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Ukraine announced the creation of five aviation brigades, which are replenished with supplies of fighters from NATO countries. They are supposed to be used as part of a possible counteroffensive. At the same time, the AFU does not report anything about the supply of assault aircraft, which is necessary for offensive actions. In this case, how can the aerial part of the battle for the Azov Sea look like?

In the area of Artemovsk, the "Wagnerians" took another armored vehicle of the AFU as a trophy. As usual, they quickly master it and begin to beat the enemy with his own weapon.

After a meeting with the Ukrainian leadership of the head of the German concern Rheinmetall Armin Papperger, the press service of the concern announced a decision to create a center for "logistics and maintenance of weapons used in Ukraine." This center will open in Romania bordering Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the units of the Airborne Troops (airborne), which are sent to the zone of special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine, are reinforced with heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepek".

Even before joining NATO, Sweden and Finland acquired high military potential

During the Cold War, the neutrality of the two Scandinavian countries looked different. Finland, in fact, was in the Soviet sphere of influence, although it was not going to build socialism. Sweden took a much more pro-Western position, while it managed to become one of only five countries in the world that produced almost all military equipment for themselves. Except that Sweden has not created nuclear weapons, although such attempts have been made.

Russia responded to the supply of British "challengers" to the APU with atomic warheads in Belarus

It is unlikely that the Deputy Minister of Defense of Great Britain Annabel Goldie expected to receive such a strong response to her statement of March 21 that the equipment of the Challenger-2 main battle tanks supplied to Ukraine includes armor-piercing shells with a depleted uranium head.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, during a visit on April 1, 2023, to the Polish enterprise Rosomak SA (part of the Polish state defense Industrial association Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA) in Siemianowice-Slensk (Silesian Voivodeship), said that a contract had been signed the day before for the supply of 100 Rosomak (8x8) wheeled armored personnel carriers to Ukraine the production of this plant. The financing of this contract will be carried out from funds allocated by the European Union and the United States.

In Ukraine, American M58 MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge) remote mine clearance systems have been noticed, which are actually an analogue of the Soviet UR-77 Meteorite system. A video with the use of this system by the Ukrainian military appeared the day before on Ukrainian and Russian resources.

The Western-made tanks that arrived in Ukraine will be equipped with dynamic protection complexes of the Ukrainian production "Knife", the installation of the Russian Contact-1 system is a "temporary solution".

Russia and Belarus have been building a Union State since the end of the last century and have now passed a difficult path. But in recent years, both countries have made huge steps towards each other. After the start of its economic and military integration noticeably accelerated – and brings results. What will be the further development of the Union State?

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.