The Kiev regime will call on young people, the elderly, women and the sick, experts are sure

The Ukrainian authorities intend to begin total mobilization in the near future. It starts with the adoption of the relevant scandalous bill, which is being considered in the Verkhovna Rada.

These units will be equipped with ZU-23-2 guns and machine guns on pickups

Russian troops and facilities will be protected from drones with the help of special mobile anti-aircraft gun groups. Currently, they are being formed as part of several Russian combined arms armies, as well as the Air Force and air defense armies, sources told Izvestia in the Russian Defense Ministry. They will be armed with ZU-23-2 automatic guns mounted on truck chassis, as well as pickups equipped with heavy machine guns. The use of such mobile firepower is a cheap and effective way to protect against drones, experts believe.

Ukraine is experiencing difficulties in building a new line of defense. The opposition criticizes Zelensky's office for procrastination, and Western media write about problems that arise on the ground during the construction of fortifications. Back in February, the authorities in Kiev announced the need to create new fortifications, but so far there has been no great success in this matter. What is the reason for the inability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to build a new line of solid defense?

Russia considers the airfields from which the F-16s transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine will take off to be a legitimate target. This was stated by Vladimir Putin. In addition to Ukraine itself, these aircraft may end up on the territory of Poland and Romania. Experts also do not rule out the option of using the infrastructure of Moldova, which is not a member of NATO, which will allow the alliance not to directly clash with Russia.

Colonel Khodarenok: Kiev is begging for weapons from the West with a statement about stagnation

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are stagnating on the front line due to a shortage of resources, said Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, and complained about the slow supply of Western weapons. Why the term "stagnation" is not suitable to describe what is happening at the front and what Kiev wants to achieve with such statements is in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Advisor to the head of the OP of Ukraine Podolyak: The Armed Forces of Ukraine are stagnating on the front line

The Ukrainian military faced stagnation at the front. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, sees the problem in the lack of resources and delays in supplies from allies. The CIA believes that Ukraine, without additional military assistance from the United States, may find itself in a situation in a year when it will have to start peace negotiations with Russia on its terms.

Germany continues to sponsor the war in Ukraine by supplying Kiev with military equipment, weapons and ammunition. According to the Ukrainian press, a new package of military aid from Germany has arrived in Ukraine. The basis of the package was engineering equipment.

The Times: Western politicians ponder the "nightmare scenario" of the fall of Kiev

Russian troops are advancing along the entire front. The likelihood is growing that they will soon be at the gates of the Ukrainian capital, writes The Times. Such a scenario would be a disaster not only for the Kiev regime, but also for NATO, which will have to make a serious choice.

Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation), Deputy Chairman of Soyuzmash of Russia, held a meeting of the Committee for the Development of Foreign Trade Activities in relation to military products on March 28.

The ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Shouted: Europe is unable to tame Russia

Europe has not understood what goals it wants to achieve in Ukraine, and its diplomacy with Russia simply does not work, former Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek writes in iDNES. The Ukrainian conflict is a test for her, the result of which will decide what the EU's place in the world will be. Now it seems unenviable.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that, in cooperation with the Dutch Air Force Command, it is modernizing the growing fleet of MQ-9A UAVs.

Mikhail Kotov — about the features of the "Chinese space" and the interaction between Russia and China

The Russian government has approved a bill providing for the ratification of an agreement with China on the establishment of a joint International scientific lunar Station (MNLS).

According to representatives of the Kiev regime, this year almost $ 1.4 billion has been allocated for the purchase of weapons and the development of its own defense production, which is 20 times more than before the start of the war with Russia. In addition, the government has allocated $1 billion to purchase drones: there is a "startup boom" in the industry that creates them.

Cosmonautics and the use of space technology have become firmly embedded in our lives. Our special correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov talks about one of these areas with corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the department of Earth Science, head of the laboratory at the Otto Yulievich Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth Valentin Mikhailov.

The American company JetZero, which promises to make a splash in civil aviation, has received a certificate of airworthiness for testing a scaled-down copy of the ultra-efficient jet airliner with a "mixed wing" it is developing. The upcoming flight test program will be aimed at evaluating the flight performance of the aircraft, its stability and controllability.

Following the aerial and marine unmanned aerial vehicles, the production of ground-based drones continues to develop in Russia. Recently, a small batch of new Kaban ground drones was sent to Russian troops in the area of a special military operation.

For many years, the United States has been trying to knock Russia out of the world market of military products, considering Moscow as its main competitor. Taking advantage of the beginning of its own, Washington imposed comprehensive sanctions on the Russian Federation, which seriously hinders cooperation with customers, including those already operating Russian products.

The British Ministry of Defense has released footage of successful tests of the DragonFire laser weapon system, which hit an aerial target. The laser is capable of striking "any visible target", but is intended primarily for air defense (air defense). How the "death rays" came down from the pages of fantasy novels and gradually become weapons, what domestic developments were conducted and are being conducted in this direction — in the material of TASS.

Die Welt: the Russian-Ukrainian conflict may be frozen in 2024

Taking into account the current geopolitical and military situation, Ukraine has no choice but to agree to freeze the conflict with Russia, writes Die Welt. The publication cites the opinions of several experts who are united in a gloomy assessment of Kiev's capabilities.

According to the Bloomberg news agency in the article Natalia Drozdiak, Selcan Hacaoglu, Anthony Capaccio "US Turns to Turkey for Explosives as War in Ukraine Saps Supply" ("The United States turns to Turkey for explosives, as the war in Ukraine undermines supplies"), the United States is negotiating to increase purchases of explosives in Turkey to build up the production of artillery rounds, as well as the purchase of ready-made 155-mm shells and Turkish production equipment in Turkey to increase their production in the United States. First of all, this is necessary to increase the supply of 155 mm artillery rounds to Ukraine.