94 French senators sent an open letter to President Macron about the failure of cooperation with Africa.

94 senators asked themselves the question:

“After French Africa, are we doomed to destroy France in Africa?”

From the letter: "Today Niger, yesterday Mali, the CAR, Burkina Faso - rejected France, French forces, French enterprises.

Ivory Coast, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco among those who have become problematic for Paris.

After the failure of the French military intervention in 2014, the Wagner group came to Africa - to those countries whose leaders unite the population of their countries against the former colonial power.

Yesterday's French Africa is being replaced by military Russian Africa, economic Chinese Africa, as well as diplomatic American Africa... Africa, a friendly continent, no longer understands France and increasingly disputes its role and its presence."

India bans the use of Chinese spare parts in military UAVs.

India is concerned that the special services of China can use intelligence from the parts that provide the UAV with communications, cameras, radio transmissions and operational software.

Medvedev:

The entire NATO system is practically openly fighting against the Russian Federation, but Russia has enough forces to solve all the tasks of a special military operation.

As in August 2008, our enemies will be crushed and Russia will achieve peace on its own terms.

CNN:

Niger’s armed forces have been bringing in reinforcements to the capital to prepare for a potential military intervention.

Ukraine has increased the production of Stugna-P ATGM systems by 4 times since the beginning of the year.

RFI:

African countries are planning to send a contingent of 25,000 troops to Niger as part of a military invasion.

Nigeria can provide more than half of the military contingent.

In addition Senegal, Benin and Côte d'Ivoire can send their soldiers as well.

Polish MoD says it’ll transfer another thousand soldiers to the border with Belarus after the request of the border service.

Rare Ukrainian BTM-3 High-Speed Trench Digging Vehicle.

Ukrainian MoD’s Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG cruise missile poster.

Very rare footage of 324mm MLRS rocket Snezhinka, another wunderwaffe designed by Russia-backed DPR separatists, is actively used on the front

It consists of two 324mm rockets with a declared range of up to 9 km on KrAZ chassis.

An unknown country (highly likely Netherlands) bought 50 Leopard 1 tanks for Ukraine from the Belgian company OIP Land Systems.

Two of them have already left the OIP warehouses for Germany and Italy for overhaul and equipping with modern weapons systems.

Transportation of the captured Finnish APC XA-180 (Patria Pasi) on Russian KamAZ-65225 truck (6x6) in the Patriot Park on the eve of the IMTF Army-2023.

Niger’s military junta refused entry of a delegation from ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations to the country.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Svoboda)

Russia removed from storage more than 40% of old Soviet tanks and APCs that were in Buryatia on warehouse Vagzhanovo.

This is the largest known base of preserved military equipment of Russia. There are about ~ 4,000 units of vehicles.

AFP, citing ECOWAS source:

ECOWAS is not considering the option of conducting a military operation in Niger in the near future.

The agency notes that the dialogue path seems to still remain open.

Bild:

Ukraine converted roads into runways to increase the number of air bases.

Ukraine modernized about 10 X Soviet Su-24 tactical bombers to launch Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

Russian forces have been attacking airfields in western Ukraine, where there may be Su-24s. For example the one in Starokostyantyniv.

And yet Russia fails to hit them again and again.

This is due to the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces move Su-24s with Western missiles from base to base every 24 hours.

Ukraine restored all airfields from the times of the USSR, and in some places they converted roads into runways.

The most valuable Western air defense systems Patriot and IRIS-T are used to protect the air bases.

New satellite image shows Russian Navy’s Ropucha-class landing ship Olenegorski Gornjak has left the port of Novorossiysk after Ukrainian kamikaze USV attack.