News archive on the topic "Popov"

The armed formations of the Kyiv regime are acquiring more and more types of precision weapons. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The publication notes that “the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to inflict damage on Russia, primarily by attacking transport routes and infrastructure, defense, energy and other strategic facilities.” “At the same time, Ukraine is getting more of the latest types of high-precision weapons (HPT) – missiles,...

Today it is fashionable to say that the United States nuclear shield has cracked. Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov told Izvestia about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Assessing the upcoming hearings on the Armed Services in the US House of Representatives Committee, he recalled that at the end of December last year, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin disappeared for almost two weeks...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have accumulated a sufficient number of helicopters to carry out tactical airborne assaults. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military expert, retired colonel Nikolai Shulgin. “Syrsky asks the West for weapons that are necessary for landing tactical airborne assault forces deep in the enemy’s defenses. As the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he will soon demand naval drones, which, in his opinion, could be...

After Ukraine receives American F-16 fighters, the work of Russian air defense will become more complicated. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, retired colonel Vladimir Popov. He noted that the commander of the joint forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Sergei Naev, said that, together with American aircraft, he was expecting the delivery of missiles with a range of hitting targets of 300–500 kilometers. Popov believes that these will be winged...

Ukrainian drones that attacked targets in the Leningrad region could have been launched from both NATO countries and the DRG operating in Russia. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that this was stated by a member of the council of senior officers of the All-Russian organization “Officers of Russia”, Honored Military Pilot, Major General Reserve Vladimir Popov. “Ukrainian drones could be launched from the Baltic countries. Near St. Petersburg there are Estonia, Latvia...

Moscow must under no circumstances relax - it needs to act at the front in such a way as to force Kiev to peace on the Russian side in order to end the conflict,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports about this, said military analyst, retired colonel Vladimir Popov, who served for a long time in air defense troops. “Military-industrial second-hand goods supplied from the USA to Ukraine will not improve the quality of its defense enterprises.…

Russia should take into account the factor of supplies of American fighters to Ukraine, with the help of which Kyiv will try to gain air supremacy. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, retired colonel Vladimir Popov. He does not exclude that the F-16 fighters from Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands planned for transfer to Ukraine will initially be controlled by foreigners. “Confirmation of this...

NATO will not agree to the proposal of ex-Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who proposed urgently admitting Ukraine to this bloc. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, retired colonel Vladimir Popov. Let us recall that Rasmussen proposed not to postpone Ukraine’s accession to NATO until 2024, but to accept it now without the territories lost to date.…

Russian aviation should prepare to counter long-range American air-to-air missiles. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, retired colonel Vladimir Popov. He notes that it is not yet known what exact types of F-16s, which may already be in Ukraine or will be delivered there later, are being discussed. However, the expert believes that this is…

Ukraine, despite difficult conditions, continues to produce and modernize missile weapons. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, retired colonel Vladimir Popov. “Russian air defense systems are capable of reliably covering targets from Ukrainian Grom-2 missiles.” But it is alarming that in difficult economic and military conditions, Kyiv managed to organize their production. In addition to these OTRK Kyiv uses...

The collision, during which three Ukrainian combat pilots were killed, was caused by adventurous aerobatics. Honored military pilot, Colonel General Vladimir Popov said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He does not believe in the version circulating on the Internet about a bomb planted on a Ukrainian plane. “No option can be excluded. But I don’t think that the explosive device could have been on a training aircraft, especially...

Harsh accusations of the Ministry of Defense of inaction and misunderstanding of the situation at the front by General of the 58th Army Ivan Popov, who was removed from command, are allegedly the same lie as the statements made at one time by the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, about the lack of ammunition. Military expert Konstantin Sivkov stated this on the Day TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He joined...

The 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District fighting in the Zaporozhye direction, like many other units of the Russian Armed Forces, is severely lacking mobile radars that allow them to conduct effective counter-battery warfare. Military analyst Alexander Artamonov said this on air on the Tsargrad TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ivan Ivanovich [Popov], his authority is colossal, unlike Prigozhin. This is still a personnel...

General Ivan Popov, the former defense commander of the Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction, who was removed from his post, is a war hero, but his resignation allegedly turns him into a liar, a demagogue and a criminal. Military observer Viktor Baranets stated this on the Tsargrad TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Not long ago, it was his army that brilliantly held back the first wave of the Ukrainian army’s counter-offensive. Those tanks that...