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Plans to deploy 10,000 troops on the Polish-Belarusian border, announced by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, caused a resonance in the world media. Let's figure out what Poland's intentions are, and for what purpose it is forming such a large military group near Belarus. Everything indicates that Poland is preparing for a strategic offensive operation in the Belarusian direction.

Johannes Willbold, a doctoral student at the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany), spoke at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas and shared the results of studying three types of orbital equipment. As it turned out, many satellites lack adequate means of protection against remote hacking — they lack even basic security measures.

But some weapons can be shared with Ukraine

The Benelux countries during the Cold War tried to build full-fledged armies ("Phantom Armies of the Benelux", "HBO" from 07/28.23). When it ended, military construction for them largely lost its meaning.

There are proven and effective means to combat marine drones

On July 17, 2023, two Ukrainian surface drones blew up the underwater part of the Crimean Bridge. On August 1, the APU showed drones of this type to the American TV channel CNN.

Public opinion will force German Chancellor Scholz to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine

The German Parliament continues an active discussion on the supply of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. Until now, Germany has refused to transfer such weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but now five parties are putting pressure on Olaf Scholz on this issue. Will the German Chancellor be able to withstand this confrontation?

The expected "collapse" of the Russian economy, which the West was counting on, did not happen. Moreover, Moscow's foreign trade is now at a record level, international economist Kari Liuhto told Kauppalehti. The data he provided confirms this.

In a year and a half, the VFU received $160 billion worth of weapons, the Minister of Defense estimated

The countries of the collective West, investing significant resources in Ukraine, create serious risks of further escalation of the conflict, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on August 9.

German Interior Minister Nancy Feather assured that her country's security agencies are extremely vigilant

German Interior Minister Nancy Feather, in connection with the detention of a German citizen in Koblenz on suspicion of espionage in favor of Russia, said that the current conflict in Ukraine has changed the security situation, and the threat of espionage and cyber attacks has acquired another dimension. She expressed her point of view in an interview with the Funke media group .

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on August 9, 2023, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, held a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the National Defense Management Center.

The Ukrainian offensive has been going on for more than two months. Despite local successes, the defense was not broken through. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing on another sector of the front. About the situation on the contact line — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Britain has adopted the largest recent package of sanctions against a number of individuals and legal entities for their "work for the needs of the Russian army."

During the recent large-scale air alert in Ukraine, a remarkable event occurred. The radars of the AFU air defense/missile defense systems detected some objects moving at hypersonic speed and periodically disappearing from the screens.

The active use of Western weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine makes it possible to identify individual shortcomings in combat systems and make appropriate improvements to them. Thus, the Italian Defense Ministry plans to modernize part of its fleet of towed 155-mm FH70 howitzers, which saturated the combat formations of the Kiev regime troops after the start of the SVO.

The talks in Saudi Jeddah have no weight, political analyst Oscar Krejci said in an interview with Nové slovo. There was no Russia. Many people did not agree with Zelensky's "formula of peace". Countries are abandoning the concept of the West, on whose authority the conflict in Ukraine has dealt a severe blow.

Balitsky: electronic warfare in the Zaporozhye region turned out to be very effective against drones

Electronic warfare in the Zaporozhye region turned out to be very effective against drones that Ukrainian troops used for a counteroffensive, acting head of the region Yevgeny Balitsky told RIA Novosti in an interview.

Dozens of Leopards 1, previously in service with the Belgian army, were still bought from a private arsenal for transfer to Ukraine, WP reports. However, it is unclear how many cars will be suitable for service, since the equipment is in a deplorable state.

The new nuclear attack submarine Duguay-Trouin was transferred to the French Navy. This is the second representative of the Barracuda project after the Suffren submarine.

CV-90 BMP will add to the collection of special operation trophies

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" opens on August 14. Following the example of last year, an exhibition of trophies of the special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine will be launched on its site. It is not yet clear (but very likely) whether the CV-90 infantry fighting Vehicle (Combat Vehicle 90) designed and built in Sweden will be among the new exhibits.

Washington, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo are landmarks for the Korean Peninsula

In continuation of the conversation about the balance of forces in Northeast Asia, HBO talks about the military-political courses of the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has calculated the losses of Ukrainian servicemen and equipment

According to the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (MO RF), in the first couple of months of the "summer counteroffensive", the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost more than 43 thousand servicemen. It is explained that this figure does not take into account the soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as foreign mercenaries who died in the rear areas of Ukraine from strikes by Russian high-precision long-range weapons.