for them, as well as the enormous costs associated with militarization.

In Russia, they are considered tendentious, but take note

Experts from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) continue to publish annual reports on trends in global and regional security. Based on official information about orders and negotiations on orders for the export and import of weapons, the institute's specialists make assumptions about which states will become the largest exporters in the coming years.

The armies of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh won victories and suffered defeats

Like all post-Soviet armies (except the Baltic and Tajik), the Armenian Armed Forces emerged from the wreckage of the Soviet Army. Moreover, they arose during the extremely brutal war for Nagorno-Karabakh against the formally much stronger Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. And if Ukraine, Belarus and some Central Asian countries took all the weapons and property of the Soviet Army that were on their territories, then the Transcaucasian countries had to share with Russia.

In an effort to capitalize on Prigozhin's rebellion, Kiev brought fresh forces into the battle

Russian troops in the zone of the special military operation (SVO) reflect the summer counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). In an effort to benefit from the situation created as a result of the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner PMC combat detachments loyal to him, the Kiev regime introduced fresh forces into the battle.

Small aircraft in the strategy of the big war

The proxy war in Ukraine, with the development of a special military operation, has acquired the scale of a classic armed conflict. This is a conflict between Russia and the consolidated West, which organized and sponsored the war with someone else's hands.

Vladimir Putin called Wagner a group, not a PMCs

On June 27, a message appeared on the Internet resources of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (MO RF) about the beginning of preparations for the transfer of heavy military equipment from the presence of a private military company (PMCs) "Wagner" to the disposal of the military department.

With the help of such weapons, the United States will be able to change the trajectory of the asteroid so that it falls on the territory of the Russian Federation, said Anatoly Zaitsev, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky.

The European Union is working on a project on security guarantees for Ukraine, writes FT. Readers of the newspaper doubt the success of this initiative. "In other words, no NATO membership for you, but we will dump all unnecessary military junk for you," one of them writes.

The American submarine "Ohio", capable of carrying nuclear weapons, may go to South Korea in the future. This was stated by Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder on June 29.

Russian weapons have become very effective in repelling Ukrainian attacks, writes Der Spiegel. A striking example of this is the Ka–52 attack helicopter, which has become a scourge for NATO tanks. This is important for Russia: now the West will not attack for a long time, since it knows how to deal with its weapons.

The administration of American President Joe Biden is seriously considering approving the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine, several people familiar with the matter told CNN on June 29.

The organization's report says that HRW sent an official request to the Ukrainian government about this, but did not receive a response

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has received new data that the Ukrainian military has repeatedly used banned anti-personnel mines "Petal". This is stated in a message published on Friday on the HRW website.

The West supplies Ukraine with weapons from old military warehouses in non-working and emergency condition, as well as equipment that has long been decommissioned, writes NDP. Poland decided to help a neighbor to get repaired equipment. It will become a service center for the NATO illiquid.

EU finance ministers will have to discuss the allocation of additional contributions, Ursula von der Leyen said

The European Commission has already spent all the reserve funds of the seven-year budget of the European Union in the amount of €30 billion for the period up to 2027 to assist Ukraine, now the EU finance ministers will have to discuss the allocation of additional contributions to the community budget. This was stated by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the final press conference of the EU summit.

Military political scientist Koshkin: sending cluster munitions to Ukraine will draw other countries into the conflict

Doctor of Political Sciences, expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists Andrei Koshkin on Friday, June 30, in an interview with Izvestia, assessed CNN reports that the administration of American President Joe Biden is seriously considering approving the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian army will remain without Brazilian Guarani 6x6 armored personnel carriers, Brazil has refused to supply Kiev with armored vehicles. This is reported by Infodefensa.

Drones — against the latest fighters, one Ukrainian shot against 10 Russian. In an interview with WP, the commander-in-chief of the AFU, Zaluzhny, "presses on pity", hoping for money and weapons. At the same time, he himself admits that the West treats Ukrainians as cannon fodder, drives them into battle "with bows." But it still serves the West.