According to Strategic Industries Minister Herman Smetanin, Ukraine’s defence industry has the potential to produce US$20 billion worth of goods, but it produced only US$3 billion worth last year.
The main reason is that the ability to prod…
9 October, 2024 The IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft missile launcher is based on a MAN truck. Photo from open source
Last week, Germany supplied Ukraine with the IRIS-T SLM medium-range air defense system and the IRIS-T SLS short-range air defense system.
G…
Germany handed over two IRIS-T medium- and short-range air defence systems to Ukraine last week.
Source: Major General Christian Freuding, Head of the Bundeswehr’s Situation Center Ukraine at the German Ministry of Defence, in an interview with RND&nbs…
The meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as Ramstein-format meetings), which was scheduled for 12 October at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, will not take place on that day.
Source: press service of the airbase in a commentary to S…
To resist Russian aggression and regain the occupied territories, Ukraine needs weapons and ammunition. There have been growing calls to focus efforts on domestic Ukrainian manufacturing, to ensure stability even in the event of disruptions in externa…
Western allies assume Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to consider a “more flexible” approach to ending the war with Russia.
Source: Bloomberg, citing officials close to NATO; European Pravda
Details: The report says that Zelenskyy publ…
9 October, 2024 Pentagon. Photo from open sources
A powerful hurricane in the United States has affected the upcoming Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in the Ramstein format in Germany.
The meeting was to take place on Saturday, October 12, with…
The Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting (also known as Ramstein-format meetings), which was to take place on 12 October at the level of the country leaders, has been postponed.
Source: Radio Liberty, with reference to sources at NATO headquarters, as…
U.S. President Joe Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola due to the approach of Hurricane Milton, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said on Oct. 8.Biden was supposed to convene a leader-level meeting of the Ukraine Defen…
The September elections in two states of East Germany, Thuringia and Saxony, brought the expected sensation.
For the first time in modern German history, the winners of the state elections are the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose i…