Politico (USA): Orban's victory sets the stage for new battles within the European Union around democracy and Russia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, having won the election, retained his place among the leaders of the EU countries, writes Politico. This means that Europe will face new clashes over key values and new attempts to resist a hard line in relations with Moscow.

On April 4, the United States celebrates the 73rd anniversary of the founding of NATO. The Alliance of America and Europe, which they call the most powerful military-political bloc in history. European countries also note, of course. But if this is really a holiday for America, then for Europeans it is rather a shame and even a threat.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published a video of the combat work of Russian Su-30SM and Su-35 fighters. And then the pilot of the "thirty-fifth" named Klim told about the features of the use of this aircraft during a special military operation.

Experts told about the problems of the American project of the sixth-generation fighter NGAD

Against the background of the fighting in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, discussions continue in the United States around the appearance and functions of the sixth-generation fighter, created under the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program in order to adopt it in 2030. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what this plane might look like.

The Russian Defense Ministry has distributed another video about the combat use of the latest Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopter during a special military operation in Ukraine. The plot is accompanied by shots of objective control and explanations of the pilots. The rotorcraft launches only one missile - and the enemy's armored vehicles are blown to pieces.

The Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region, together with the government of St. Petersburg and cooperative enterprises, is creating a unique UAV flight monitoring system.

Military expert Dmitry Kornev — about the new high-precision ammunition that was presented by the Russian aviation

In recent days, the Russian Armed Forces have been carrying out precision strikes on strategically important objects on the territory of Ukraine.

At the end of the week, high-precision cruise missiles destroyed the headquarters of a group of Ukrainian troops near the village of Shakhterskoye. The strike was carried out by anti-ship "Onyx" coastal missile system "Bastion".

The United States has decided to cancel the tests of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, Reuters reports, citing a military source.

The Ministry of Economic Development has started collecting opinions and proposals from several dozen ministries, associations, banks, consortia and hardcore organizations on promising methods of state planning in the Russian radio-electronic industry. The Ministry of Economy is interested in their position on the elements of the 1969 Soviet regulation on the Ministry of Electronic Industry, as well as information on the previously applied methodology of the USSR State Planning Committee.

Vsevolod Opanasenko, the founder of the T-Platform supercomputer company, who was recently released from arrest on his own recognizance, found a job at Rostec. Almost simultaneously, the Edelweiss company, which the market considers controlled by him, was headed by a top manager of the state corporation.

Experts explained the meaning of the Russian Armed Forces firing drills in the Kuril Islands

More than a thousand servicemen of the Eastern Military District (VVO) are conducting training firing from artillery guns and anti-tank missile systems on the Kuril Islands, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why Russia is conducting exercises in the Kuril Islands right now.

Conscription for military service is the involvement of citizens established by law for the performance of military duty (conscription) in the ranks of the armed forces and other troops; an integral part of the recruitment of the armed forces with personnel.

The Master of Sports of Russia, Sergeant of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vlada Krivenko is recognized as the absolute world champion according to CISM 2021. The girl is the champion of the championship of Russia in 2021 and the Airborne troops. She is serving in the 309th Special Parachute Training Center in Ryazan.

Almost a year and a half ago, in November 2020, in the newspaper Vedomosti, the now deceased deputy director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST) Konstantin Makiyenko published an article "How Russia lost in the Second Karabakh War".

The success of combat operations on the ground is determined by the victims

Minister Sergei Shoigu said on a conference call at the Ministry of Defense: "In general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed." A significant reduction in the Ukrainian military potential allows us to focus our main efforts on the main goal – the liberation of Donbass, and the operation will continue until "the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief are fully fulfilled."

According to a number of signs, the military situation in Ukraine is changing significantly – and this is primarily due to the significant movement of troops. Russian units are being transferred en masse from near Kiev. Where and why are they going – and what retaliatory measures is Ukraine trying to take?

Russia destroyed the fuel storage facilities of the Kremenchug oil refinery with high-precision weapons. This is the last of the large oil refineries operating on the territory of Ukraine. In addition, military airfields in Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk were destroyed. Even if there is a strategic fuel reserve, the Ukrainian army will soon not be able to properly operate heavy equipment, which will affect the ability of the military to fight.

As reported, at dawn on April 1, 2022, at about 05:45 in the morning, two Mi-24 combat helicopters of the Army aviation of Ukraine, approaching at low altitude from Ukraine, struck 80 mm unguided missiles at the Belgorodnefteprodukt oil depot in Belgorod on Russian territory. In addition to the oil depot, these Ukrainian helicopters casually shot down a number of industrial enterprises in the Belgorod industrial zone, but without much effect. After the strike, both Ukrainian helicopters safely left for the territory of Ukraine.

Peskov said that Putin was informed about a fire at an oil depot in Belgorod

The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that two helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out two airstrikes in Belgorod, as a result of which a fire started at the city oil depot, engulfing eight fuel tanks. According to the authorities, no one was injured during the emergency, but because of the fire, residents of houses on three streets near the enterprise began to be resettled in less dangerous places. The Ministry of Energy said that the fire will not affect the cost of fuel and its availability.