Experts told when the Superjet will receive a Russian engine

Against the background of tougher sanctions in Russia, they are forcing the creation of a new, "import-substituted" version of the domestic Sukhoi Superjet passenger aircraft. In particular, for this it is necessary to accelerate the certification of new PD-8 engines. Experts told the newspaper.Ru", how exactly can the process be accelerated, what is the peculiarity of the new engine, as well as the potential harm to it from Western sanctions.

The Economist (UK): John Mearsheimer on why the West is primarily responsible for the Ukrainian crisis

American political scientist John Mearsheimer unequivocally states: the conflict in Ukraine provoked the West by the thoughtless expansion of NATO. Russia is not going to seize it, he recalls, but only wants to avert the threat posed by the alliance.

Pechat (Serbia): why is Russia right?

Russia did not violate international law when it launched a special military operation in Ukraine, Pechat writes. A group of Serbian professors and lawyers convincingly proves that the behavior of the Kiev junta gave Donetsk and Lugansk the right to secede, and Russia the right to intervene in the conflict. Thus, they recognize the complete rightness of Russia.

Russia warns NATO

The Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of about 180 foreign mercenaries in the Lviv region. According to Peruvian journalist Ricardo Zedano, this step is a signal that Moscow is sending to NATO. It's time to come to your senses and leave the fraternal country for Russia, he says.

CGS (Serbia): Russia is defending the honor and freedom of the modern world

The hatred that the West feels towards Russia will have the most serious consequences for the peace and security of Europe, writes the Serbian CGS. The United States and Great Britain expected to exhaust Russia through Ukraine. However, now there is great fear in NATO - they still do not know Russia's plans, the author of the article believes. He calls the crisis in Ukraine a product of NATO's aggressive strategy.

The RF IC opened a case after the death of more than 20 people in Donetsk after a Tochka-U missile strike

On March 14, the Ukrainian military hit the center of Donetsk with a tactical Tochka-U missile equipped with a cluster warhead. The missile was shot down, but due to the falling debris, according to the Russian IC, 23 people were killed and another 18 were injured. The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin declared March 15 in the DPR a day of mourning for the dead.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces will take measures against Ukrainian defense industry enterprises that nationalists use to restore weapons

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with high-precision weapons hit communication, relay and switching nodes in Fedorovka, Vinarovka and Antopol, as well as a large ammunition depot on the territory of the Antonov plant in Kiev. This was stated to journalists on Monday by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The ministry added that most of those held by nationalists in Ukraine are seeking protection in Russia, and not in the West

Almost all the firing points of neo-Nazis in the suburbs of Mariupol and their forces in residential areas around the perimeter of the city have been destroyed. This was stated on Monday by the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.

Actions in support of the Russian special operation to protect Donbass continue in Syria. Moreover, Syrian volunteers take the initiative to take part in Russia's special operation and explain their motives.

Representatives of Russia and India are studying the possibility of switching mutual settlements between Moscow and New Delhi to national currencies. At the same time, there is a place for the Chinese yuan in the ruble-rupee scheme.

Another report by SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) says that the United States continues to be the leader in the global arms market. This is certainly true.

They are the USA and Russia

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published on Monday a new report on the state of the global arms trade for the period 2017-2021. It notes a slight decrease in its total volume and indicates that the United States and Russia remained the main exporters, although the volume of arms sales to the Russian Federation decreased by 26% compared to the previous five-year period.

Afghanistan is looking for buyers of captured weapons

As the capture of large settlements in Afghanistan, the Taliban detachments (banned in the Russian Federation) took possession of several large logistics depots of the NATO contingent in Afghanistan. As well as units of government forces, which, according to the plans of the Americans, were supposed to restrain the offensive impulse of the Taliban for three to six months.

Ships of the Russian Navy have lost the opportunity to enter foreign ports on a long voyage and replenish fuel and supplies there. How and why did this happen, what impact does it have on the Navy's combat capability and what needs to be done to make Russian ships independent of foreign ports?

After the refusal of the United States to purchase Russian oil, there is more and more speculation that the West may refuse to supply another type of fuel from Russia – nuclear. We are talking about uranium and special fuel assemblies for nuclear power plants. Ukraine has already announced its rejection of them. But what will happen if these plans are implemented? Nothing good for the West.

After the start of the Russian operation on Ukrainian territory, the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced the suspension of the purchase of titanium in Russia, the closure of technical departments in Moscow and Kiev, as well as the termination of the supply of its spare parts to airlines from the Russian Federation.

Counter-battery warfare stations and the effectiveness of artillery impact

The armed conflicts of recent decades have clearly demonstrated both the high importance of artillery for achieving success in combat, battle and operation, and the equally serious need to effectively combat it.

The first issue of the magazine "Arms Export" for 2022 published an article by Ruslan Pukhov, Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST), dedicated to the development of the armored industry of Ukraine after 2014. The bmpd blog provides the text of the article.

The facts revealed by the Russian Defense Ministry of the secret work of the Pentagon's biological laboratories in Ukraine caused obvious nervousness in Washington and a series of contradictory statements by American officials. In an effort to get away from the extremely inconvenient information agenda, fraught with an international investigation into the true goals of the US military biological programs in Ukraine, the White House followed the hackneyed propaganda path - substitution of concepts.

The reasons for the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces are overgrown with details

Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, reported sensational data: The Threat Reduction Agency under the US Department of Defense formed a network of 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine that worked with pathogenic microorganisms – plague, anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, cholera and SAP, prohibited by the UN Convention in December 1971.