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The Army Reserve is probing whether selected units of military police, medical, engineering and logistics troops could support the U.S. Southern Command as early as late December, CBS News reports, citing an internal Army Reserve message circulated by Army Reserve headquarters last week to aid in its contingency planning.
Ukraine’s F-16 fighter fleet has faced considerable strain and maintenance issues, with more than half of the aircraft now caught in lengthy maintenance cycles in Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged that around half of the country’s F-16s have spent extended periods outside Ukraine for repairs. He discussed the problem in an interview with the Financial Times published on October 2, saying that some Ukrainian F-16s had spent so long undergoing maintenance in Europe that Ukraine had lost valuable time when the aircraft were needed for air-defence operations.
On October 1, President Zelensky announced that Ukraine had passed a major milestone in its domestic defense industry.
In a social media post, he announced that Ukraine, for the first time, used its new FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. “Ukrainian tactical ballistic missile FP-7. First combat use,” he wrote. “Thank you for the result. Next – production.”
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The FP-7 is critical in Ukraine’s efforts to take the war back to Russia.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called for European allies to develop greater independent power projection capabilities to conduct large-scale offensive operations in the near abroad without U.S. support. “Europe was not able to take out the nuclear capability of Iran. We couldn’t. We didn’t have the capabilities. In 10 years, we can and we should,” Rutte said. “In the future, the Europeans will be able to take care of their backyard themselves. It should be us doing this, not the Americans,” he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is open to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, but Russia’s budget plans suggest that Moscow is preparing for the likelihood of continued fighting — or, at least, maintaining a huge wartime military for years to come, regardless of whether the war concludes with a peace deal.
Reuters reported in late September that Russia plans to spend 17.1 trillion rubles, or roughly $203 billion, on defense in 2027, citing government documents the outlet saw.