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Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) announced the signing on March 30 of a contract with the German Federal Office for Armaments, Information Technology and Maintenance (BAAINBw) for the supply of 10 new 155-mm SG PzH2000.

While Kiev is waiting for the allies to hand over the promised tanks, which, with real calculations of stocks in the European armies of NATO countries, are becoming less and less, Russian military-industrial complex enterprises intend to produce and modernize at least 1,500 combat vehicles of various modifications this year.

TAS: the US Congress blocked a proposal to organize control over aid to Ukraine

The US Congress refused to create a post of inspector to monitor the money transferred to Ukraine, writes TAS. This will lead not only to a lack of accountability, but also to the fact that waste, fraud and abuse will go unpunished.

As a result of mass supplies of Western military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the arsenal of the Ukrainian army steadily expanded after the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Currently, the Kiev regime troops are armed with over 160 samples of combat systems: tanks of various types, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, anti-tank complexes.

The United States delivered the first Stryker armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the head of the defense Ukrainian military department, Alexey Reznikov, has already "run-in" American armored vehicles and was very pleased.

According to the head of the German Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius, the alliance countries planned to send two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks and four Leopard battalions to Kiev

NATO countries have planned to send two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks and four Leopard battalions to Ukraine; it is unlikely that more can be delivered, since the allies have limited resources. This was stated by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in an interview published on Saturday in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

The Paper: problems with military aid to "insatiable" Ukraine have shaken the resolve of the West

Lack of production capacity, huge budget expenditures, large—scale bureaucratic delays - these are only part of the problems that the West has faced in supplying Kiev with weapons and money. Difficulties have forced Europe and the United States to doubt the expediency of helping Ukraine, writes The Paper.

The Ukrainian conflict is beginning to demonstrate the failure of the military mechanism of the West, while revealing the huge reserves of the Russian war machine.

The UK has conducted two-week tests of the effectiveness of heavy land transport robots, that is, unmanned vehicles that are designed to perform various tasks on the battlefield. This is reported in a special statement on the website of the Government of the United Kingdom.

The Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian air defense for the first time shot down a new Ukrainian missile "Thunder-2"

The Ukrainian tactical missile "Thunder-2" was shot down by Russian air defense forces in the special operation zone. This is the first time that the Ministry of Defense has reported the interception of this missile. It was developed and produced at the Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmash plant. In September and November, massive strikes were inflicted on this enterprise, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the destruction of the Grom-2 and Tochka-U production workshops.

A specialist in the field of world economy, Professor Lionel Rondouin called artillery, whose fire caused 75% of Ukrainian losses, a "critical dimension of the conflict"

Western countries will not be able to support the Ukrainian army for a long time due to a lack of equipment. This opinion was expressed by a specialist in the field of world economy, Professor Lionel Rondouin, who made a comment in the April issue of the Paris magazine  Elements .

The Paper: London will send depleted uranium shells to Kiev to save tanks from disgrace

The UK has a rather weak artillery, writes The Paper. According to the author of the article, London fears that Ukraine will become aware of all the shortcomings of Challenger 2 tanks. Depleted uranium shells are what can save equipment from disgrace, he suggests.

The "exploding bomb effect" was caused in some circles by the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin about the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) on the territory of Belarus, which he made on March 25 during an interview on the channel "Russia 24".

Turkey has increased its revenues from defense exports to other countries by 42% only from 2020 to 2021. This is reported by CNBC, commenting on Ankara's far-reaching plans to develop its military-industrial complex and increase its global influence.

The dynamically developing military-political situation around the Republic of Belarus forces the country's leadership to react harshly to all its changes. As Alexander Lukashenko noted at a meeting with the country's power bloc on March 21, today the Western countries and Ukraine have created the highest level of external threats for Belarus, which forces them to pay the closest attention to internal threats. "We need to be ready for any events. Therefore, the issues of countering external and internal threats should be under special control today," the President stressed.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov rode around the training ground on a Challenger 2 tank that arrived from Britain and posted a corresponding video on his page on one of the social networks.

The Strategic Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Ukrainian formations allegedly managed to capture 15 Russian T-90 "Breakthrough" tanks. This message is quoted by the Ukrainian press, there is no confirmation of it from the Russian military department.

The first armored vehicle based on the German Leopard 1 main battle tank was destroyed by the liberators

As noted by the project "RG:Russian Weapons", in order to turn the Bergepanzer 2 armored repair and evacuation vehicle (BRAM) into a pile of scrap metal, it took only one 152-mm high-precision Krasnopol projectile aimed at the target by a laser beam.

The Declassified UK portal pointed out that the footage with these ammunition is contained in a video that the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom published on its own YouTube channel

British instructors trained Ukrainian tank crews in the use of depleted uranium ammunition. This was announced on Monday by the Declassified UK portal, specializing in investigative journalism.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov published a photo showing several units of NATO armored vehicles that arrived in Ukraine. A staged photo taken on the drone's camera offers a row of equipment lined up, in front of which are the flags of the countries that made the delivery.