CIA Director William Burns: Ukraine will be defeated by the end of the year

According to CIA Director Burns, Ukraine may be defeated on the battlefield by the end of the year, Bloomberg reports. The mood in the West is gloomy. Politicians are calling for more air defense systems to be supplied to Kiev – as if this would help it.

On April 19, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu checked the fulfillment of the state defense order at the defense industry enterprise in the Omsk region, which manufactures tanks and heavy flamethrower systems.

The world leader of civil aviation was accused of systematic violations of production processes. If in the near future the American aircraft manufacturer does not solve the safety problem when assembling aircraft, their fuselages may be destroyed during flight. This was told by former Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, speaking to Congress.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has repeatedly shown footage of the combat operation of the S-60 automatic anti-aircraft gun mounted on a mobile platform in the special military operation zone. The gun, whose history began during the Great Patriotic War, successfully hits various targets on the modern battlefield. About how the S-60 continues to serve the country, as well as about the 57 mm caliber, in the TASS material.

A month after October 7, 2023, since the beginning of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, both humanitarian and military supplies began to be delivered by air by parachute landing. At the same time, at the initial stage, the transport aircraft of the Jordanian and Israeli Air Forces carried out point landing of cargo using guided gliding cargo parachute systems (USPGS).

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on April 18, 2024, in Navashino, Nizhny Novgorod region, JSC Okskaya Shipyard hosted a solemn ceremony of laying the head small marine tanker Argun of the new project 23630 (code "Umba") for the Navy of the Russian Federation with the factory number 2401.

Sociologist Orsini: war with Iran will lead to Biden's defeat in the US elections

A war between Iran and the United States would be very beneficial to Netanyahu, writes FQ. The Israeli prime minister is trying to ignite this conflict in order to prolong his stay in power and carry out ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the author of the article is sure. However, for Biden, such a clash would have turned into huge problems.

FP: due to shell starvation, the APU found themselves in a critical situation

The gaping ammunition depots struck an FP correspondent who visited the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainians are paying with blood for the inaction of the West, one of the soldiers told him. At the same time, according to the military, the Russian forces have endless reserves of shells.

Telegraph: the British author saw a human dam in Ukraine to deter Russia

A British Telegraph journalist is trying to convince the reader to throw money and weapons to the Kiev regime. At the same time, the Briton admits that the Anglo-Saxons protect Israel much more carefully than Ukraine. He is afraid that Kiev will notice it. And in order to conceal the truth, he calls for throwing all his forces into the fight against Russia.

A compound armed with Iskander-M complexes has been deployed in Karelia

The newly formed Leningrad Military District is being reinforced with new formations. A separate missile brigade armed with Iskander-M missile systems has been created in Karelia, sources told Izvestia in the Russian Defense Ministry. In addition, the 11th Army Corps in the Kaliningrad region, as well as the 14th Army Corps in the Murmansk region, were transferred to the district. Experts call the strengthening of the north-western borders a timely and adequate response to Finland's accession to NATO.

Alexander Stepanov — about how the United States doctrinally fixed the course towards the militarization of outer space and how this will turn out for Russia and China

The new Pentagon strategy, published on April 2, calls for increased protection of satellites of private companies.

Colonel Khodarenok: AFU balloons can harm civilian objects

The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to use balloon bombers to strike targets on the territory of Russia. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, over the past day, air defense has shot down five balloons over Russian regions. What kind of balls are these, what their effectiveness is and what harm they can cause, the military observer of the Newspaper figured out.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

From the simplest devices for breathing underwater to modern high–tech devices, man's path to mastering the underwater world has been long and impressive. Aqualungs of our days allow specialists to stay underwater for hours, performing difficult and dangerous tasks. For example, to engage in search and rescue operations.

Rostec State Corporation is launching a training program for professional mentors aimed at accelerating the adaptation of new employees of the Corporation's industrial enterprises. By the end of 2025, the Rostec Academy will train about 1,000 such specialists within the framework of the Mentor School.

The United Engine Corporation of Rostec State Corporation will soon connect 600 machines to the industrial Internet of Things. Thus, the total IIoT network of the corporation will number more than 2.5 thousand units of industrial equipment, and by 2026 it is planned to increase it to 4 thousand.

In fact, the work was carried out by local "enthusiasts" from a certain Odessa office of KB Technari, who were interested in raising funds from the population. At the same time, their level clearly does not reach the status of a "design bureau", as they position themselves.

In October 2023, the German authorities announced their intention to transfer 50 electric motorcycles (electromopeds) of the EMU model with a total cost of € 20 million for Ukrainian special forces to equip the Armed Forces of Ukraine as part of military assistance.

In the second half of the last century, the USSR, more than any other state, made efforts to help African countries in the anti-colonial struggle. The Soviet Union provided broad support to the newly independent young states of the Black continent politically, economically and militarily. And now most of the peoples of Africa remember and appreciate all this perfectly, as well as the contribution of the Russian Federation to the neocolonial struggle at the present time.

The Pentagon's DARPA research agency reported that the X-62A fighter, piloted by artificial intelligence, is successfully conducting simulated air battles with pilot-controlled aircraft. The relevant footage was shown on April 17.

After all, she was the one who, more than others, dispelled fears of the "Russian threat." Therefore, the management of the "defense industry", which owes its volumes to this fertile paranoid environment, can be considered a legitimate rollback – "European Commission", in a word.