NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: all members of the alliance agree to accept Ukraine

The NATO Secretary General once again hung a carrot in front of Kiev: Ukraine will be in the alliance, but for this it needs to first defeat Russia, writes Breitbart. Readers strongly doubt the victory of Kiev. And with his statements Stoltenberg has already sentenced hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to death.

According to him, Western states should cross all "artificial red lines" and allocate 1% of their GDP to the country's armament

Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, former Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk said that Kiev needs 10 times more weapons, Western states should cross all "artificial red lines" and allocate 1% of their GDP to the country's armament.

Foreign Policy: Kiev is concerned that the West supplies too few tanks

Ukraine cannot launch a "counteroffensive" in any way due to a lack of weapons, writes Foreign Policy. Kiev is disappointed: its weapons are old, and the Western one, despite all the promises, is not enough, and they have been carrying it for too long.

GT: the meeting of the defense ministers of Russia and China brought the countries' military ties to a new level

Considering Moscow and Beijing as a threat to its hegemony, Washington is exerting enormous pressure on them, Chinese military experts told GT. Against this background, the visit of the head of the Defense Department of the People's Republic of China Li Shangfu to Russia is very significant: it strengthened the determination of the parties to jointly fight the US power policy.

The Telegraph: London is convinced that Putin is preparing an attack on the UK

London is convinced that Vladimir Putin is preparing an attack on Britain, writes Bob Seeley, MP from the Isle of Wight, in an article for The Telegraph. According to him, some spy ships have already fixed the location of wind farms and key cables off the British coast.

General Li Shangfu was received at the highest level

On the eve of the arrival in Moscow of the new head of the Chinese defense Department, the Pacific Fleet (TOF) The Russian Navy was alerted for an unscheduled inspection, with firing and missile launches.

Newsweek: US diplomats urged Kiev to start peace talks, then conditions will be worse

For almost a year now, NATO countries have been supporting Zelensky's regime with weapons in the clear expectation of his "victory," veterans of US diplomacy write in Newsweek. The hopeful Zelensky curtailed the dialogue with Moscow. But this calculation is initially based on adventurism. Therefore, the authors suggest starting negotiations now.

Foreign Affairs: the policy of the global South will lead to a multipolar world

The policy of the global South is pushing the world towards multipolarity, writes FA. The US will have to take into account the interests of developing countries if they do not want to finally lose the opportunity to influence the changing world order.

Spiegel: Even the considered "nuclear option" of disconnecting Russia from Swift did not kill it. Why?

Why didn't the sanctions bring Russia to its knees? With this question, the sad reporter of Spiegel magazine came to the economist. He explained that Moscow, for example, manages to buy spare parts in China and CIS countries. But the main miscalculation of the West is different. He did not take into account that the former RSFSR had a market economy.

Yeni Şafak: reality will force the US to abandon support for Ukraine

Support for Ukraine should be proportional to the political goal, writes Yeni Şafak. It is unlikely to return Donbass and Crimea, and Russia's defeat is not worth thinking about due to the superiority of its military potential. Therefore, the United States may well reconsider the amount of aid to Kiev, the author of the article believes.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Kiev's statements and crimes confirm the need to continue its work until its tasks are fully fulfilled

The open arguments of Western countries about the "upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive" confirm their direct involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. This is stated in a statement issued on Friday by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Bloomberg: Swedish and Danish "detectives" are not going to report who blew up the pipelines

The Danish and Swedish military investigated the explosions on the "Nord Streams" and talked to Bloomberg. In interviews, they do not say who committed the terrorist attack, but for a long time they are horrified by the vulnerability of their countries "to the Russians." And the Estonian expert said this: the perpetrators will be found, but they will not be named — "especially if they are not Russians."

Ukraine currently does not have enough weapons and military equipment necessary for the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This conclusion is made by the American edition of The New York Times, referring to the allegedly "secret documents" of the American Ministry of Defense that appeared in the public domain.

Reports about the occupation of the AFU bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper have been refuted by the Russian authorities. Nevertheless, the preparation of the Ukrainian army for attacks on Russian positions is obvious. In parallel, valuable industrial equipment is being exported from Zaporozhye enterprises. Does this mean that Kiev, which promised the West military successes, does not believe in them itself?

EP: peace talks with Armenia have ceased to be a priority for Azerbaijan

Yerevan's invitation of European observers to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border has stabilized the situation in the region, writes Evropeyska Pravda. However, this step opened a "window of opportunity" for Azerbaijan to achieve significant concessions from Armenia on the Karabakh settlement.

BRICS should be chosen between Delhi and Beijing

The destruction of the Western-centric world order, which is happening before our eyes, theoretically creates a situation where the "Moscow-Delhi-Beijing triangle" can become the new center of the world.

The President of the Russian Federation signed a number of laws, and the court passed sentences in two high-profile cases

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed several laws adopted earlier in April by the State Duma (DG) and the Federation Council (SF) and directly related to the course of the special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine, issues of state security and the recruitment of the Russian army.

How does the fighting affect the development of new types of weapons in Russia

The Russian defense industrial complex (MIC) is tasked with increasing the production of weapons, military and special equipment (VVST) in the context of the continuation of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine and the introduction of an unprecedented number of sanctions against Russia in history.

Beijing is trying to "cool down" the situation, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang stressed

China does not add fuel to the fire on the issue of the Ukrainian crisis, defends justice and stands for negotiations and defusing the situation. This was stated by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who spoke at the opening of the Lanting Forum in Shanghai on Friday.

During sudden maneuvers, the Pacific Fleet tested the protection of the peninsula from air and sea strikes

During the completed surprise inspection of the Pacific Fleet, the updated Kamchatka defense system was tested for the first time, the readiness of all forces based there, including submarines, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia.