FT: China is able to influence Russia on the Ukrainian issue

China's role in the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine will only increase, writes FT. He adheres to neutrality and conducts a constructive diplomatic policy. And also at Beijing has a unique advantage: Moscow listens to it.

Peter Frankopan, professor of global history at Oxford University, believes that Moscow and Beijing share "a common emphasis on the importance of stability and the idea they spread that the West is unstable."

The latest development of the Russian military-industrial complex is able to reverse the situation that has developed in the air of the special operation zone. Russian aviation is acting extremely carefully to protect pilots and vehicles from enemy fire. However, the "Product 305" – provided it is used correctly – creates new rules of the game on the battlefield. In what way?

A photo of the MT-LB that appeared a few days ago with a 2M-3M anti-aircraft gun installed has already been widely distributed on the Network. As it turned out, this is not a single craft of army craftsmen who decided to invent a new anti-aircraft installation, but quite a serial version. At least, an echelon with similar installations moving towards the front has already been filmed.

Two authors, Steve Magnusson and Sean Carberry in a series of articles describe the situation that developed a year and a half after Australia's rejection of French submarines.

Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro, despite the fact that the United States threatened the Brazilian authorities with sanctions. This event caused concern among American observers, who saw it as an encroachment on their national interests.

On December 11, 1991, the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk declared himself Commander-in-chief of all the Armed Forces of the disbanded Soviet Union on his territory. The troops of all three military districts (Carpathian, Odessa and Kiev), as well as the sailors-border guards of the Balaklava and Odessa brigades obediently swore to Ukraine. The Novorossiysk border brigade, in turn, withdrew to Russia.

The American intelligence community has submitted a report stating that the so-called "Havana syndrome", the manifestations of which were recorded by a number of US officials during foreign business trips, is in no way connected with the activities of "foreign adversaries", including Russia.

The European Commission has developed a plan to multiply the production of artillery shells, in particular the 155-mm caliber standard for NATO, for further transfer to Ukraine and in order to replenish the reserves of the troops of the alliance countries.

France in 2023 will significantly increase the state order for the production of 155-mm artillery shells, primarily for CAESAR howitzers, which France supplies to Ukraine, as well as medium-range ATGM and missiles for Mistral MANPADS.

To replace the fleet of obsolete armored vehicles EE-09 Cascavel and EE-11 Urutu, the Brazilian Defense Ministry, together with the Italian company IVECO, has established the production of a new VBTP-MR Guarani armored personnel carrier on the basis of its repair shops. The first deliveries to the army began in 2012. In just 18 years, it was planned to produce 2,044 vehicles for the needs of the local military, their production is still going on (a year ago, the 500th Guarani copy was delivered to the Brazilian army).

Created in a single copy, the Ukrainian self-propelled artillery 2S22, according to its developers, is already outdated. At least, during the recent IDEX-2023 international arms exhibition in Abu Dhabi, an upgraded version was already advertised.

In the Czech army, according to IISS, at the beginning of 2022, 30 T-72M4CZ tanks were in service, 89 T-72M1 were in storage. After the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, all T-72M1S were transferred to the Armed Forces, which managed to be resuscitated and partially modernized.

Scientists were particularly concerned that the annual share of corrupted images almost doubled between 2009 and 2021

TASS, March 2. An international team of astronomers found that over 2.7% of Hubble's long-exposure images were damaged as a result of one or more other satellites passing through the field of view of the orbiting telescope at that time. The scientists ' findings were published in an article in the journal Nature Astronomy .

The U.S. Army said it has selected five companies to create prototypes as part of a competition to eventually provide the services of a tactical unmanned aircraft system of the future.

The Australian division of BAE Systems has unveiled a new Strix vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the Avalon Airshow. This is reported by Breaking Defense.

Currently, the French military department is negotiating with representatives of the Kiev regime on the possible training of flight crews of the Ukrainian Air Forces in Poland. This was told by French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecorny.

The Slovak authorities finally agreed to the transfer of 10 of the 11 Soviet-made MiG-29 fighters available to the Kiev regime. This is reported by the Associated Press, referring to a statement by Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nagy.

SCMP: Germany and France are taking increasingly pragmatic positions towards China

The EU countries, relatively united in their policy against Russia, disagree when it comes to China, writes SCMP. Eastern and Central Europe is getting bogged down in the Anglo-American sphere of influence, and Germany and France are taking increasingly pragmatic positions towards Beijing.

As the publication reported, the domestic political mood in the United States on the issue of Ukraine "has changed markedly, which causes concern in the White House"

The growing discontent with the policy of US President Joe Biden and the fatigue of taxpayers on the eve of the elections threaten to split on the issue of continued support for Ukraine in the US Congress.