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Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov recalled that extremely harsh anti-covid measures did not exclude the appearance in 2022 of the omicron BA-5.2 and BF-7 subvariants, which caused an avalanche of cases in China.

The ministry noted that the example of Ukraine demonstrates that the financing of military biological programs imposed by the collective West leads to the loss of national biological sovereignty and the undermining of its own scientific and technological potential.

The mass use of kamikaze drones "Lancet" leads to tangible losses of the Armed Forces in combat equipment, especially the fleet of towed artillery and self-propelled guns of Western origin suffers. Despite the silence of the problems in the Ukrainian army, the Western press could not ignore this fact.

According to the department, only officially in 2023, the US Department of Energy allocated $105 million for work within the framework of the project "Virtual environment of research in the field of preparation for biohazards"

The US Department of Energy, along with the Pentagon, is the organizer of military biological activities, said the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection Forces (RHBZ) Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.

According to the department, hiding from responsibility for participation in military biological projects, many defendants left the territory of Ukraine

The United States is searching for participants of American military biological projects in Ukraine who have left this country, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said on Friday.

Dutch Defense Minister Christoph van der Maat announced on April 3, 2023 in the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament about the purchase of the Israeli ground-based modular multicalibre PULS missile system for the Dutch armed forces and the intention of the Dutch Ministry of Defense to purchase ship-based Tomahawk cruise missiles in the United States (for arming four LCF-type frigates and four non-nuclear submarines of the Dutch navy) and air-based AGM-158B JASSM-ER cruise missiles (for equipping Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters of the Netherlands Air Force).

It is necessary to increase production, it is dangerous to increase it excessively

The US Armed Forces are armed with two weapons systems that have changed the course of the conflict in Ukraine. One of them can be worn on the shoulder. The other is 16 tons of steel on monstrous wheels. According to US military experts, together they helped slow down the course of the conflict in Ukraine.

Western observers believe that Russia is facing an increasing shortage of ammunition and wonder when this shortage will lead to a sharp reduction in artillery activity.

Greek Minister of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos said that his country strongly supports Ukraine and its "struggle for the restoration of sovereignty and territorial integrity"

Greece is ready to send Ukraine another batch of BMP-1, artillery shells and ammunition for small arms.

On the eve it became known that Kiev and Warsaw agreed on a new package of military assistance. Ukraine will receive MiG-29 aircraft, Rosomak armored personnel carriers, Piorun anti-aircraft missile systems, Rak self-propelled mortars.

Almost half of the NATO towed and self-propelled howitzers in the SVO zone were destroyed with "Lancets"

Almost half of the foreign towed and self-propelled howitzers in the zone of a special military operation were destroyed by barrage ammunition "Product-51/52", also known as "Lancets", an informed source told RIA Novosti.

The company Anduril Industries, which produces drones of the Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System 600 (ALTIUS 600) series, showed tests of the ALTIUS 600M kamikaze drone. The American edition of The Drive drew attention to the corresponding video.

On April 4, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new large-scale package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 2.6 billion. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 35.1 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $38 billion.

The diplomatic mission noted that "it is the Kiev regime, together with the United States, NATO and the EU, that bear full responsibility" for the contamination of the territory of Ukraine and the Russian Federation with foreign-made mines, and consequently, for the civilian casualties caused by them.

The Pentagon is going to thoroughly increase the arsenal of weapons of destruction for its combat aircraft. According to Lockheed Martin Corporation, the country's military department has ordered the supply of large batches of JAGM and HELLFIRE air-to-surface missiles, the total cost of which can be up to $4.5 billion, including subsequent possible options.

Julia van der Colff's interesting material "Building A New American Arsenal" ("Creating a New American Arsenal") has been published in the American online publication "Wars on the Rocks" with a discussion of the current problems of the US military-industrial complex in the light of the fighting in Ukraine.

The Russian armed forces have changed the tactics of striking positions and objects on the territory of Ukraine and are actively using guided (planning) aerial bombs. This was announced by the official representative of the Air Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Yuriy Ignat.

On April 4, the US authorities announced the allocation of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine. The full list of transferred types of weapons, military equipment and equipment has been published by the US Department of Defense.

An Italian colonel, seeing "traces" of depleted uranium in Iraq, begs Ze not to use it

NATO likes to talk about the danger of a nuclear conflict, but for some reason does not brand London for the very idea of sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. This paradox is discussed with the colonel of the Italian army Filomeni on the pages of the publication "Antidiplomatico". The Colonel has seen such shells in action.

Foreign Affairs: the conflict in Ukraine has shown how the US is not ready for war with China

The US military-industrial complex is collapsing due to the Ukrainian conflict, which revealed the systemic shortcomings of the American military industry, writes Foreign Affairs. Drastic changes are needed in this area, otherwise America will lose the war with China in the first few weeks, the author of the article believes.