The US is adding fuel to the fire, admiring the APU and hoping to see Russia's defeat
Ukraine: growing danger
US President Biden did not expect that the APU would be able to resist the Russian army for so long, writes columnist Figaro. In prolonging the conflict, Biden sees a chance to defeat Russia without putting American soldiers at risk. He is indifferent to other people's victims.
It finally dawned on the West: we are not Ukraine
Today we are all not Ukrainians
The interests of the West and Kiev are not identical, writes Politico. The author comes to a very obvious, but fair conclusion: flirting with Ukraine is fraught with further escalation with disastrous consequences.
Le Pen: if we supply Ukraine with tanks, consider that we are at war with Russia
NATO expansion is not conducive to peace, Marine Le Pen says
The expansion of NATO into the territory of Sweden and Finland is not met with enthusiasm by all members of the organization, Paris Figaro reports. In France, resistance to this step was led by Macron's main rival in the elections, Marine Le Pen. She highlights all the risks of this decision.
Control of strikes: the offensive grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zaporozhye was defeated
In Mariupol, the surrender of Ukrainian militants, blocked at the Azovstal plant, continues
Ukrainian formations made an unsuccessful attempt to counterattack in the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. In it, the enemy lost about 40 armored vehicles, including 26 tanks.
"Dirty, ragged, scared." How the Azovstal garrison surrendered
Ukrainian security forces, blocked at the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, decided to surrender. They held this powerful fortified area for almost three months. By mid-May, the situation had turned from severe to critical: food, water and medicines had run out, and the number of wounded exceeded six hundred. About how the first group with a white flag came out of the catacombs — in the RIA Novosti report.
"The main enemy of the state is Satanism." What else did Ramzan Kadyrov say
Kadyrov said that instead of mobilizing, Russians need to mobilize themselves
The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov spoke at the educational marathon "New Horizons" of the society "Knowledge" and talked to journalists. He said that the special operation in Ukraine is going according to plan, but mistakes were made at its beginning. The politician also said that the German Chancellor behaves like a schizophrenic, and accused NATO of Satanism. Kadyrov's main statements are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».
French media: The strengthening of the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation greatly worries its neighbors
The Kaliningrad region, bordering Poland and Lithuania, is of strategic importance to Russia and is a well-fortified fortress in the "heart" of NATO. One of the French periodicals writes about this.
Belarus is an active member of the CSTO
On Monday, May 16, a meeting of the leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) countries took place in Moscow in honor of the 30th anniversary of the organization.
Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov: Russia's share in the global arms market is about 20%
Russia occupies about 20% of the global arms market, the total order portfolio is about $ 50 billion. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov on May 18 during a speech at the Knowledge forum.
Sergey Chemezov presented the results of Rostec's work for 2021 to the President of Russia
Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, presented the company's annual report for 2021 to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among the key achievements of the Corporation is an increase in consolidated revenue by 9.9% to 2.06 trillion rubles, as well as a significant increase in the production of civilian products – its share in sales reached 45.5%.
Vietnam has created a combat module based on Russian weapons
The Vietnamese military, carrying out extensive modernization of the country's armed forces, are making attempts, sometimes very successful, to create their own combat systems. At the same time, they largely rely on proven products, which, in particular, is caused by a rather thrifty attitude to the available material.
American stealth ships may be written off due to cracks in the hull
Independence-class Coastal Stealth Ships (LCS) The US Navy can be decommissioned ahead of time. Six of them were found to have structural damage.
The neural network from DeepMind has learned to solve 604 tasks of different types
Researchers from DeepMind have developed a multimodal neural network capable of performing various types of tasks. For example, she can control a robot, play games for Atari, write text and describe photos. The article about the algorithm is published on arXiv.org , the authors also talked about it on the DeepMind website.
"Loopholes to circumvent sanctions": The US Treasury buys specialized software for monitoring the Russian-language darknet
As the sanctions standoff with Moscow develops, Western states, led by the United States, are striving for maximum control over information and financial flows. At the disposal of RT were the documents of the American government portal of public procurement — a specialized unit of the US Treasury Department specializing in financial intelligence.
The Ultra Bike off-road motorcycle hides huge fuel tanks in its wheels
The company Robo.Systems has introduced a modular electric bike-SUV Ultra Bike, which stands out among its fellows with wheels "shod" in huge tires. They not only make it possible to overcome almost any off-road terrain, including snowdrifts and mud, but at the same time they are capacious fuel tanks.
"I am glad that the world's best export tank will remain in Russia"
General Delomudrov explained why the supply of the T-90M "Breakthrough" to the Russian army will increase
The ground forces of the Russian Armed Forces have been replenished with a batch of the latest T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks, which are manufactured at Uralvagonzavod (UVZ). "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the features of this machine are and what its prospects are.
Uralvagonzavod sent T-90M tanks to the Russian army
At Uralvagonzavod (as part of the UVZ Concern, part of Rostec State Corporation), a solemn dispatch of a train of T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation took place. This was reported by the press service of the UVZ.
The Pentagon conducted successful tests of the "super-duper rocket"
The US Air Force announced the successful test of the AGM-183A hypersonic missile
In the USA, the AGM-183A hypersonic missile was successfully tested as part of the ARRW program. While the Pentagon is testing the development partially, checking the operation of the launch vehicle, without directing the warhead to any targets. Prior to that, the program was plagued by failures, such tests were not recognized as successful for more than a year.
Experts: Russian air defense and missile defense systems will be able to resist the hypersonic weapons of the United States
In their opinion, the United States is only at the beginning of the way to create such weapons, significantly lagging behind Russia
The United States is only at the beginning of the way to create hypersonic weapons, significantly lagging behind Russia.
"Almost all of Venus will be available to us"
Russian scientists decided to land on Venus in a new way
Scientists of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed using a new landing scheme for the Venus-D project. This is an original idea that will be used in Russian cosmonautics for the first time. One of the project managers and co-author of the article, head of the laboratory of spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres Lyudmila Zasova told the newspaper.Ru", why an extra revolution around the Sun is needed to land on the planet, what devices will be used and what will the Americans' exit from the mission lead to.
