The Russian Defense Ministry announced the decommissioning of the Ukrainian Air Force airfield near Zhytomyr and taking control of one of the quarters of the port city of Mariupol.

The so-called "silence regime" and the provision of security corridors for the exit of civilians from Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol did not completely stop the actions of the Russian Armed Forces. In other areas, they continued to carry out the tasks of a special military operation in Ukraine.

After the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine and the unprecedented wave of American sanctions that followed, relations between the Russian Federation and the United States entered a peak. Alexander Darchiev, Director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Interfax in an interview about how they look at this situation in Moscow and about the prospects for overcoming this crisis.

The American newspaper "The New York Times" writes about a large-scale operation launched by the United States and its allies to deliver military aid to Ukraine. The data and estimates given in the material will be left entirely on the conscience of the authors of the article.

Experts named the reason why Washington refused to test Minuteman III missiles

The United States was supposed to test-launch the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but postponed it to show that they were not increasing the readiness of their nuclear forces. "Newspaper.Ru" was looking into why the United States took such a step and whether it could be called friendly towards Russia.

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the facts of the elimination by the Ukrainian side of traces of the military biological program, which was funded with the participation of the US Defense Ministry.

The fears repeatedly expressed by Russian experts, including from the Russian Defense Ministry, that dubious scientific developments are being conducted in Ukraine at the direction of the Kiev regime, to put it mildly, have been documented.

The Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation, against the background of two US destroyers entering the Baltic Sea, reported exercises with Bastion anti-ship missile systems.

The institutes are still cautiously optimistic, but no one knows what will happen in two or three months, a year. So far, their directors have been instructed to conduct an audit of the existing capacity, pointing out weaknesses. Since there is no combined data on all Russian institutes, the MK correspondent himself called a number of leading scientific organizations.

The Russian authorities, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, are compiling a list of unfriendly countries. For the first time, such a formulation was voiced a year ago and became a response to Western sanctions and diplomatic scandals unleashed by them. Then the United States and the Czech Republic were recognized as enemies. However, the new list will have nothing to do with the old one, experts say. Over the past ten days, the world order has changed and Russia will build relations with the Western world differently.

In Ukraine, according to Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, a network has been formed that includes more than 30 biological laboratories, which can be divided into research and sanitary-epidemiological.

US sanctions will not do much harm to the Russian defense industry. The blow of the American authorities on this industry, which, according to their plan, was supposed to be "crushing", is unlikely to have a significant impact on it.

Izvestia correspondent Dinar Ginatullin on Monday, March 7, said that a convoy with logistical support for Russian servicemen arrived in the Chernihiv region.

[b]It became known about three more Russian servicemen who showed real courage and the highest professionalism during a special military operation in Ukraine. Two of them are officers, one is a contract sergeant. Two serve in the Ground Forces, one in the Airborne Forces.

The fighting is taking place a few kilometers from the most important Ukrainian defense hub

The main fighting in the LPR is unfolding near Severodonetsk. On March 6, the advancing troops approached it by 7 km and took the city and neighboring settlements into a semi-circle.

Against this background, the nationalists again disrupted the humanitarian exit of civilians from Mariupol

On March 6, Ukrainian armed formations once again thwarted an attempt to withdraw civilians from the encircled Mariupol.

The sharply anti-Russian policy of Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov during the days of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine caused an equally unprecedented sharp reaction of Bulgarian society. The head of government was literally chased from the podium with snowballs amid whistling, hooting and shouts of "NATO - out!". What is going on in the usually anti-Russian Bulgaria?

The day after Zelensky's Saturday address to the US Congress, in which he asked Kiev to provide combat aircraft, the US State Department allowed NATO countries to supply fighter jets to Ukraine. This decision was announced by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken when asked whether the authorities of Poland, a member of the North Atlantic Alliance, are allowed to send their planes to Kiev.

Zelensky admitted that he was deceived in his hopes regarding NATO: the alliance did not introduce a no-fly zone over the country, but only helped with diesel fuel. Foreign Minister Kuleba also criticized the bloc. Against the background of reports in the Western media about plans to evacuate Zelensky to Poland to lead a guerrilla war in exile, it seems that no one doubts Ukraine's military defeat.

Finland is ready to discuss the country's accession to NATO, President Sauli Niinisto said. Earlier, he ruled out such a possibility, but the North Atlantic Alliance persistently left its "doors open". Is Helsinki really ready to give up its neutral status, what risks can such a step carry for Russia and how should our country react to them?