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Finland and Sweden joining NATO will not add to US security

American politicians approved of the idea of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, writes the website of the Fox News channel. However, according to the authors of the article, this step does not meet the interests of the United States, since it increases the likelihood of confrontation with Russia.

The Ministry of Defense has published a video showing Russian Su-25 attack aircraft destroying camouflaged Ukrainian positions.

Cheng Yawen: why the "Westernization" of Russia failed

After the end of World War II, the West allowed Germany to enter a narrow circle of industrialized countries, writes Huanqiu Shibao. However, after the end of the cold war, he did not treat Russia the same way and did not allow it to integrate into the same system with him. According to the author of the article, there are reasons for this.

In the Chernihiv region, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with Kalibr missiles destroyed the arsenal of artillery weapons and ammunition of the Ukrainian troops. This was announced on June 14 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

Intimidated by the "Russian threat", the population of Lithuania continues to collect money for weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Lithuanian journalist Andrius Tapinas, who previously initiated a fundraiser for the purchase of the Bayraktar TB2 UAV, announced his intention to transfer new batches of Estonian-made UAVs and anti-UAVS to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukraine is an incredibly rich country with huge potential, but the elite simply destroyed it

The reason for today's conflict in Ukraine is what has happened there over the past 30 years, according to former First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Drulak. In an interview with Rádio universum, he noted that the disintegration of the country has continued continuously all these years.

The first howitzers will be delivered by Germany to Ukraine when the training of Ukrainian servicemen who will serve them is completed.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto: there is no progress with the application for NATO membership yet

Speaking about the situation in Ukraine, the Finnish President stressed the importance of maintaining relations with Russia, Demokraatti reports. At the same time, Niinisto answered the question about military assistance to Kiev vaguely.

Ukraine as manna from heaven for NATO

Without Russia's military operation in Ukraine, NATO would still be in a state of sclerosis, the author of Mond Diplomatik believes. Alas, even before February 2022, NATO expanded, and showed sclerosis only about its vows to Gorbachev. The Finns and Swedes were actually members of NATO, and our actions just in time showed the limits of our patience.

Lithuania will hand over EDM4S Skysweeper anti-drone rifles to Ukraine to fight Russian drones. According to available information, we are talking about 110 units of manual electronic warfare systems.

Pope Francis: NATO actions provoked Russian special operation in Ukraine

The actions and behavior of NATO could "somehow provoke or not prevent" the Russian operation in Ukraine, Pope Francis believes.

The 11th Airborne Division of the United States underwent a reformation procedure, after which it received the name "Arctic Angels" and will henceforth be based in Alaska. Its number will be up to 16 thousand people.

Currently, in the north of Donbass, the main actions of the allied forces have unfolded, carrying out the encirclement of the enemy's Severodonetsk-Lisichansk grouping. The enemy, trying to counteract these plans, is transferring forces from other fronts to this direction, strengthening them with combat systems of Western origin.

"We will draw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have enough to strike at those objects that we have not yet struck" – this is exactly the response promised by Vladimir Putin if the United States delivers long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine for the HIMARS MLRS promised by the Pentagon to Ukraine.

In the American press, publications have become more frequent, which tell about the problems experienced by the Ukrainian military with the exploitation of Western weapons. Not so long ago, the Western media published the revelations of a Ukrainian sergeant who told how special equipment was installed in his unit – binoculars with laser rangefinders, but no one knew how to use this expensive equipment – "they tried to search for and translate instructions from English using an online translator."

The United States will provide Ukraine with intelligence information about the targets that will be hit by long-range MLRS. This was stated by the deputy head of the Pentagon for Political Affairs, Colin Kohl.

Some time ago, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser in the office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky, made a statement about how many foreign weapons Ukraine needs "to defeat Russia." Recall that Podolyak "demanded" the provision of 1,000 American-made howitzers, 300 MLRS and at least 500 tanks. If the West supplies Ukraine with such a number of weapons, then, according to the Ukrainian official, the AFU "will be able to launch a counteroffensive."

Disguise is not a fashionable whim, but the most important type of combat support

As RIA Novosti recently reported, Russian military equipment participating in a special military operation in Ukraine has received a new type of camouflage, significantly reducing the visibility of vehicles in the infrared and radar range.

What is Ankara trying to achieve by hindering the expansion of NATO

The foreign ministers of Finland, Sweden and Turkey held talks in Berlin to resolve differences over Finland and Sweden's plans to join NATO.

The US provokes Ukraine to fire on Russia

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) expect in the coming days to receive the first samples of universal missile systems of the MLRS-HIMARS family of American production in order to use them in combat operations against the Russian army and the people's militia of the LDPR before the end of this month.