The Western-made tanks that arrived in Ukraine will be equipped with dynamic protection complexes of the Ukrainian production "Knife", the installation of the Russian Contact-1 system is a "temporary solution".

According to the head of the German Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius, the alliance countries planned to send two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks and four Leopard battalions to Kiev

NATO countries have planned to send two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks and four Leopard battalions to Ukraine; it is unlikely that more can be delivered, since the allies have limited resources. This was stated by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in an interview published on Saturday in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, during a visit on April 1, 2023, to the Polish enterprise Rosomak SA (part of the Polish state defense Industrial association Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA) in Siemianowice-Slensk (Silesian Voivodeship), said that a contract had been signed the day before for the supply of 100 Rosomak (8x8) wheeled armored personnel carriers to Ukraine the production of this plant. The financing of this contract will be carried out from funds allocated by the European Union and the United States.

The United States delivered the first Stryker armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the head of the defense Ukrainian military department, Alexey Reznikov, has already "run-in" American armored vehicles and was very pleased.

In Ukraine, American M58 MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge) remote mine clearance systems have been noticed, which are actually an analogue of the Soviet UR-77 Meteorite system. A video with the use of this system by the Ukrainian military appeared the day before on Ukrainian and Russian resources.

As a result of mass supplies of Western military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the arsenal of the Ukrainian army steadily expanded after the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Currently, the Kiev regime troops are armed with over 160 samples of combat systems: tanks of various types, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, anti-tank complexes.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) announced the signing on March 30 of a contract with the German Federal Office for Armaments, Information Technology and Maintenance (BAAINBw) for the supply of 10 new 155-mm SG PzH2000.

The UK has conducted two-week tests of the effectiveness of heavy land transport robots, that is, unmanned vehicles that are designed to perform various tasks on the battlefield. This is reported in a special statement on the website of the Government of the United Kingdom.

On March 27, 2023, the Finnish arms company Sako Oy (part of the Beretta Holding Group) announced that it had signed a framework agreement with the armed forces of Finland and Sweden on the joint production of new-generation small arms at the Sako plant in Riihimaki. This agreement includes automatic rifles and automatic carbines for NATO cartridges of 5.56 x 45 mm and 7.62 x 51 mm and sniper rifles for cartridges of 7.62 x 51 mm and .338 Lapua Magnum (8.6 mm).

Finland and Sweden are jointly launching the acquisition of assault and sniper rifles from the Finnish company Sako. As reported by Janes.com On March 27, the Swedish Armed Forces Material Support Agency (FMV) and the Logistics Department of the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) signed a framework agreement on joint purchases of small arms manufactured by Sako at the Riihimaki plant.

Singapore Defense Industry Company Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. On March 27, 2023, ST Engineering announced that its shipbuilding division ST Engineering Marine had received a contract from the Ministry of National Defense of Singapore for the technical design and construction of six promising large multipurpose ships (frigates) for the Singapore Navy under the Multi-Role Combat Vessel (MRCV) program. The commissioning of the lead ship is scheduled for 2028.

On March 29, the official ceremony of launching the lead of 12 minesweepers ordered as part of a project jointly implemented by the Ministry of Defense of Belgium and the Netherlands took place at the shipyard in Concarneau.

A crucial stage in the development of a multifunctional weapon system for the US Navy

The creation of the Aegis multifunctional weapon system has become a landmark event in the history of the American Navy and has significantly increased their capabilities for the combat use of various types of naval weapons, but primarily anti–aircraft and anti-missile.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree on the conscription of Russian citizens for military service in April-July 2023 and on the dismissal from military service of citizens undergoing military service on conscription.

In conversations about the collapse of the old, unipolar model of the world and the construction of a new, multipolar version of the world order, the theme of the NATO bloc as the main tool for protecting the "world order" going down in history is invariably present. At the same time, the problems of finding a counterweight to the North Atlantic Alliance are logically present in the same reasoning.

During the recent visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow, the Russian and Chinese leaders discussed issues of cooperation in various fields, including the military.

Military political analyst Perendzhiev ruled out the participation of the Chinese army in the conflict in Ukraine

The Chinese army will never take part in the conflict in Ukraine, but its interaction with the Russian army is possible in the issue of protecting the Arctic borders and ensuring the security of the Northern Sea Route.

The authors of the document demand that Russia "immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all its forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders"

Armenia, India and Mexico refused to support the paragraph of the final declaration of the second "Summit for Democracy" concerning Ukraine. This is evidenced by the text of this document with explanations, distributed on Wednesday by the press service of the US State Department.

Pronews: The AFU Communications Center with NATO officers was destroyed in a Dagger strike in Ukraine

Hypersonic missile "Dagger" destroyed the joint headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO on the territory of Ukraine, the Greek portal Pronews reported. The number of deaths during the March 9 strike on the underground control center, located at a depth of 130 meters, is not called, but more than 300 people worked there. The region in which the headquarters was located is also not specified, but Reuters wrote on February 19 that NATO had moved the Ukrainian command from Kiev to Lviv and Brussels. For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".

According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the Ukrainian leaders themselves declare that if there is no continuation of the supply of increasingly offensive weapons to Ukraine, they will lose

Western countries are directly involved in the war against Russia. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina .