The Government of Zimbabwe has accepted a new aircraft for the transportation of VIPs and a batch of Russian Ansat helicopters.

As already reported, the Russian Helicopters holding Company of Rostec State Corporation handed over a batch of 18 Ansats to the Republic of Zimbabwe. Below is the material on this topic from the press service of Rostec Group.

The US stated that in the coming months it will determine with the allies the timing of the transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine

The United States will discuss with its allies in the coming months which countries and when they will deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, said Assistant to the US President for National Security Jake Sullivan. According to the American authorities, "right now the time has not yet come for F-16s on the battlefield," but they will be needed in the future. The Washington Post newspaper notes that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was the "main force" in the White House seeking the transfer of tanks and F-16s to Ukraine.

As the Acting Minister of Defense of Denmark Troels Lund Poulsen stated, by July 1, Copenhagen would like "to have a concrete project that could be proposed to the Ukrainian government"

Acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen expects that other countries will join the training of Ukrainian pilots for F-16 fighters, in addition to his country, Belgium, Great Britain and the Netherlands. He said this on Monday at a meeting with his colleagues in Warsaw.

As Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani noted, Rome is working on making a "common decision with the allies" on this topic

Italy does not have F-16 fighters, so it cannot provide them to Ukraine. However, Rome is working on making a "common decision with its allies" on this topic, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday.

Tobias Billstrom believes that countries that have military equipment ready for delivery to Kiev should state this

Deliveries of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine will not lead to an escalation of the conflict. This opinion was expressed to journalists on Monday by Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom upon arrival at a meeting with colleagues in Brussels, answering a question about the possibility of further strengthening the confrontation between the parties after sending Kiev new weapons systems, in particular the F-16.

Pilots from Ukraine will soon begin training in the management of F-16 fighter jets, Dutch Foreign Minister Vopke Hoekstra said on May 22 during a meeting of the Council of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels.

US President Biden announced Zelensky's promise not to use the F-16 on targets in Russia

Following the G7 summit, Joe Biden said that Vladimir Zelensky promised him not to use F-16 fighter jets against targets in Russia. According to Biden, the fighters will not be needed by the AFU during the counteroffensive - but they will help in the long term. Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan added that the guarantees do not apply to Crimea.

According to the head of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Juan Gomes Carvinho, Portugal needs combat aircraft at its disposal

The Portuguese authorities cannot currently transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine, since the combat aircraft available to the republic are needed by it itself. This was stated to journalists on Monday by the head of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry, Joao Gomes Carvinho.

The head of the Foreign Policy Service of the community welcomed the decision of the Group of Seven to prepare for the dispatch of fighters to Kiev

The European Union welcomes the decision of the Group of Seven to prepare to send F-16 fighters to Ukraine and expects that "it will be able to deliver them soon." This was stated on Monday by the head of the foreign policy service of the community, Josep Borrel, upon arrival at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU countries.

Launches of anti-aircraft guided missiles by the Ukrainian Patriot air defense system could be carried out by diverting interference

Patriot anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) lost all 32 missiles while trying to shoot down the Russian hypersonic missile "Dagger". In this tone, Military Watch Magazine (MWM) writes about it. Why the SAM began to fire at false air objects one by one, having spent all the missiles, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The fighters of the Russian army have created a fire support vehicle with high firepower. Photos of a tank tractor armed with an infernal thresher - a 57-mm rapid-firing AZP-57 anti-aircraft artillery complex S-60 - appeared recently on social networks.

At the first stage, the Spanish Defense Ministry plans to purchase up to 258 EIMOS mortars from the Spanish company Expal for the Armed Forces of the country in the amount of 125 million euros.

The world press is immersed in the investigation of an almost detective story – the sudden appearance of a giant fleet of tankers, one of the largest in the world. This fleet turned out to belong to a little-known Indian company, and it eventually changed the entire logistics of oil flows on our planet. How is what is happening related to Western sanctions against Russia?

May 21 marks the day of the Pacific Fleet

292 years ago, during the reign of Empress Anna Ioannovna, the Senate established the Okhotsk Military Port - the first permanent naval unit of Russia in the Far East. This was the first stage of the emergence of naval forces in the region, which later became the Pacific Fleet. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok talks about the current state of the TOP.

As reported, on May 20, 2023, the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank Podolsk of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with the alleged factory number 058 (tail number "458"), which is under construction, was launched at PJSC Shipbuilding Firm Almaz in St. Petersburg, traditionally without much publicity. for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. This is the ninth ship of the 22120 project, and neither the order of this unit nor the start of its construction was previously publicly reported.

Daily Mail: Russian Navy strike on underwater cables will undermine UK infrastructure

Russian submarines can cause a disaster in the UK by hitting underwater Internet cables and pipelines in the North Sea, writes the Daily Mail. Such an attack would undermine the country's economy and negatively affect the lives of every Briton.

According to the head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis Alexander Mikhailov, Minsk has further cemented itself with military-technical ties with Moscow

The MILEX-2023 international arms exhibition held in Minsk has become a significant contribution to the integration of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus into a single alliance as opposed to NATO. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis Alexander Mikhailov at the end of the event.

New samples of Belarusian military equipment are presented at the XI International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment "MILEX-2023". Below is information about some of them in the presentation of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

From May 17 to May 20, the attention of military and political leaders of many countries of the world, military experts, analysts, military engineers and ordinary citizens is focused on the International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2023.