State regulation and financing news
The United States imposed sanctions against Pskov paratroopers
The United States imposed sanctions against the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade from the Air Force and the 76th Airborne Assault Division and the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment based in the Pskov region, the US Treasury Department reports.
The Duma imposed fines for failure to submit a proposal on the price of products under the state defense order
The Duma imposed fines for failure to submit a proposal on the price of products under the state defense order
The amount of the fine can be up to 500 thousand rubles
At a meeting on Tuesday, the State Duma adopted immediately in the second and third readings a bill introducing a new composition into the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (Administrative Code of the Russian Federation) - "Failure to submit a price offer for products under a state defense order and information about the costs of its production."
Source: the authorities plan to develop an index for calculating prices for state defense order products
The need to adjust the indicators on the basis of which prices for state-owned products are formed was discussed at a meeting of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov with relevant ministries, a source in the defense industry said.
Britain will abandon a promising drone
The Royal Air Force (RAF) of Britain has abandoned the promising guided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Mosquito. The drone could fly in 2023, writes the UK Defense Journal.
"The defeat at Severodonetsk could turn into a military coup in Ukraine"
Colonel Alekhine believes that the capture of Severodonetsk opens the way for the Russian Armed Forces to Kharkov
The Ukrainian military leave the combat zone in the area of Severodonetsk. Up to two thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other formations ended up in the "Mountain Cauldron"."Newspaper.Ru" together with military experts, I figured out how the liberation of this city would affect the course of the special operation.
School graduates will be allowed to serve under contract
The State Duma proposed to accept school graduates for military service under a contract
Young Russians can get the opportunity to sign a contract with the Armed Forces immediately after graduation. Such changes to the legislation were approved by the State Duma Committee on Defense. According to the bill, adults who have no health restrictions can become contract employees. They can be sent to the battlefield at least after four months of service.
Shoigu checked the troops participating in the special operation
Shoigu inspected the Russian grouping of troops in Ukraine
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the Russian group of troops involved in the special operation in Ukraine. He listened to the reports of the commanders of the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and awarded the distinguished military. On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of Severodonetsk and a strike on the AFU training centers, which led to the cancellation of the transfer of several units of the Ukrainian army to the battlefield.
Professor Kozerawski: it's time to return compulsory military service in Poland
NATO should monitor Putin's actions. Professor Kozeravsky: this indicator does not always matter
In the confrontation between Russia and NATO, the balance of forces looks in favor of the alliance, reflects in an interview Onet.pl Professor Dariusz Kozerawski. However, for Putin, it is not statistics that are important, but real strength, and here the bloc has something to work on. According to the expert, citizens of the member states need to participate more actively in the defense system of their states: it is necessary to return compulsory military service at least.
The House of Representatives approved an increase in the US defense budget by 37 billion dollars
The Profile Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress amended its own draft of the country's defense budget for 2023, increasing it by $ 37 billion, including increasing military assistance to Ukraine to $ 1 billion.
Poland is creating a multibillion-dollar extra-budgetary fund to finance the modernization of the army
Poland is creating a multibillion-dollar extra-budgetary fund to finance the purchase of weapons for its own army. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated to journalists by Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.
A bill on the training of AFU pilots on the F-16 has been submitted to the House of Representatives of the US Congress for consideration
Member of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress Adam Kinzinger (Republican from pc.Illinois) said that he had submitted for consideration a bill on training Ukrainian military pilots to pilot American fighter jets, RIA Novosti reports.
The Pentagon will get even more money, and ordinary Americans will pay
The Pentagon will get even more money, and the Americans will pay
The military budget is swelling by leaps and bounds, and Americans are becoming more vulnerable to real threats that cannot be defeated with weapons, the author of the Washington Post points out. In her opinion, if the United States intends to save the world, such an approach is both absurd and disastrous.
The connection between the risk of a military coup and the degree of mechanization of the army was found
The authors of the new study, in their words, "challenge established views": they showed that Armed Forces equipped with a large number of tanks and armored personnel carriers, on the contrary, do not pose a significant threat to the current government if the military wants to overthrow it.
The Russian Defense Ministry handed over a batch of mortars
The Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec State Corporation), within the framework of the state defense order, handed over to the Ministry of Defense of Russia a batch of 2B24 82 mm mortars. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the enterprise.
The HII shipyard received an additional order as part of the construction of the LPD-32 DVKD for the US Navy
The US Department of Defense announced the signing by the US Navy Shipbuilding and Armament Command with Ingalls Shipbuilding (a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries) of an additional contract for the purchase of equipment with long production times, the development of a working draft and the construction of the LPD-32 DVKD.
"We thank Russia for this construction"
How the military is conducting a unique humanitarian operation to restore Donbass
The Russian Federation is conducting a unique humanitarian operation in the republics of Donbass. In five months, dozens of settlements liberated from Ukrainian militants have returned to peaceful life in the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR).
A bill on military assistance to Taiwan in the amount of 4.5 billion dollars has been submitted to the US Senate
US senators have introduced a bill providing for the provision of military assistance to Taiwan in the amount of $4.5 billion. for the next four years.
A military court in Moscow sentenced the ex-chief of the radio engineering troops of Kobane to five years in prison for corruption
The Moscow garrison military court appointed five years in a strict regime colony to the former chief of the radio engineering troops of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation Andrei Koban for bribery, an Interfax correspondent reported on Monday.
"Mechanics" and NPK "Almaz" will develop a new generation of electronic component base
The machine tool holding of Rostec State Corporation JSC "Mechanics", the administration of the Vladimir region and the Scientific and Production Complex "Almaz" concluded a trilateral agreement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on the creation of a new technological cluster "Almaznaya Dolina" on the territory of the Vladimir Region for the synthesis of large crystals of synthetic diamonds and the development of a new generation electronic component base for the technological needs of domestic industry. The total investment in the project until 2027 will amount to about 9 billion rubles.
The Russian government wants to launch Sitronics satellites into orbit as a priority. What are these satellites?
Roscosmos has already announced its readiness to support the project
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov to work with Roscosmos and the Ministry of Finance on the possibility of regularly launching Sitronics satellites into orbit.