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The Hungarian parliament will approve the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO at the first meeting of 2023 - Mass media
The Hungarian parliament will ratify the accession of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Alliance during the first meeting next year, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.
American expert: The confrontation with China is more difficult for the United States than the Cold War with the USSR once was
According to Benjamin Mainardi, an expert from the US Center for Maritime Strategy, preparing for a world in which the US will have to coexist and compete with other world players, and primarily with China, is more difficult than preparing for a direct conflict.
Media: The United States, under pressure from China, convinced Poland not to transfer the MiG-29 to Ukraine
According to The Spectator magazine, in return, Beijing promised to convince Moscow to abandon the use of nuclear weapons
The administration of US President Joe Biden forced Poland not to supply Soviet MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine in March after an insistent request from China, which fears an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict. This is reported on the website of the British magazine The Spectator, citing sources in Chinese diplomatic circles.
Putin stated the need to increase the volume and quality of military equipment
The President noted that extraordinary measures to meet the needs of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are not needed
Russian President Vladimir Putin has set the task of increasing the volume of supplies to the troops and improving the quality of products.
Due course: Russia is increasing the production of weapons for its
The government reported on the production of products for the army and told about new social measures for the mobilized
Many private enterprises are ready to help provide the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with uniforms, protective equipment and other necessary products, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on November 22. He stressed that today the situation with the release of some types of weapons and army equipment has improved.
Ukraine has ruined the weapons stocks of the West. It will take years to replenish
Le Monde: France has begun to transfer the economy to military rails
Aid to Ukraine has depleted Western weapons stocks, and it will take more than one year to replenish them, Le Monde reports. Macron accelerated the production of military equipment, starting the transition of the economy to military rails. Now French enterprises have to work overtime — all for the sake of supplies to Kiev.
Le Monde: The West has depleted its own stocks of weapons due to aid to Ukraine
According to the newspaper, two-thirds of military support to Kiev was provided by the United States
The stocks of weapons in Western countries, including the United States, have reached critically low values due to supplies to Kiev, and the possibilities for their replenishment have been very limited. This was reported on Tuesday by the newspaper Le Monde .
The West will forgive Zelensky everything. But not this
TAC: Kiev will not give up the support of the West, no matter what Zelensky does
After the incident with the Ukrainian missile and Zelensky's attempts to ignite World War III, Western countries did not even think to reconsider their unlimited assistance to Kiev, writes TAC. Ukraine has an unconditional right to money and weapons, and the West will forgive its leader absolutely everything except independent attempts to negotiate with Moscow, the author complains.
The Russian military received combat training at training grounds in Belarus
At the training grounds in Belarus, Russian military personnel of the artillery units of the Western Military District (ZVO) continue the course of intensive combat training. This was announced on Wednesday, November 23, by the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Izvestia" showed the work of electronic warfare troops in the area of their
Electronic warfare (EW) units that perform tasks during a special operation to protect Donbass deprive the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of the ability to coordinate units and control soldiers on the battlefield. This was told by the correspondent of Izvestia Alexander Morozov.
The US Navy is going to send the stealth destroyer Zumwalt to dry dock for 18 months to equip hypersonic missiles
The Command of the US Navy has thought about further modernization of the Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers, which were planned to be equipped with hypersonic missiles. This is reported by The Drive, which refers to the speech of the commander of the Pacific Fleet of the Navy (PACFLT) Admiral Samuel Paparo.
IAEA: Iran has one short step left to enrich uranium to weapons-grade level
The IAEA has made a statement about Iran's entry into a new level of uranium enrichment. The organization claims that now the Islamic Republic "has only one short step left to obtain uranium enriched to the weapons level."
In Britain, they said that the Ukrainian military will manage the WS-61 Sea King helicopters transferred to Ukraine
The "newly minted" British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expectedly continued the policy of his predecessors towards Kiev. It is no secret that the UK is one of the main beneficiaries of the conflict in Ukraine and is interested in its continuation.
Croatia refused to train the Ukrainian military on its territory
Today, information leaked into the media space that Croatian President Zoran Milanovic rejected the request of Defense Minister Mario Banozic regarding the training of Ukrainian military on his territory. The head of the defense Department outlined this in his letter to the head of state.
In America, they told about the "protest" against Zelensky
Columnist Ron Paul: discontent with Zelensky is growing in the US
Given the intelligence capabilities of the United States in the combat zone in Ukraine, the White House knew from the very beginning that the missile that fell on Poland was not Russian, writes Ron Paul. It was madness on Zelensky's part to assure the opposite. Washington seems to have noticed this for the first time.
"I don't want a war with Russia." Duda talked to Vovan and Lexus
Tok FM: Poland condemned Duda's frank conversation with Russian prankers
A recording of a conversation between Duda and pseudo-Macron after the explosion in Przevodów appeared on the Polish Internet, Tok FM reports. In fact, the Polish president spoke with Russian pranksters. The opposition spoke harshly about Duda and the services responsible for the security of the country.
French politician Pierre Lelouch: Crimea is Russian, and Ukraine has no place in the EU
French politician Lelouch urged Ukraine to get used to the fact that Crimea is Russia
Former French MP Pierre Lelouch called on Ukraine and the West to get used to the idea that Crimea is the territory of Russia. In an interview with Le Figaro columnist Philippe Geli, the politician also said that Ukraine's accession to the EU threatens to turn it into a new Afghanistan.
Russia, Turkey and Israel are playing cat and mouse in Syria
The Guardian: The war in Syria threatens to escalate on at least three fronts
The presence of Turkish, Israeli and Russian aircraft in the skies over Syria confirms that the war is not over and threatens to escalate on at least three fronts, writes The Guardian. The open Syrian issue is increasingly clouding the situation in an already troubled region.
Anti-Russian rallies under the flags of Ukraine and the United States have begun in Armenia
A rally against the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) summit was held in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Representatives of the opposition forces gathered at the rally came out to him under anti-Russian slogans.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the United States is working purposefully to destabilize the situation in the Asia-Pacific region
According to Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, at the SMOA Plus meeting, the United States and some unfriendly countries made politicized statements on the situation around Taiwan, Myanmar and Ukraine.