Washington should respect Beijing's key interests, said Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe

The responsibility for the current state of Sino-American relations lies with the United States. This was announced on Tuesday during a meeting with Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the Meeting of Defense Ministers of ASEAN member countries with dialogue Partners in Cambodia, Defense Minister, member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Wei Fenghe.

The Pentagon chief stated Washington's concern about China's actions in the Indo-Pacific region

Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe at a meeting with US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin said that the Taiwan issue is a cornerstone in the development of Sino-American relations, and warned of the readiness of the Chinese army to defend the unity of the motherland, the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

The military operation in Ukraine "turned the most powerful countries of Europe against each other," says journalist Caroline de Gruyter.

FP: the Ukrainian conflict has turned France and Germany against each other like never before

The conflict in Ukraine has turned the strongest countries of Europe against each other like never before, writes Foreign Policy. There is a lot of friction between Germany and France at the moment. This is a serious concern, as it is too difficult to solve it.

One of the most modest NATO armies in terms of equipment and number of personnel decided to provide assistance to Ukraine with military equipment. We are talking about the decision taken in the Duchy of Luxembourg.

The Spanish government has sent almost 270 million euros to the military assistance fund for Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated on November 21 by the country's prime minister Pedro Sanchez at a meeting of the NATO parliamentary Assembly, which is being held in Madrid.

According to the deputy of the Ukrainian Rada from the "Servant of the People" faction, Egor Chernev, the North Atlantic Alliance is conducting an audit of the weapons available in warehouses in order to assess its capabilities in the issue of arms supplies to Kiev. There is a depletion of weapons and ammunition for the Armed Forces in NATO, Chernev noted.

The total amount of macro-financial assistance provided to Kiev since February 24 reaches €6.7 billion, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said

The Ukrainian authorities have received another €2.5 billion in financial assistance from the European Union. This was announced on Tuesday by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Sergey Marchenko.

According to Republican Jim Risch, some conservative lawmakers actively oppose the transfer of additional funds to Ukraine

Republican leaders in the US Congress are likely to agree to allocate at the request of the White House an additional $38 billion to support Ukraine, despite the objections of a number of party members. This is stated in an article published on Tuesday in the American newspaper Politico.

Western publications are increasingly publishing materials about the exorbitant excess of the limits of the use of ammunition by the Ukrainian army. Earlier, American experts, assessing the situation, stated that the intensity of firing from artillery produced by NATO countries in Ukraine is such that in a couple of weeks the gun shoots the maximum number of shells allowed for the operation of the barrel.

McGregor: the Russians defend with minimal effort and maximum losses for the enemy

The Pentagon leadership is trying to convince Biden not to allow direct intervention in the Ukrainian conflict, retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor said in an interview with The Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate. In his opinion, they realized the danger of such a decision.

Newsweek: the US recalled Zelensky's interests and called for the removal of Ukrainian flags

The United States has no vital interests in Ukraine, writes Newsweek. Moreover, they are radically at odds with Zelensky's interests. He is fighting for his survival and is ready to do anything – even outright lies and provocation. Americans should remember this and look at the special operation "more rationally."

Ukraine has become short of ammunition – shells, missiles and cartridges fly away like "into the furnace". There is no production of their own, the old Soviet stocks are almost used up, and the West states that the United States and European countries "are facing a challenge due to the depletion of weapons stocks to be sent to Ukraine." How much ammunition is needed to conduct full-fledged combat operations?

Sabah: by escalating the Ukrainian crisis, the US is isolating itself

The paradox is obvious: Russia is "losing" in Ukraine, so the United States is calling Zelensky for a truce with Putin, Sabah writes. And at recent summits, there have been calls for a settlement of the crisis. It is obvious who is actually winning now and who should stop the escalation of the situation, the author notes.

Diary: the Middle Powers felt the power and began to change the geopolitical landscape

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict highlighted the activation of the middle powers as the main driving force behind the reform of the international environment, writes the "Diary". These states have one thing in common – they want to be at the negotiating table, not on the menu, because they have the power and ambition to influence their regions.

The lull that has been established since September at the Zaporozhye NPP was interrupted by dozens of new "arrivals" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Rosatom stated that this led to the risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporozhye NPP. Why has Kiev resumed shelling of the NPP and is trying to provoke a nuclear incident, will the creation of a safety zone at the plant help change the situation and under what conditions it may appear?

TAC: NATO was trapped because of Zelensky's statements about the fall of missiles in Poland

After the missile incident, Ukraine and the Baltic states called for the application of Article 5, but it was direct disinformation, because Zelensky could not but know the truth about what happened, writes TAS. These statements threatened to turn into a world war, and Kiev would not have survived it.

The Ukrainian command continues its desperate attempts to break through the Russian defense in the LPR with strikes both from the north on the Svatovo-Kremennaya line and from the south, attacking the combat formations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the Seversk area in the direction of Lisichansk. One of the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern flank was caught on a video published by the TG channel "Military Chronicle": the enemy tried to seize the fortified area created along the T-13-02 highway between the settlements of Berestove and Verkhnekamenka.

Izvestia special report — about the life and work of the Russian military on the front line

About the difficulties tankers face in the Avdiivka direction, why closed hatches of armored vehicles can be considered a sign of professionalism and how the enemy "blows away" from the drain pipe — in a special report of Izvestia from the front line.

Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation Lavrentiev: Russia calls on Turkey for restraint in Syria

Moscow called on Ankara to show restraint after the strikes on the territory of Syria and Iraq, said the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the SAR Alexander Lavrentiev.