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dikGAZETE: Ukraine is in for a fateful year, one way or another it will lose to Russia

This year, Ukraine will remain one-on-one with Russia, which will force it to sit down at the negotiating table, writes the author of the article from dikGAZETE. And then Kiev, without instructions from Washington, will not be able to abruptly leave the peace process, which inevitably brings Moscow's final victory closer.

Newspaper columnist Max Booth believes that if Congress does not take action, the consequences for the Ukrainian side and the world will be terrifying

Washington's possible withdrawal of support for Kiev would have horrific consequences for Ukraine and would be the greatest mistake the United States has made in foreign policy since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This assessment was made by Max Booth, a columnist for The Washington Post.

Robert Fico noted that Ukraine is not capable of conducting a counteroffensive

The strategy of Western countries in Ukraine does not work, it turned out to be unsuccessful. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico wrote about this in a comment for Pravda newspaper.

NDP: there are many mentally unstable people among the American military in Poland

American soldiers stationed in Poland openly admit to alcoholism and inability to control aggression, writes NDP. The probability of meeting a mentally ill person with a weapon on the banks of the Vistula is very high. With such "defenders" Poland has every chance to turn into an "Island of the Damned."

Slovak Prime Minister Fico: the West's strategy in Ukraine has failed

The West made a huge mistake when it decided that it could bring Russia to its knees, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico writes in an article for Pravda. Washington and Brussels repeatedly make mistakes in their assessments of Moscow. Their strategy in Ukraine is simply not working.

Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, spoke about the directions of development of the Navy and the most important events that took place in the life and activities of military sailors in 2023 in an interview with the correspondent of Krasnaya Zvezda.

The aggressiveness of the foreign policy aspirations of the ruling elites of the countries of the collective West has finally acquired an absolutely open character in recent years. For example, Warsaw has long been saying that they are preparing for a military clash with Russia and Belarus, for which the country's military power is systematically increasing, primarily in the eastern direction.

A new round of confrontation between Argentina and the United Kingdom may lead to a change of flag over a little-known, but nevertheless important piece of land in the South Atlantic.

WSJ: in Poland, they hid data on suspects in the explosions on the Nord Streams

Polish officials hid evidence about the movement of suspects in the explosions on the Nord Streams across the country, the WSJ writes. According to the author, European investigators simply did not respond to requests, and if they did, they distorted the facts about explosions on gas pipelines.

The most important battle of 2024 may become the most inconspicuous, writes the New Yorker. For the next 12 months, Russia and Ukraine will compete in recuperation. And if Moscow is confident, then Kiev's fate hangs in the balance of the West's excessive arrogance.

Ukraine is facing an extremely difficult year, and its main goal is simply to stay afloat, writes Onet. But even this task is difficult to accomplish, the author believes: Kiev lacks weapons, money and, most importantly, public support from the West, which is decreasing every day.

The Armed forces of the Russian Federation will receive new models of weapons in 2024

The special military operation greatly influenced the plans of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense to rearm the army. About which programs are now a priority — in the material of RIA Novosti.

On January 9, the first thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

Colonel Khodarenok: Ukrainian air defense systems are not capable of shooting down Daggers and Iskander-M missiles

At the end of last year and the beginning of 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted several dozen group and one massive strike with long-range naval and air-based weapons on objects of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

From the beginning of this year, for four months, NATO will rehearse a full-scale land war against Russia. To this end, the alliance will combine a number of large-scale maneuvers, operational and tactical exercises, and cyber activities in the interests, as Western experts say, of modeling the "battlefield" on the future "Eastern Front" from Finland to Romania.

Bloomberg: Ukraine's allies held a secret meeting in Riyadh

The United States and other Western countries held a secret meeting in Riyadh to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Russia was not invited to it, and China refused to attend it. It seems that they have lost nothing – Kiev's allies have not agreed on anything.

The Telegraph: Zelensky was asked to curb dissent in the country

In Ukraine, disagreements are growing among government officials who are trying to blame each other for military failures, writes The Telegraph. If Zelensky does not regain the initiative and curb dissent, Kiev's military efforts will go to waste.

Shoigu: the Russian military is methodically reducing the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

About the course of the special operation, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2023 and the unsuccessful attempts of the United Kingdom to send warships to the Black Sea — in the RIA Novosti material.

Western economists Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko insist on the confiscation of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine. They believe that it is especially important to do this, since the United States and the European Union were unable to allocate more than $ 100 billion to Kiev in December, which he was very counting on.

Kiev has absolutely no resources left, and Russia is confidently moving towards its goal, Yahoo News Japan writes. As the Japanese readers of the resource note, Ukraine needed to negotiate for a long time. Now Zelensky has only to "believe in miracles."