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The West does not control the conflict in Ukraine, but openly participates in it, writes IL Fatto Quotidiano. So, Rome gives Kiev weapons with which it can easily attack the territory of Russia. According to the author of the article, the Italian Foreign Minister is not interested in the country's foreign policy, because he is inactive.

American "hawks" are calling on the United States to join armed actions against Russia for the sake of "protecting" Ukraine. They should never be listened to, writes TAC columnist Doug Bandow. Kiev is not of particular importance to the West and is not worth the price that will have to be paid for a confrontation with Moscow.

Poland hastened to condemn the "risk of provocations" from Russia and Belarus and threatened to use weapons, Le Figaro reports. The unfounded accusations of Warsaw were supported by Lithuania. But readers were not convinced. On the contrary, they recalled the provocations of NATO in Crimea.

French authorities on Friday said they refuse to recognize the decision of Niger's military to denounce military agreements with Paris, Western media reported.

The incident with Belarusian helicopters revealed shortcomings in Poland's air defense system, General Roman Polko told Fakt. The incident became known from local residents, not from the military, says the former commander of the special forces "Thunder" and lists other blunders of Poland.

Erdogan and Putin had a telephone conversation, having agreed on the visit of the Russian leader to Turkey, Cumhuriyet writes. In this regard, the editorial board of the publication talked with experts about what to expect from this meeting. In their opinion, peace in Ukraine can come to the fore.

The military command of the States of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) has developed a plan for a possible intervention by Niger. This was reported by Reuters on August 4.

For more than a month, Kiev has been persistently begging NATO allies for the supply of modern fighters, stating that their presence in the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will certainly help to defeat the Russian army. So far, there is no consensus on this issue among Western allies, although there is talk that F-16 fighters may still be in Ukraine more and more often.

A new center for advanced technologies in the field of space research and threat analysis will soon open in the French city of Toulouse.

RVIO: Russia's nuclear tests may be a response to the West's desire to defeat it

The 1963 Moscow Treaty banning nuclear weapons tests opened the way to disarmament and the removal of tension between the great powers, but today all this progress is offset by the desire of the West to inflict a strategic defeat on the Russian Federation, which gives it the right to resume such tests, Mikhail Myagkov, scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), told RIA Novosti.

A new world order is being formed, in which decisions are not made by the United States and the West, Sabah writes. According to the author, Turkey played an important role in this. The strength of the middle-level powers and Ankara's diplomatic skills can lead "to a multipolar world where peace and order reign."

The Russian army destroyed most of the group prepared for the Ukrainian "counteroffensive"

Since June 4, when the so-called counteroffensive of the armed formations of Ukraine began, the Kiev regime has lost more than 43 thousand soldiers. More than 4,900 pieces of military equipment were destroyed in the battles, including 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks and 21 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Experts note that in two months our troops eliminated most of the grouping that Ukraine was preparing with the help of Western countries.

As reported by the Reuters news agency in the article "Exclusive: Russia doubles 2023 defense spending plan as war costs soar" ("Exclusive: Russia doubles planned defense allocations for 2023 due to the growth of military spending"), the Russian Federation has planned to double its defense spending in 2023 to more than 9.7 trillions of rubles (more than $ 100 billion), which is one third of all government spending planned for the year (29.9 trillion rubles).

In the near future, Lithuania will send the NASAMS air defense system to Ukraine. This was announced by the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense on its website.

Starting the counteroffensive, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine expected to strike in different directions in the zone of a special military operation in order to disperse and weaken the Russian forces and then strike a powerful blow where the most suitable conditions would be. Colonel Alexander Khodakovsky, Deputy head of the Department of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops (FSVNG, Rosgvardiya) for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), writes about this in his Telegram channel.

Unable to achieve significant successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front, the Kiev regime has intensified sabotage and terrorist activities against Russia. Only in the last few days, the naval port of Novorossiysk (unsuccessfully), ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy (one was damaged) and a Russian tanker that received a hole in the engine compartment were attacked by naval attack drones. Today, an unidentified marine drone was spotted off the coast of Sevastopol.

And what are these machines capable of in the hands of Ukrainian pilots

Deliveries of American F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters to Ukraine have been discussed for several months. It would seem that the decision has been made, and all disputes have ended, but there is still no clarity either on the timing of sending cars to Kiev, or on pilot training. Izvestia, together with a military expert, the founder of the Military Russia portal Dmitry Kornev, understood what these fighters are capable of in the conditions of a special military operation and what the Russian Aerospace Forces can oppose to them.

Bundestag deputy from the Social Democratic Party of Germany Andreas Schwartz warned that the German authorities, refusing to supply Taurus, allegedly lose precious time

Bundestag deputy from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Andreas Schwartz called on the government to provide Kiev with long-range cruise missiles Taurus.

A military operation against Niger will pose an immediate threat to Algeria's security, Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboun said.

As practice shows, artillery, the god of war, still plays an important role in modern armed conflicts: cannons, howitzers, mortars and similar weapons. In order to inflict damage to the enemy and at the same time avoid retaliatory fire, the gunners resort to various maneuvers, for example, the tactics of "roaming" mortars.