The European Space Agency has summed up the results of a competition for projects to create a technology and an experimental installation for producing oxygen on an Earth satellite. The winner was assigned to develop a working prototype of a device that will extract oxygen from the lunar regolith for astronauts to breathe and use as fuel for spacecraft.

55 years ago, on March 10, 1967, a three-stage Proton-K heavy class launch vehicle was launched for the first time from the Baikonur cosmodrome. During its more than half a century-long career, Proton has launched into space all stations of the Salyut and Almaz series, modules of the Mir and ISS stations, many heavy communications satellites, as well as scientific and defense devices. About how the space heavy truck was created - in the material of TASS.

The American Conservative (USA): political problems of the Pentagon

The US Department of Defense strangely requires strict vaccination from the armed forces at a completely inopportune time when the American military machine is sending troops to Eastern Europe, The American Conservative notes. The author of the article is perplexed about the mutually exclusive goals of the Pentagon.

Why Washington refused to transfer Polish MiG-29 aircraft to Kiev

Poland has declared its readiness to transfer all its MiG-29 fighters to the United States so that they can go to help Ukraine from an American air base in Germany. The US rejected this initiative. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the meaning of this proposal is and why Warsaw was refused

A grandiose international scandal is breaking out inside the European Union and NATO, and the reason for it is the fate of the old Soviet MiG-29 fighters. Ukraine demands to give her these machines, which are, in particular, in service with Poland. Why is it that even the United States strongly opposes the implementation of this idea?

After the 24th, the governments of the Scandinavian countries continued to work, despite the weekend, and on Sunday, February 27, they reported on plans to provide military assistance to Ukraine. We won't touch any financial means there, helmets, vests, foam mats, dry food and even MANPADS yet, we will focus on RPG.

According to British media, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the House of Commons on March 9, 2022, said that the UK plans to supply Ukraine with Starstreak HVM short-range anti-aircraft missile systems and a "small batch" of American Javelin anti-tank guided missiles.

On March 9, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the House of Commons, announced the possible supply of Starstreak HVM portable anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine.

Global Times (China): Russia responds with countermeasures to Western sanctions

The settlement of the Ukrainian crisis is possible only through negotiations, and the anti-Russian sanctions resorted to by the West do not bode well, the editorial board of the Global Times warns. Moscow has already introduced counter measures and has shown that all the cards are in the hands of the Kremlin.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs on sanctions against Russia: "Putin will easily survive this" (Der Spiegel, Germany)

Geoffrey Sachs, an expert on emerging economies, sees the conflict in Ukraine as a big failure of the West. He demands that Germany meet Putin halfway. And he considers further anti-Russian sanctions an unjustified risk — for the West itself. It's worth listening to Sachs: he advised the Russian government back in the 90s. His words about Russia's ability to resist sanctions are especially valuable.

Global Times (China): Chinese Foreign Minister exposes slanderous statements of the West about China in connection with the crisis in Ukraine

The authors of the Global Times article, referring to the statements of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, debunk the myths of Western propaganda about the situation in Ukraine. America is the culprit of the Ukrainian crisis, they are sure, and it will not be able to shift this blame to other countries.

Pechat (Serbia): Ukraine and the Balkan lessons

The West has endlessly deceived Russia, writes Pechat. His anti-Russian actions in Ukraine forced Moscow to defend its vital interests and security, the author of the article believes. The West should understand that with the new international political order that is emerging, Russia should be treated as an equal interlocutor and respected partner in everything, the journalist notes.

Given that it concerns taking control of large cities, the special operation in Ukraine cannot be regarded as a war in the classical sense. The military has to do everything carefully, but steadily achieving their goals, says Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine.

The 14th day of the special military operation can be confidently called a day of silence. Fighting on the initiative of the Russian military was stopped around major Ukrainian cities, which are blocked from the inside by nationalists, and surrounded from the outside by troops of Russia and the People's Republics of Donbass.

Behind the wave of reports on the course of the special operation in Ukraine, the strategic plan itself, according to which it proceeds, has been somewhat lost. Some Western sources even began to question the very existence of this plan. Meanwhile, this plan exists, it works – and its result will be a complete military defeat of Ukraine.

Russia will solve all the problems that have arisen due to the sanctions imposed by the West, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with members of the government. According to him, the Russian economy is adapting to the new situation, and this will lead to an increase in the independence and sovereignty of the country. The meeting discussed how to prevent food prices from rising, production closures and what measures are needed to support Russian business.

In 2022, the Ministry of Finance promises to open two more centers of the National Cyberpolygon, which will be located in St. Petersburg and the Orenburg Region on the basis of polytechnic and state universities, respectively.

The Russian Defense Ministry conducted training electronic missile launches to test the defense of the coast of the Kaliningrad region. German frigates, which began patrolling the area after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, left this part of the Baltic Sea. On March 7, the National Defense Control Center of Russia also reported that US destroyers had entered the Baltic Sea.

Ukraine has lost at least three enterprises engaged in the production of armored vehicles for Ukrainian armed formations.

The workshops of the V. A. Malyshev Kharkiv Plant of Transport Engineering (ZIM) and the enterprise located in the same city that repaired tanks for the AFU were put out of operation. In addition, in Zhytomyr, a military unit A1576 came under air strikes, where light tracked vehicles were being restored.

[b] Washington is trying to prevent certain materials from laboratories in Ukraine where biological research was conducted from falling under the control of the Russian military. This statement was made by Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland at a hearing in the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.