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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.

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.

The S-300V4 long-range air defense systems repelled an "enemy" air raid during exercises on the Kuril Islands, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The Republic needs additional means to counter the artillery strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

After the massive shelling of Donetsk on June 13, the DPR authorities turned to Russia for help. This was stated by the head of the republic Denis Pushilin — according to him, additional forces are required in order to resist the enemy who has crossed all the edges.

A detachment of corvettes of the Pacific Fleet as part of exercises in the Pacific Ocean repelled an air strike by bombers of a conditional enemy, the TOPH reports.

The head patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet Vasily Bykov has already installed the Tor-M2KM air defense system module, which is undergoing practical tests

Patrol ships of Project 22160, which are in service with the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of the Russian Federation, will be armed with the Tor-M2KM anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) by the end of the year to strengthen the ship's air defense (air defense), taking into account the experience of a special military operation.

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.

Why experts called the strengthening of the front by the Ukrainian defense units a gesture of despair

In two days, the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense units destroyed six Ukrainian combat aircraft. On the Day of Russia, three Su-25s were shot down, which were used by the APU. A day earlier, two MiG-29s and one Su-25 were hit. Other armed formations of Ukraine have also suffered heavy losses since the beginning of the special military operation. According to experts, this is evidenced by the fact that from June 12, employees of the country's territorial defense will be involved in performing tasks in combat areas. Poorly trained theroborona formations will not be able to change the course of the special operation and will quickly burn out at the front, experts interviewed by Izvestia believe.

Patrol ships of Project 22160 are expanding their capabilities in the field of air defense. According to a source in the Russian defense industry, it was decided to retrain the ships of the series into air defense corvettes.

Artificial intelligence can calculate the difficult-to-predict trajectory of hypersonic missiles in 15 seconds, thereby giving air defense systems the opportunity to shoot them down on approach.

Moscow is jealous, but not much

Washington has recently been exerting the strongest pressure on Delhi, seeking to abandon any cooperation with Moscow, especially military-technical. And it seems to give certain results. For example, India refuses new purchases of Mi-17 and Ka-31 helicopters.

The Russian military during a special operation to protect Donbass destroyed the Ukrainian drone "Fury" with the help of the anti-aircraft missile defense system "Strela-10". Footage of the liquidation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shown on June 9 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

New data indicate that the actual number of fighters of this type was previously estimated incorrectly. During the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Air Force used a link of four Su-57 fighters, linking it into a single information network aimed at destroying the opponent's air defense facilities.

By the end of the year, the United States may run out of its own stocks of "Stingers" and "Javelins", which Washington actively supplies to Kiev. And the American defense industry is not able to force their production.

From June 6 to June 10, the largest air defense and missile defense exercises in the entire history of NATO are being held in Europe. Military training camps codenamed Ramstein Legacy 22 take place near the Russian borders on the territory of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

The Tor-M2 and Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems are the main anti-aircraft systems used during a special military operation in Ukraine directly to cover the advancing troops. The work of the Tor-M2 air defense system is described in a new video presented by the Ministry of Defense.

Ukraine wants to buy the Iron Dome missile defense system from Israel, while Kiev does not need a "donation" of the air defense system.

The battles for Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are ahead, military experts say

The territory of the Luhansk People's Republic is 97% liberated by Allied troops. This was announced on June 7 by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. According to him, the cities of Svyatogorsk and Krasny Liman have been taken under control, the offensive continues in the Popasnaya area. The head of the military department spoke about the number of captured Ukrainian military and destroyed foreign military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in recent days.

Is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad surrounded by the EU a valuable resource or a burden?

On the one hand, it is possible to "threaten" Europe from Kaliningrad, but on the other hand, during the war he himself is threatened with isolation, writes the Economist. And there is hardly another area in Russia that is being watched so closely by Western spies.