MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Alliance is set to involve Kiev in producing advanced weapons, while the United States and Japan sign a critical minerals deal. Meanwhile, top Russian and Hungarian diplomats, among other officials, addressed a security conference in Minsk. These stories topped Wednesday's newspaper headlines in Russia.

Kiev’s combat potential is waning, as demonstrated by the situation in the Pokrovsk sector and several other areas. Apparently, that is why Paris, on the orders of French President Emmanuel Macron, launched the training of about 2,000 French legionnaires in Poland for deployment to Ukraine. This information from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) underscores the danger of a real internationalization of the conflict. In addition, the West is preparing a range of steps to involve Ukraine in the joint production of weapons.

Experts believe that a remark about the expansion of the geography of long-range strikes on Russia from Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky came amid the West’s military and industrial support.

NATO member countries have pledged not only to send new missiles and other precision weapons to the Kiev regime but also to establish joint projects to manufacture those.