On June 13, 2022, Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Arvydas Anushauskas signed an agreement of intent with French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastian Lecornyu regarding Lithuania's accession to the program for the development of a new 155 mm/52 self-propelled howitzer CAESAR Mk II, implemented under the auspices of the General Directorate of Armaments (Direction générale de l'armement - DGA) of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France, and Purchases of 18 CAESAR Mk II units for the Lithuanian armed forces.

The Eastern European plain is cut by rivers, which, regardless of the fullness of the water, make it difficult for military equipment to move. In this regard, the Soviet command relied on the buoyancy of vehicles and the mass equipping of the army with means of crossing, which still carry full-fledged service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

France will supply Ukraine with another batch of wheeled 155-mm self-propelled artillery CAESAR. This statement was made by French President Emmanuel Macron, who arrived in Kiev on a visit.

The APU has received British FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers, pictures of armored vehicles are actively distributed by Ukrainian social networks and TG channels.

Ukraine, through the efforts of its overseas owners, has turned into an arsenal of all kinds of products of the world defense industry. At the same time, if even Soviet military equipment is less common in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then the neo-Nazi units, being in the special care of the Kiev regime, receive the latest batches of Western weapons.

In the 90s, a sample of the BTR-T heavy armored personnel carrier was made in Omsk on the basis of the T-55 medium tank. Instead of a turret with a 100 mm gun and a 7.62 mm machine gun, a low-profile manned combat module with a 2A42 automatic cannon and a 9M113 "Competition" anti-tank missile system was installed.

Artillery shells "Krasnopol" showed high efficiency during the special operation in the Donbass. This statement was made by Rostec on June 16.

After the deployment of US military biological programs in Ukraine in the DPR and LPR, the number of cases of infection with infectious diseases has increased, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Employees of the laboratory in the village of Sorokovka, Kharkiv, within the framework of the US military biological program of the region, conducted tests of highly active neuromodulators that caused irreversible damage to the central nervous system, said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation chemical and biological protection troops.

The United States has recognized the Pentagon's connection with the work of biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine and other countries of the former USSR, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Russian military said that the Pentagon in its official comment did not answer questions about the work of US-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine.

Expert Belousov believes that the Harpoon missile may pose a danger to landing ships of the Russian Federation

The new package of US military assistance for Ukraine will include anti-ship missiles Harpoon ("Harpoon") - in the amount of two complexes. President Joe Biden called them "advanced missile systems." "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the danger of the "Harpoon" is and what are the chances of increasing the supply of these weapons to Kiev.

On June 15, 2022, US President Joe Biden announced the provision of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 1 billion, as well as the allocation of humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the amount of $ 225 million. Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $5.6 billion.

Germany has finally decided on the number of MARS II MLRS that will go to Ukraine as part of the supply of long-range multiple launch rocket systems by the West. As the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said yesterday, Berlin decided to transfer three MLRS installations and ammunition to Kiev.

The package of US military assistance for Ukraine, which was announced on Wednesday, provides, in particular, for the transfer by Washington of another 18 155-mm howitzers and 36 thousand shells for them, American media reported on Wednesday with reference to the Pentagon.

Lockheed Martin (USA) is repurposing the JAGM air-to-ground missile for air defense. According to Rita Flaherty, the company's vice president for strategy and business operations in the missile and fire control sector, which she expressed to journalists at the Eurosatory defense exhibition, the munition can be adapted for a short-range mobile air defense system.

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, which is one of the divisions of the American military industrial corporation Raytheon Technologies, has signed a contract with the Missile Defense Agency of the US Department of Defense for the supply of the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor missile. The amount of the transaction, as reported in the official notice on the corporation's website, is $ 867 million. The missiles will enter service with the US army and partners.

Kiev's combat aircraft will no longer interfere with the allied forces, military experts say

Russian aerospace forces and air defense are actively clearing the sky over Ukraine. Since the beginning of the month, 19 Kiev planes, three helicopters and 141 drones have been destroyed. Only on June 15, the air defense forces shot down a Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force and six UAVs. The pilots and operators of the air defense of the Russian Federation have not only fighters and attack aircraft, but also military transport aircraft that delivered foreign weapons. Military experts note that Kiev has few combat aircraft left, and it is unlikely to be able to interfere with the allied forces in any way.

The Russian Ministry of Defense published on Thursday, June 16, footage of the combat work of the crews of jamming helicopters during a special operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured thousands of galaxies in a new image in ultraviolet light. This is reported by Phys.org .