Russian marines, in particular tank units, are involved in a special operation against Ukrainian armed formations. They are armed with T-80BV with 1100-horsepower gas turbine engines with high speed and maneuverability characteristics.

The T-72 Ural belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine was lost in the first battle near Kharkov. As it turns out, about a year ago this tank underwent modernization at the Lviv armored plant.

In Poland, they want to buy M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 tanks from the USA, and give their T-72 to Ukraine

Poland intends to strengthen the tank fleet of its army with the purchase of 250 upgraded M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 in the USA. The deal will amount to $4.74 billion. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why the Polish army needed American tanks and how the purchase would affect Ukraine.

The main Russian processor manufacturer, Zelenograd "Micron" showed a net profit at the end of the year for the first time in the last 12 years. It amounted to 258 million rubles. The previous 11 years brought him losses of more than 19 billion rubles.

As the newspaper Kommersant writes in the material of Nikita Korolev and Yevgeny Khvostik, "Processors are isolated. How the Russian authorities will restart the electronic industry", the growing sanctions restrictions in response to the military actions in Ukraine have exposed systemic problems in the domestic microelectronics.

As reported, on April 5, 2022, the lead frigate Al-Aziz (tail number "904") of the MEKO 200EN project, built for the Egyptian Navy by the German shipbuilding association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), from the Keel for the first time, out of four ordered ships.

On April 1 of this year, a meeting of the Business Council under the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Yerevan as part of the business program of the 3rd International Defense Technology Exhibition "ArmHighTech-2022", which was held under the leadership of the Chairman of the Business Council Alexander Nozdrachev.

The Russian Armed Forces are ready to ensure the entry of ships into and out of the port of Berdyansk for evacuation

The Russian armed forces continue to destroy the military infrastructure of Ukraine. On April 4, the Russian military struck 31 targets. Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complexes, command posts and communication centers, fuel and ammunition storage facilities were hit. Fighting continues in Mariupol. The command of the Russian Federation offered the Ukrainian militants to lay down their arms and go in the direction of Zaporozhye to the territories controlled by Kiev. Meanwhile, the Russian servicemen who returned from captivity confirmed the facts of torture, bullying and murder.

There were shots with preliminary consequences of a missile strike inflicted on the facility of the fuel and energy complex of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region. We are talking about the fuel terminal, which was located on the territory of the Novomoskovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted targeted strikes with missile weapons, completely eliminating the reserves of petroleum products that were used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist armed formations.

A video of the suppression of nationalist firing points in Mariupol by fire of armored vehicles, tanks and BTR-82A appeared on the Network. The video was shot by action cameras mounted on the armor.

Special forces of the Rosgvardiya in the Kharkiv region found a warehouse of equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was carefully disguised as a storage base for agricultural machinery.

Russia has appealed to the UN, OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as to the leadership of Germany, Turkey and France to demand that Ukraine allow the ICRC to Russian prisoners of war, about the conditions of detention and medical condition of which little is known, said on Wednesday the head of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response in Ukraine – the head of the National The Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.

Kiev notified Britain that it refused to comply with the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War

The Kiev regime applies torture and violence to Russian servicemen akin to punishers during the Great Patriotic War, and the UN, OSCE and ICRC do not notice this, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.

The West has excluded Russia from international law and believes that anything can be done with regard to this country, including with regard to captured soldiers, whose information about torture by Ukrainian nationalists turns a blind eye, said MGIMO professor, program director of the Valdai Club, in an interview with Izvestia on Wednesday, April 6." Oleg Barabanov.

High-ranking general: the likelihood of a "serious international conflict" is increasing (CNN, USA)

The world based on "US rules" is becoming increasingly unstable, the US general said at a congressional hearing. The Pentagon is going to strengthen the confrontation with Russia in Europe.

Federación de Periodistas del Perú (Peru): They want to erase Russia from the map and from history

Rewriting history happens often, writes FPP. Especially often – in relation to Russia. The author of the article is looking for the roots of Western fear of Moscow and calls for a sober look at what is happening.

Bloomberg (USA): the head of EU diplomacy called the summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dialogue of the deaf"

The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, called the negotiations of the bloc's representatives with Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dialogue of the deaf," Bloomberg reports. At the same time, the diplomat questioned Beijing's readiness to cooperate with the West in order to complete Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

Global Times (China): obituary on the death of NATO

The caustic material of the Global Times, close to the CPC Central Committee, "To the Death of NATO." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization suffers from "brain death", severe split personality and lies, as well as irrepressible perverted ambitions. Patients do not live long with such symptoms. Now NATO is already close to death, but it is still swaggering. As the proverb says: "He will die, but he will not lie down."

The American Conservative(USA): Biden's stupidity in Ukraine

The desire to promote NATO to Russia's western borders at the expense of Ukraine may well be considered the greatest foreign policy mistake of the United States since World War II, the author of The American Conservative is convinced. But Washington learns nothing and remembers nothing.

Washington plans to transfer to Kiev a large batch of Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicles ("Switchblade"). Small-sized drones belong to the class of barrage ammunition, it is an effective weapon at the tactical level. But the Russian army has something to answer.