The Republican opposition in the United States is waiting for the imminent "Chinese attack on Taiwan" and calls on Biden to recognize the independence of this Chinese island. Beijing, in turn, vows to protect its sovereignty. Now he really has a serious motive to launch a special operation – and he is almost the same as the Russian president was guided by when he sent troops to Ukraine.

The National Interest (USA): Will America be able to adapt to the era of multipolarity?

TNI writes that the unipolar world has sunk into oblivion. America must adapt to the new conditions, otherwise it will turn into an ordinary world power that will not withstand the pressure of China and Russia.

Finland is ready to discuss the country's accession to NATO, President Sauli Niinisto said. Earlier, he ruled out such a possibility, but the North Atlantic Alliance persistently left its "doors open". Is Helsinki really ready to give up its neutral status, what risks can such a step carry for Russia and how should our country react to them?

Zelensky admitted that he was deceived in his hopes regarding NATO: the alliance did not introduce a no-fly zone over the country, but only helped with diesel fuel. Foreign Minister Kuleba also criticized the bloc. Against the background of reports in the Western media about plans to evacuate Zelensky to Poland to lead a guerrilla war in exile, it seems that no one doubts Ukraine's military defeat.

The day after Zelensky's Saturday address to the US Congress, in which he asked Kiev to provide combat aircraft, the US State Department allowed NATO countries to supply fighter jets to Ukraine. This decision was announced by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken when asked whether the authorities of Poland, a member of the North Atlantic Alliance, are allowed to send their planes to Kiev.

The sharply anti-Russian policy of Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov during the days of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine caused an equally unprecedented sharp reaction of Bulgarian society. The head of government was literally chased from the podium with snowballs amid whistling, hooting and shouts of "NATO - out!". What is going on in the usually anti-Russian Bulgaria?

Against this background, the nationalists again disrupted the humanitarian exit of civilians from Mariupol

On March 6, Ukrainian armed formations once again thwarted an attempt to withdraw civilians from the encircled Mariupol.

The fighting is taking place a few kilometers from the most important Ukrainian defense hub

The main fighting in the LPR is unfolding near Severodonetsk. On March 6, the advancing troops approached it by 7 km and took the city and neighboring settlements into a semi-circle.

[b]It became known about three more Russian servicemen who showed real courage and the highest professionalism during a special military operation in Ukraine. Two of them are officers, one is a contract sergeant. Two serve in the Ground Forces, one in the Airborne Forces.

Izvestia correspondent Dinar Ginatullin on Monday, March 7, said that a convoy with logistical support for Russian servicemen arrived in the Chernihiv region.

US sanctions will not do much harm to the Russian defense industry. The blow of the American authorities on this industry, which, according to their plan, was supposed to be "crushing", is unlikely to have a significant impact on it.

The Russian authorities, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, are compiling a list of unfriendly countries. For the first time, such a formulation was voiced a year ago and became a response to Western sanctions and diplomatic scandals unleashed by them. Then the United States and the Czech Republic were recognized as enemies. However, the new list will have nothing to do with the old one, experts say. Over the past ten days, the world order has changed and Russia will build relations with the Western world differently.

The institutes are still cautiously optimistic, but no one knows what will happen in two or three months, a year. So far, their directors have been instructed to conduct an audit of the existing capacity, pointing out weaknesses. Since there is no combined data on all Russian institutes, the MK correspondent himself called a number of leading scientific organizations.

In Ukraine, according to Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, a network has been formed that includes more than 30 biological laboratories, which can be divided into research and sanitary-epidemiological.

There were photographic materials confirming the flooding of the flagship of the Naval Forces of Ukraine frigate F 130 "Hetman Sagaidachny" project 11351 by its own crew in Nikolaev. The ship, which arrived in Nikolaev in July 2021 to undergo repairs, was sunk near the wall of the former Black Sea Shipyard on February 24, 2022, on the first day of the Russian special operation in Ukraine.

St. Petersburg newspaper "Fontanka.<url>" published the material of Lev Godovannik "While the shock. After the sanctions, the shipyards are calm only about icebreakers. Engines from China, electronics from Aurora, dollars and euros in suitcases, and processors are a big question. Fontanka has found out the current prospects of Russian civil shipbuilding."

The Russian edition of Forbes magazine published the material by Katerina Terekhova and Alexey Dertev "Prohibition on development: how will Russian technologies survive without semiconductors", which states that the refusal of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMC from cooperation with Russia means that it will be difficult for Russian companies to implement the planned import substitution program in the IT field.

Ukrainian specialists were working in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to produce a "dirty" bomb and to release plutonium, an informed source in one of the competent departments of the Russian Federation told Interfax.

The Sarmat missile system has a number of characteristics not previously seen in any intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Researchers of the US Air Force will develop a satellite for regular patrolling of the circumlunar space. This will expand the permanent presence of the United States up to the far side of the moon, writes Ars Technica. For the first time, the US military has begun expanding the operational zone in space.