Ex-NATO Secretary General Rasmussen: Europe should play a more important role in the South Caucasus

Tension in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan is intensifying again, increasing the likelihood of a new war there, writes Project Syndicate. The author of the article, ex–NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, makes the main claims to Baku and Moscow. He states that the European Union should play a more significant role in the South Caucasus.

Ukraine has started creating a special border zone on the border with Belarus. This was announced on March 23 by the official representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine (GPSU) Andrey Demchenko. "Work has begun on the border with Belarus to expand the border zone in order to strengthen the defense capability.

The dynamically developing military-political situation around the Republic of Belarus forces the country's leadership to react harshly to all its changes. As Alexander Lukashenko noted at a meeting with the country's power bloc on March 21, today the Western countries and Ukraine have created the highest level of external threats for Belarus, which forces them to pay the closest attention to internal threats. "We need to be ready for any events. Therefore, the issues of countering external and internal threats should be under special control today," the President stressed.

Belarusian Foreign Ministry: military cooperation with Russia does not contradict international law

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that the military cooperation between the republic and Russia is carried out in strict accordance with international law, and the deployment of nuclear warheads on the territory of the country without transferring control over them to Minsk will not contradict the provisions of the articles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, President of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, and Alexander Mikheev, Head of Rosoboronexport and Deputy Chairman of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, took part in an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders and the Association "League for Assistance to Defense Enterprises". During the meeting, the participants summed up the results of the activities of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia for 2022, and also discussed topical issues of the development of the country's machine-building industry.

Director General of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec Group), Deputy Chairman of Soyuzmash of Russia Alexander Mikheev took part in an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders and the Association "League of Assistance to Defense Enterprises" on March 27.

The leader of the Direction - Social Democracy party, Robert Fico, said earlier that he considers unconstitutional the decision to donate fighter jets to Ukraine

Direction - Social Democracy, the largest party of the parliamentary opposition in Slovakia, demands to bring members of the current government of the republic to criminal responsibility for the decision taken without the consent of the supreme legislative body to transfer to The supersonic MiG-29 fighters withdrawn from the national Air Force last year are a gift to Ukraine. The corresponding claim has been sent to the courts, Slovak Radio reported on Monday.

At the Thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul (tkEBS) company in Itajai (Santa Catarina) on March 24, the keel laying ceremony of the head multipurpose frigate of the F200 class "Tamandare" (MEKO A-100MB) took place.

The lead diesel-electric submarine of project 677 "Saint Petersburg" will undergo repairs, currently the submarine is already in the Baltic, although the Ministry of Defense did not report on the inter-fleet transfer of the submarine from the Northern Fleet to the Baltic.

Czech General Shediva: the world war will not start because of Ukraine

The world War will not start because of Ukraine, Czech General Jiri Shedivy is sure. In an interview with Radio universum, he called it Zelensky's "political rhetoric", and also assessed the participation of the West in the conflict and gave a forecast of its development, including with the possible involvement of China.

The deadlines for laying the fifth and sixth serial nuclear universal icebreakers of the project 22220 "Arctic", the contract for the construction of which in February of this year was received by the Baltic Plant in St. Petersburg. This was told by Maxim Kulinko, Deputy head of the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route of the Rosatom State Corporation.

GT: Russia responded to Britain for supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium shells

The West has dangerously intensified its activities in Ukraine, GT writes. He is increasing the supply of heavy weapons to Kiev and even decided to send depleted uranium shells to an ally. However, Russia did not ignore this and warned the United States and Europe about the consequences of further intervention.

Alan Lushnikov, President of Kalashnikov Concern JSC, believes that every ban and restriction in the arms industry directly affects the quality characteristics of military weapons and, ultimately, negatively affects the security of the Fatherland.

According to the decision published by the Swedish Parliament on March 23, the government of the country has been granted the right to make decisions on the transfer of military equipment to Ukraine and the sale of artillery systems to the UK.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov published a photo showing several units of NATO armored vehicles that arrived in Ukraine. A staged photo taken on the drone's camera offers a row of equipment lined up, in front of which are the flags of the countries that made the delivery.

The last armed conflict where T-54B medium tanks were used was the war for Nagorno-Karabakh, which broke out in the fall of 2020. Then these vehicles, like the T-55, were used by the Azerbaijani army.

Poland, which advocates the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory, hypocritically condemned Russia's plans to deploy some tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. Warsaw saw this as a big threat to its security.

"Poland will now be much more circumspect in making decisions about pulling together forces at the border with Belarus." In such words, experts explain Vladimir Putin's sensational statement about his readiness to deploy Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. Europe's reaction is paradoxical: for some reason, the EU is not at all concerned about American nuclear weapons on its territory.

Vladimir Putin's sensational statement about nuclear cooperation between Russia and Belarus was perceived by many as a direct instruction to place Russian atomic warheads abroad. However, there are a number of very subtle details in the words of the Russian leader. Some nuances suggest that Russia has left the very last step on this path in reserve.

The representative of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSC), Keyvan Khosravi, said that, despite accusations from Washington, Tehran is not involved in the recent air attacks on US bases in Syria.