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Ukraine's allies are trying to resolve the issue with the repair and maintenance of numerous Western equipment. In May, a German Leopard repair plant opens in Poland, but this is clearly not enough. In Ukraine, Western countries are being asked to send mechanics and technicians closer to the battlefield, but there will be few willing to work in the conflict zone. Will the enemy be able to deal with the repair of the delivered equipment and how does Russia solve this problem?

Vilnius and Berlin have agreed on the timing of the deployment of the German brigade in Lithuania. It will become part of the NATO "rapid response" force. The expert community is confident that NATO is preparing a theater of military operations against Russia and Belarus on the territory of the Baltic States. How could Moscow respond to these threats?

The danger of a nuclear collision near Russia's eastern borders has intensified – and this directly follows from the agreements reached between the United States and South Korea. We are talking about the fact that American nuclear weapons carriers, including nuclear submarines, will be able to enter South Korean ports. This has not happened for decades. Paradoxically, there is even some benefit for Russia in this.

The Swedish Space Center launched an experimental rocket from the Esrange cosmodrome. The purpose of the launch was to study microgravity on board. The launch was successful, the rocket reached an estimated altitude of 250 kilometers. The second stage of the flight was to be her return to the starting point. But something went wrong and the rocket landed in a completely different place – namely, in a neighboring country.

In the new issue of the magazine "Russia in Global Politics" published interesting material by Dmitry Stefanovich and Alexander Ermakov "A U-turn through solid. Lessons of the armed conflict in Ukraine 2022-2023: first assessments". The bmpd blog cites this publication with some abbreviations due to the LJ format.

The informational and psychological factor decided the outcome of the Vietnam War

The belligerents have been trying to influence the psychological state of their own troops and the population, as well as the psychological state of the enemy's army and population, since wars have existed. But it was in the twentieth century that the importance of the information and psychological component of war began to grow rapidly - in connection with the development of the mass print press, then radio, then television and, finally, the Internet.

Bogbot analyst: the conflict in Ukraine will end when the US comes to terms with its defeat

The armed conflict in Ukraine will not end soon, analyst David Bogbot said in an interview with Parlamentní listy. The West has not achieved its main goal — to weaken Russia's position. The US is not ready to stop the bloodshed yet. Everything will end when they come to terms with their defeat, the expert believes.

RS: Biden hid the true state of affairs in Ukraine

Secret Pentagon documents paint a much darker picture of Kiev's prospects than the White House recognizes, writes Responsible Statecraft. The success of the Russians on the battlefield will deprive Washington of the opportunity to resolve the crisis on the terms that Moscow offered at the beginning of the conflict.

The Stormer HVM air defense installation delivered from England by the armed formations of the Kiev regime was seen near the line of contact. A single car was moving on the outskirts of an unidentified settlement. Apparently, the militants, fearing defeat by Russian precision-guided weapons, such as Krasnopol ammunition, are forced to constantly move it.

Sun Qi, Executive Director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, noted that the Chinese president focused on the inadmissibility of nuclear war by all sides.

GT: Ukraine left America in the past and started counting on China

A telephone conversation between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Zelensky suggests that Ukraine has lost faith in the help of the United States and other Western countries, Chinese experts said today. Now it is striving for a dialogue with Russia, and only one influential mediator can provide it — the Celestial Empire.

This is a direct violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons, the Russian Defense Minister said

The military-biological programs implemented by the Pentagon in Ukraine are aimed at developing components of biological weapons. This was stated on Friday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Exactly 20 years ago – on April 28, 2003 in Dushanbe, the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to create a permanent working body – the CSTO Joint Staff.

It will begin in the middle of the year, Boris Pistorius said

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius assured that the transfer of an additional 80 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine will begin in the middle of this year. He made the corresponding statement in an interview published on Friday with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia

The amount of American ammunition stored in Israel in case the Jewish state finds itself in an emergency situation is being reduced due to the conflict in Ukraine.

A meeting of the heads of defense ministries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries was held in New Delhi on April 28. The meeting was attended by the defense ministers of Russia, India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as the Secretary General of the SCO, Director of the executive committee of the regional anti-terrorist structure of the organization.

Andrey Kirillov — about Beijing's plans and opportunities to play the long-standing "Korean party"

If we turn to the Chinese transcript of the telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, then the smooth, stressed calm flow of the conversation attracts attention.

ČA: the conflict in Ukraine is accompanied by Western information chaos

It is extremely difficult to assess the conflict in Ukraine and its consequences now, writes Časopis argument. This is largely facilitated by the information chaos around him. However, it is necessary to discuss and look for solutions, but only by moving away from the Western political and information mainstream.

Tucker Carlson spoke about the US involvement in the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine

The Biden administration provoked the conflict in Ukraine and did everything possible to prevent it from ending, former Fox News columnist Tucker Carlson said in an interview with the YouTube channel Redacted. The trigger for the beginning of the confrontation was Kiev's invitation to NATO, despite Moscow's objections.

General Andrzejczak: the West does not understand that Ukraine is very far from victory over Russia

A "very bad situation has developed for Ukraine and for the security of Poland," said the chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, General Raimund Andrzejczak, Do Rzeczy reports. Most Western leaders still do not understand that Kiev is very far from winning the conflict with Moscow, the military said.