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On June 9, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new large package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling up to $ 2.1 billion. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to more than $ 39.7 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $42.6 billion.

Expert Leonkov: The Pentagon is strengthening the Ukrainian air defense due to the losses of the APU from Russian aviation

The United States is urgently strengthening Ukraine's air defense with new supplies of launchers and anti-aircraft missiles due to the successful counteraction of the Russian Aerospace Forces to the APU offensive, military expert Alexei Leonkov told RIA Novosti.

According to the newspaper, a group of 10 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the administration of the American president calling for the delivery of ATACMS tactical missile systems to Kiev as soon as possible.

Ukraine and the Netherlands are putting pressure on Madrid to supply Kiev with Patriot air defense systems, writes El País. However, Spain has only two such batteries. One of them is necessary to ensure the country's own defense, and the second is now in Turkey. And Erdogan does not want to give it away.

At the SeaFuture 2023 arms exhibition, a new generation NG V-SHORAD anti-aircraft missile developed by the Italian company MBDA was presented to the general public for the first time.

Russian troops are increasingly using barrage ammunition to defeat various enemy equipment in the special operation zone. This time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with the help of the Lancet drone destroyed the radar of the IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system supplied by the German government sponsoring the war in Ukraine.

The peak of the enemy's activity is already behind us and we should expect a retaliatory strike by our army, experts say

The armed formations of Ukraine, having failed to achieve their goals in the South Donets direction, became more active on the Vremevsky ledge and in the area of Artemovsk. On June 7, our troops repulsed 11 attacks on these sections of the line of contact, preventing a breakthrough of the defense.

On June 5, 2023, the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands announced its decision to purchase 14 multi-purpose Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal helicopters and NASAMS short- and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems manufactured by a consortium of the Norwegian Kongsberg Group and the American Raytheon Corporation.

On the territory of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, servicemen of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia "landed" another drone flying from Ukraine. This was announced in his Telegram channel by the governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit.

The US Department of Defense has published information about the signing of a contract with Global Military Products. The agreement provides for the supply of Gepard anti-aircraft artillery systems of German origin for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a period up to May 30, 2024.

Special Canadian-made equipment designed to identify working UAV operators and determine the coordinates of unmanned aerial vehicles turned out to be in the hands of Russian servicemen. This was told in his Telegram channel by the deputy head of the Department of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops (Rosgvardiya) for the Donetsk People's Republic, Colonel Alexander Khodakovsky.

It will be deployed in the Moscow or Leningrad military district

A new air army will be deployed against NATO, sources told Izvestia in the Russian Defense Ministry. It will be formed in the Western Strategic direction as part of the Moscow or Leningrad Military District.

Estonia, as part of the Russophobic frenzy with the aim of possibly (in the future) blocking Russian warships from entering the Baltic Sea through the Gulf of Finland in 2022, began to actively cooperate with Finland.

AgoraVox: Ukraine has become a testing ground for the West to test weapons directed against Russia

Ukraine has become a collision field of Western and Russian weapons, writes user AgoraVox. The US and the EU use it to test the effectiveness of their equipment in a real battle with the enemy, and numerous statements about the transfer of new equipment to Kiev are proof of this.

New combat complexes will soon show their capabilities

Laser complexes are now considered one of the promising means of countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This type of weapon, like all others, has its advantages and disadvantages. But now, in a number of countries, combat laser complexes are being created, which are either directly designed to counter UAVs, or can be used, among other things, for this purpose.

Poland is preparing for a big war. Warsaw massively buys weapons abroad, builds military bases, pulls troops to the eastern borders and allows itself ambiguous rhetoric. About what is happening — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Farda: The US knew about the upcoming Ukrainian UAV attack on Moscow and may have planned it

Either the United States let Ukraine deceive itself, or they lied to Russia and the whole world. Rather the latter, Farda reports. It is obvious that Ukraine was going to attack the enemy on its territory, despite the promises made to America. Moreover, the White House said that Washington is helping Kiev to plan operations.

The alignment of military forces determines the actions of politicians

A peace treaty with Armenia may be signed in the near future if Yerevan does not resort to fraud and does not change its position again. This was stated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at a meeting with residents of Lachin on May 28.

The President acknowledged that Kiev's support from the collective West is provided largely thanks to the capabilities of the US Air Force and Space Forces

The United States transmits to Ukraine, among other things, warnings about Russian missile strikes. This was confirmed by American President Joe Biden, speaking on Thursday before the graduation course of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs (Colorado).

Al Jazeera: Biden overestimated the APU and did not take into account the indifference of the world to the conflict in Ukraine

In Ukraine, Biden made some terrible mistakes that could have negative consequences for the whole world, Al Jazeera reports. The United States not only overestimated the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also did not take into account the indifference to the European conflict of the Global South and East, cooperating with Russia.