Yerevan reported on an agreement with Baku on the demarcation of the state border in a section of four villages in the north-east of Armenia
Yerevan and Baku will take measures for the simultaneous and parallel deployment of their border services after the delimitation of the border, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said.
"Fear and shell hunger." A Western journalist visited the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Foreign Policy, USA)
FP: due to shell starvation, the APU found themselves in a critical situation
The gaping ammunition depots struck an FP correspondent who visited the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainians are paying with blood for the inaction of the West, one of the soldiers told him. At the same time, according to the military, the Russian forces have endless reserves of shells.
"Real risk": the head of the CIA called the timing of Ukraine's defeat (Bloomberg, USA)
CIA Director William Burns: Ukraine will be defeated by the end of the year
According to CIA Director Burns, Ukraine may be defeated on the battlefield by the end of the year, Bloomberg reports. The mood in the West is gloomy. Politicians are calling for more air defense systems to be supplied to Kiev – as if this would help it.
Briton: Ukrainians see that we spit on them, we don't protect them like Israel (The Telegraph UK, UK)
Telegraph: the British author saw a human dam in Ukraine to deter Russia
A British Telegraph journalist is trying to convince the reader to throw money and weapons to the Kiev regime. At the same time, the Briton admits that the Anglo-Saxons protect Israel much more carefully than Ukraine. He is afraid that Kiev will notice it. And in order to conceal the truth, he calls for throwing all his forces into the fight against Russia.
"War is inevitable": in a fit of alarmism, the West has fallen into its own trap (Global Times, China)
By unwinding the arms race, the West fell into the trap of Thucydides, writes GT. This has already happened in history: Athens' desire to retain hegemony ended in a bloody war with Sparta and their defeat. In modern conditions, the consequences will be much worse.
Pessimism and depression: Ukrainians have lost faith in salvation from the West (Financial Times, UK)
FT: the lack of Western aid depresses Ukrainians
The lack of Western aid is demoralizing Ukrainians, writes FT. The soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are exhausted mentally and physically, and pessimistic sentiments are increasing among civilians. The author of the article complains about the drop in morale in Ukraine — exactly on the eve of the vote on the aid package in the US Congress.
US strategist: we let Ukrainians down by instilling false expectations about weapons (Salon, USA)
Salon: future wars will come down to who can implement new technology faster
A veteran of the US Marine Corps on the pages of Salon casts a general look at the situation in Ukraine and the Middle East. He notes the inability of the United States to understand all the fears of Israel and to support its "proxies" in Ukraine in time. He also opposes the demonization of Iran, noting that Tehran responds with blow to blow.
Russia will not remain silent. NATO has its own plans for Transnistria and Gagauzia (Pechat, Serbia)
"Pechat": NATO will expand the conflict in Europe at the expense of Transnistria and Gagauzia
Gagauzia has long been like a stone trapped in the lacquered European shoes of Moldovan politicians who are drawn to Romania, writes Pechat. Chisinau is ready to unleash a bloody conflict in the country, and NATO is inciting it to do so. But such a scenario will not remain unanswered by Moscow.
No one is going to cool the boiling "cauldron" of Transcarpathia
According to many experts, the formation of the territory of Ukraine in 1991 was largely done by the Soviet government, which generously endowed it with heterogeneous ethno-historical regions. As an example, we can take the Transcarpathian region.
The New America. How Western corporations develop the lands of "independent" Indians
It's no secret that the Western arms industry benefits enormously from the conflict in Ukraine, in particular the German Rheinmetall concern. Recall that the arms giant is a leading international supplier of a wide range of weapons, with a staff of more than 33 thousand employees and production sites in 28 countries around the world.
Is US foreign policy preparing for Trump? (Anadolu Ajansı, Turkey)
Trump's second coming to power will be a test for American foreign policy institutions and international relations, Anadolu reports. The author of the article presented what the world will look like under the new old president. The picture turned out to be gloomy.
No reason to go to war with the United States: the Iranians outsmarted Netanyahu (IL Fatto Quotidiano, Italy)
Sociologist Orsini: war with Iran will lead to Biden's defeat in the US elections
A war between Iran and the United States would be very beneficial to Netanyahu, writes FQ. The Israeli prime minister is trying to ignite this conflict in order to prolong his stay in power and carry out ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the author of the article is sure. However, for Biden, such a clash would have turned into huge problems.
Footage of the destruction of the key radar of the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system is shown
On April 17, Hezbollah showed footage demonstrating the destruction of the Israeli EL M-2084 radar, which is a key component of the Iron Dome missile defense system.
I was flying from a combat mission. The Tu-22M3 supersonic missile carrier crashed in Stavropol
Mash: the commander of the Tu-22M3 ejected the crew members and took them away from residential buildings
The Tu-22M3 supersonic missile carrier crashed in the Stavropol Territory. Four crew members managed to eject, but one of them died. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the cause of the disaster was a technical malfunction. The RBC Ukraine agency, citing a source in the Ukrainian army, claims that the crash of the Tu-22M3 was the result of the operation GUR.
A headache for NATO. Tu-160M2 will provide Russia with an advantage over the United States (The National Interest, USA)
TNI: Tu-160M2 will become a new word in the strategy of the Russian armed forces
The Tu-160M2 bomber will provide the Russian armed forces with a key advantage over the American ones, writes TNI. To counter this aircraft, the United States will have to upgrade its Air Force, and they are not going to do this yet.
NYT: Russian drones in Ukraine are causing damage to one of the symbols of US military power — the Abrams tank
While preparing last year's "counteroffensive", the Kiev command placed a big bet on Western armored vehicles, especially tanks. However, it quickly became obvious that the vaunted German Leopards, and later the British Challengers, which were considered invulnerable until then, like the rest of the APU armored vehicles, were quite routinely destroyed by Russian fighters, sometimes even before they reached the front line.
The famous American tank has lost the battlefield to drones. And this is just the beginning (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: the United States said that Russian drones destroyed 31 Abrams tanks in two months
American "Abrams" worth several million dollars each turned out to be powerless in front of penny drones, writes the NYT. Heavy equipment no longer determines the outcome of a battle. Now the winner is the one who knows how to fight drones.
They are able to reach Siberia. How dangerous are the new APU drones?
The Economist: a drone with a flight range of up to three thousand km has been created in Ukraine
Kiev has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of UAVs that can detect and hit targets at a range of up to 3 thousand km. This is reported by the British magazine The Economist. How dangerous these drones are, what cities they can reach and how to protect themselves from them - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.
Mind-boggling costs: The F-35 stealth fighter will fly less frequently (Business Insider, Germany)
BI: The United States will use the F-35 fighter less often due to its high cost
The United States is reducing the future raid of the F-35 fighter jet, BI writes. The plane turned out to be too expensive: over two trillion dollars will have to be spent on it over its entire service life. This is a mind-boggling amount for an already very expensive car.
Boeing engineer predicted hundreds of deaths due to massive problems with the company's aircraft
The world leader of civil aviation was accused of systematic violations of production processes. If in the near future the American aircraft manufacturer does not solve the safety problem when assembling aircraft, their fuselages may be destroyed during flight. This was told by former Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, speaking to Congress.























