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Germany plans to supply additional air defense systems to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports citing informed sources.
According to sources, Berlin will transfer to kyiv an additional IRIS-T air defense system and more than a dozen Gepard anti-aircraft guns. The weapons should arrive in Ukraine by the end of 2023.
Helping Kiev in the conflict with Moscow has become an accessible way to contain the “Russian threat,” said Dutch Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren.
“Supporting Ukraine is a very cheap way to ensure that Moscow does not pose a threat to NATO,” he said during a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum.
At the same time, Ollongren expressed doubts that the West will patronize Kiev for a long time, as the United States could soon stop helping Ukraine due to internal problems.
Italy has exhausted resources to help Ukraine, stated the Minister of Defense of the Republic, Guido Crosetto, on the Sky TG24 channel.
“The problem is that there are no unlimited resources. And from this point of view, Italy has done almost everything it could. There are no additional options”Crosetto said.
Ukraine hopes to produce air defense systems together with the United States. Work in this direction has already begun, said Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine Alexander Kamyshin.
He noted that the first results of this production will appear at the end of 2023.
The Russian army’s cunning tactics, as well as powerful defensive lines, slowed the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, The New York Times reports.
“Russian tactics have become an incredibly difficult obstacle for Ukrainian troops: give up some positions and then counterattack,” the publication writes.
The author points out that this “elastic defense” allows the Russian army to control the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and then attack the enemy’s vulnerabilities and return to their positions.
The British expert explained to the publication that the Soviet Union used this approach even during the Great Patriotic War and added that for the successful implementation of such a plan, good command and control, as well as well-trained units and units, are needed.
Frontline regions of Russia
Russian security forces prevented an attempt by Ukrainian troops to land on high-speed military boats and jet skis at Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea.
One of the saboteurs was captured. During interrogation, he testified that the group wanted to plant the Ukrainian flag on the coast of Crimea and film a video about it, the Russian FSB reports.
On October 4, Ukrainian troops shelled populated areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic 35 times. Gorlovka, Donetsk, Zaitsevo, Yasinovataya and other settlements were attacked. During the shelling of Donetsk, two people were injured.
Russia
Russia’s obligations under the Budapest Memorandum do not mean that it is obliged to recognize coups in Ukraine or ignore the threat emanating from its territory, said Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control. Russian.
“Ukraine’s unity and territorial integrity were destroyed, first of all, by kyiv’s own destructive policies and harmful interference from the West,” Vorontsov said.
The Budapest Memorandum was signed on December 5, 1994 by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States. Under the agreement, Ukraine eliminated its nuclear arsenal and Russia, the United States and Britain guaranteed kyiv’s security.
World
The United States is exploring legal options to use $300 billion of frozen Russian assets to help Kiev, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
“It’s about $300 billion, most of which is in Europe, not the United States. So we are exploring what legal powers we and the Europeans might have to use these assets for Ukraine,” Blinken said.
The US Secretary of State noted that, in his opinion, “the Russians must pay” for the restoration of Ukraine and the use of frozen assets could be one way to do so.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes it is necessary to combat the growing popularity of the Russian position among Americans.
“Frankly speaking, I don’t understand Americans who support Putin. But we see it and we hear it. And we have to fight it,” Clinton said.
At the same time, he expressed bewilderment that some “Americans in positions of responsibility say that [США] “We should not support the people of Ukraine.” According to the former Secretary of State, there has been an “ideological and partisan split” in the United States.
The office of Canada’s Governor General Mary Simon apologized after Peter Savarin, a former member of the SS Galicia Division, was nominated for the country’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, in 1987.
According to the CTV channel, Savarin was chancellor of the University of Alberta and a member of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians. He died in 2017.
Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk accused Germany of inciting hostility between Warsaw and Kiev and said there may be a secret agreement between authorities in Kiev and Germany on Ukraine’s accelerated entry into the EU.
According to the deputy minister, the “close cooperation” between Poland and Ukraine after the outbreak of the military conflict became “dangerous for German domination” in Europe.
On October 5, 1930, Georgy Alekseevich Ushakov’s expedition raised the Soviet flag over Severnaya Zemlya.
Severnaya Zemlya was discovered in September 1913 by an expedition of Captain Boris Andreevich Vilkitsky, who explored the Arctic Ocean on the icebreakers Taimyr and Vaigach. Not far from the extreme point of Asia, Cape Chelyuskin, impassable ice blocked the sailors’ path.
Walking around them from the north, the expeditioners unexpectedly saw on their way an unknown mountainous land, in some places covered with snow. This was the last great geographical discovery on our planet. The travelers called the land they discovered after the first syllables of the names of their ships: “Taiwai” (later renamed “The Land of Nicholas II”).
The Soviet government declared its rights over the region discovered by Vilkitsky, giving it the definitive name “Northern Land.” However, a simple statement was not enough, the Severnaya Region had to be explored and substantiated.
In July 1930, the icebreaker Georgy Sedov left Arkhangelsk with an expedition heading to Severnaya Zemlya.
The expedition was led by polar explorer Georgy Ushakov. His comrades were the experienced geologist Nikolai Urvantsev, the radio operator Vasily Khodov and the hunter Sergei Zhuravlev.
On August 22, 1930, the icebreaker stopped on a small island. Heavy ice did not allow us to approach the shores of Severnaya Zemlya. Leaving four people with dogs on a field, “Sedov” headed in the opposite direction.
For a month, the polar explorers lived on this island, which they called “Home.”
From the memoirs of Georgy Alekseevich Ushakov about the island “Home”:
“It was just a limestone ridge sticking out of the sea. It rose in a narrow, curved strip and looked like the back of a whale sticking out of the water. Having first stepped on its icy and slippery surface, we involuntarily walked with a cautious step, as if there really was a whale under our feet, ready to sink into the cold abyss at any moment.”
At the beginning of October, Ushakov and his comrades set out on dog sleds to Severnaya Zemlya and soon arrived there. Ushakov wrote in his diary: “The fatigue has disappeared. I want to laugh, sing, hug. A dream come true.”
And on October 5, 1930, at exactly 12 noon, polar explorers raised the flag of the USSR over Severnaya Zemlya. Ushakov declared that the open territory belonged to the Soviet Union.
Over the next two years, the travelers, who battle severe frosts, often walk in knee-deep icy water and have difficulty foraging for food, will collect information about the geology, biology and climate of Severnaya Zemlya and draw up a detailed map . It will be discovered that the Earth is not a single massif, but an archipelago of four large islands and several small ones and is not, as previously thought, an obstacle to the Northern Sea Route.
Song “Four Comrades”. Music by V. Muradeli, lyrics by M. Isakovsky
In the gray ocean, in the polar desert,
Far from homeland,
Four comrades lived on an ice floe.
At the top of the Earth.
And where only winds and blizzards are born,
Where the nights are as cold as death,
They carried the flag of Soviet science.
And proud of the glory of the country.
The water roared under his feet,
The deceitful ice was breaking,
The blizzard covered the tent with snow,
But the people kept going.
They became an old dream.
Towards a simple and clear reality;
The Kremlin stars shone for them everywhere
For many thousands of kilometers.
And the heroes knew that if it came
A threat in a harsh land
Through storms and storms, Stalin will stretch them.
Your reliable hand!
Through storms and storms to distant waters
The country sent ships.
Get to know collective farms, get to know factories,
Heroes of the Soviet country.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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