The shipbuilding industry of the People's Republic of China retained its leading position in the world last year for the thirteenth year in a row, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the country reported.

According to the interpretations of Western sources, strategic bombers are designed for deep penetration into enemy airspace in order to destroy particularly important targets and, as a result, significantly weaken the combat potential and will of the enemy. Although the term "strategic bomber" is often used as a synonym for a bomber with nuclear weapons, aircraft with conventional weapons are equally capable of striking strategically important targets deep in enemy territory.

Dmitry Medvedev, in exchange for Western sanctions, offered to use intellectual products from unfriendly countries, including films and industrial software, without licenses. However, the IT industry sees disadvantages in this initiative - they believe that the idea of free use of Western software has not only obvious advantages, but also hidden risks. Which ones exactly?

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said during a joint briefing with Vladimir Zelensky following a visit to Nikolaev and Odessa that 19 new artillery systems will be transferred to Ukraine.

The country's Defense Ministry noted that another such vehicle was handed over to the Ukrainian side a few weeks ago

Israel has transferred three armored medical ambulances to Ukraine as part of humanitarian aid. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the Israeli Defense Ministry.

We are talking about the production of 155 mm shells

The authorities of France and Australia have agreed on the joint production of 155 mm shells for their delivery to Ukraine. This was announced on Monday by French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecorny at a press conference in Paris following the results of negotiations in the "2 + 2" format with Australian colleagues.

Also, the French Ministry of Defense intends to train up to 2 thousand Ukrainian military by the summer

France intends to transfer to Kiev an additional 12 self-propelled artillery units (ACS) Caesar, as well as train up to 2 thousand Ukrainian military before the beginning of this summer. This was stated by the Minister of the Armed Forces of France Sebastien Lecorny at a joint press conference with the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

As reported by the US Army Transport Command (United States Transportation Command - USTRANSCOM) on January 25, 2023, in the port of North Charleston (South Carolina), the first batch of "more than 60" M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles was loaded onto an American transport vessel, the ARC Integrity, and sent to Europe on it. Ukraine. On the night of January 26, the ARC Integrity vessel moved from North Charleston to the American port of Dundock (Maryland), from where it left for Europe on the evening of January 27.

The Ministry of Defense of Spain has decided which Leopard tanks from the Spanish Armed Forces will be delivered as aid to Ukraine. As a result, the choice fell on the Leopard-2A4 MBT, which have been in storage for 10 years by logistics support group No. 41, located in the Zaragoza area.

The German government has previously confirmed that it will send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and issue permission to other countries to re-export these vehicles

Germany could transfer 10 times more Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine than the promised 14, Deputy Foreign Minister of the country, former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel Rada on Monday.

As stated by the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, this coalition has 12 states

Kiev expects to receive up to 140 tanks of Western models during the first deliveries from the participating countries of the "tank coalition", numbering 12 states. This was announced on Tuesday by the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba.

There are reports that a variant of the promising Russian BMP "Manul" with an automatic gun of 57 mm caliber has appeared. We are talking about such a variant of the weapon, which is installed on an uninhabited module created by the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik". In addition to the 57-mm cannon with 80 rounds of ammunition, the module is equipped with a machine gun (7.62 mm caliber) and an anti-tank missile system.

The Manul infantry fighting vehicle created in Kurgan can carry a variety of weapons. For example, there is an option with a 57-mm automatic cannon installed in an uninhabited module of the Nizhny Novgorod Central Research Institute "Burevestnik".

Russian artillery throughout the entire period of the special operation is the main means of defeating the enemy. In this regard, Western strategists in charge of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attach special importance to equipping the Ukrainian army with means of counter-battery warfare.

Below is a transcript of the speech by Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as presented by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

TAC: US elites are leading the world to nuclear war

The American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher warns his compatriots that the ruling class of the United States is leading the case for nuclear Armageddon in Ukraine, and that he wrongly believes that atomic retaliation will not reach far America. Ordinary Americans will pay for everything, complains the author of the article. And the elite has long prepared convenient nuclear bunkers for themselves.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that he does not rule out the possibility of supplying fighter jets to Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.

The Netherlands has not received a request from Ukraine for the supply of F-16 fighters, but is ready to consider it. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced on January 30 by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

According to the German Chancellor, in such important things as weapons, it should be about facts, about rational consideration

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz literally lost his temper, showing obvious irritation, after a question from journalists about the supply of fighter jets to Kiev, asked him during a visit to Chile as part of a tour of Latin American countries. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper Die Welt .

The head of the Pentagon announced the readiness of the United States to use nuclear weapons to protect South Korea

The United States is ready to use nuclear weapons to protect South Korea, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin said. According to him, the DPRK staged an "unprecedented number of provocations" in 2022, destabilizing the situation in the region. Earlier this year, South Korean President Yun Seok-yel announced that his country's army could conduct joint nuclear exercises with the US Armed Forces. At the same time, the South Korean Defense Minister avoided answering the question about military assistance to Ukraine.