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The Ukrainian conflict and US decisions

The final decision on what kind of assistance the United States will provide to Ukraine should be made in Washington, not in Kiev, Dmitry Simes writes. He lists the miscalculations of the American authorities in relations with Russia and insists on resolving the conflict through negotiations.

Great Britain needs a larger army in terms of numbers and potential. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom, Ben Wallace. As the head of the British military department noted, the country will move from the country with the largest military expenditures in Europe to eighth place.

The American magazine The National Interest published an article by publicist Dmitry Simes. In it, he identifies and criticizes the mistakes of the United States made during the Ukrainian conflict. Symes recalls that recently US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made a speech in which he praised the Ukrainian military achievements. However, Symes believes that Moscow's early miscalculations are a poor criterion for assessing the prospects of the conflict. After all, the experience of numerous wars waged by the Russian (and Soviet) state proves the opposite.

The topic of military-technical cooperation will be discussed at the meeting of the Presidents of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which will be held on August 5 in Sochi, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on reports about Russia's interest in cooperation with the manufacturer Bayraktar.

Europe's solidarity is fake, and Putin knows about it

The EU countries dodged, made up tall tales, imitated compromises, but still they managed to agree on gas savings, Bloomberg writes. The author considers this story very revealing and draws a hard conclusion: Europe is not able to defend itself from "enemies". He also calls them.

China sends soldiers and tanks to Russia for large-scale exercises involving 37 countries

Five months after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, China is sending troops and tanks to Russia for large-scale exercises, writes the Daily Express. For the readers of the newspaper, the information about the ARMI-2022 was unexpected. "37 countries? And I was told that Russia is isolated," writes one of them.

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Foreign companies against the background of the military operation to protect Donbass began to announce the termination of work or suspension of sales of their products in Russia.

The head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, said that pushing Europe to aggravate relations with Russia could expand the conflict zone.

Russian security forces thwarted an attempt to hijack a combat aircraft and warned of the explosion of containers with dangerous substances

On Monday, July 25, the Russian military destroyed a base with high-precision weapons with American missiles to HIMARS systems and shells to M777 howitzers in the Khmelnytsky region.

On the YouTube channel "WoW - Wolski o Wojnie" on July 24, 2022, a conversation between the Polish defense analyst Jaroslaw Wolski and the press secretary of the Armaments Agency of the Ministry of National Defense of Poland, Lieutenant Colonel Krzysztof Platek, was published.

The American edition of Bloomberg comes out with a material that says the transition of the armed conflict in Ukraine to a "new stage". According to the deep conviction of the representatives of this information service, such a stage is opened by the supply of Western long-range complexes and systems to Ukraine.

Tactical and special exercises with special forces formations that are part of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (FSSN CSR) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will take place on the territory of Kyrgyzstan in the period from August 2 to 5, the CSTO reports.

In the event of a further increase in military spending, Ukraine risks being left without financial resources in the fall of 2022. This is reported by the Financial Times, referring to the opinion of experts in the field of financial and economic policy.

The Chinese army will take decisive measures to prevent possible external interference in the event of a visit to Taiwan by the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China Tan Kefei.

Assistant to the Interior Minister of the LNR Kiselyov: Wagner PMCs occupied Uglegorskaya TPP in Svetlodarsk

On the morning of July 26, the entire territory of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant in Svetlodarsk was taken under control by the assault detachments of the Wagner PMCs, said Vitaly Kiselyov, assistant to the Interior Minister of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) in his Telegram channel.

Captain Khrolenko explained how the Iranian "Shahids" will help the fight against HIMARS in the Donbass

The armies of the DPR and LPR may have Iranian shock heavy drones Shahed-129 with powerful missile and bomb weapons. There is no official confirmation of such deliveries, but this was reported by a number of Western media. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with military experts in the potential of the Shahed-129 and the possibility of their use in Ukraine.

55 years ago, in the summer of 1967, the MiG-23 fighter made its first flight. For the first time in the USSR, an aircraft was created for medium-range air combat, multi-mode flight and target attack from any angle and against the background of the earth. Variable wing sweep, Doppler radar and new homing missiles ensured the fulfillment of the technical task.

The special operation taking place in Ukraine has revealed one of the main advantages of the Russian military machine – advanced air defense and missile defense systems. Domestic anti-aircraft missile systems not only confirmed their characteristics, their capabilities were even higher than expected. This was especially clearly shown by the results of attacks by American missiles on Russian targets.

The Keldysh Center, located in the Moscow Likhobors, has been engaged in space engines since its foundation. Now work is underway here on one of the most promising projects of Russian cosmonautics – a nuclear tug for interplanetary flights "Zeus".

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, speaking at a meeting of Vladimir Putin with members of the government, said that Russia plans to increase neon production to 180 thousand cubic meters next year. m and provide almost a quarter of the world's needs. He also said that Bauman Moscow State Technical University has already launched a full-scale production of high-purity neon, necessary for the production of microchips.