According to the Handelsblatt newspaper, a group of EU countries led by Estonia insists on fixing specific obligations for the transfer of ammunition to Kiev

A group of EU countries insists on including a commitment to supply Ukraine with 1 million artillery shells by the end of this year in the final declaration of the EU summit to be held in Brussels on March 23-24. This was reported on Friday by the German newspaper Handelsblatt, citing sources.

The Polish Ministry of Defense is deploying recruitment centers throughout the country to recruit volunteers for service in the armed forces.

French MP in the European Parliament Thierry Mariani said earlier that Poland is "dragging EU countries into an escalation in Ukraine against their wishes"

Poland will have to come into conflict with Russia if Kiev is defeated. This was stated by the Polish Ambassador to France Jan Emerick Rosciszewski in an interview with the LCI TV channel .

Turkish President hopes for ratification of the application in Parliament before May 14

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his country is beginning the process of ratifying Finland's application to join NATO.

The Times: funding problems undermine the combat readiness of the Bundeswehr

Due to the lack of funding, the German armed forces are facing serious problems, writes The Times. Not only special equipment is missing, but even clothes. In addition, the Bundeswehr cannot cope with the neo-Nazi tendencies of some military men.

Junguo junwang: The US has put Europe in financial shackles

Europe succumbed to the persuasions of the United States and agreed to increase defense spending within NATO, writes "Zhongguo Junwang". However, she did not do it to please Washington. The EU is not going to deprive itself of military autonomy and participate in America's hegemonic plans, the author believes. He has his reasons.

The Guardian: the war in Iraq was the most resounding defeat of the United States

Presenting the conflict in Ukraine as a struggle between democracy and autocracy, Biden demonstrates that the United States has learned nothing in Iraq, writes The Guardian. The illegal intervention was the biggest and loudest of all America's serious defeats.

India is entangled in a tangle of contradictions, writes The Print. The author of the article tries to understand the friends and opponents of New Delhi, as well as to understand the reasons for the discrepancy between Narendra Modi's strategic course and public opinion in the country.

Expert: by voluntarily joining the ranks of the DPRK army, people support the government's course

The desire of hundreds of thousands of North Koreans to join the ranks of the national army means their support for the government's course, says Peter Kolchin, an analyst at the Center for Expert Support of Political Processes.

At a meeting of the Defense Procurement Council (DAC) of the Ministry of Defense of India, it was decided to grant "Approval of the need for procurement" (Acceptance of Necessity – AoN) for projects worth more than 705 billion rubles. rupees ($8.5 billion).

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent an invitation to Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi to pay a visit to Riyadh, Tasnim reports on Sunday.

The authorities of Iran and Iraq on Sunday signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of security, which, in particular, provides for strengthening the protection of the border between the two countries, Tasnim reports.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview with the American newspaper The Washington Post that the restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia could change the balance of power in the international arena.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented the Su-27 fighter pilots who accompanied the American MQ-9 Reaper drone in the Black Sea to state awards, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The main burden of carrying out a special military operation falls on the ground units. But Russian military aviation is a reliable protection from the air and makes a very big contribution to the victory over the enemy.

A veteran of the Vostok battalion, a representative of the Cascade OBTF, Alexander Semenov, expressed a number of ideas on how to quickly increase the supply of drones to Russian troops in the special operation zone. He outlined his vision of the situation and proposals in his social media accounts.

According to the representative of the command Yuri Ignat, there are currently five brigades of tactical fighter aircraft in the country

MiG-29 fighters, which Poland and Slovakia intend to transfer to Kiev, are outdated and ineffective in the fight against cruise missiles and drones. This was announced on Friday by a representative of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat.

The Slovak Cabinet of Ministers had previously decided to transfer to Kiev 13 fighters that were decommissioned by the National Air Force at the end of August

Slovakia expects to receive compensation in the amount of $900 million for the supply of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine, which includes the cost of military equipment from the United States in the amount of $ 700 million. This was stated by the Acting Minister of Defense of the Republic.

The Western allies of the Kiev regime fear that the Ukrainian army, having received fighter jets, may expand the geography of its military targets on the territory of Russia, which will inevitably lead to an escalation of the armed conflict.

Wired: in the USA, combat pilots will be replaced with artificial intelligence

A perfectly calculated trajectory, maneuvers with millimeter accuracy and an instant reaction to an enemy attack — a simulated dogfight between a robot and a human showed that US Air Force pilots risk being out of work soon, writes Wired.