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Military threat: Do the residents of Estonia feel safe and are they waiting for NATO support?

NATO will defend Estonia in case of an attack, Postimees writes. Nevertheless, according to the survey, the majority of Estonians lack a sense of security.

Russia has demonstrated a range of potential threats in the Article

The Arctic is a territory of paramount importance for Russia, the Sky News article says. Meanwhile, the US has stepped up patrolling of the region and allocated funding for new military projects. The channel's users are outraged by the double standards used by the West in foreign policy.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Western countries are waging an offensive hybrid war against his country. He said this today at a ceremony honoring graduates of military universities and senior officers. The Head of Belarus addressed the young officers:

The fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters that Finland plans to buy from the United States will allow NATO to integrate Finnish combat aircraft into its strategy to counter Russia. The significance of the new aircraft for Helsinki and Brussels was explained by the American edition of Breaking Defense.

Orientation on military issues: is the West running out of ammunition for Ukraine?

The demand for conventional weapons and artillery shells in Ukraine indicates the scarcity of Western arsenals, writes FT. The West has almost not retained the necessary capacity to increase the national production of key weapons.

Brussels must reckon with reality: it's time to negotiate with Putin, otherwise a recession will come

On the issue of the conflict in Ukraine, it is time for Brussels to start reckoning with reality, and not with an illusory strategic analysis, writes Il Giornale. The author of the article describes the true situation on the military, economic and political fronts.

According to German journalists, after several weeks of fighting, the Luhansk region completely came under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In this regard, they are interested in the Bundeswehr command, whether Western combat systems, such as the Panzerhaubitze 2000 ACS from Germany, are able to contain the onslaught of Russian troops.

A fertilizer storage facility, hundreds of residential buildings, a hospital and a warehouse with humanitarian aid were destroyed in the city

On the night of July 12, armed formations of Ukraine attacked warehouses in the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region.

Spain will supply Leopard 2A4 tanks and M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the Spanish edition of Infodefensa reports, citing informed sources.

Rear Admiral Sviridov told how the new hypersonic missile "Serpentine" will work

Russia is developing a ballistic missile "Serpentine" with hypersonic combat equipment in the interests of the Navy. She will become the new "killer of aircraft carriers," a source told TASS. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the features of the new rocket are.

Will the war in Ukraine become a factor contributing to the proliferation of nuclear weapons?

Many observers believe that Ukraine has made a fatal mistake by agreeing to surrender its nuclear arsenal (once the third largest in the world), writes Project Syndicate. The author of the article considers the arguments "for" and "against" this point of view and expresses his opinion

"The global battle of narratives is in full swing, and so far we are not winning." These words of the chief diplomat of the European Union, Josep Borrel, sounded very unexpected, because they are in fact a recognition of Russia's achievements in the information war against the West. How is this global battle being waged and with what weapons does Russia successfully confront the collective West in it?

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces inflicted a barbaric blow on Novaya Kakhovka" – this is how experts describe the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on one of the key cities in the northeast of Kherson. Rockets hit warehouses with explosive fertilizers, as a result of the strike there are dead and many wounded, large-scale destruction was recorded in the city center.

Spare parts for Kiev military aviation are collected in the countries of the former Warsaw Pact

In Ukraine, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed four Su-25 attack aircraft and one MiG-29 fighter of the enemy in air battles, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on July 10. Experts interviewed by Izvestia explained that Kiev continues to receive assistance with old post-Soviet aircraft and spare parts for them from the countries of the former Warsaw Pact.

The recent experience of military operations has once again demonstrated that the thaw can seriously complicate the actions of military units. Ordinary dirt roads and fields become almost impassable in spring and autumn.

What will happen after Ukraine?

Regardless of the outcome of the fighting in Ukraine, the global security architecture will change, the author of Pravda is convinced. While the West is busy with propaganda and drowning in economic problems, the other part of the world is institutionalizing new forms of cooperation, continuing growth and making plans for development.

Military expert Andrey Frolov — on the role and place of the Navy in the defense capability of Russia following the results of the first months of its

The special military operation conducted by Russia on the territory of Ukraine has undoubtedly become the largest conflict in which the USSR and Russia have been involved since the end of World War II.

Russian Su-30SM fighters participating in a special military operation in Ukraine use supersonic guided missiles X-31 to destroy enemy equipment. This was reported in the power structures of the Crimea.

The other day, the head of the Ukrainian administration of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaly Kim, said that Russia allegedly uses its S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to strike ground targets in Ukraine. According to Kim, this allegedly indicates a shortage of weapons in Russia to defeat ground targets. Kim's point of view was tried to make out by the publication The Drive, whose author Thomas Newdick has prepared quite extensive material on this topic.

In the near future, China is expected to test a promising military aircraft, which, as ex-governor of Shaanxi Province Ge Heping said at a meeting with the staff of the CFTE flight test center in Xi'an, will have "decisive strategic and even historical significance" for the country. The Chinese edition of the Global Times reported on the preparation of the above-mentioned event the day before.