Today, the main manufacturers of high-precision missiles, including Kalibr missiles, are contracted by the Ministry of Defense with orders for the supply of high-precision weapons until 2030, and some until 2033. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who oversees the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, said this in an interview with RT.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a meeting of the department's board on Tuesday. Our special military operation in Ukraine was not directly on the agenda. However, the minister, of course, could not bypass this topic.

Google Maps has provided free access to satellite images of Russian military facilities. Now visual information about the military infrastructure of the Russian Federation can fall into the hands of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Military expert Dmitry Kornev — how Russia will be able to strengthen the western borders in the event of Sweden and Finland joining NATO

Since March 2022, discussions have been going on in Finland and Sweden about renouncing neutral status and joining the North Atlantic Alliance. On April 11, The Times newspaper reported, citing sources, that both states intend to apply this summer.

The operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck at the 84th military facilities of Ukraine. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Major General Igor Konashenkov, including in Dnepropetrovsk, a plant for repairing the head parts of tactical missiles "Tochka-U" was destroyed.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian military again launched a missile attack on a peaceful object. In the village of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, "Dot-U", they destroyed a farm that cannot be restored.

The Russian military warned about the bloody provocations that the Kiev regime, with the support of a number of Western countries, is preparing in the Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

The head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that more than 70 mobile groups have been formed from the militants of nationalist battalions.

High-precision air-launched missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck the 124th Joint Logistics Support Center of the Command of the logistics forces of the Ukrainian troops, located in the Lviv region. According to the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the strike was carried out on the morning of April 18.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have destroyed four warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with ground-based Iskander missiles. This was announced on Monday, April 18, by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

Russian calculations of operational tactical missile systems "Iskander-M" destroyed the command post of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Alexander Morozov, a correspondent of Izvestia, told about the results of the operation on Sunday, April 18.

The Kiev regime forbade the remnants of the garrison to negotiate surrender and the cleansing of pockets of resistance continued

The offer of the Russian side to the Ukrainian military remaining in Mariupol to lay down their arms was not heard.

The Serbian president made accusations against the Ukrainian special services. According to Alexander Vucic, official Belgrade has data that the Ukrainian special services have recently become more active in terms of calls with false reports about the mining of Serbian air carriers' planes.

Why today criticism of Merkel and Steinmeier's Ukrainian policy is naive childishness

The author of the article takes under the protection of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel. Although she has never been a "friend of Russia", the current radicals in Berlin blame her post factum for the past: for example, for the non-admission of Ukraine to NATO back in 2008. Allegedly, it was the absence of Ukraine in NATO that ruined Ukraine, and not the failure of the Minsk agreements, in which Chancellor Merkel was also to blame.

The United States is using the Ukraine crisis to expand NATO to plunge Europe deeper into chaos

The United States, at the head of the North Atlantic Alliance, is pursuing an aggressive anti-Russian policy in Europe, which does not contribute to de-escalation of the conflict. Global Times writes about this. America is trying to expand NATO under the guise of the Ukrainian crisis.

"Planned, and without Putin. Admit it." Associate Professor Hmelar in a new way about Ukraine

Washington planned everything, and the Russian special operation in Ukraine only simplified everything for him, Slovak political analyst Eduard Chmelar said in an interview with Parlamentní listy. In his opinion, the current situation suits the United States more than Europe, which, after severing all ties with Russia, will fall into total dependence on America.

Three conclusions from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict

There is no use from the UN, and NATO has turned into a hydra that is at war with itself, writes American Thinker. According to the author of the article, the West needs a new leader to provide Ukraine with weapons and "punish" Russia along with other "rogue states".

A military expert assessed the equipment that the Pentagon supplies to the APU

CNN reported that Ukraine received "the first batch of weapons from the new package of military assistance from the United States." Earlier, American President Joe Biden announced his decision to provide military assistance to Kiev in the amount of $ 800 million. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok was figuring out what would be included in the American aid package.

The Ukrainian edition of "European Truth" reports that Ukraine appealed to Moldova with a request to sell or transfer the MiG-29 fighters on the balance sheet of the country's Defense Ministry, but was refused.

The US military-industrial complex is enriching itself on the events around Ukraine. Protecting one's own hegemony with someone else's blood will continue to be actively used by the American authorities.

The problems associated with the pandemic have led to the fact that the United States is delaying the delivery of military equipment to Taiwan in the amount of $ 14.2 billion, which was ordered in the period starting from 2019.