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Journalist Alexey Ramm — about why the Russian Armed Forces needed mobilization

"The most important thing is reserves," my military history teacher Colonel Zalansky said, explaining to us, third—year cadets, important aspects of military affairs. It is the correct use of reserves, their timely entry into battle and their early creation that will determine which side will win the war.

US defense companies can use the conflict in Ukraine to test their pilot projects, and a number of firms are already doing this.

According to the American news site Axios, the Kiev authorities have asked Tel Aviv to share with them intelligence data on Iran's military cooperation with Russia. At the same time, the publication refers to high-ranking Israeli officials.

Vladimir Degtyar, General Director, General Designer of the Makeeva SRC, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti in an interview about how the Sarmat rocket was created and what it means for Russia and the world.

Joe Biden's speech at the UN General Assembly session

In the last year, the world has been going through huge upheavals — a growing food crisis, unprecedented heat, floods and drought, COVID-19, inflation and a brutal armed conflict that no one needs.

Alexey Isaev — about the impressive results of the mobilization of the USSR industry on the example of one of the giants of industrialization

80 years ago, on September 22, the first T-34 tank, entirely created at this enterprise, came out of the gates of the Uralmash plant. This is especially impressive when you consider that Uralmashzavod (Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, Uralmash, UZTM) did not produce any military products at all until the summer of 1941 and did not even have a mobilization plan and military acceptance at the enterprise.

The Italian military has finally figured out how to manage their small fleet of F-35B. Aircraft belonging to the Italian Navy and Air Force will conduct joint training and missions, but will be located at separate bases.

To hold positions means to lose

Ukraine decided to follow the example of the Wehrmacht and adhere to the strategy of holding positions, writes TAC. Hitler's tactics proved to be a failure. But Zelensky continues to give orders for counterattacks instead of retreating, which bring the country closer to disaster.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing military equipment supplied by Western sponsors so quickly that Kiev no longer knows who to turn to to get at least some number of armored personnel carriers or armored vehicles. Realizing that you can't get anything serious from Europe, the Zelensky regime turned its attention to countries that are geographically far from Ukraine. Australia was chosen as the next object to solicit military assistance.

On September 21, two marine drones of a previously unknown design were found in the Sevastopol area (one was blown up, the other was thrown ashore), which puzzled Western observers who are trying to understand the mission of the device, which turned out to be near the base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.

Mobilization of 300 thousand people: Putin took up the case "with two hands"! How to get out of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict?

Recently, Russia decided to take serious steps in the framework of a special operation in Ukraine. The decree on mobilization and Putin's speech were a signal to the West that the country will not play by the imposed rules and will not prolong the conflict, China News reports.

In a military conflict with China, Japan will have very little chance

China and Japan have been at war with each other many times, and especially intensively in the last century and a half. As a rule, Japan was the aggressor.

The rarest moment – Russia and the West agreed on one of the fundamental issues: the need for reform of the most important international organization – the UN Security Council. This body, conceived as a key tool for reaching compromises on the entire international agenda, can be expanded. However, at the expense of which countries and why does Russia still have its objections?

What do polar bears, magic mirrors and Soviet trade have in common

Troy Buffard, director of the U.S. Center for Security and Arctic Resilience, stationed in Alaska, recently said that the U.S. Coast Guard has only two icebreakers. And the US Navy does not have one. Whereas Russia has 55 icebreakers, and five of them are nuclear. "We literally have nothing," Buffard concluded.

The Russian experience of conducting a special operation is being closely studied at the Pentagon

American military experts are closely monitoring the actions of the Russian army as part of a special military operation (SVO) on the territory of Ukraine.

Tokyo plans aggression on the Russian Far East

With the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, the tone of Japanese politicians towards the Russian Federation has become much sharper. Although there have been signs of warming in the last decade. So, in March 2012, the Japanese government decided not to use the term "illegally occupied territories" in relation to the four islands of the Southern Kuril Islands and replaced it with a milder one: "occupied without legal grounds."

The news that Russia has announced partial mobilization has alarmed the Western world. The White House urgently rewrote Biden's speech for the UN General Assembly, where he claimed that Vladimir Putin allegedly "made nuclear threats to Europe." The US allies, from Britain to Finland, a NATO candidate, also spoke in unison. However, even in the alliance there was no unanimity. How were the opinions of the West divided?

Renaud Girard: "The birth of the multilateral accession movement"

Gone are the days when the "non-aligned" countries were pacifists, squeezed between the blocs of the USA and the USSR, writes Renaud Girard in Figaro. Today's "non-aligned" India or Serbia will give a hundred points ahead in terms of pragmatism to the toughest Western players.

When modernizing military equipment, it is necessary to carefully study foreign samples, Vladimir Putin pointed out

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded in the shortest possible period to increase the volume and reduce the production time at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of the country.

With every step that Ukraine takes on the way to "victory", the lack of understanding of the goals of its battle becomes more noticeable

Kiev's private "achievements" in the conflict with Moscow may be the beginning of its defeat, writes The Atlantic. The author calls Zelensky's mood "dizziness from success." In Ukraine, they do not understand what kind of victory they are striving for.