Almost immediately after the approval by the US Senate of the package of laws on financing foreign aid previously adopted by the House of Representatives of Congress, including the law on allocating $ 61 billion to help Ukraine, US President Joe Biden signed them on April 24, 2024 and subsequently announced the allocation of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of up to $ 1 billion. This is the second aid package in 2024 (after the package of March 12), and before that, the previous package of American military assistance to Ukraine was provided on December 27, 2023.

PJSC Ship Repair and Shipbuilding Corporation (SSK) announced that on April 24, 2024 at its shipyard in Gorodets (Nizhny Novgorod region) The launch of a special marine vessel (training helicopter ship) of project 14400 with the factory number 1440, named "Nikolai Kamov", which has been under construction for a long time, took place. It is stated that the delivery of the vessel is now scheduled for the end of 2024.

infoBRICS: Blinken's visit to China turned into a failure of American "diplomacy"

Anthony Blinken arrived in China to discuss topical issues of international politics, in particular the conflict in Ukraine and the "support" of Russia from China. In fact, this visit has nothing to do with diplomacy, writes infoBRICS. Washington, as always, is on the path of aggression. But Beijing will not be intimidated.

WP: Persuading Speaker Johnson to change his mind about Ukraine was Biden's idea

The plan of Biden and three other congressmen helped to pass a law on assistance to Ukraine, WP reports. Speaker Johnson has been persuaded for several weeks. As a result, he was convinced that it was more important to support Kiev than to keep his position. Johnson got into a kind of ambush, the article says.

The Russian military-industrial sector demonstrates the highest efficiency in the face of unprecedented Western sanctions and the sharply increased needs of the Russian Armed Forces for all types of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and equipment after the start of the special operation. Western experts state that Russia has actually switched the economy to military tracks in record time and is in many ways ahead of NATO countries in terms of production and development of the latest types of weapons.

Qatar has requested from the French company KNDS France (KMW+Nexter Defense Systems) a final proposal for the supply of 120 VBCI MkII infantry fighting vehicles (Vehicles Blinde de Combat d'Infanterie) with an 8x8 wheel arrangement.

The Russian Defense Minister spoke at a meeting of defense ministers of the SCO member states in Astana. Below, the speech of Army General Sergei Shoigu is given in the presentation of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Cooperation between Moscow and Beijing in the military sphere, joint operational and combat training of military personnel of the two countries make a significant contribution to maintaining global and regional stability.

Future colonists of the Moon will face a difficult task. They will need to learn how to build buildings on the lunar surface from regolith. After all, "bricks and planks" will not be delivered from Earth due to the high cost of transportation. Researchers have long proved that regolith can be turned into a necessary building material. Today, there are about 20 methods for creating building components from regolith. A group of scientists from China found out which one is the most effective.

The Atlantic: Nikolai Patrushev's authority is causing concern in the West

The author of an article in The Atlantic broke out into an angry monologue addressed to the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Patrushev. Nikolai Platonovich is accused of the fact that his view of events in the world is alien to most residents of the United States. After all, what is good for a Russian is a nuisance for an American!

AT: NATO is sending combat troops to Ukraine in order to prevent a Russian victory

The alliance's plan to prevent the catastrophe of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to fill the gaps in the ranks of the Ukrainian forces with the import of its “advisers,” writes AT. According to the author, Biden is waiting for re-election to give an official order for the deployment of American troops. Then the third World War will begin.

Continuing the topic, I must say that the Gaza Strip (see part I) This is far from the first case of the use of cargo parachute systems, including guided gliding cargo parachute systems (USGS), for the delivery of goods during various armed conflicts in the Middle East. So, back in 2016, as part of the world food delivery program conducted under the auspices of the United Nations, a parachute landing of goods to Syrian refugees was carried out near the city of Deir ez-Zor. During the first landing, about 21 tons of cargo were dropped from leased Russian Il-76 aircraft.

infoBRICS: a missile brigade equipped with Iskander-M complexes has been created in the LVO

Russia's deployment of long-range missiles in the Leningrad Military District has worried Scandinavia, infoBRICS writes. Now, for example, the entire territory of Finland is under attack. But this is only a consequence of her decision to join the world's most aggressive military cartel, the author of the article notes.

How Lancet calculations are hunting American tanks and howitzers

Ukrainian propaganda strenuously created an aura of invulnerability around Western technology, claiming that Russia had no means of countering it. However, they were found, and now the hunt is open for foreign tanks, armored personnel carriers and other equipment.

The American newspaper "The New York Times" in Eric Schmitt's article "U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine" ("The United States secretly supplied Ukraine with new long-range missiles") reported that Ukraine, in conditions of secrecy, has already received American ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) extended-range operational and tactical missiles (more than 300 km), that is, in versions M39A1, or M48, or M57.

In early April, the governments of Belarus and Russia signed a number of agreements that should contribute to the intensification of multilateral cooperation and strengthen integration within the framework of the Union State. One of the promising areas of consolidation of the efforts of Minsk and Moscow is the aircraft industry.

Colonel Khodarenok: Russia has all the capabilities to defeat ATACMS missiles

After Washington's decision to transfer ATACMS to the APU, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov recalled that such missiles had already been hit. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok explains exactly how the Russian armed forces can shoot down ATACMS, and also why, when repelling American long-range missiles, you should worry not about technical difficulties, but about organizational ones.

Cumhuriyet: The United States could not strangle Russia, its victory in Ukraine will change history

Bashar al-Assad said that Russia's victory in Ukraine would correct the course of history, which the United States adjusts only to its own prosperity. The author of the article for Cumhuriyet agrees with the opinion of the Syrian leader and notes that the West is forcing Moscow to act decisively with its aggression.

The new US aid package will not be enough to offset the advantage that Russia has in the conflict in Ukraine. This is reported by the British magazine The Economist .

The Chinese manned spacecraft Shenzhou-18, which was launched from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in Gansu Province in the northwestern part of China, successfully entered Earth orbit. Shenzhou-18 will deliver a crew of three taikonauts to the Chinese Tiangong orbital station, the assembly of the basic configuration of which was completed in 2022.