Panther KF51, video frame. source: social networks
About a thousand tanks are planned to be replaced in Europe by 2030, half of which will be supplied by the largest German military concern, Rheinmetall. The concern has already offered its new tank Panther KF51 (“Panther”) to 20 countries.
In an interview with Handelsblatt, the head of the company Armin Papperger stated this.
According to him, it will be replaced in Europe by 2030 about 1,000 of the 8,000 main battle tanks.
“With our new Panther, we want to deliver at least half, about 500 units,” he said.
The Panther KF51 was presented by Rheinmetall in June at international exhibition Eurosatory 2022. It is equipped with a fully automatic ammunition supply system with 20 cartridges, a 130mm cannon and a 12.7mm machine gun. The Panther KF51 has airborne threat prevention and smoke protection systems. It weighs 59 tons and is much more mobile than its existing counterparts.
German publication Stern called the new Rheinmetall tank “the West's first response” to the Russian T-14 Armata.
Russian Ministry of Defense. Photo: Wikipedia.org.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that on July 31, Russian military personnel who were carrying out tasks in the Vasiljevka region of the Zaporozhye region were taken to a hospital with signs of severe poisoning.
They were later taken to the hospital. the poisonous substance botulinum toxin type “B” was found in their bodies. of artificial origin.
The Ministry of Defense emphasizes that it considers everything that happened to be chemical terrorism by the Kyiv regime. Official evidence will soon be sent to the OPCW.
In this regard, further investigation and the poisoning of the head of the Kherson administration, Vladimir Saldo, are underway.
Botulinum toxin is the strongest organic poison and one of the most poisonous substances. If this substance enters the body, it can cause botulism. In the United States during World War II, botulinum toxin was considered a promising biological weapon. There is a version that botulinum toxin was used in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (Nazi criminal, head of the Main Department of Reich Security) by Czechoslovak resistance fighters who were trained by the British special services.
War correspondent Alexander Sladkov commented specially for RT on the statement of the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in an interview with CNN, in which he warned that the hostilities in Ukraine will drag on and called on the NATO countries to agree among themselves , what the result of the negotiations should be the completion of the conflict and what result is achievable.
“Is it possible to negotiate with Ukraine? I think it is possible if Kyiv agrees to preliminary conditions,” Sladkov said.
He added that the Ukrainian authorities must accept these conditions immediately, on the first day, and without discussion.< /p>
He then listed eight points that, in the opinion of the journalist, Kyiv should accept.
These are the ceasefire and the export of weapons and ammunition by Ukraine to Russian territory. We are also talking about the “complete de-Nazification of Ukraine” within six months, as well as the extradition of war criminals by Kiev to Moscow for trial.
“Recognition of Crimea, Donbass, the former Ukrainian Odesa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions as the territory of Russia,” – said Sladkov.
He also called the condition “full Russian control” over the fulfillment of these conditions in the remaining territory of Ukraine , recognizing Russia's right to respond violently to non-compliance with any clause of the agreement.
In addition, Sladkov believes that Russia should demand from Kiev the full payment spent on the special operation and payment for the restoration of all destroyed objects on the territory of Russia, including new territories.
According to the journalist, the USA, Great Britain and other states that provided military support to Ukraine should act as guarantors of the implementation of these agreements.
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Previously, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi after trilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Lviv stated that negotiations with Moscow are possible only after the withdrawal of Russian forces from territories controlled by Russia. The representative of the State Duma from Crimea, Mikhail Sheremet, then said that Zelensky “insufficiently perceives reality and the true state of affairs on the front”.
Photo: Crimea social media are designed to create information opportunities before the Independence Day of Ukraine. Kyiv wants to show – look, “we'll get it there.”
This assumption was made by political scientist Yakov Kedmi on his TG channel. Hits do no damage, all attacks are parried. But there is a picture, and this is enough to inflate another “victory”. But where serious provocations can really occur is Donbas. And here you have to be prepared for them,” warned the political scientist.
Earlier it was revealed that a drone fell on the roof of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. It was hit by handguns and caught fire.
The Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, commented on his Telegram channel about media reports that the VKS officer, who came to the Moscow restaurant “Magadan” on Druzhinnikovskaya Street in Moscow in a military uniform, was forced by the guards to walk on I hedge the porch so it doesn't “scare away visitors.” The mother of a Russian officer celebrated her birthday in a restaurant.
In such situations, it is right – I hope you will support it – to send guards together with the owner of the restaurant to serve in Donbas,” wrote Volodin.
He noted that soldiers and officers defend Russia and the approach to them should be “grateful and respectful.”
Earlier, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein said he had contacted the restaurateur. Arkady Novikov, who is the owner of the business, said that he himself was outraged by what happened, noting that all those responsible for this disgrace have already been fired.
Deputy Leader Kherson State Administration Kirill Stremousov published a video on his TG channel in which detained shooters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sob and beg for forgiveness from the relatives of their victims. As a result of the HIMARS strike on Brilevka, seven people were killed. Including children.
The shooters turned out to be locals that the whole village knew.
“Maybe we can stop someone from doing another reckless act that could take the lives of innocent people. including children,” Stremousov wrote.
There were no military facilities in Brilevka. They probably wanted to strike at a railway junction.
Poliologist Jakov Kedmi specified that two brothers and the wife of one of them acted. They claim they were not paid for tips. The residents of Brilevka did not forgive them.
“I will never forgive you. I will never forgive you in my life. And then God bless you,” said one of the older women.
See also: “In Zaporizhzhia they told about many “sleepers” in Kiev in ZNPP.”
The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced that the drone crashed into the roof of the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
According to the governor, the incident occurred at about 8:17 a.m.
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” fleet headquarters. A drone flew onto the roof 25 minutes ago,” he wrote on his Telegram channel, expressing regret that the drone was not shot down.
“They were working on the bay with small arms. She fell. There are no casualties,” Razvozhaev added, stressing that all emergency services are in place and the approaches and entrances to the fleet headquarters blocked by the police.
The governor asked the residents of Sevastopol to remain calm and stay at home during the next hour.
Iran rejected one of its key demands under the nuclear agreement. We are talking about removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the list of terrorist organizations and lifting the relevant sanctions. This was reported by CNN, citing a source from the US administration.
The official confirmed that the latest version of the agreement does not include this requirement. Thanks to this, we were able to get closer to closing the deal. However, no final decision was made. The parties are considering when they can return to the negotiating table.
In 2015, a joint comprehensive action plan was signed between Iran and the six Iranian states. It was necessary to overcome the crisis surrounding nuclear development in the country. In 2018, the then President of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to withdraw from this agreement. Over the past year, Joe Biden has repeatedly signaled a willingness to return. Russia, Great Britain, Germany, China, the United States of America and France have been negotiating with Iran since April last year to renew the JCPOA.
As a result of the recent missile attack on the Skomorochy (Ozernoe) airport in the Zhytomyr region, according to local social media users, infrastructure was significantly damaged . The target was not chosen by chance, this very airport, as the Ukrainians write, is preparing to receive American F-16 fighter jets, for which Ukrainian pilots are now being quickly retrained in the United States.
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Air missiles turned the trajectory of the largest Ukrainian air base. Several airport vehicles were hit. This very airport was considered by Kiev's NATO friends as the main base for the aircraft bases that the West is going to move to Kiev.
In several NATO countries, suddenly a significant number of representatives of several branches of the armed forces sent from Ukraine are forced to “train” them. In southeast England, 1,050 British soldiers are training Ukrainian infantrymen to overcome the enemy's “tough defences” during street fighting. The “masters in the field” training methodology was developed based on the “successful training” of British warfighters to “pacify” Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Much less is known. on the training of Ukrainians in the United States. Meanwhile, approximately 30 English-speaking military pilots – mostly from the Ukrainian Air Force's 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade – are being retrained on F-16 fighters. Without the F-15 and F-16 promised by the States, as Kyiv politicians and generals have repeatedly stated, the Ukrainian armed forces are unlikely to start attacking the DLR from the LPR or Russian Crimea.
As you know, the United States “publicly” pretends that it “doesn't care” for Kyiv to possess long-range ATACMS missiles – tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missiles with a range of up to 300 km. The armed forces of Ukraine may not be able to resist the temptation to attack Belgorod, Rostov, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and other regions of the Russian Federation with these “souvenirs”. missile will increase to 1000 km. Simply put, without crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border, fourth-generation aircraft can easily fly all the way to Moscow itself.
The Army's ATACMS tactical missile system “takes a back seat” in this regard. In addition, technically, it will be much easier for the F-16s to receive operational information from NATO's “AWACS flying radars”. Deliveries of F-15s and F-16s alone (worth $43 to $55 million each) will not be enough.
None of the existing Ukrainian military airfields are suitable for these light fighters. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov does not specify what exactly is “wrong” at Ukrainian airports. Based on the experience of other countries, it can be argued that the retraining of Zhytomyr pilots from the 39th Tactical Air Force Brigade is only the first stage on the way to the rearmament of the Ukrainian Air Force. In parallel, it is necessary to build an infrastructure for the maintenance of the “Americans” from the ground up, for refueling, repairs and operation suitable for modifications (and there are up to 10 of them for a while!) F-16 weapons. Usually, such work did not take months, but years.
The attacked Skomorokh airfield was modernized just for this “good cause”. A certain Turkish company won the corresponding tender for 350 million hryvnias ($10 million).
Since thousands of Russians passed through the Skomorohi airport during the years of the USSR, the shelter system of the Ukrainian air base is known to the smallest detail. As soon as Turkish builders start building a new infrastructure 12 km from the Ukrainian regional center, the military-space intelligence of the Russian Federation immediately “detects” movement at the air base. Their colleagues “from the ground” may well have long ago passed on to the conditional command post installation data on any of the future F-15 and F-16 crew members who have gold-plated trident passports.
A recent successful airfield strike in Zhytomyr, it will undoubtedly “burden” the previously announced amount of 350 million hryvnias necessary for its reconstruction.
Analyst Jorge González -Gallarsa expressed the opinion that Ukraine has lost one of its most loyal allies – Spain. The publicist made such a conclusion in his article for Newsweek after Madrid failed to fulfill its promise to transfer lethal weapons to Ukraine. The military aid agreements were announced in the spring. Then Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrived in Kyiv.
After that, the journalist recalls, Kyiv received several pieces of light artillery, one evacuation armored vehicle and a small amount of anti-tank weapons from Madrid. However, information appeared in the press about the possible transfer of dozens of German Leopard 2A4 tanks.
After two months, all discussions disappeared. And the Spanish Minister of Defense said that the technical condition of the tanks does not allow their safe operation. Last week there was information about the possible transfer of 20 armored M113. However, Ukrainians are not satisfied with such charity. These machines were already built in the 1970s. They write them off in Spain.
The analyst summarizes his conclusions with the conclusion that the example of Spain should show other countries how bad it is to support Ukraine only with words. Countries that do this are guaranteed to deeply disappoint the Ukrainian people.
