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German Defense Minister Kristina Lambrecht made a keynote speech. She said that in connection with the special operation in Ukraine, the German leadership should reconsider the country's defense policy. According to the Minister, military security should become the main state task for the coming years. To solve it, it is necessary to significantly increase the defense budget and invest in it much more than the already provided additional fund of 100 billion euros for the purchase of weapons and equipment for the Bundeswehr.

The Armenian Cabinet of Ministers appealed to Russia, the CSTO and the UN Security Council because of the aggravation of the situation on the border with Azerbaijan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the country's public television.

The Ukrainian battle of attrition is sapping Zelensky's strength, and Putin is capable of another conflict against the West

Kiev took a big risk by launching a "counteroffensive". If it fails, Ukraine may be left without forces for maneuver and active defense, the author of the article for Sky News writes. At the same time, it is impossible to treat Russia's military potential with disdain.

The authorities of the Kherson region urged to move the front line away from the region

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region, said that it was necessary to move the front line away from the region in order to guarantee its safety and the cessation of shelling. He also promised not to "surrender" the region to the APU. Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that the concentration of enemy equipment is observed along the entire line of contact in the region.

In the Moscow region, FSB officers detained a high-ranking employee of one of Russia's aviation enterprises, he is suspected of transferring secret information about Russian aviation equipment to Ukraine. This is reported by the FSB DSP.

In conditions of a shortage of natural gas, the leadership of European countries sets as a priority the filling of gas storage facilities to provide heating for citizens and infrastructure facilities. Therefore, gas supply to manufacturing enterprises is carried out on a residual basis, forcing them to reduce production, which often leads to their closure.

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The United States and its allies are discussing the possibility of providing Kiev with air defense and fighter jets in the medium and long term. This was reported on Tuesday by the Financial Times newspaper with reference to the American military of high rank.

Rostec State Corporation presented the upgraded Mi-8MTV-1, adapted specifically to the requirements of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, inspected the improved rotorcraft at the Kazan Helicopter Plant of the Russian Helicopters Holding. The agency will receive the first helicopters by the end of 2022.

Countries that got rid of the West

The upcoming SCO summit is already being called by some the "union of the sanctioned" – Russia, China and Iran, writes Junge Welt. Don't underestimate him. More and more countries are interested in becoming SCO members. So it turns into a bloc whose goal is to nullify Western domination.

As the publication reported, initially the Ukrainian military was engaged in the development of a counterattack plan on the instructions of President Vladimir Zelensky

American officials, including the assistant to the President for National Security Jake Sullivan and the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, Mark Milli, together with Ukrainian officials, have been developing a strategy for Kiev's "counteroffensive" for several months. This was reported on Tuesday by The New York Times, citing unnamed American sources.

Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan urgently, at night, turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin for help. The thing is that new clashes have started on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, there are dozens of dead. What exactly happened according to the versions of both sides and why is what is happening critically important for Yerevan?

In the draft recommendations of the group, which is headed by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Ukraine is also recommended to have "Rapid Reaction Forces capable of effectively and powerfully responding to violations of territorial integrity."

According to ABC, the EU can provide military assistance to Kiev if the goal of the Ukrainian leadership is to regain control over the territories lost before the start of the special operation in the country.

Viktor Litovkin — on the undeclared results of strategic command and staff exercises in the Far East

For a whole week, from September 1 to 7, large—scale strategic command and staff exercises "Vostok-2022" thundered at the training grounds and in the sea areas of the Far Eastern Military District — from Lake Baikal to the Pacific coast and from the Sino-Mongolian borders to the southern coast of the Arctic Ocean, as well as in the Okhotsk and Japanese Seas.

According to Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries, Ukraine is actually trying to circumvent the issue of joining NATO with the help of these "guarantees", which are equal to obligations to the members of the alliance.

The Ministry of Defense has not recorded violations of the truce in the area of responsibility in Karabakh for a day

No violations of the ceasefire regime in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh were recorded during the day, the bulletin of the Russian Defense Ministry says about the activities of Russian peacekeepers.

Western experts began to present their reflections on how success for the Ukrainian armed forces east of Kharkov could turn out for the West. Recall that within a few days, Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries were able to take control of a number of settlements, including Balakleya and Izyum. Now, according to American journalists, it can play a kind of cruel joke with the European Union and the whole West.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Iran has used more than 10 military facilities in Syria to produce its advanced missiles and other weapons. There was no immediate comment from Iran and Syria immediately afterwards. However, Damascus has refused to comment on such accusations in the past, and Tehran has denied that it is increasing production capacity in the Middle East.

The Czech President claims that the conflict in Ukraine was the result of NATO's surrender in Afghanistan

Czech President Milos Zeman believes that his country, which performs the duties of the EU presidency from July 1 to December 31, 2022, cannot initiate the organization of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

In five days of fighting, Ukrainian formations lost more than 4 thousand killed and 8 thousand wounded

At the weekend, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced a large-scale transfer of the Russian Izyumsko-Balakleya group to another direction. These forces will be involved in the battles in the Donbass.