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Delfi: a medium-range air defense system will be deployed in Estonia and Latvia

Estonia and Latvia have agreed with NATO to deploy a joint Western-made air defense system on their territory, writes Delfi. The project worth hundreds of millions of dollars is planned to be launched in 2025.

Scholz: The West will supply Ukraine with weapons after the end of the conflict

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday, May 22, said that the West will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons after the conflict is resolved.

Pilots from Ukraine will soon begin training in the management of F-16 fighter jets, Dutch Foreign Minister Vopke Hoekstra said on May 22 during a meeting of the Council of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels.

At the first stage, the Spanish Defense Ministry plans to purchase up to 258 EIMOS mortars from the Spanish company Expal for the Armed Forces of the country in the amount of 125 million euros.

US President Biden announced Zelensky's promise not to use the F-16 on targets in Russia

Following the G7 summit, Joe Biden said that Vladimir Zelensky promised him not to use F-16 fighter jets against targets in Russia. According to Biden, the fighters will not be needed by the AFU during the counteroffensive - but they will help in the long term. Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan added that the guarantees do not apply to Crimea.

The US stated that in the coming months it will determine with the allies the timing of the transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine

The United States will discuss with its allies in the coming months which countries and when they will deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, said Assistant to the US President for National Security Jake Sullivan. According to the American authorities, "right now the time has not yet come for F-16s on the battlefield," but they will be needed in the future. The Washington Post newspaper notes that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was the "main force" in the White House seeking the transfer of tanks and F-16s to Ukraine.

The world press is immersed in the investigation of an almost detective story – the sudden appearance of a giant fleet of tankers, one of the largest in the world. This fleet turned out to belong to a little-known Indian company, and it eventually changed the entire logistics of oil flows on our planet. How is what is happening related to Western sanctions against Russia?

As Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani noted, Rome is working on making a "common decision with the allies" on this topic

Italy does not have F-16 fighters, so it cannot provide them to Ukraine. However, Rome is working on making a "common decision with its allies" on this topic, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday.

According to the publication, this is due to the uncertain situation with the increase in the debt ceiling in the United States and the unclear prospects of a counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

American lawmakers are still postponing a substantive discussion on approving the allocation of funds for military assistance to Kiev due to the uncertain situation with the increase in the debt ceiling in the United States and unclear prospects for a counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported on Monday by The Hill newspaper with reference to American lawmakers.

Anro expert: The West intends to focus on helping Ukraine with a counteroffensive

It is difficult for Western countries supporting the Kiev regime to accept the loss of Artemovsk, and after that they intend to concentrate on providing Ukraine with support in the counteroffensive, a European expert, a former high-ranking officer of NATO nuclear artillery Pierre Henrault, told RIA Novosti.

According to the head of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Juan Gomes Carvinho, Portugal needs combat aircraft at its disposal

The Portuguese authorities cannot currently transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine, since the combat aircraft available to the republic are needed by it itself. This was stated to journalists on Monday by the head of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry, Joao Gomes Carvinho.

Tobias Billstrom believes that countries that have military equipment ready for delivery to Kiev should state this

Deliveries of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine will not lead to an escalation of the conflict. This opinion was expressed to journalists on Monday by Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom upon arrival at a meeting with colleagues in Brussels, answering a question about the possibility of further strengthening the confrontation between the parties after sending Kiev new weapons systems, in particular the F-16.

German Chancellor Scholz: Ukraine will not join NATO in the foreseeable future

In the foreseeable future, Ukraine will not join NATO, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Die Welt. Ukraine does not meet the requirements of the alliance, so now the main issues on the Western agenda are exclusively military support for Kiev against the background of its conflict with Moscow.

As the Acting Minister of Defense of Denmark Troels Lund Poulsen stated, by July 1, Copenhagen would like "to have a concrete project that could be proposed to the Ukrainian government"

Acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen expects that other countries will join the training of Ukrainian pilots for F-16 fighters, in addition to his country, Belgium, Great Britain and the Netherlands. He said this on Monday at a meeting with his colleagues in Warsaw.

Borrel: The European Union has completed the training of 15 thousand Ukrainian military

The European Union (EU) has completed the training of 15 thousand Ukrainian military, another 15 thousand will be trained by the end of the year. This was stated on May 22 at a press conference by the head of the European Diplomacy, Josep Borrel.

As reported yesterday in the Pentagon, the administration of US President Joe Biden will send Ukraine a new package of military assistance for $ 325 million. According to political analyst Malek Dudakov, the real amount of aid to Kiev is not as great as it seems, since its cost is overestimated by the American military-industrial complex dozens of times.

Kiev will also be supplied with three ARTHUR radars used to detect enemy artillery

Norway will transfer three radar stations (radars) and eight long-range multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to Ukraine. The deliveries are carried out in close cooperation with the UK, the Norwegian government said in a press release published on Thursday.

An interesting historical fact from the times of friendship between the USA and the Russian Federation [in the 1990s]. GDLS [General Dynamics Land Systems] proposed to integrate the Arena active protection system into M1A2 Abrams with the assistance of the Russian Design Bureau KBM [Engineering Design Bureau]. GDLS planned to sell the Arena to the Turkish army and the US Army, depending on the approval of the US government.

On May 18, 2023, the Israeli company Elbit Systems announced that the Ministries of Defense of the Netherlands and Israel signed an intergovernmental agreement on the acquisition by the Dutch Army of 20 combat vehicles produced by Elbit Systems of the PULS (Precise & Universal Launching System) ground-based modular multi-caliber missile system. The value of the contract, concluded for a five-year period, is $ 305 million, including the supply of guided missiles.

infoBRICS: US military aid to Ukraine will be reduced in July

NATO was afraid of what Russia would do after Ukraine, writes infoBRICS. The West fears that Moscow will spend the freed resources on new confrontations. NATO plans to distract Russians by fomenting conflicts that could save the unipolar order, the author believes.