The sharply anti-Russian policy of Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov during the days of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine caused an equally unprecedented sharp reaction of Bulgarian society. The head of government was literally chased from the podium with snowballs amid whistling, hooting and shouts of "NATO - out!". What is going on in the usually anti-Russian Bulgaria?

Against this background, the nationalists again disrupted the humanitarian exit of civilians from Mariupol

On March 6, Ukrainian armed formations once again thwarted an attempt to withdraw civilians from the encircled Mariupol.

The fighting is taking place a few kilometers from the most important Ukrainian defense hub

The main fighting in the LPR is unfolding near Severodonetsk. On March 6, the advancing troops approached it by 7 km and took the city and neighboring settlements into a semi-circle.

[b]It became known about three more Russian servicemen who showed real courage and the highest professionalism during a special military operation in Ukraine. Two of them are officers, one is a contract sergeant. Two serve in the Ground Forces, one in the Airborne Forces.

Izvestia correspondent Dinar Ginatullin on Monday, March 7, said that a convoy with logistical support for Russian servicemen arrived in the Chernihiv region.

US sanctions will not do much harm to the Russian defense industry. The blow of the American authorities on this industry, which, according to their plan, was supposed to be "crushing", is unlikely to have a significant impact on it.

The Russian authorities, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, are compiling a list of unfriendly countries. For the first time, such a formulation was voiced a year ago and became a response to Western sanctions and diplomatic scandals unleashed by them. Then the United States and the Czech Republic were recognized as enemies. However, the new list will have nothing to do with the old one, experts say. Over the past ten days, the world order has changed and Russia will build relations with the Western world differently.

The institutes are still cautiously optimistic, but no one knows what will happen in two or three months, a year. So far, their directors have been instructed to conduct an audit of the existing capacity, pointing out weaknesses. Since there is no combined data on all Russian institutes, the MK correspondent himself called a number of leading scientific organizations.

In Ukraine, according to Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, a network has been formed that includes more than 30 biological laboratories, which can be divided into research and sanitary-epidemiological.

There were photographic materials confirming the flooding of the flagship of the Naval Forces of Ukraine frigate F 130 "Hetman Sagaidachny" project 11351 by its own crew in Nikolaev. The ship, which arrived in Nikolaev in July 2021 to undergo repairs, was sunk near the wall of the former Black Sea Shipyard on February 24, 2022, on the first day of the Russian special operation in Ukraine.

St. Petersburg newspaper "Fontanka.<url>" published the material of Lev Godovannik "While the shock. After the sanctions, the shipyards are calm only about icebreakers. Engines from China, electronics from Aurora, dollars and euros in suitcases, and processors are a big question. Fontanka has found out the current prospects of Russian civil shipbuilding."

The Russian edition of Forbes magazine published the material by Katerina Terekhova and Alexey Dertev "Prohibition on development: how will Russian technologies survive without semiconductors", which states that the refusal of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMC from cooperation with Russia means that it will be difficult for Russian companies to implement the planned import substitution program in the IT field.

Ukrainian specialists were working in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to produce a "dirty" bomb and to release plutonium, an informed source in one of the competent departments of the Russian Federation told Interfax.

The Sarmat missile system has a number of characteristics not previously seen in any intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Researchers of the US Air Force will develop a satellite for regular patrolling of the circumlunar space. This will expand the permanent presence of the United States up to the far side of the moon, writes Ars Technica. For the first time, the US military has begun expanding the operational zone in space.

According to the scientific director of the project Rashid Syunyaev, the German eROSITA telescope is in safe mode

The Russian Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope at the Spektr-RG Space Observatory (SRG) can observe X-ray sources of interest to scientists or scan certain areas of the sky while the German eROSITA telescope is turned off. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Spektr-RG project Rashid Syunyaev.

The Organization for Cooperation in the Field of Armaments (OCCAR) has signed a contract with Airbus Helicopters for the modernization of attack helicopters of the Armed Forces of France and Spain to the Tiger Mk.3 variant.

Tatarstan business resource "BUSINESS Online" in the material of Timur Latypov "What are we going to fly on? Minnikhanov decided to remind Moscow about the ruined "cranes" from Kazan. Even after years of harassment, the Tu-214 and Tu-334 can replace enemy Boeing and Airbus," writes that all imported aircraft are being taken away from Russia. And today it is very clear: in the new world born after February 24, our country should have aircraft of its own production and from its own components. So far, Superjet and MS-21 are seen as such, but, as BUSINESS Online has learned, Tatarstan has a different point of view - to revive civilian "carcasses". What the republic offers, some experts call an adventure, others - a wise step.

The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation clarified that contracts for the supply of Russian drones with the countries of the Middle East have not been signed, but negotiations are underway with some foreign customers.

We continue (part I ) the publication of the reflections of the experts of the British publishing group Shephardmedia on the current state of the Russian Air Force. [Explanations of IVi are given in square brackets]