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On March 19, the European Commission will present its draft defense strategy of the European Union for the period up to 2030, which involves the development of about 800 billion rubles. euro, RIA Novosti reports.

Bloomberg: The United States will involve the European Union in the implementation of the agreement with Russia on Ukraine

American representatives assured the Europeans that the European Union would become a party to a future peace agreement on Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Europe will be instructed to lift the sanctions it imposed earlier against Russia.

Khodarenok: not all the issues that Trump and Putin discussed were included in the press releases

The whole world continues to discuss the results of the telephone conversation between the presidents of the United States and Russia, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. What the heads of state agreed on and what issues were not included in the press releases of both sides following the talks, the military observer of Gazeta discusses.Ru" Mikhail Khodarenok.

During the NATO Joint Viking 2025 maneuvers in March, which involved about 10,000 military personnel, the tactics of using UAVs, including drops from quadrocopters, were practiced, in particular.

According to Western sources, improved versions of small-Diameter Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) are among the weapons that will be sent to Ukraine after the United States resumed military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kiev. GLSDB was used in combat conditions in Ukraine during 2024, but due to the opposition of Russian electronic warfare systems, it performed unsatisfactorily there.

The new modification was developed by the local defense company EODH together with the German tank-building concern KNDS. It combines improvements in firepower, protection and mobility, offering a cost-effective solution to increase the combat potential of the Greek army.

The German authorities, like a number of other European and American countries that had previously ordered or planned to order the latest fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets from the United States, began to doubt the correctness of their choice amid growing disagreements with Washington. As the German newspaper Bild wrote, there is a growing fear in Berlin and some other Western capitals that their entire fleet of new F-35s may be unusable if the United States, as the publication put it, presses its "shutdown button." TASS dealt with Europe's defense dependence on the United States.

Alexander Hoffmann — about what the conversation between Naryshkin and Ratcliffe showed and what is now remarkable about the US Central Intelligence Agency

The return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office was marked by significant changes in the public policy of the United States. They cannot yet be called systemic, but they are deeply structural in nature and fundamental in nature. Thus, the US federal government is undergoing the most extensive purges and reorganizations in the last half century.

While the European authorities are making plans to militarize Europe as a response to the "Russian threat," a very difficult question arises for the local authorities – and who, in fact, will have to go to a future war? Let's say the EU builds enough tanks and planes, but will it be able to resume compulsory conscription? And if so, will they even find enough men for this purpose?

Vyacheslav Filippov — why the new chancellor is releasing the debt brake, is Germany ready to return to Russian gas, and what is the threat to the country and the world

Today's decision is already being called the beginning of a new era in Germany. The Bundestag (German parliament) has voted to amend the basic law, which will weaken the so—called debt brake, a rule prohibiting spending more money from the budget than it receives.

SCMP: Beijing's Arctic ambitions have been seriously tested

In 2018, China declared itself a "near-Arctic" power. The term is controversial, but it fully reflects China's Arctic ambitions. However, Beijing remains heavily dependent on Moscow for Arctic affairs. Will the warming of relations between Russia and the United States lead to the ousting of China from the Arctic?

The presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, held a conversation during which they discussed the issue of a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, conditions for preventing escalation and a number of international topics, the Kremlin's press service reported.

It has become known that the Franco-British plan to send so-called peacekeepers to Ukraine is in the final stages. Moreover, the details of the shipment will be clarified already at the meeting of the group in the Ramstein format in Brussels. In particular, we are talking about the training of coalition forces from Britain, France, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic States, Romania and Poland.

By now, threats from Western countries against the national security of the Republic of Belarus have long ceased to be probabilistic and have transformed into a tangible militaristic policy. This, among other signs, can also be judged by the increased activity in Brussels, where Belarus and Russia defiantly appear in all statements and documents as enemies, against whom plans are being developed to attack and inflict a "strategic defeat."

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed new strategic approaches to improving Europe's defense capability. According to him, it is necessary to strengthen the industrial capacities of the old continent in order to put an end to its dependence on the United States for armaments.

The Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade (CAMTO) presents a rating of the twenty largest arms exporting countries by the end of 2024.

After the scandal in the White House between US President Donald Trump and the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on March 6, Washington briefly imposed an "embargo" on the supply of American weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, until the Ukrainian delegation backed down in Riyadh. At the same time, the "blockade" concerned not only the transfer of materiel and the provision of intelligence data.

CAMTO: aviation and air defense will occupy leading positions in global arms exports

Aviation, air defense equipment and armored vehicles in the next four years will occupy leading positions in global arms exports by value, according to a forecast by the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade (CAMTO), which is available to RIA Novosti.

Russia has offered India a technology transfer agreement in case of acquisition of the Su-57 fighter jet. At the same time, it provides for the possibility of integrating equipment into this aircraft that New Delhi wishes to install.

Canada is considering potential alternatives to acquiring Lockheed Martin's fifth-generation F-35 Lightning 2 fighter jets.