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Ex-GRU employee told how the longest-range rifle in the world SVLK-14S "Twilight" works

The world's longest-range sniper rifle SVLK-14S "Twilight" was used by the Russian military during a special operation in Ukraine. Her record for a range of 4210 meters has not been beaten by anyone yet. At the same time, American cartridges are used for the rifle. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the peculiarities of the work of "Twilight".

The American newspaper "The Washington Post" published an article by Karoun Demirjian, Dan Lamothe "US, allies weigh providing Ukraine fighter jets to counter Russia" ("The United States and its allies are considering the possibility of providing fighters to Ukraine to counter Russia"), which states that senior US officials recognized on July 20, 2022 that The United States and its allies are considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with new fighter jets and training pilots necessary for their operation, which will dramatically expand the participation of the West in the war with Russia.

The US Navy is preparing a plan to defeat the fleets of China and Russia

The return of the leading states to global confrontation is a fait accompli. One of the main participants in the new "geostrategic game" is the United States, which has promptly moved from the strategic concept of the "global war on terror" and countering "rogue states" to "competition with equal opponents." Washington understands China and Russia as such opponents today, which leaves an imprint on the nature and directions of America's military construction.

The Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons turned out to be a dummy

The first Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (NWFZ) was held in Vienna in June. It took place against the background of a sharp increase in military and political risks in the European region, an increase in military spending and capabilities, failures of bilateral and multilateral efforts in the field of arms control.

Unmanned vehicles are becoming the main weapon of naval operations

The Ukrainian crisis has become an example of the mass use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), not only over land, but also over the sea. For the first time in the history of armed conflicts, drone drones claim a major role in naval operations.

Experts disavowed the new strategy of the North Atlantic Alliance

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg took part in a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Security and Defense of the European Parliament (EP).

Russia's conflict with the West will lead to the use of nuclear weapons

In connection with Russia's special operation in Ukraine, Western analysts are increasingly talking about the danger of NATO being drawn into the conflict and even about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons. Various scenarios are being worked out in the military headquarters.

NATO has run into a Russian bump

The Madrid NATO summit, held at the end of June, will probably be considered fateful in the member countries of the alliance for some time. And with us it will be considered a "declaration of war". Although it is completely unclear what else could be expected from this event.

Counter-battery fighting alone is not enough

The Ukrainian army will soon receive rockets (RS) of increased range for the 227 mm multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) already supplied by the United States and Great Britain, the newspaper "Strana.ua" according to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Alexey Danilov. "We have already started receiving shells that are sent much further than it was at the beginning. And let's hope that what we need, of that range, will appear on the territory of our country in the near future," he said.

Russia accused Ukraine of shelling a nuclear power plant in the controlled territory and stated that the "pan-European catastrophe" was avoided only "by a happy accident"

The UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar, writes the Daily Mail. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that such strikes by the Ukrainian side are fraught with a nuclear catastrophe. According to some readers of the British tabloid, this is exactly what Kiev is trying to achieve.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the British Parliament on July 21, 2022, announced the upcoming delivery of significant shipments of weapons and military equipment by the UK to Ukraine as military aid. The total amount of British gratuitous military assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian special military operation on February 24 will thus reach 2.3 billion pounds.

The head of the Ministry of Defense Lambrecht reported that Germany is running out of weapons to help Ukraine

The Bundeswehr is running out of resources to help Ukraine, but Berlin will continue to support Kiev, German Defense Minister Kristina Lambrecht said.

In the unfettered areas of Donbass, people are being taken right on the streets and roadblocks, the LNR ambassador to Russia said

The aerospace forces of the Russian Federation with precision weapons destroyed up to 200 militants of the "Right Sector" (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation. — "Izvestia") in Kamyshevakha, Zaporozhye region.

Air defense systems will protect strategic facilities from drones and hypersonic weapons

By the end of 2022, the eastern regions of Russia will be covered with an impenetrable anti-aircraft dome. The Ministry of Defense has adjusted the deployment schedule of the latest air defense systems.

Ukraine was in hell because of the USA

The world accused Russia of violating international law when it launched a special operation in Ukraine. But the Japanese expert urges not to consider Moscow an "absolute evil" and declares that the United States has arranged hell in Eastern Europe. They turned Ukraine into a Western stronghold on the Russian border and left Putin no choice.

Angles of the multipolar world order

The dominance of Western powers is gradually eroding in favor of a more multipolar world order, writes the American Conservative. The author of the article notes that BRICS accounts for 40% of the world's population, and the total GDP of the organization's countries is 25%, so the bloc can no longer be ignored.

US reproaches against China over its relations with Russia exude imperial arrogance

The imperial manners of the United States can play a cruel joke on them, the author of the South China Morning Post believes. The newspaper columnist draws a parallel between today's Washington and the Roman Empire, which is just as greedy for power.

A new batch of HIMARS rocket launchers and ammunition for them will be included in the next package of military assistance, the decree on the allocation of which Biden will sign this week. This was announced by the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House, John Kirby.

The US Navy has submitted to the US Congress a report on the needs of the fleet in ships. According to the document, the American navy needs 373 ships. This is 75 more ships than the Navy currently has at its disposal. Most of the information passed to Congress is classified. The exception is a summary of the structure of the forces of the American fleet.

The conflict in Ukraine and the return to Eurocentrism

Against the background of the Ukrainian conflict, dangerous militaristic ambitions are intensifying in Europe, writes The Hindu magazine. Following the United States, Europe is trying to divide the world into "its own and others" and this exacerbates the already high tension in the world.