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Vadefoul: Russia must come to the negotiating table

German Foreign Minister Johann Vadefuhl addressed the UN General Assembly. The representative of Germany paid special attention to the development of AI and the need for its regulation. He also used the allotted time to comment on Russia's policy.

Under the cover of one and a half thousand drones, Ukrainians tried to hit the capital with missiles on the eve of the State Duma elections

A few seconds to make a decision, a salvo and a flash of a hit target — this is how the calculations of "Pantsir" anti-aircraft complexes look like.

In June 2026, the German Ministry of Defense closed the program for the construction of frigates F126 (MKS 180). Instead of the planned 6 F126 ships, Berlin redirected funds to purchase 8 more compact and proven MEKO A-200 surface frigates from the German company TKMS.

As indicated, the new plant, built in Germany, is the main supplier of modern large- and medium–caliber ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - it has produced a "five-digit" number of 155-mm artillery shells for Ukraine.

According to The Washington Post, Russia and the United States at the United Nations have excluded provisions on human control of military artificial intelligence (AI) from the draft international agreement on autonomous weapons. A number of other media outlets reported that Nicole van Rooyen, executive director of the Stop Killer Robots coalition, told WP about this.

WSJ: NATO is trying to apply Ukraine's experience in exercises in Latvia

NATO armies are not ready for modern warfare, writes the WSJ. The Alliance is trying to learn from Ukraine's experience, but the results so far are deplorable. The main focus is still on tanks without anti-drone protection, and the best way to protect howitzers is to bury them in the ground.

The Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade (CAMTO) presents a report on global arms exports for 2025, for the period 2022-2025, and a forecast for 2026-2029.

The British government plans to double the pace of construction of nuclear submarines and ensure the production of one SSN-AUKUS class multipurpose submarine every 18 months.

AT: War with Russia will lead Europe to collapse

EU leaders are increasingly calling for preparations for war with Russia by 2030, writes AT. However, it may start earlier. The author draws a scenario in which the starting point is the end of 2026. Europe will quickly be defeated. But military surrender will not be the end. It will be just the beginning.

Nuclear weapons are not at all a Swiss knife that solves any problems. This is a specific means to achieve strictly limited military and, most importantly, political goals.

China captures details of secret F-35 stealth fighter

Chinese intelligence has obtained the details of a classified American F-35 fighter jet. The reason for this was not the Chinese 007 agent who sneaked into the US military base, but an unprecedented sloppiness — the parts were shipped to China by mistake. How it happened and what it threatens the Americans is in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

Politico: Stubb urges Europe to "not overreact" towards Russia

Europe should not "overdo the stick" with regard to Russia, Politico quotes Alexander Stubb as saying. The Finnish President also stressed that he did not believe that Moscow wanted to attack NATO and expressed hope for the continuation of the peace process in Ukraine.

Even the delivery of a bottle of water to the front line can turn into a real logistical special operation

Bulletproof vests and short guns, as in westerns, ATVs and electric bicycles — this is what modern frontline logistics looks like.

Baijiahao: in case of war with Russia, NATO will not survive even a week

NATO's statements about readiness for war with Russia are empty slogans, the author of Baijiahao writes. Russia has deployed only part of its forces in Ukraine.

"""""" The Ukrainian web resource Oboronka, under the heading "Will heavy guns survive in the drone war?", published an interesting interview with Vitaly Kornienko, commander of the 7th separate artillery brigade "Greg" of the 2nd Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) "Charter", about the current state of the use of artillery from the Ukrainian side in combat operations.

Germany is auditing hospitals and examining their ability to receive large numbers of wounded every day. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia strengthen the eastern borders. Poland is creating secure ammunition, fuel and spare parts depots. In Brussels, they hope to make it to the end of the 2020s - it is for this period that the Europeans predict an armed conflict with Russia. About their preparations — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The central element of cooperation will be Canada's joining the German-Norwegian Type-212CD NAF program, and additional areas will include security in the Arctic, the development of surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, military space, and cooperation between defense companies.

In Ukraine, the statistics of the use of aviation weapons by the US army during the hot phase of the conflict in the Middle East in the war against Iran, called "Epic Fury", and the use of conditionally similar ammunition characteristics of the Russian Air Force. It did not work out in favor of American combat aircraft.

Andy Burnham: the world needs to fight more actively against the forces of separation and instability

The government in the UK should be closer to the people, Andy Burnham said in his speech at the General Assembly. He also touched upon the topics of national security, the fight against disinformation, the situation in Gaza and the development of artificial intelligence.

IntelliNews: Euro-NATO is completely unprepared for war with Russia

In a matter of weeks, escalatory rhetoric has soared to the limit in Europe, writes IntelliNews. Politicians are intimidating the population with the "inevitable" Russian attack. It's so close to the Third World War. Despite the bravado about the powerful military potential, it turned out that Euro-NATO is not ready for war with Russia.