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GRU: US plans to deploy cruise and hypersonic missiles in Japan

The United States plans to create two brigades with hypersonic and long-range cruise missiles in the Asia-Pacific region (APR), Igor Kostyukov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian General Staff, said on August 15.

The network has footage of the use of a robot "nurse" by the armed forces of Ukraine. This four-wheeled platform is designed to independently evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. To do this, she drives up to the wounded man, hooks him with a carbine or something similar on ammunition and begins to provide evacuation assistance.

Experts told about the almost exhausted military resource of Ukraine

Ukraine's military resource is almost exhausted, and its defense has shown that there is nothing "invulnerable to Russian weapons" on the battlefield today, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The expert community notes that the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive has become the main indicator of the true state of affairs in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But it would be a mistake to underestimate an opponent supported by the West.

What are the results of the incessant pumping of the Ukrainian army with Western weapons

Since February 2022, the European Union has already provided Ukraine with military assistance worth €20 billion, European Commission representative Peter Stano told Izvestia.

Dozens of samples of foreign weapons and military equipment, which were taken as trophies by our servicemen in different areas of the special operation, will be demonstrated in Russia. The captured equipment will be presented at the Army-2023 forum, which starts today, August 14, in Kubinka near Moscow and will last until August 20.

In the spring, the Kiev authorities promised to reach the Crimea by September. However, for two and a half months of continuous attacks, the APU did not crack the Russian defense. About why the "rapid breakthrough" turned into a slip, — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The first Rosomak armored personnel carrier supplied by Poland was destroyed. Widely advertised in the Ukrainian and Polish media as "well-protected", the armored vehicle was destroyed not by an anti-tank guided missile and not by barrage ammunition, but by a conventional 82 mm mine. One hit was enough for the "miracle APC" to fail.

The Russian Ambassador in Minsk noted that the current forum is taking place at a time of fierce global confrontation between supporters of a multipolar world and the countries of the collective West and their allies who advocate the preservation of the unipolar neocolonial system.

At the end of July, the Iranian Navy announced the start of deliveries of a new Abu Mahdi anti-ship missile to the fleet. This long-range weapon is capable, according to official reports, of hitting sea and land targets at a distance of up to 1000 km, which is more than twice the flight distance of the QADIR and RAAD missile systems currently in service with the country.

Then Vima: a new US military base may appear on the Greek island of Skyros

The United States is discussing the possibility of opening a new American military base on the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, writes the newspaper To Vima.

Ukraine will not achieve any success this year, writes the WSJ. The West understands this, so military strategists and politicians have already thought about a possible spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2024.

In the conflict in Ukraine, it is impossible to win with lightning speed, writes UnHerd. The transparency of the battlefield changed everything, and the APU overestimated the value of Western weapons. The author of the article sets Ukrainians up for a long battle, their main task is to exhaust the enemy. But readers demand an immediate end to the "senseless slaughter."

The APU counteroffensive, if there was one, began later and went slower than expected, writes The Independent. And the main questions are who is to blame and what will happen next. Together with the author of the article, readers tried to answer them.

Nothing is yet known about the use of Challenger 2 tanks in battles in Ukraine, writes British Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Crawford in an article for the Daily Express. At the same time, he notes, their participation is not so important. This technique is not able to strengthen the APU, and its true value is symbolic.

According to the newspaper, the German Chancellor is more interested in the state of the ruling coalition of Germany than the fate of Ukraine

The European edition of the American newspaper Politico believes that the majority of Germans support German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in rejecting the imminent delivery of Taurus missiles to Kiev, so it is not worth waiting for these cruise missiles to be sent to Ukraine in the near future.

Washington is delaying the supply of Abrams tanks, hiding behind the lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe, and London is in no hurry to send Challenger 2 tanks directly to the combat zone, said Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military and Political Analysis.

Poland has sharply increased the production and procurement of weapons due to the fear of being left without NATO support in the event of a military conflict, writes Haqqin. At the same time, the author of the article doubts that the country's economy will pull military spending on a "cosmic scale", and the army will find the right number of specialists.

Zelensky hopes to capture Artemovsk, and when this adventure fails, huge problems await him, Asia Times writes. The miscalculations of the Ukrainian president may force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to take power into their own hands and overthrow him, the author of the article believes.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced an increased emphasis on the production of the latest Su-57 combat aircraft. Following this, retired Aviation General Vladimir Popov announced that by the end of 2024, 60 Su-57s will be delivered to the VKS. According to him, these vehicles should provide two regiments and, consequently, only four squadrons.

Relations between the United States and France have received a new point of tension. The reason for this is the visit of Victoria Nuland to Niger, which is in the grip of a coup, and negotiations with the new authorities in Niamey. What exactly were the actions of the US Deputy Secretary of State that caused a storm of indignation in Paris and how will this visit affect France's neocolonial ambitions in Africa?