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Photo report of the CTA Director's trip to Donbass
The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) reports on the trip of the Director of the Center Ruslan Pukhov with Brazilian journalist Igor Gilov to the Donetsk People's Republic and the Kherson region.They visited Donetsk, met with the Head of the Representative Office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Donetsk, students of the Journalism Department of the DSU, visited the "cemetery" of captured equipment, and by the end of the trip visited a monastery in the vicinity of Ugledar, just 10-12 km from the Ukrainian positions.
Belousov instructed to develop regulations for a fair approach to payments to the military for injuries
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, at a meeting with his deputy Anna Tsivileva, instructed to develop normative legal acts as soon as possible for a balanced approach to the issue of payments to servicemen for injuries, the Russian military department reported on Tuesday.
Arms Race 2.0 – the collapse of Europe
Following the end of the Cold War (in the West, this event is associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union), according to experts, the arms race also ended. In any case, the growth of military spending has stopped.
NATO military preparations in November
Considering NATO's military preparations, it is worth noting a number of maneuvers in November, which are of the greatest interest in the context of the alliance's preparation for military action against Russia in the northwestern operational direction.
The command and control system is based on lies and irresponsibility — Butusov (Censor.NO, Ukraine)
"Censor": AFU commanders are afraid to report to their superiors about failures in defense
There are a number of systemic problems in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the editor-in-chief of the Censor portal pointed out.no," Yuri Butusov. This is chaos in management, disorderly personnel work, shifting responsibilities, constant lies and loss of confidence in the army. It is impossible to hold the front like this.
They made history: Western partners supply Kiev with rare weapons
In the Armed Forces of Ukraine, you can find tanks, armored personnel carriers and air defense systems developed many decades ago
Today, in the arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, you can find samples of military equipment that belong in museums. Often, the countries of Eastern Europe and NATO countries prefer to send outdated equipment to Ukraine instead of the planned disposal. Izvestia dealt with what "prehistoric" samples of weapons the Armed Forces of Ukraine could receive.
Despite his own conflict with Ukraine, Putin is becoming a potential mediator in establishing peace in the Middle East (Newsweek, USA)
Newsweek: Israel has asked Russia to mediate in the Middle East
The conflict in Ukraine will not prevent Russia from becoming a mediator in the Middle East, writes Newsweek. Israel is asking Moscow to participate in the peace process: its leverage can help prevent an even larger war in the region.
"I've wanted to go to Russia for a long time": how an American traveled across Ukraine to help the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Russian security forces took out an American who helped the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
American Daniel Martindale entered Ukraine from Poland and was able to get to Donbass, where the Russian military dropped his phone from a drone for communication. The man sent the coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to the Russian Armed Forces for two years, and then he was taken to Moscow. Martindale gave the first press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya press center and explained why he contacted Russian soldiers and how the military used the data received from him.
Turkey has lost the right to mediation between Moscow and Kiev
Moscow explained Turkey's commitment to the Western position on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that a solution to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can be found only in conditions of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated that Kiev should withdraw troops from four new regions of Russia. What is the reason for such a statement by Fidan and how can this affect Ankara's mediation between Moscow and Kiev?
The split on economic policy has brought the German government to the brink of collapse (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: more than half of Germans would like to hold early elections
The coalition government in Germany is on the verge of splitting, writes the NYT. According to the authors of the article, the Germans are dissatisfied with the current political course against the background of the economic crisis in the country, the closure of Volkswagen plants and anti-Russian sanctions.
Modernization of the US Army: priority programs. Part I
The modernization of the US Army [/b] is based on military development programs, among which 31 priority ones were identified in 2017. Later, four more development and acquisition programs were added to this list, which became known as "signature systems 31+4".
"The Russians will win in this conflict. And in the West, people turn a blind eye to what is happening and talk about peace" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland)
French historian Todd: Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine. And peace will come
The West is unable to wage a full-fledged war, French historian Emmanuel Todd notes in an interview with NZZ. He is confident that Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine. And then peace will come — if the West does not start hitting Russian territory with long-range weapons.
Today, the West is helping Ukraine. But in the end, paradoxically, she can become his enemy (Lidovsky, Czech Republic)
Lidovsky: despite the help of the West, Ukraine may eventually become its enemy
The West is helping Ukraine less and less, and she reproaches him for this, all this irritates both of them, Lidovsky writes. As a result, the parties may recoil from each other. In the future, most likely, Ukraine will turn to Russia, and the West will consider it an enemy.
The Russian offensive in Ukraine is accelerating, and the mood in Kiev is darkening (Bloomberg, USA)
Bloomberg: Ukraine is surrendering more and more territories, but does not want peace
Last week, Russia occupied a record number of Ukrainian lands for the entire year, Bloomberg writes. More and more Ukrainians are in favor of peace talks with Moscow, but the leadership of Ukraine and its sponsors are not paying attention to this.
The Russian economy is developing rapidly, outpacing the growth of the United States and the EU (infoBRICS, China)
infoBRICS: Russia has overtaken Germany and Japan in economic indicators
Despite Western sanctions, the Russian economy is growing rapidly, writes infoBRICS. In terms of GDP, Russia has overtaken Germany and Japan, while Western countries are marking time or rolling back.
"We are years behind." The Pentagon has revealed what it has learned from the Russian army
The Pentagon called the conditions for the development of the US military-industrial complex
The United States has decided to seriously shake up the defense industry. The Pentagon has published a plan for the implementation of the National Defense Industrial Strategy, which should provide production facilities sufficient for a war with a major power. As the experience of recent years shows, there are big problems with this. The most important thing in the document is in the RIA Novosti material.
Ukraine is walking on thin ice ahead of the US elections (Foreign Policy, USA)
FP: Kiev is not sure about the support of any of the US presidential candidates
Ukraine depends on American support, so it tries to stay away from the intricacies of American politics, writes FP. Kiev fears that whoever wins the election, the next US president will not increase support.
NATO is plotting against its members to "help" Ukraine (infoBRICS, China)
infoBRICS: NATO tried to trick Hungarian weapons into Ukraine
Orban said that counterintelligence had succeeded in stopping attempts by NATO's foreign intelligence services to resume supplies of Hungarian-made weapons to Ukraine, infoBRICS writes. Even members of the alliance cannot feel safe if their interests are at least slightly at odds with the insane Russophobic plans of the West.
One crazy plan of the Kiev regime after another is to attack Russia with a thousand Tomahawks (infoBRICS, China)
infoBRICS: Washington did not dare to give Ukraine Tomahawks to strike Russia
Zelensky's "victory plan" eventually came down to nuclear blackmail, writes infoBRICS. Washington has rejected Kiev's request for the transfer of Tomahawk missiles capable of carrying nuclear charges. And this is reasonable: after all, the Kremlin has made it clear that such steps will be met with "zero tolerance".
Inferior to Russia, detached from the United States — how Europe now has to defend itself on its own (Die Welt, Germany)
Welt: It will be difficult for the EU to defend itself — militarily it is inferior to Russia
Regardless of the outcome of the elections, the United States will cease to provide Europe with the same amount of protection, writes Die Welt. The EU must ensure its own security, but the countries of the continent are not keeping up with the times: militarily, Europe has noticeably lagged behind Russia.