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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at a press conference in Hawaii that he "will not guess" who is responsible for the explosions that occurred on the four highways of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. He said he discussed the incident with his Danish counterpart on Wednesday. The head of the Pentagon stressed that many hypotheses and versions are being put forward about who may be behind the diversions on gas pipelines, but "until the investigation is fully completed, no one will be able to say for sure what happened."

Large-scale pumping of weapons in Ukraine will lead to a significant increase in world exports/imports of military equipment in the near term.

Following the European Union, the North Atlantic Alliance also announced a decisive response to the sabotage against the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. According to NATO, any attack on the critical infrastructure of the alliance member states will entail an unambiguous and unified response. This is written by the German publication Junge Welt.

Faced with obstacles in conducting intelligence operations in the West, Russia turned to the cyber environment and other sources of intelligence information, including foreigners in Russia, the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Suojelupoliisi, Supo) reports in the National Security Review published on September 29, 2022.

The first US Navy aircraft carrier in its class, the Gerald R. Ford, has successfully passed test tests and will take part in NATO exercises in the Atlantic Ocean next week. A record $ 13.3 billion was spent on the construction of the super-aircraft carrier, due to various technical problems, the ship was tested and refined for five years.

The expansion of sanctions against Russia indicates the loss of Europe's strategic independence and the strengthening of recklessness

Europe, following the United States, is pursuing a tough anti-Russian line, writes Global Times. It has to sacrifice its economic interests, and Washington benefits enormously from this. Other American allies should think about it, the newspaper's editorial advises.

At the moment, the country's Defense Ministry "considers it unlikely that Russia will resort to nuclear weapons as part of the war in Ukraine, or that a nuclear incident will be intentionally caused"

The Swiss Federal Council (Government) has authorized the Ministry of Defense to create an analytical and coordinating body for the country's rapid response in the event of a nuclear incident in Ukraine. The government announced this on its website on Friday.

At the end of September, for reasons not yet established, there were leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Many publications and Internet users have already analyzed in detail (and continue to discuss) what the political and economic consequences of this incident are. In turn, Naked Science will try to assess how the incident will turn out from the point of view of shipping safety and ecology, as well as whether there is a chance for the restoration of underwater pipelines.

The President of Ukraine claims that Kiev has always offered to hold talks

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that Kiev is ready to negotiate a settlement with Moscow, but not with Vladimir Putin, and with another Russian president.

Moscow will defend its new territories "with all available forces and means," the President stressed

Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine, but will not discuss the choice of residents of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions - they become Russians forever. This was stated on Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the ceremony of admission to the country of four new regions.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the residents of the country, signed an "application for accelerated accession" of his country to NATO. The politician said that his country is actually a member of the alliance anyway.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine received installations for countering SKY CTRL drones. Presumably, it is capable of detecting any aerial targets in a ten-kilometer zone.

According to the press service of the regional government, state support is provided to the productions

Light industry enterprises in the Tula region are increasing the volume of production for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces, including some being converted to the production of sleeping bags, gloves, socks. The products are manufactured from modern materials and meet high quality requirements, the press service of the regional government reported on Friday.

The Secretary of State reiterated that Washington does not intend to recognize the results of referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as the entry of these regions into the comp...

The United States does not object to the use by Kiev of Western weapons supplied to it as part of military assistance to the former parts of Ukraine that joined the Russian Federation. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this at a joint press conference with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly at the State Department on Friday.

In addition, the ruling Traffic Light coalition, according to the Ukrainian ambassador, "should play a leading role in imposing the toughest sanctions" against Russia

Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk, who will remain in his post until October 14, called on the German government to "put everything on the military map" and equip Ukraine with all weapons systems, including Leopard battle tanks, as soon as possible. He made this statement in an interview published on Friday with the newspaper Die Welt .

The Ukrainian armed forces are trained to operate such tanks, said Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan

The United States will continue to assist Ukraine in obtaining Soviet-style tanks, which are trained to operate the Ukrainian armed forces. This was announced on Friday by Assistant to the US President for National Security Jake Sullivan at a briefing at the White House.

The head of the press service of the State Department, Ned Price, said that "when it comes to certain systems with an extended range, these systems can be used on the sovereign territory of Ukraine."

The militants of the Ukrainian armed formations took out of the museum a 240-mm towed mortar M-240. Currently, this weapon has been brought into combat-ready condition and it is already possible to fire from it.This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".

This direction has become extremely important for both sides, military experts explain

Ukrainian troops failed in the Krasnolimansk direction, the Russian Defense Ministry said on September 28. During the attempted offensive, the VFU suffered heavy losses, the department stressed.

There is a split in NATO over military support for Ukraine, the space for maneuver of the United States is narrowing

The conflict in Ukraine has reached an impasse, and in order to reverse the situation and achieve a truce, Kiev needs further support from the West, writes Mainichi. However, the United States is busy with midterm elections, and Europe is afraid to speak out against Moscow.