Professor of the University named after Deakin Scott Burchill noted that the United States has been pushing NATO to the Russian border for decades, despite assurances to the contrary

The actions of the United States, which interfered in the sovereign affairs of Kiev and set it up against Moscow, became the same cause of the conflict as the presence of outspoken Russophobes in the administration of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

The West has dramatically increased the volume of military assistance to Ukraine, preparing the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the spring counteroffensive. Over the past three months, Kiev has received 40% of all military aid received in the country since February last year. The Economist writes about this.

The head of European diplomacy also believes that the EU should allocate €2 billion for the purchase and supply of shells

The EU military mission will train over 11 thousand Ukrainian servicemen by the end of this month and another 30 thousand by the end of the year. This was stated on Wednesday by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel at a press conference in Stockholm following an informal meeting of defense ministers of the member states of the community.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic emotionally denied reports that the Serbian military-industrial complex supplies Ukraine with missiles through Turkey. The Serbian leader called those who spread such fakes liars. But is it possible to trust him in the current circumstances, given that the US and the EU pressed Belgrade on the Russian issue, and then suddenly stopped?

Although Seoul does not officially supply South Korean-made weapons to Kiev, the products of the defense industry of this country still fall to the Ukrainian military. In particular, it arrives there through Poland.

A new naval base of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, Camp Viking ("Viking Camp"), is opening in the north of Norway. This is reported in a press release of the Royal Navy.

The US administration on Thursday will present a draft military budget for fiscal year 2024, which could become one of the largest in the country's history in peacetime, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

The American Conservative reporter Bradley Devlin recalled that Washington handed over 160 155 mm howitzers and more than 1 million artillery shells to Kiev

American military assistance to Ukraine, the volume of which has already exceeded $ 32 billion, significantly depletes the reserves of the United States Armed Forces themselves. Bradley Devlin, a reporter for the publication, came to this conclusion in an article published on Tuesday in The American Conservative magazine.

The American online publication Politico in the article by Lara Seligman "U.S. military eyes mounting Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs" ("The US military plans to install Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs") reports that the US is considering the possibility of arming MiG-29 fighters and the Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force with modern AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles of medium and long range with active radar homing.

The United States plans to take 200 sixth-generation stealth fighters into the air force, created as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance program (NGAD), Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, according to the American military publication The War Zone.

Sergey Ponomarev, Executive director and chairman of the organizing committee of the SIRIUS project, told RIA Novosti correspondent Pavel Zyuzin about the criteria for selecting candidates, what tasks the crew will face, and how the data obtained will be useful in future space flights.

The findings of an independent commission investigating the causes of the accident of the Vega C light European rocket cast a shadow on the reputation of Ukrainian cosmonautics. This is reported on the website of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SCAU).

The representative of the department did not name the exact dates

The US military cannot yet name the exact date of dispatch of the first Patriot air defense battery, which the US promised to provide to Ukraine, but the system may appear in this country in the near future. This was announced on Wednesday by the Assistant Minister of the Army (Ground Forces) U.S. Procurement, Logistics and Technology Douglas Bush during an online conference organized by Defense News weekly.

The United States is returning to operation a floating radar complex – the SBX-1 Sea-Based X-band radar (Sea-Based X-band radar), which has completed maintenance in Hawaii. According to Navy Recognition, in the near future the complex will return to performing its intended tasks.

It is noted that there are some technical difficulties in the integration of systems

The US military is considering the possibility of using advanced air-to-air missiles on MiG aircraft used by Ukraine. This was reported by the Politico newspaper on Tuesday, citing two employees of the US Department of Defense and another source.

The American web resource "The War Zone" (as part of the portal "The Drive") in the material Joseph Trevithick "Winged JDAM Smart Bombs Are Now Operational In Ukraine" ("Winged precision guided bombs JDAM are already used in Ukraine") reported that, according to the statement of the commander of the US Air Force in Europe, General James Hecker, Ukraine has already delivered the first batches of American high-precision long-range guided aerial bombs JDAM-ER (Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range), equipped with planning kits.

The third decade of the XXI century brought changes to the conservative shipbuilding market. Giant design bureaus are forced to compete with teams of a dozen people who, thanks to the digitalization of design, have become able to perform the same work with minimal overhead.

The Turkish fleet was replenished with the L 400 Anadolu universal landing ship, the transfer of the UDC took place without a solemn ceremony and official statements of the Turkish Defense Industry Department. This is reported by Naval News with reference to the Turkish press.

On March 7, a thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

Moscow refused to provide data on the Russian Armed Forces within the framework of the OSCE Vienna Document of 2011, the American Arms Control Association reported.