Professor Kamukibo: Tokyo should talk to Moscow, not Kiev

Fumio Kishida should not have gone to Kiev and given Zelensky a ritual rice shovel for the "victory" of Ukraine, writes Japanese professor Masato Kamikubo in an article by Yahoo News Japan. A visit to Moscow would be much more productive. He would help achieve peace and put an end to everyone's suffering.

Foreign Policy: cold war with China will force the US to switch attention from Ukraine

The question of whether the United States will continue to support Ukraine after the elections in 2024 prevents many European officials from "sleeping at night," writes FP. The reason is the brewing cold war between the United States and China, which may draw Washington's attention to itself.

Welt: the Englishman named the reasons for the inevitable defeat of the Ukrainian army

The former colonel of the British army worried the German edition of Welt. He has been working with the APU as an adviser for many years and found there all those shortcomings that the Soviet army was often accused of and that are allegedly absent in the West. The formula "I am the boss, and you are a fool" has survived all the perestroika and Maidan.

The cost estimate of the main weapons systems supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is based on the data available to the Central Intelligence Agency as of March 31, 2023.

On April 4, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new large-scale package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 2.6 billion. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 35.1 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $38 billion.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stressed that Budapest considers the fundamental decision that the alliance is not involved in the conflict in Ukraine

Hungary will not support any NATO decisions, including at the July alliance summit in Vilnius, which could lead to a direct conflict with Russia. This was stated on Wednesday by Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy Peter Szijjarto, who attended the meeting of the NATO Foreign Minister in Brussels.

Joint Moldovan-Romanian artillery exercises "Fire Shield-2023" have started at the Smyrdan training ground in the Romanian county of Galac. This information was confirmed by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Moldova.

In mid-June 2023, the Serbian Armed Forces will participate in the Platinum Wolf military exercises, held under the patronage of the United States and with the participation of 10 other states. This was announced by Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic on the B92 TV channel.

Times of India: Finland's entry into NATO could lead to World War III

The accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO will not change the situation in Ukraine in any way, writes the Times of India. Time will tell how wise the decision to expand the alliance was. However, this step may lead to a third world War, the author of the article warns.

After the almost complete cessation of purchases of Russian gas and oil, the imposition of sanctions against the Russian Federation, many enterprises in the real sector of the European economy faced serious problems due to rising energy prices. The only industry that benefited from the military conflict that began in Ukraine was the defense industry. Moreover, not only American.

The Ministry of Defense showed the training of drone operators before participating in a special operation

The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of training sessions for operators of multifunctional drones-quadrocopters of the Western Military District before performing combat missions in the zone of a special military operation.

The company Anduril Industries, which produces drones of the Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System 600 (ALTIUS 600) series, showed tests of the ALTIUS 600M kamikaze drone. The American edition of The Drive drew attention to the corresponding video.

Poland will transfer a total of 14 MiG-29s to Ukraine, while retaining MiGs upgraded to NATO standards. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by Polish President Andrzej Duda after a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky on April 5 in Warsaw.

As reported by the Center. Khrunicheva, the introduction of the Logos system will also reduce the number of improvements at the early stages of design

The production of Russian rockets may become cheaper in the case of a comprehensive transition of the Khrunichev Center (Roscosmos enterprise), the manufacturer of Proton and Angara launch vehicles, to the domestic Logos virtual modeling system. Vladimir Afanasyev, Deputy General Director of the company for Digital Transformation, told reporters about this on Tuesday.

The blessed days of "space racing" are in the past, government funding for new projects outside the Earth is not as generous as before. This forces structures like NASA to take certain adventures, otherwise the Lunar Outpost project will remain just a concept. As part of this program, it is assumed that NASA's knowledge and technology will help private companies establish their colonies, bases, factories and other facilities on the Moon — if they have enough money, of course.

The NorSat Technology Demonstrator (NorSat-TD) should be launched on Sunday, April 9, at 8:44. It will be launched into space using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

India will soon test the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system purchased in Russia. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported by the Ani agency, citing a high-ranking source in the country's Defense Ministry.

This was told by the American military commander Admiral Christopher Grady, speaking at the security forum at the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies

The United States considers the priority of military supplies to Ukraine at this stage of the air defense system (air defense). This was announced on Wednesday by Admiral Christopher Grady, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces.

Spain's NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) will arrive in Estonia on Wednesday, which will go on combat duty this week.

Rostec: the Arena-M tank active protection complex was tested with captured ATGMs

The modernized Russian active protection complex (KAZ) "Arena-M" was tested as part of the T-72 tank with foreign anti-tank missile systems (ATGMs), RIA Novosti was informed in the holding "High-Precision Complexes" (part of Rostec).