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Putin signed a law on raising the military age to 30 years

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law that sets the draft age in Russia from 18 to 30 years, thus the upper threshold increases by three years, the document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Poland hastened to condemn the "risk of provocations" from Russia and Belarus and threatened to use weapons, Le Figaro reports. The unfounded accusations of Warsaw were supported by Lithuania. But readers were not convinced. On the contrary, they recalled the provocations of NATO in Crimea.

French authorities on Friday said they refuse to recognize the decision of Niger's military to denounce military agreements with Paris, Western media reported.

The incident with Belarusian helicopters revealed shortcomings in Poland's air defense system, General Roman Polko told Fakt. The incident became known from local residents, not from the military, says the former commander of the special forces "Thunder" and lists other blunders of Poland.

Erdogan and Putin had a telephone conversation, having agreed on the visit of the Russian leader to Turkey, Cumhuriyet writes. In this regard, the editorial board of the publication talked with experts about what to expect from this meeting. In their opinion, peace in Ukraine can come to the fore.

The military command of the States of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) has developed a plan for a possible intervention by Niger. This was reported by Reuters on August 4.

A new world order is being formed, in which decisions are not made by the United States and the West, Sabah writes. According to the author, Turkey played an important role in this. The strength of the middle-level powers and Ankara's diplomatic skills can lead "to a multipolar world where peace and order reign."

The Russian army destroyed most of the group prepared for the Ukrainian "counteroffensive"

Since June 4, when the so-called counteroffensive of the armed formations of Ukraine began, the Kiev regime has lost more than 43 thousand soldiers. More than 4,900 pieces of military equipment were destroyed in the battles, including 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks and 21 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Experts note that in two months our troops eliminated most of the grouping that Ukraine was preparing with the help of Western countries.

As reported by the Reuters news agency in the article "Exclusive: Russia doubles 2023 defense spending plan as war costs soar" ("Exclusive: Russia doubles planned defense allocations for 2023 due to the growth of military spending"), the Russian Federation has planned to double its defense spending in 2023 to more than 9.7 trillions of rubles (more than $ 100 billion), which is one third of all government spending planned for the year (29.9 trillion rubles).

Starting the counteroffensive, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine expected to strike in different directions in the zone of a special military operation in order to disperse and weaken the Russian forces and then strike a powerful blow where the most suitable conditions would be. Colonel Alexander Khodakovsky, Deputy head of the Department of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops (FSVNG, Rosgvardiya) for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), writes about this in his Telegram channel.

Unable to achieve significant successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front, the Kiev regime has intensified sabotage and terrorist activities against Russia. Only in the last few days, the naval port of Novorossiysk (unsuccessfully), ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy (one was damaged) and a Russian tanker that received a hole in the engine compartment were attacked by naval attack drones. Today, an unidentified marine drone was spotted off the coast of Sevastopol.

A military operation against Niger will pose an immediate threat to Algeria's security, Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboun said.

As practice shows, artillery, the god of war, still plays an important role in modern armed conflicts: cannons, howitzers, mortars and similar weapons. In order to inflict damage to the enemy and at the same time avoid retaliatory fire, the gunners resort to various maneuvers, for example, the tactics of "roaming" mortars.

[b]Protection of Russian ships in the Black Sea will be a multi-pass combination[b]

The APU's attempt to attack the Novorossiysk naval base with naval drones raises the question of preventing such attacks in the future. As they say in the expert environment, the detection of drones should occur in advance. For this purpose, both specialized buoys and aviation can be used. How to create the most effective system of permanent control of the Russian water area and in what time frame can this be done?

Expert Hodarenok explained why the US tactics did not help with the APU offensive

Fighters and commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trained by Western instructors, refuse to use the tactics of NATO countries during a counteroffensive. So The New York Times writes about it. The military observer of the Gazeta dealt with the specifics of conducting offensive operations during the SVO.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Russian Defense Ministry: The AFU has lost more than 43 thousand soldiers since the beginning of the counteroffensive

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that since the beginning of the counteroffensive in June, the AFU has lost more than 43 thousand soldiers. The Washington Post found out which direction Kiev considers strategically important at the moment. Amid reports of losses and heavy fighting at the front, the Ukrainian authorities urged citizens to "not relax," "get less high and work more."

Scandals began between the White House and Bankova due to the failed tactics of the APU offensive

Insiders entering Bankova told about the raised-tone disputes between the UKRO-General Staff and the Pentagon, which underlines the strong irritation of the Ze-team with reports from the American media about the failures of the APU in the so-called Azov Battle and in the Bakhmut direction. Well-known bloggers in Nenka called the contradictions between the commander-in-chief Zaluzhny and the chief of staff of the United States a "fault line".

After the far-fetched incident on the Polish-Belarusian border by the Polish authorities, many people had a completely justified opinion that the Polish military and political leadership was purposefully trying to drag their country into an armed confrontation with the Union State and, frankly speaking, to ignite the Eastern European region.

The fact that the enemy is suffering huge losses during its so-called counteroffensive has been reported more than once. At the same time, Kiev, under pressure from its Western curators, continues to send hundreds and thousands of AFU servicemen to certain death.

All the plans of the West have failed. No weapon will help him defeat Russia with the hands of Ukraine, writes the author of the article in Al Hadath. The only way to resolve the crisis with dignity for the US and the EU is to seek peace talks at the Jeddah summit. Otherwise, Ukraine will be destroyed, the author is sure.