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The National Japanese Association "Nihon Hidanke" sent the text of the protest statement to the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan, as well as the embassies of Russia, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany

The National Japanese Association "Nihon Hidanke", which unites various organizations "hibakusha" (people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - approx. TASS), opposed the UK's plans to send depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine. This was reported on Wednesday to a TASS correspondent in the organization's secretariat.

The Indian Express: the conflict in Ukraine has breathed new life into NATO

The Ukrainian conflict has breathed new life into NATO, writes The Indian Express. Its leaders are calling for a decisive fight against Russia. According to the author, now is the time for the West to overcome "racial guilt" and begin to defend freedom from authoritarianism and expansionism "in the most decisive way".

Patrushev urged the SCO not to let the West make sense of the convention on cybersecurity

The SCO countries should jointly prevent the West from emasculating the essence of the international convention on countering the use of cyber technologies for criminal purposes, being developed under the auspices of the UN, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation said.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin stated earlier, Russia will be forced to react accordingly to the fact that "the collective West is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component"

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, did not comment on the situation around the information about the UK's plans to supply Kiev with depleted uranium shells, as it does not fall within his competence.

Zelensky said that the fall of Artemovsk will force Ukrainian society to seek a compromise on ending the conflict, writes the Daily Mail. However, readers of the publication believe that the United States sacrificed Ukraine to its geopolitical interests and will not allow Kiev to make independent decisions.

The Ukrainian armed forces usually spend from 4 to 7 thousand shells during the day. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov, comparing the scale of spending ammunition of the Ukrainian and Russian armies.

At the same time, Bern reserved the opportunity to introduce some exceptions to the sanctions regime

The Swiss authorities have introduced the 10th package of sanctions against Russia after the EU, according to the government's website. "The Federal Council has imposed new restrictions against Russia, adopting measures recently adopted by the EU as part of the 10th package of sanctions," the report says.

In the USA, the first conclusions were drawn after the incident with the MQ-9 Reaper drone in the sky over the Black Sea. Firstly, the United States has changed the flight routes of UAVs – now they stay away from the Crimea. Secondly, Washington refused to supply the MQ-9 Reaper for the APU. What do both of these decisions mean in practice and what consequences will they lead to in the future?

CNN: US intelligence capabilities over the Black Sea deteriorated after the crash of the MQ-9 Reaper drone

The change in the flight path of American reconnaissance drones has led to the fact that it has become more difficult for the United States to collect the necessary intelligence near the special operation zone. Washington made the decision to "move" the route 64 km from the border of Ukraine after the incident with the MQ-9 Reaper drone, which fell into the Black Sea on March 14.

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".

"Putin wants to transfer nuclear weapons to Belarus. He doesn't listen to anyone else. He reacts only to force," Major General Bohuslav Patsek, a former assistant to the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, told Fakt in an interview.

The leader of the Direction - Social Democracy party, Robert Fico, said earlier that he considers unconstitutional the decision to donate fighter jets to Ukraine

Direction - Social Democracy, the largest party of the parliamentary opposition in Slovakia, demands to bring members of the current government of the republic to criminal responsibility for the decision taken without the consent of the supreme legislative body to transfer to The supersonic MiG-29 fighters withdrawn from the national Air Force last year are a gift to Ukraine. The corresponding claim has been sent to the courts, Slovak Radio reported on Monday.

The American ABC TV company published the material Tom Soufi Burridge "Russian jets of newer generation increase 'dominance' in combat zone, Ukrainian official says" ("Russian fighters of a new generation strengthen "dominance" in the combat zone, said the Ukrainian official representative"), in which, with reference to unnamed Ukrainian officials, it is reported about the growing the use of modern Su-35S fighters by the Russian side during a special military operation in Ukraine.

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.

Experts interviewed by the South China Morning Post explained this by the fact that Beijing is a neutral party in the conflict

China's efforts as a mediator in conflicts have not always borne fruit and its role in resolving the situation in Ukraine may be limited. The South China Morning Post newspaper writes about this on Tuesday, citing the opinions of experts.

The Protestant Church of Sweden is actively preparing for war. The fighting, according to the Swedish churchmen, can begin, of course, because of the "aggression of Russia." And as part of this preparation, the church plans to provide an opportunity to bury at least 5% of the country's population in graves. Who and why invented such obscurantism?

SCMP: NATO has created an alliance of Russia and China, which military strategists of all times feared

The United States won the Cold War by cutting off China from the USSR. Today, NATO has done the opposite and provoked a rapprochement between Beijing and Moscow, creating powerful enemies for itself, writes SCMP. Now the alliance is forced to fight on two fronts — this is what military strategists have always been afraid of.

Chairman of the Japanese opposition party "Raiva Shinsen Gumi" Taro Yamamoto said that "such projectiles can be considered nuclear weapons"

Chairman of the Japanese opposition party "Rava Shinsen Gumi" Taro Yamamoto criticized Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a parliamentary debate on Tuesday for not calling on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky not to use depleted uranium shells during a recent visit to Kiev.

The author of the petition points to the danger of environmental pollution for many years to come, the deterioration of agricultural land and the ingress of toxic substances into the human body.

Ballistic missile launch exercises were held on March 27

The DPRK National Defense Academy conducted another test of the underwater strategic weapons system from March 25 to 27, KCNA reports.