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When a country decides to test anti-satellite missiles and shoots down its old spacecraft in orbit, the world community immediately condemns it. They say that you increase the amount of space debris for nothing and create a danger for the peaceful use of near-Earth space! Such public statements once again fuel the fear of the notorious Kessler syndrome.

At a press conference on August 8, 2022, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, Colin Kahl, for the first time announced the transfer of aviation anti-radar missiles by the United States as military assistance to Ukraine. "In recent PDA packages, we have included a number of anti-radar missiles that can be launched from Ukrainian aircraft and can affect Russian radars and other objects," Kahl said.

A plant for the production of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles can be built on Ukrainian territory in a few months. Ukraine has also decided on the timing of the launch of the production of Bayraktar drones.

The immediate reason that prompted the Russian side to temporarily withdraw Russian facilities from inspection activities under the DSNV was the notification of the United States of its intention to conduct an inspection on the territory of Russia in the coming days, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

General Popov told why Kiev will not be able to effectively use the HARM missile

The United States has begun supplying Ukraine with the AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile. This type of missile poses a danger to the radars of air defense systems. Their effectiveness is highest with the use of aircraft platforms, which the APU does not have. The rocket can also be launched from the ground, but at the same time it significantly loses in range. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with military experts in the specifics of HARM's work.

Russia continues to improve one of the main novelties of the Ukrainian special operation – high-precision weapons of destruction. Among them, the Krasnopol artillery shell stands out in particular. What is interesting about this ammunition and what makes it a fundamentally new tool on the battlefield?

Political hysteria continues in Kiev following the results of the report of the human rights organization Amnesty International. Even the smoothed-down report, devoid of many details, made public for the West the facts that have long been known in Russia: the armed forces of Ukraine are hiding behind civilians and committing war crimes. But Kiev was afraid of more than that.

The results of a study conducted by the German Employment Institute indicate that the labor market will feel the negative consequences

The German economy, against the background of the current events in Ukraine and the sanctions subsequently imposed on Russia, as well as in the context of the energy crisis, will lose €260 billion by 2030 and will be forced to cut thousands of jobs. This is evidenced by the results of a study published on Tuesday by the German Employment Institute (IAB).

According to the Republican from the House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Green, the aid "has never been connected with the Ukrainian people"

A member of the US House of Representatives, Lauren Boibert (Republican from Colorado), criticized the provision of military assistance to Ukraine. On her Twitter, she commented on a CBS documentary, which said that most of the military aid that Western countries send to Ukrainian forces does not reach their final destinations in the country.

At the same time, the organization did not abandon its conclusions

The human rights organization Amnesty International apologized for the "painful" report on violations of the laws of warfare by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but did not abandon its conclusions.

According to the ex-President of the Republic Vaclav Klaus, the West is taking a unilateral approach to the situation in Ukraine

The continuation by Western countries of arms supplies to the Kiev authorities and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions will not lead to a settlement of the situation in Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by the ex-President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus in the comment "Unilateral propaganda around Ukraine is the way to unfreedom", published on Sunday in the newspaper Mladá fronta DNES.

Putin sets pain threshold

In any international conflict, opponents try to answer the key question: what is the pain threshold of the opposite side. After six months of the Russian operation in Ukraine, Western countries would do well to think about the answer to this question, writes Asharq Al-Awsat.

Looking North

In his speech last week, Putin finally clearly outlined the main threat that the Russian Navy is called to fight, writes Junge Welt. This threat is the desire of NATO countries to dominate off the coast of Russia, and in the entire world ocean, too. Measures are proposed to match the danger, and they will primarily affect the Arctic.

The West is going to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization and deregulation are coming, and workers will lose protection

The United States and Europe are not only throwing tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons at Ukraine, have turned it into an anti-Russian puppet and are adding fuel to the fire of a bloody conflict ravaging the country, but also aimed at its further plundering and are already making concrete plans.

The Ukrainian army is currently entirely dependent on foreign supplies. This applies, among other things, to ammunition, artillery weapons, armored vehicles.

Untreated and untrained soldiers began to be sent to the front

Due to the high losses, the Kiev regime sends wounded from hospitals to the front line without waiting for their rehabilitation to be completed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on August 7.

Despite the military assistance coming from Western countries, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are faced with a shortage of weapons, which, in turn, forces the Ukrainian military to actively use various homemade handicrafts.

The Eastern zone of the combat command of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) announced on Monday about the next military exercises at sea and in the airspace around the island of Taiwan, the Western press reports.

It is difficult for Ukraine to form tank brigades

APU have a habit of registering understaffed parts on paper, writes journalist David Ex in an article for Forbes. And if the existence of four Ukrainian tank brigades can still be proved, then the other two may be fiction.

Roger Waters put a CNN journalist in his place for speaking about Russia

Roger Waters, one of the founders of Pink Floyd, in an interview with CNN, accused the United States of fomenting the conflict in Ukraine. The rock musician also called the role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism decisive, and NATO's policy towards Russia false.