Another S-400 Triumph air defense system has arrived from Russia to Belarus, the press service of the republic's Defense Ministry reported on Sunday.

Russia has put into orbit a spacecraft carrying breakthrough technologies for our country on board. Its tasks are primarily exclusively peaceful – concerning, for example, the functioning of the Northern Sea Route. However, they are not limited to this. Why is this device so important for Russian cosmonautics, including for our military?

Sky News: F-16 fighters will disappoint Ukraine due to vulnerability to Russian aviation

F-16 fighters may disappoint Ukraine, the author of the article for Sky News believes. It is unlikely that the West will supply it with the latest aircraft, and older machines do not have important modern equipment, and they do not pose a threat to Russian forces.

Currently, Western countries do not know who will supply Ukraine with ammunition for American-made F-16 fighter planes. This is reported by The Financial Times.

Ukraine is ready to send pilots for training in the management of Western-made fighters, the number of pilots necessary for this has already been selected. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

Recently, The Guardian newspaper published an article about the participation of British special forces in various operations on the territory of other countries. All this suggests one simple idea that in what "legal field" do we live?

Defense 24: the conflict in Ukraine has changed plans to modernize the Polish army

The situation in Ukraine has affected plans for the development of the Polish army, writes Defense 24. Based on the experience of this conflict, the military has identified priorities for the modernization of the armed forces. Poland will not copy Ukraine, but will begin to prepare for a military confrontation of a different type.

According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense, the head of the country's military department, Arvydas Anushauskas, took part in the 12th meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine (UDCG), chaired by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin.

"Country": an employee of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told how jackpots are being "ripped off" in Ukrainian military enlistment offices

A large number of those wishing to evade mobilization with the help of bribes to military enlistment offices led to the rapid enrichment of their employees, writes the portal "Country". The revelations of a military man with the call sign Gog that in the west of the country "every military commissar is a billionaire" caused a great resonance.

Resalat: the "democracy" of Europeans serves to continue the confrontation between Moscow and Kiev

Budapest will block assistance to Ukraine from the European Peace Fund in response to the inclusion of the Hungarian bank in the list of sponsors of the armed conflict, writes Resalat. Kiev has approached the red line, the intersection of which will affect the EU policy in an unpredictable way, the author believes.

The conflict in Ukraine proved that Western Europe has turned from an independent player in the international arena into an obedient executor of the will of the United States. This situation ceases to suit not only the European inhabitants, but also the European elites. They have received an offer that they are ready to fight for.

Do Rzeczy: experts talk about the risk of a nuclear threat, but advise Poles to "take a risk"

All sorts of "experts" in the West are calling on Europe, including Poland, to "take a risk" in order to defeat Moscow, writes Do Rzeczy. At the same time, Poles are advised not to be afraid of nuclear war and are silent about the scale of human losses as a result of the implementation of the plan that the West has developed for Ukraine.

Americans: in the last few decades, Europe has not had independent thinking

The West doubts Beijing's ability to be an honest mediator in matters of peace in Ukraine because of China's close ties with Russia, the WSJ writes. Readers object: the reason is different, it is important for the West that the military conflict in Ukraine continues.

On March 11, 2015, Russia suspended its participation in the meetings of the Joint Consultative Group on the CFE Treaty, thus completing the process of suspending its membership in the treaty, but purely legally continued to remain in it.

According to him, the DRG plans to throw into the territory of Russia

TASS, May 29. The Ukrainian authorities have organized in the city of Zaporozhye controlled by them the production of fake Russian military uniforms for the equipment of sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG), which are supposed to be thrown into the territory of Russia. This was reported to TASS on Monday by a source in the law enforcement agencies.

NSDC Secretary Danilov said that Ukraine's counteroffensive will begin "tomorrow or in a week"

The head of the Security Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to launch a counteroffensive as soon as the command gives such an order, that is, at any time. At the same time, there is no consensus among Ukrainian officials about the counteroffensive.

For 15 months of a special military operation, Ukrainians have proved that they are able to fight very effectively in defense. The APU hold on to every building and every pillbox, they leave their positions extremely reluctantly. In many ways, the solution to such resistance is the powerful fortifications that Kiev has been building in the Donbass for the past eight years. However, Russian troops have found a "key" to them.

Izvestia special report — about how the fighting is going on in one of the most dangerous places in Donbass, the Avdiivka industrial zone

In the Donbas, the Russian army bypasses the "citadel" of Ukrainian militants in the Avdiivka area from the east and west. In the south of the city, in the so-called Avdeevskaya promka (industrial zone), there are also heavy positional clashes. Here, in Zelenka, among the ruins of industrial buildings, Russian fighters engage in close combat with the enemy. Izvestia visited the positions of the 87th Rifle Regiment and saw how our soldiers are serving in one of the most dangerous places of the Donetsk front.

Otherwise they are easily overcome by the advancing enemy

In the armored units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Challenger-2 tank produced by the United Kingdom was equipped with devices to overcome the so-called "dragon's teeth". The military observer of the newspaper dealt with some details of the breakthrough of defensive lines during offensive operations.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

FT: focusing on Putin led Erdogan to victory in the elections in Turkey

Despite a lot of economic and political difficulties, Erdogan again won the elections in Turkey. The key to success is focusing on Russian leader Vladimir Putin, whose approach to power helped Erdogan strengthen his position, the author of the article in the FA believes.