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Global Times: Macron's call for strategic autonomy did not like the US

Macron's call for strategic autonomy provoked a violent reaction in the United States, writes Global Times. Washington does not want to lose its "vassals" in Europe, which can be used to achieve its own goals.

According to the most optimistic forecasts of the United States Treasury Department, the Ukrainian armed conflict will end by the middle of next year. And since the conduct of hostilities involves large expenses, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calculated the financial needs of Ukraine for military needs.

The Prime Minister inspected the assembly site of the Spektr-UV spacecraft

On Cosmonautics Day, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited the S. A. Lavochkin NGO (part of Roscosmos) in Khimki.

The US Department of Defense announced the signing by the US Navy Command with Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) of an additional contract for the development of a technical design and construction of the LPD-32 class "San Antonio".

EP: the political crisis in Bulgaria threatens Ukraine with a shortage of ammunition

The political crisis in Bulgaria has caused the holding of snap elections, writes Evropeyska Pravda. Some variants of their results may lead to the fact that Ukraine will lose direct supplies of ammunition for Soviet weapons.

According to the head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, conscripts who are not subject to conscription and working abroad can "electronically send the relevant documents to the military commissariat"

Conscripts subject to conscription and working abroad are recommended to take a year off and return to Russia for military service. This was announced by the head of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov on Tuesday on the air of the RBC TV channel, commenting on the adopted law on the creation of a unified register of military registration.

The State Duma adopted the law on the Unified Register of military service and equalized electronic summonses with traditional paper ones. What changes for conscripts and conscripts, what measures are provided for by the new law for draft dodgers?

In a few days, the last operating nuclear power plants in Germany will close. A whole era in the country is ending. However, unexpectedly two-thirds of Germans were against it. Because they realized on their wallets that the more energy sources, the safer. However, further German politicians have even more dangerous plans in the energy sector.

General Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers Hirokazu Matsuno said that the government intends to strengthen support for Ukraine

The Japanese government will continue to increase sanctions pressure on Russia, at the same time increasing support for Ukraine. This was announced on Monday at a regular press conference by the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Hirokazu Matsuno.

At the end of February, the European Union imposed the tenth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, including the Khrunichev Center (part of Roscosmos), which produces Proton-M, Angara launch vehicles, Briz-M upper stages and other products in the interests of the Russian space industry.. In an interview with TASS, the general director of the company Alexey Brewho told about how cooperation with foreign companies is taking place in the current conditions, including through the ISS, about the possibility of manufacturing products in the interests of the domestic aviation industry and about flight tests of the Angara launch vehicles.

The Turkish company STM announced the signing of contracts for the construction of three Istanbul-class frigates for the Turkish Navy in Ankara on April 7 as part of a project that is a continuation of the MILGEM program.

Altair: the Polish Defense Ministry has signed a contract for the supply of KKZ-01 body armor

The Polish Defense Ministry has signed a contract for the supply of several tens of thousands of KKZ-01 bulletproof vests, Altair reports. This is an attempt to compensate for years of neglect in terms of individual equipment of soldiers, the author notes. But such a quantity does not meet the needs of Poland.

Andrey Yelchaninov, First Deputy Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, told Interfax correspondents Alexander Belov and Artem Rukavov about the internal policy of the state corporation, international cooperation and financial assessments of the creation of a promising Russian orbital station.

NYT: The European Union will not be able to increase the volume of military production for the needs of Ukraine

The European Union will not be able to expand military production in the short term and meet the demands of Ukraine, writes NYT. The EU wants to help Kiev and replenish its own reserves, but it will not be easy to persuade the countries of the bloc to restore the military-industrial complex.

The Law on Accelerating the Deployment of Universal Advanced Nuclear Technologies (ADVANCE) of 2023, submitted to the US Senate by a bipartisan group, is aimed at supporting efforts to develop and implement, including diversification of supplies and technologies.

Below are the main programs for the supply of weapons and military equipment by Poland to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in chronological order from the moment Russia launched a special military operation to the present.

BAE Systems has announced an official ceremony held on April 4 at BAE Systems Govan in Glasgow to mark the start of construction of the Birmingham Type-26 (City) class frigate.

Greece will not supply Leopard-2A6 tanks to Ukraine, as well as Russian-made S-300 air defense systems. This, according to RIA Novosti, was announced by the Minister of National Defense of Greece Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos at a meeting of the permanent parliamentary commission on national Defense and foreign Affairs, the text of the speech was distributed by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu got acquainted with new developments in the field of armored vehicles at the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the military department reported on Thursday.

Americans avoid contact combat

The US missile program began to develop very rapidly after World War II as a result of the seizure by the Americans of a group of German designers led by Werner von Braun and samples of the V-1 and V-2 missiles they created.