According to the German newspaper Welt, the German government still decided to provide military assistance to Ukraine in the form of the supply of self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000, which are in service with the German army.

Among the types of weapons of the Russian army undergoing rapid technological renewal, a special place is occupied by electronic warfare — electronic warfare. In recent years, the Russian military—industrial complex has presented a whole scattering of unique complexes - "Khibiny", "Borisoglebsk", "Murmansk", "Scorpion". Among them is the Krasukha ground-based electronic warfare system.

Rostec State Corporation's Roselectronics Holding has developed wireless sensors for smart home, industrial Internet of Things, security systems and monitoring of refrigeration equipment parameters. The devices are made on the basis of reed switches and differ from existing analogues with advanced sensors and increased durability.

On Sunday, May 1, fierce fighting broke out in the northern Iraqi province of Sinjar between units of the Iraqi armed forces and the Resistance Units of Sinjar, a local armed formation consisting of Yezidis. Recall that the Yezidis are a Kurdish people who profess the ancient religion of Yezidism and inhabit the northern regions of Iraq.

Fiesta Capital is one of those brokerage companies that has always provided private investors with everything they need since its inception. Its activities were organized by former employees of prop-trading companies, hedge funds, and large banks. And they have found out from their own experience what small retail traders lack.

"We fully believed that the police would come to our aid, but they did not come" — eight years ago, as a result of violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Euromaidan, the Odessa House of Trade Unions broke out. This fire was one of the largest in terms of the number of victims: 42 people died from fire, smoke and injuries. About the events of May 2, 2014 and their historical consequences — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Russia's tactical aviation destroyed up to 160 Ukrainian military. This was announced on Monday, May 2, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet was destroyed in an air battle near Slavyansk, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

In Poland, among the Russophobic crackle of the state propaganda machine, voices of sobriety are sometimes heard. While the powerful and pro-government media report on the bright victories of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the Russian troops and convince the Polish reader that Russia is not conducting a special operation in Ukraine, but is waging a total war against the Ukrainian people, the publication Myśl Polska ("Polish Thought"), after analyzing the actual data, came to the conclusion that there are neither Ukrainian victories nor Russian total war.

The commander of the battalion "Rus" of the army of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) told Izvestia about the tactics of the Ukrainian military near Donetsk.

An extremely remarkable video was released by the Japanese TV channel ANN News. The story, which was released a few days ago, showed tank exercises on the island of Hokkaido in the context of preparation for a possible military clash with the Russian Federation.

What does the participation of four Arab defense ministers in the conference on arming and supporting Ukraine initiated by the Americans mean?

Morocco, Jordan, Qatar and Tunisia took part in the conference in support of Ukraine. However, there were no representatives of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, most of the countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arab Maghreb Union. What will be Russia's response?

On April 28, 2022, a ceremony of rolling out and presentation of the first Boeing T-7A Red Hawk advanced training aircraft built for the US Air Force, an experimental batch of the EMD stage (EPD and manufacturing development), in the amount of five aircraft designed to be carried out, in accordance with Russian terminology, took place at the Boeing Corporation enterprise in St. Louis, "state tests" before being put into service. This aircraft became the third T-7A flight model built.

Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok called the minus of air defense systems that the West handed over to the APU

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly asked the United States and other NATO countries to "close the sky" over the country, but instead the collective West has limited itself to the supply of anti-aircraft missile technology. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok figured out what kind of weapons Kiev received and whether it would help the APU.

In the near future, the Republic of Korea will acquire SM-6 missiles for the KDX III Batch II destroyers. The SM-6 missile, also known as the RIM-174 extended-range anti-aircraft missile (ERAM), is capable of performing air and missile defense tasks, as well as combating surface targets.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of combat work during a special operation in Ukraine of the calculation of the Iskander-M tactical missile system.

The plot is short - it lasts just over two minutes. But the video captures the main stages of preparation for firing, the rocket launch itself and the results of the enemy's fire defeat.

Germany faced a problem when planning the transfer of Gepard 1A2 anti-aircraft self-propelled guns to Ukraine, removed from the Bundeswehr armament more than 20 years ago and stored by the manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. As already reported, Berlin simply does not have shells for these anti-aircraft installations.

According to the published report of the Bundeswehr Infantry Training Center, Hammelburg, in the future infantry units are planned to be equipped with a heavy weapons platform based on the Boxer armored personnel carrier (Boxer).

Finland has terminated the contract with Rosatom for the construction of a nuclear power plant. However, for Russia, the outcome of this project is, one might say, a great success, because Rosatom signed up here for financially unfavorable conditions. It is better to exit the project now, while the main investments have not yet been made. Why did the state corporation fit into this project? And what economic benefits is Finland depriving itself of?

According to reports, in the last six months, two border patrol ships of the 3rd rank of the modified project 10410 (code "Firefly") with the names "Novorossiysk" (factory number 314, launched for the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, were launched at PJSC "Almaz Shipbuilding Company" in St. Petersburg, traditionally without publicity launched on December 1, 2021) and Sochi (factory number 315, launched on April 14, 2022). Both ships are being completed.