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Germany should create the largest army in Europe, the German chancellor said. A special fund has already been created to finance this project. Now the country has a small armed forces, even compared to the size of the German army during the Cold War. Will Berlin be able to surpass the whole of Europe in military power again and against whom does it intend to use it?

How will Russia win?

Wolfgang Munchau in an article for The Spectator talks about a new political scenario of Russia's victory in the conflict in Ukraine. He also criticizes the behavior of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who, as has long been customary in Germany, is playing a double game.

Putin is successfully conducting his special operation in Ukraine. Next in line are China and Taiwan

Beijing will not be able to accept the role of an observer against the background of Russia's successes in Ukraine, writes the Daily Express. The British columnist believes that the risk of China's invasion of Taiwan is very real.

Negative attitude towards Russia mainly in Western liberal democracies

To The displeasure of The Guardian, the opinion poll of the inhabitants of the planet showed a sharp contrast between the positions of Western "liberal democracies" and the rest of the world. Unlike the "collective West", many Asian and Latin American countries want to be friends and trade with Moscow.

NATO should think carefully before accepting Finland and Sweden

The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO is not beneficial to the alliance, writes Bloomberg. According to the author of the article, none of these countries is in danger of a Russian invasion, and Helsinki's membership, on the contrary, will only exacerbate the vulnerability of the alliance to Moscow.

Izvestia visited the contact line and talked with the LPR fighters

The troops of the Luhansk People's Republic with the fire support of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing the offensive, entered the residential quarters of Severodonetsk. The encirclement ring around the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration should close soon. Izvestia visited the LPR units operating on the contact line with the enemy. About what an intermediate sanitary post is, how the fighting is going on in the forests, how mortar strikes are being carried out, what the soldiers are fed and what the "fart dugout" saved them from — in the Izvestia report.

Will Ukraine be able to win the war, despite the superiority of the Russian army?

Russian troops have learned lessons from the failures of the first weeks of the campaign, the French "Figaro" states the fact. Now they are focused on the Donbass and are moving slowly but surely. Zelensky will not be able to drive them out of themselves and provoke them to cruelty to the local population.

Biden or Putin: who is responsible for the beginning and ending of the war?

President Biden is dragging the world into a global militarism unprecedented in history, writes Asharq Al Awsat. It was he who prepared the ground for a bloody and destructive show in Ukraine, and now he has a remote control in his hands, with which he brings everyone to the Chinese borders.

It is reported about the use of electronic warfare systems of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in relation to a foreign drone. We are talking about a strategic UAV of one of the NATO countries, which carried out reconnaissance over the Black Sea.

Negotiations are currently underway to supply Ukraine with Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers from Slovakia. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported on May 30 by the online publication Teraz with reference to the Slovak Ministry of Defense.

The Egyptian armed forces are changing the strategy of fighting jihadist groups after several terrorist attacks carried out against the country's army in recent days.

The extraordinary European Council on Tuesday night adopted a political decision on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, confirming the commitment of the European Council to "increase pressure on Russia and Belarus."

The negative attitude of the Italian population to the intervention in the Ukrainian conflict forced Rome to classify military supplies for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, only once at the front, Italian combat systems fall into the hands of Russian fighters or become targets when the Russian Armed Forces strikes.

Is Putin using mass starvation as a weapon? Will the West stop the food crisis?

There is no mass hunger in the world yet, writes the website of Bulgarian Radio, but in the course of mutual accusations between the West and Russia, it turned out that food for the most needy turned out to be completely dependent on politics. And there are doubts that the West will do everything necessary to prevent a global food crisis.

Lithuanian President: we must do everything so that Putin does not dare to test our borders and NATO's resolve

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called on NATO countries to strengthen the security system in the Baltic and increase the number of alliance soldiers, writes Delfi. In his opinion, the situation in the region has changed dramatically, and the time for NATO to respond to "threats" from Russia is reduced to zero.

On May 31, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the combat work of calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Grad" at night while performing firing tasks to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) during a special operation to protect Donbass.

Bayraktar TB2 drones are widely advertised by the Turkish side for their striking power and allegedly high resistance to the effects of air defense. However, the use of these UAVs by the Kiev regime was accompanied by the loss of an impressive number of drones: the number of cars shot down by Russian troops has already exceeded a hundred.

Amazingly, Russia will have three aircraft carriers by 2030 – and that's where they will be stationed

The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will return to service by 2024, and a little later the Russian Navy will receive two universal amphibious assault ships Sevastopol and Vladivostok, which are currently being built in the Crimea, Military Watch writes.

Four NATO warships are moored in the port of Helsinki — it's good that we have friends, Defense Minister Kaikkonen says

Finland will take part in international naval exercises more often, Yle reports. 20 maneuvers are planned by the end of the year.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion

The Turkish president explained why his country blocked the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, writes The Economist. He believes that the reputation of the alliance will be at risk if its members practice double standards in the fight against terrorism.