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It will take the United States about fifteen years to replenish only the main weapons systems, according to the authors of the material published in the American newspaper The Washington Post. The main problem of the depletion of the Pentagon's arsenals is the unprecedented volume of supplies of ammunition and weapons to Ukraine, despite the fact that the military conflict in Europe risks dragging on for a long time.

The American Conservative reporter Bradley Devlin recalled that Washington handed over 160 155 mm howitzers and more than 1 million artillery shells to Kiev

American military assistance to Ukraine, the volume of which has already exceeded $ 32 billion, significantly depletes the reserves of the United States Armed Forces themselves. Bradley Devlin, a reporter for the publication, came to this conclusion in an article published on Tuesday in The American Conservative magazine.

The US administration on Thursday will present a draft military budget for fiscal year 2024, which could become one of the largest in the country's history in peacetime, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

The West has dramatically increased the volume of military assistance to Ukraine, preparing the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the spring counteroffensive. Over the past three months, Kiev has received 40% of all military aid received in the country since February last year. The Economist writes about this.

The United States plans to take 200 sixth-generation stealth fighters into the air force, created as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance program (NGAD), Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, according to the American military publication The War Zone.

The head of European diplomacy also believes that the EU should allocate €2 billion for the purchase and supply of shells

The EU military mission will train over 11 thousand Ukrainian servicemen by the end of this month and another 30 thousand by the end of the year. This was stated on Wednesday by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel at a press conference in Stockholm following an informal meeting of defense ministers of the member states of the community.

The Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that on March 7, 2023, a thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

The meeting participants will also discuss EU military operations

The defense ministers of the 27 EU countries, with the participation of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian partners, will discuss at a two-day informal meeting opening in Stockholm on Tuesday the possibility of sending most of the remaining ammunition stocks to Ukraine. In the future, we will also talk about expanding the production of all major types of conventional weapons in the EU countries.

Onet: a town in southeastern Poland is better protected than European capitals

The town of Rzeszow in southeastern Poland is called the "secret capital of the West," writes Onet. It is from here that arms supplies to Kiev are carried out, leading politicians come here when they plan to go to Ukraine, and in military terms Rzeszow is protected like no other EU city.

On March 7, a thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

TAS: The US will soon have to cut aid to Ukraine in order to replenish its own reserves

After the Second World War, the potential of the American military-industrial complex decreased, writes TAS. Today, it will not be able to meet the needs of the United States in the event of a conflict. Biden does not want to change anything, but soon Washington will have to cut aid to Kiev – in order to replenish its own reserves.

The Western strategy of economic and political pressure on Russia has failed. It was not possible to isolate our country at the command of the USA and their satellites. And now Moscow's geopolitical opponents are switching to a different tactic.

The Japanese defense industry has engaged in the development of an electromagnetic railgun. There will be funds for it, since Japan is doubling budget expenditures on defense development, including the creation of a railgun.

In Georgia, there is a "threat to the Euro-Atlantic future" of the country – at least, so the US State Department believes. And indeed, Tbilisi is adopting a law designed to combat foreign influence – and not at all from Russia, but from the United States, Soros and a number of Western NGOs. The paradox is that the Georgians will do this with the help of a document that was once created in the United States itself.

The US Congress has set priorities for the transfer of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine

Hearings on military-technical cooperation with Ukraine were held in the US Congress last week. American lawmakers have come to the conclusion that it is not yet advisable to transfer F-16 fighters to an ally. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok tells what Washington is guided by in its decision.

The Polish Defense Ministry denied the words of its head about the arrival of the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in an interview on March 7 that the first Patriot air defense systems and Leopard 2 tanks had already reached the APU. But his department had to explain that the minister had something else in mind, and the missile systems had not yet arrived on the territory of Ukraine. Later, Blaszczak clarified that four Leopard 2 tanks had already been transferred to Kiev, and the remaining 10 of those promised by Warsaw would be sent this week.

The fifth-generation F-35 fighter-bombers, which have been produced since 2006, need immediate modernization, experts from the Joint Management of the F-35 JPO Program said.

China in 2023 will increase the military budget by 7.2%, to 1553.7 billion. yuan (about $224.8 billion at the current exchange rate). This, as RIA Novosti reports, is stated in the draft budget published on March 5.

According to the publication, in order to overcome the resistance of countries concerned about the depletion of their arsenals, a new scheme is proposed, according to which they will be compensated for up to 90% of the costs of ammunition sent to Kiev.

Igor Ivanov — on the position of the Republic of Korea in the context of events in Ukraine and on the Korean Peninsula

Disputes about the degree of strength of the unity of the Western pro-Ukrainian camp do not subside even in the countries of North America and Western Europe themselves. And there are quite good reasons for this.