Military expert of the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Alexey Leonkov compared the experience of the Russian army in Syria and Ukraine in an interview with the publication " <url>".

"It is clear that the Syrian experience is important. But the fact is that the campaign in Ukraine has a number of features that are not suitable for Syria," Leonkov said. So, he recalled that in Syria, Russian planes worked from a height of six kilometers. "The pilots effectively handled targets that were in the palm of their hand in a desert area. And in Ukraine there is a lot of "green", where the enemy masks objects well, and this presents a certain kind of complexity," the expert said.

Leonov added that what worked in Syria does not always work in Ukraine. Therefore, Russia has to develop new tactics and methods.

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The Permanent Representative of Russia to International organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, accused The Financial Times newspaper of distorting his words about the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporozhye NPP. He wrote about this on his Twitter.

As Ulyanov explained, it was about a possible visit of the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to the NPP. "The Financial Times attributed to me the words that Mr. Grossi's visit to the NPP cannot take place before the end of August. In fact, I said that Mr. Grossi could offer such a schedule," he stressed, expressing the opinion that this was a deliberate distortion, which is indicated by the title of the article.

On August 12, Mikhail Ulyanov, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, suggested that Grossi himself would designate some kind of reference point about the visit to the NPP "at the very end of August — early September." After that, The Financial Times published ... Читать дальше »