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The US leader also stressed that the US administration does not believe that the transfer of American Patriot air defense systems to Kiev leads to an escalation

The United States and other Western countries do not seek war with Russia or World War III by supplying weapons to Ukraine. This was stated on Wednesday by US President Joe Biden at a joint press conference with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky following talks at the White House.

At the board of the Ministry of Defense, Putin and Shoigu summed up the results of the outgoing year and decided on the near future

Russian President Vladimir Putin held an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense on December 21, at which the results of the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the outgoing year were summed up and tasks were set for the next one. Details are in the material of Izvestia.

Biden: The US does not want to provoke a Third World War

President Joe Biden explained his unwillingness to provide Ukraine with all the modern weapons it wants, saying that the provision of longer-range missiles and other sophisticated equipment could lead to tensions in US alliances in Europe, including NATO.

The supply chain of foreign weapons to Ukraine is gradually breaking down, Sergei Shoigu said

The priority task in 2023 will be to continue the special military operation until the tasks are fully completed, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on December 21 at the final board of the department.

Biden signed a memorandum on the allocation of a package of military assistance to Kiev in the amount of up to $1 billion

The United States has decided to allocate a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $1.85 billion, which for the first time will include Patriot air defense systems. This is reported in a written statement issued on Wednesday by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

Vasily Golovnin — about what changes the Japanese policy in the field of armaments has undergone and how it is treated in the country

The Japanese government seems to be solving a difficult task now — how not to pronounce out loud the overly aggressive term "preventive strike against a potential enemy" and at the same time make it clear to Beijing and Pyongyang that Tokyo is ready to use its armed forces without hesitation if it seriously suspects its neighbors of an imminent attack.

Guardian: The US needs to think hard before giving its valuable Patriot missiles to Ukraine

An expert from the British analytical center RUSI advises the Americans to supply Patriot air defense missiles to Kiev, but to do it selectively, the Guardian reports. This approach is not connected with concern for the cause of peace, it's just that the author is sorry to spend such a rare weapon on the needs of Ukrainians. After all, there is a fight with China ahead.

According to Greek Minister of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos, this will also require the issuance of an appropriate permit from the main manufacturer

Greece has not received an official proposal to replace the Soviet S-300 missile systems based on the Greek island of Crete with other air defense systems in order to send the S-300 to Ukraine. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense of Greece Nikos Panagiotopoulos in an interview posted on Wednesday by the Greek information portal newsbomb.gr .

France will continue to supply weapons to Kiev, the next package of military aid will go to Ukraine at the beginning of next year. This was stated by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Russia puts Avangard complexes into service

The 13th missile Orenburg Red Banner Division is being handed over to the newest strategic mine-based complex "Avangard". Newsweek considers this system to be Vladimir Putin's "invincible weapon." As the president himself explained four years ago, Avangard is "absolutely invulnerable to any means of air and missile defense." War correspondent of "Gazeta.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about whether the West can resist Russian hypersonic.

Mikhail Khodarenok - how Russia will resist the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine

Russian specialists will be able to capture and study Patriot air defense systems if they are delivered to Ukraine, the Croatian newspaper Advance writes. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok tells what the Croatian edition is wrong about.

The Ukrainian military tested Marlet missiles in action on the basis of the British Starstreak MANPADS. Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Interior Minister of the country, reported on the successful launch. The published video says that Marlet makes it possible for Ukrainian troops to build a "multi-layered defense of the sky", including short-range weapons such as MANPADS and Buk—M1-2 air defense systems, as well as long-range S-300.

The representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, said that there is a consensus in Western countries regarding the urgent need to strengthen Ukrainian air defense

The representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, commenting on the possible dispatch of Greek-owned S-300 systems from the island of Crete to Ukraine and their replacement with the American Patriot system, said that the decision on the supply of weapons to Kiev is made by the country to which they belong.

Polish President Andrzej Duda, following a meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, which took place on December 12, thanked Western neighbors for sending Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems. "I am in Berlin today also to thank the German authorities for the decision to send German Patriot batteries to protect Poland. The Poles took it as an important gesture," Andrzej Duda said. "Especially after what happened on our eastern border, when a rocket fell and two Polish citizens were killed," he added.

Advance: Patriot air defense systems in Ukraine will become a priority target of Russian troops

If the United States supplies Kiev with Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, the SAMs will become a priority target of the Russian Armed Forces, according to Antun Rocha, a journalist with the Croatian Advance publication. He also believes that missile systems will not reverse the situation in Ukraine in favor of Kiev, since Patriot is difficult to manage, and missiles are too expensive for them.

The minister inspected Russian units on the eve of the winter campaign, experts say

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the Russian grouping of troops in the area of the SVO. He flew around the areas of deployment of units and checked the advanced positions, the military department reported on Sunday. Earlier, on December 16, President Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the joint headquarters of the branches of the armed forces that are involved in the special operation.

London allowed the possibility of supplying Kiev with Storm Shadow cruise missiles

United Kingdom Defense Minister Ben Wallace did not rule out the supply of Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine. At the same time, the final decision has not yet been made. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with the details of the transfer of Western-made aircraft weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Drone attack and how to deal with it

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are currently extremely widely used for a variety of purposes. In this connection, the task of combating them is becoming more and more urgent.

Advance: how Russia will destroy American Patriot complexes in Ukraine

The supply of Patriot systems to Ukraine will increase the risk of the US army being drawn into the conflict. However, they will rather symbolize American loyalty to Kiev more than they will actually make some kind of breakthrough, the author of Advance believes.

What unites the events in Ukraine, Vietnam and Afghanistan

For the first time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a Russian military airfield on August 9, 2022. At the airfield near Saki in the Crimea, according to American satellite intelligence, 7 to 10 Su-24 and Su-30SM aircraft were damaged or destroyed.