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The Brazilian magazine "Tecnologia & Defesa" reported that on April 27, 2023, the Government of Ukraine, through its military attache at the Embassy of Ukraine in Brazil, sent an official request to the Brazilian Ministry of Defense for the purchase of up to 450 VBTP-MR Guarani (6x6) wheeled armored personnel carriers for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The United States will transfer M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, having previously dismantled secret high-tech components from them, USA Today reports, citing unnamed American officials.

The experience of its revived interest in the widespread use of unpretentious Soviet all-terrain vehicles

The special military operation was not only the first real test for the latest Russian technology, but in some cases also a "renaissance" of long-standing and well-known systems and platforms.

Yle: the annexation of Crimea to Russia has become a reason for Europe to arm itself

Sweden has been making good money on the "Russian threat" for nine years, Yle reports. The author of the article visited a factory in the north of the country, where BMP is produced in four shifts, and there are twice as many jobs.

We tell you what design solutions from the Great Patriotic War are still successfully used by Russian units in their own

The Soviet Union has been preparing for war for many years. Large-scale industrialization took place in the country, entire industries were created, new models of weapons were developed.

The special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine has become a large-scale test of the combat vehicles assigned to it for the Russian army. Often, the fighters participating in the SVO carry out the modernization of equipment with their own hands or with the forces of frontline workshops, using improvised materials at the same time.

Ukraine has made several attempts to create a heavy infantry fighting vehicle based on the T-64 tank, but they were not crowned with success. Currently, a new attempt has been made, the developers plan to create a new heavy infantry fighting vehicle based on the Soviet T-62 tank.

Military expert Shurygin: the PzH 2000 self-propelled guns transferred to Kiev turned out to be an ordinary car

The German self-propelled artillery units (ACS) Panzerhaubitze (PzH) 2000 delivered to Ukraine failed to prove themselves during Russia's special military operation to protect Donbass. Military expert Vladislav Shurygin told Izvestia about this on Wednesday, May 3.

What kind of tanks, armored vehicles and SAMs will viewers see in Moscow and the regions of Russia

The basis of the parade calculations, which on May 9 this year will be held in a solemn march on Red Square, will be military equipment of a special military operation. In particular, viewers will see T-90M, T-72B3M tanks, modified infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3 and armored personnel carriers BTR-82. These products will be presented already modified based on combat experience. In particular, new elements of reservation and protection appeared on the equipment. The parade will not do without novelties. So, for the first time the general public will be shown armored vehicles "MIC-Ural" and "Akhmat". They were developed last year taking into account the experience of the SVO and are already being massively supplied to the troops.

Dutch Foreign Minister Hoekstra announced his intention to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine

The Netherlands will continue to supply weapons to Ukraine. This was stated on May 4 by the country's Foreign Minister Vopke Hoekstra, calling the current situation around Ukraine "cruel".

Abrams tanks for training Ukrainian servicemen will arrive in Germany in the coming weeks. This was announced on April 21 by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Kiev has only indicated its intentions to purchase Rosomak armored personnel carriers from Poland, and the Ukrainian military has already begun training in the operation of this armored vehicle.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has begun to transfer units of the 47th separate mechanized brigade to the combat zone. This is reported by military correspondents, citing their own sources.

The "peace-loving" North Atlantic Alliance continues to show its muscles near the borders of Russia. Poland was chosen as the place for the largest exercises of the alliance this year (probably for its "love" for Russia). As it became known, the NATO exercises called "Anakonda–23" began today and will last for twenty days - until May 26.

Noonpost: Russia has several ways to destroy the "Abrams" in Ukraine

The United States promised Ukraine to send Abrams tanks. However, Russia will easily destroy them, writes Noonpost. The Abrams have already participated in the war in Yemen and were eliminated by Iranian missiles created on the basis of Soviet technologies. And Moscow can successfully use this experience.

Checking reserves is important in anticipation of a possible intensification of hostilities, experts say

In the Southern Military District, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the readiness of equipment and weapons that are being sent to the zone of a special military operation.

Denmark, together with Germany, will transfer 80 Leopard-1A5 tanks to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the Acting Minister of Defense of Denmark Troels Lund Poulsen to the Danish TV channel TV2.

Colonel Khodarenok: the plan of the Ukrainian offensive was developed in close cooperation with the United States

The government of Ukraine does not plan to disclose the details of the spring counteroffensive to its allies in order to prevent the leakage of classified information, Politico wrote, citing sources. What is the real situation, says the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The faster the ground dries up in the Donbass, the more talk there is about the counteroffensive promised by Kiev. Western analysts expect German Leopards to be at the forefront. However, the prospects for these machines are not rosy at all.

Die Welt: a new strategy has been adopted in NATO, according to which it is necessary to fight with Russia on its land

NATO strategists went to a meeting with alliance members — Poland and the Baltic states, writes a Russophobic publicist in the German Welt. These countries do not want to fight with Russia on their territory. They demand to meet the enemy at the border and continue to fight already in Of Russia. NATO listened.