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The American company Lockheed Martin has launched a new interceptor model for the Patriot system, named PAC-3 ACE, designed to counter aerial threats at less than half the price of the current PAC-3 MSE variant. The announcement was made during the Farnborough Airshow, in the United Kingdom, at a time when Ukraine is facing a critical shortage of anti-aircraft ammunition to stop Russian ballistic missile attacks. Currently, a PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs approximately 4 million dollars. The initial production of the new model is estimated to begin within 36 months. An essential system for Ukraine For the Ukrainian forces, the…
The Fidesz party, led by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, claims that the prosecutors showed up unannounced at the center hosting the party’s servers, intending to seize the entire communication system and the party’s database. Fidesz has labeled the intervention as an escalation of “authoritarianism” and maintains that such an action has not taken place in Hungary since the fall of the communist regime. “The authoritarian regime has escalated to a new level today. Prosecutors showed up unannounced at the center hosting the Fidesz servers, intending to seize the entire communication system and the party’s databases. Such a thing…
Tehran warned Bulgaria on Tuesday not to allow the United States to use its territory for military operations against Iran, reports Reuters, as relayed by Agerpres. According to local press, the spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry, Esmail Baghaei, stated that any activity facilitating American attacks against Iran is equivalent to complicity in “aggression and war crimes”. He urged Bulgaria not to become “accomplice to the aggressors and those who violate the law”. The government in Sofia has announced that it will seek parliamentary approval for the stationing of a maximum of eight US tanker aircraft at the Bezmer air…
Kazakhstan will stop pumping oil through the pipeline to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal at Novorossiisk and will no longer deliver through the Black Sea, following attacks on some oil tankers, reports Bloomberg, citing two sources familiar with the situation. The cessation of Kazakh oil transport to the Black Sea will also affect Romania. Our country imports a large amount of Kazakh crude oil, which is essential for the Petromidia and Petrobrazi refineries. According to one of the publication’s sources, companies are afraid to send oil tankers to the CPC terminal anymore. If the pipeline transportation suspension continues until…
The Azerbaijani dictator, Ilham Aliev, alleges that several high-ranking German and Russian officials had a meeting in Baku in July to discuss how to stop Russia’s war against Ukraine, and that the Azerbaijani government was not informed about this meeting, reports Bloomberg, as relayed by Ukrainska Pravda. “Our territory was used for such a meeting without our knowledge,” Aliev pointed out on Tuesday in Berlin, at a joint press conference with Friedrich Merz. “I cannot comment on the details, because we were not present at the meeting. However, the flight data allows me to affirm that indeed a secret meeting…
The Polish Minister of Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, stated on Monday, July 20, that the threat posed by Russia is “still very high” and that Poland needs to be prepared. Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that Russia “recently captured a significant number of Ukrainian drones”, adding that Moscow could use them “as a means of provocation to mislead and carry out false flag operations”, writes TVP World. The Minister of Defense stated that, on Tuesday, July 21, the Polish government’s security committee will analyze this situation, adding that Russia is intensifying its “escalation” tactics against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Polish…
A Russian military engineer, a PhD in engineering sciences and an employee of a company that manufactures engines for Russia’s strategic aviation, was killed in the city of Samara. The operation is said to have been carried out by the volunteer unit “Budanov’s Detachments”. This is about Andrei Tisarev, the head of the thermophysics and gas dynamics design department within the aircraft engine department of the Design Bureau “Kuznetsov”, part of the PJSC UED company, reports the Ukrainian press. The information was initially published on his Telegram channel by journalist and blogger Serghei Ivanov. According to Ivanov, he was killed…
Public transportation fares have been increased in at least 25 regions of Russia, and in another 10, the authorities have reduced the number of routes or changed the schedule, reports the publication “Važnîe Istorii”. According to the source, the price hikes are caused by the fuel crisis, triggered after Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refineries. The fuel shortage has led to an increase in diesel and gasoline prices, and the rise in the cost of spare parts has increased the expenses of transport operators. Official data shows that, in the last year, the average price of an urban transport trip…
The Russian Ministry of Finance indefinitely suspends state bond auctions, the main instrument for financing the budget deficit. According to the institution, the measure was taken “to contribute to the stabilization of the market situation”. Bond auctions traditionally took place every Wednesday. The decision comes after the price of government bonds has dropped significantly in recent weeks. Since the second half of June, the index of Russian state bonds has reached its lowest level in the last year, and the yields of titles with maturities of over 10 years have exceeded 16.5% per year. The increase in yields means that…
Russian authorities have begun installing public telephones in the annexed cities of Crimea, so that residents can call emergency services during power outages and repeated interruptions of mobile networks. The first devices were installed in the city of Djankoi, where mobile communications are available according to a strict schedule – twice a day, for four hours each time. According to local authorities, the phones allow free calls to the unique emergency number 112, firefighters, police, ambulance, and gas service, and they operate even in the absence of electricity or mobile phone network. A similar phone was also installed in Evpatoria.…