The forces of the Baltic Fleet will monitor the actions of NATO ships during exercises beginning in the area, in case of aggressive plans, all targets will be "at gunpoint," Admiral Vladimir Valuev, commander of the Baltic Fleet (2001-2006), told RIA Novosti.

Experts told what threatens Russia with the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO

NATO ships have entered the Baltic Sea, where they will take part in exercises. Earlier, the media reported that Sweden and Finland could become NATO members. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out how the membership of these countries in the alliance would affect the Baltic Fleet of Russia.

The Polish consortium PGZ-Miecznik (part of the Polish defense industrial group Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA, part of its shipyard PGZ Stocznia Wojenna Sp. Z oo in Gdynia and the private shipyard Remontowa Shipbuilding SA in Gdansk) held a presentation of the appearance of a promising Polish frigate under the Miecznik program on April 8, 2022 in Gdynia.

In the document of the British Military command of 2021, the Coastal Response Group ( LRG, Littoral Response Group; hereinafter referred to as the PGR ) is defined as "specialized forces [in the structure of the British Navy] assigned to a geographical area, which includes special ships, boats and helicopters".

The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Alexander Sergeev, said that most Academies of Sciences in Western countries "froze" contacts with the Russian Federation, in addition, after the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation, difficulties appeared in contacts with scientists from China.

Since the introduction of responsibility for discrediting the army, the courts have received more than 600 materials under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code. Most of these cases are in the Kaliningrad region, St. Petersburg and the Crimea, it follows from the data of the GAS "Justice".

The management system of the regions bordering Ukraine needs to be rebuilt

At about six in the morning on April 1, a pair of Mi-24s of the Ukrainian Air Force attacked the Belgorod oil depot of JSC Belgorodnefteprodukt. To tell the truth, the attack of only one helicopter was crowned with a hit. But this was enough to set fire to eight tanks of two tons of fuel in each.

Europe and the United States are ready to transfer tanks and armored vehicles to Kiev. This is in addition to portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems and small arms. With the help of these weapons and reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Kiev may try to create a powerful grouping in the west of the country. How can Russia prevent this from happening?

As expected, the Russian command is not going to leave without reaction cases of attacks on our neighborhoods and facilities bordering Ukraine. The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, warned the Ukrainian leadership that the response to such actions would be extremely tough.

Servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade of the AFU voluntarily laid down their weapons

Units of the armed forces of Russia and the Donetsk People's Republic continue fighting with the remnants of the Mariupol garrison. On April 13, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the commercial sea port was completely taken, all the people who were held hostage on ships were released.

Defense Ministry: 132 military facilities were hit in Ukraine, including eight control points

Rocket troops and artillery of the Russian Federation destroyed 132 military facilities in Ukraine on Thursday, including 110 areas of concentration of manpower, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

Peskov: Shoigu has not yet presented ideas for strengthening the western borders, it takes time

After the Russian Defense Ministry provides Russian President Vladimir Putin with proposals to strengthen the western flank against the backdrop of NATO expansion, the plan to strengthen the borders will be discussed at a separate meeting, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said, answering a question from journalists about the possible deployment of nuclear weapons in the Baltic.

After NATO and the UN, the IMF is next in line

The struggle between the imperialist West and non-Western powers flares up again a century later, Sabah writes. In this context, the Ukrainian crisis is much more than the confrontation between Moscow and Kiev. This is a war between the United States and the new world, says the author of the article.

NATO is viciously and insidiously playing the "Chinese card" — the third comment in response to the alliance's slander

Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, the United States and NATO have been trying to divide the world into "bad" and "good", forcing everyone to take sides and attacking those who do not, Xinhua writes. Their desire to aggravate the conflict and "heat up" the whole world should alert the world community, the author of the article warns.

The numbers are getting bigger, but the future is getting harder to calculate

In March 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defense received another proof of the high level of cooperation between the Ukrainian military and the military of the NATO bloc.

What other items of expenditure are contained in the protocols of international "technical assistance" to Kiev

From 2015 to 2020, the US Department of Defense invested about half a billion dollars in training programs for the Ukrainian military. This follows from the list of international technical assistance projects available to Izvestia that have passed state registration in Ukraine.

The United States is allocating a new $800 million military aid package to Ukraine, which will include artillery, armored personnel carriers and helicopters.

The United States will send 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, 11 Mi-17 helicopters, 300 Switchblade drones to Kiev as part of an $800 million package of military assistance to Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

It is reported that on April 11, 2022, the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, in a televised address to the National Assembly (Parliament) of South Korea, requested modern weapons from South Korea, including primarily air defense systems, as well as combat aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles and artillery.

The British newspaper "The Guardian" called the NATO military exercises "Ascending Griffin" recently held at the Lithuanian military base Pabrade, about 30 km from the border with Belarus, a "dress rehearsal of the confrontation between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance." It should be noted that these maneuvers were accompanied by loud statements by Baltic and Polish political functionaries demanding that the NATO leadership increase the alliance's contingent on its territory.