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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine explained the non-disclosure of information about the losses of the Ukrainian army

Kiev does not disclose information about the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, because it is "state secret during martial law," said Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Anna Malyar. She added that "the enemy should not know these figures." In early June, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops lose about a hundred people killed a day. Earlier, the United States tried to get information from Ukraine about the situation at the front - but Kiev hid this data even from an ally, The New York Times wrote.

How Ukraine provoked a war inside America

More and more members of the Republican Party are opposed to military assistance to Ukraine, writes TNI. According to the author, this is due to the rethinking of the priorities of US foreign policy by the current generation of Republicans. He advises Americans to abandon attempts to interfere in the affairs of another country and worry about their own problems.

NATO faces a difficult task of distributing forces to fight the Russian Federation and the PRC

In the coming years, the North Atlantic Alliance will have to do a difficult job of distributing tasks, writes Foreign Policy. The author notes that simplification in the form of "Europe restrains Russia, and the United States balances China" can turn NATO into a second-rate defense force.

Below are the ratings of the CAMTO of the positions of the BRICS countries in 10 regional markets for the supply of VIVT in the period 2013-2020.

Europe intends to allocate another tranche to Ukraine for the purchase of military equipment. As stated in Brussels, the allocation of half a billion euros to Kiev is being discussed. This was stated by the Secretary General of the EU Foreign Policy Service Stefano Sannino.

What have sanctions against Russia given the West?

After the West imposed sanctions, Russia takes full advantage of the situation and manages it. But these restrictions did not give the EU anything but losses, writes "Pechat". Europe will soon have to cancel them, otherwise a real catastrophe will break out in the economy.

NATO and the EU are sounding the alarm over the risks of arms smuggling from Ukraine

Back in April, Europol warned with reference to its own investigations that the export of weapons from Ukraine by order of organized criminal groups in the EU has already begun, writes FT. Readers of the newspaper believe that the rulers of the bloc have "opened a Pandora's box."

NATO and EU countries insist on improving the tracking system for weapons supplied to Ukraine, in response to concerns that criminal groups are smuggling them out of the country to the black market in Europe. This is written by Henry Foy and Sam Fleming and Roman Olearchik in an article for the Financial Times newspaper.

A landmark foreign visit of the president was announced in the Kremlin – in a few days Vladimir Putin will meet in Tehran with the leaders of Iran and Turkey. Almost simultaneously, Biden's adviser said that Iran was allegedly ready to transfer several hundred drones to Russia. Is this really the case, why are ties with Iran of particular importance to Russia now and who is trying to sever them?

A discussion unfolded on the Web about the actions of the domestic Aerospace Forces (VKS) to suppress the Ukrainian air defense and why the Ukrainian air defense still retains part of its combat capabilities.

Editor-in-chief Helsingin Sanomat: the Iron Curtain breaks Russia's relations with the world

The Russian special operation in Ukraine has cut off contacts between people on whom mutual trust could be built, the editor-in-chief of Helsingin Sanomat writes. In his opinion, the West — and even NATO — are not Russia's enemies.

Director of the Department of International Organizations (DMO) In an interview with Interfax, Russian Foreign Minister Pyotr Ilyichev spoke about efforts to resolve the "grain" issue, including in contacts with Turkey, Ukraine and the UN, assessed the role of the UN in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, including the possible involvement of the UN as an intermediary, about the difficulties with obtaining American visas by Russian officials.

In May, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the revived Moskvich plant would produce electric cars in the future. Plans to launch domestic production of electric cars were announced by KAMAZ, Kaliningrad Avtotor, and Lipetsk Motorinvest.

The Ukrainian leadership loudly declares the preparation of a large–scale counteroffensive - and first of all, in the south, in the direction of Kherson and Mariupol. Is it worth believing these reports, does the Ukrainian army have the necessary forces – and where does Kiev have such ambitions?

France will supply Ukraine with a batch of light-duty bridges to replace the destroyed capital ones. As stated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the French are ready to supply Kiev with 36 lightweight structures.

Why the Ukrainian army uses HIMARS in tandem with "Hurricanes"

The APU is beginning to use the HIMARS system. It was from these systems that Lugansk was hit on the night of July 13, and earlier the city of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region was shelled. What tactics are used by the Ukrainian military when using HIMARS and how it is possible to resist this system - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

As the British Ministry of Defense reported on July 9, 2022, the first group of Ukrainian servicemen participating in a new large-scale military training program under the leadership of the British armed forces arrived in the UK. As part of this program, up to 10 thousand Ukrainian servicemen will be trained in the coming months.

Zelensky: arms supplies from the Netherlands will be an "unpleasant surprise for Russia"

Vladimir Zelensky and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte met in Kiev. At a press conference, the President of Ukraine said that Amsterdam would supply Kiev with weapons, which would be "an unpleasant surprise for Russia." He did not name specific types of weapons, saying only that it was about artillery in particular.

Finnish Border Service: a fence on the eastern border may appear this summer — now there are no fences on the border between Finland and Russia

On the seventh of July, Finland adopted a law on the border, which allows you to restrict entry into the country, build fences and use private territories for this, Yle reports. The country's border service believes that a fence in the southeast may appear this summer.

Ukraine received a shipment of American weapons worth $ 400 million — analysts doubted how long it would last

Washington will be able to continue to supply Kiev with weapons, but the US has already reached the limit on some systems, the Washington Times writes. Experts note that military assistance to Kiev may stop for other reasons: a disrupted supply system, reduced support for such a strategy in American society and corruption in Ukraine.