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The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of combat sorties of Su-30SM and Su-35 fighters during a special military operation in Ukraine. In a short comment to the story, it is said that the planes were used to destroy the air defense means of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The leader of the Swedish Democrats party, Jimmy Okesson, said that he would call on the party to support Sweden's membership in NATO if Finland applied to the North Atlantic Alliance.

Experts explained why the US Navy is decommissioning warships

The US Navy has released a list of 24 warships that are planned to be taken off combat duty and decommissioned in 2023. The relevant document of the Navy includes a list of the ships being withdrawn by name with an indication of their index. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the reason for the write-off was.

According to the Pentagon, China plans to increase the size of its navy from about 355 to 460 ships by 2030. At the same time, according to the current budget, the US Navy will be reduced from 298 to 280 pennants by 2027.

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, made a post on a social network after his visit to Kiev, which attracts special attention. Recall that Borrel made a visit to Ukraine as part of the EU delegation, which included the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

On April 8, Russian ships opened fire on the Ukrainian cargo ship Apache, which was trying to enter the port of Mariupol to evacuate the leadership of the Azov battalion, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

The territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Mariupol is shrinking

On April 9, the Russian armed forces struck an airbase in Mirgorod, hitting a MiG-29 fighter and an Mi-8 helicopter, the Defense Ministry reported. In addition, a large ammunition depot in the Dnipropetrovsk region was destroyed.

The Ukrainian authorities do not abandon attempts to restore the heavy weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, almost knocked out by the Russian army as part of a special operation on demilitarization and denazification. This also applies to artillery. Since the West is no longer able to supply Soviet-style weapons, Kiev is beginning to demand NATO weapons.

One of the most Russophobic states in the recent past in the space of the former USSR – Georgia – suddenly shows a completely different policy. Tbilisi entered into a serious conflict with Kiev, which demanded to open a "second front" against Russia. Why did the Georgian leadership suddenly turn out to be much more sane than the Ukrainian regime?

NATO countries have agreed on the supply of heavy offensive weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the armored vehicles coming from the West require Ukraine to concentrate the appropriate fuel reserves. Previously, the lion's share of the fuel market in the country belonged to Minsk and Moscow. Now the situation has changed a lot – the Russian army is systematically destroying refineries and fuel bases in Ukraine. Who supplies Ukrainian planes and tanks with fuel and how can the Russian Armed Forces prevent this?

The operator of the Russian ATGM "Sturm-S" single-handedly stopped a reinforced platoon of the AFU.

In the TG channel of the military commander of the VGTRK TV channel Yevgeny Poddubny, the story of the operator of the self-propelled ATGM "Sturm-S", who alone was able to defeat the reinforced platoon of the AFU, was published.

NATO is considering the possibility of permanently deploying a reinforced contingent on the eastern border of the alliance, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published on Sunday in The Sunday Telegraph.

Six military transport planes of the PLA Air Force landed on Friday evening in Belgrade, appearing in the airspace of Europe from Turkey.

Experts told why AUKUS announced the development of hypersonic weapons

The United States, Great Britain and Australia - members of the AUKUS military partnership, which was established in 2021 - have agreed to cooperate in the development of hypersonic weapons. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what contribution each of the countries can make to hypersonic cooperation and why they need it.

Turkey has ruled out the passage of warships of any countries, including NATO, through the Black Sea Straits into the Black Sea. According to the country's Defense Ministry, Ankara will firmly adhere to the Montreux Convention.

Constant fighting, rocket-bombing and artillery strikes by Russian troops are gradually depleting the military potential of the independent, forcing the thinning battle formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw to new lines of defense, the perimeter of which has been created for years, and now echelon after echelon is being opened by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and allied forces.

According to radio intercepts, there are a significant number of foreign mercenaries in Mariupol. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

According to him, they are in the occupied areas of the city together with the Nazis from the Azov battalion banned in the Russian Federation and the remnants of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Slovakia confirmed Ukraine's negotiations regarding the Zuzana self-propelled howitzers. In addition, it is possible that Bratislava will supply Kiev with Soviet-made MiG-29 fighters.

In Greece, clashes between port workers and the police began, the reason was military cargo destined for Ukraine. According to the Greek press, dockers refuse to load ships for the Kiev regime.

NATO has announced a "transformation" involving a significant increase in the alliance's troops in Eastern Europe. Experts are confident that NATO's reforms will fundamentally reshape the security architecture in Europe and involve Russia and the West in a new arms race. How will Moscow respond to the historic reform of NATO? Does the alliance's initiative mean the risk of a direct clash with Russia?