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The Pentagon has signed a contract with the military-industrial corporation General Dynamics Land Systems (GLDS) in the amount of over $ 27 million (more than 2 billion rubles) for the production of M1A1 Abrams tanks for their subsequent shipment to Ukraine. This information was confirmed by the press service of the country's defense ministry.

The other day, the US Department of Defense announced the transfer of special weapons to Ukraine to combat unmanned aerial vehicles. This is reported by the American edition of Defense One with reference to the state company SAIC.

Greece will not supply Leopard-2A6 tanks to Ukraine, as well as Russian-made S-300 air defense systems. This, according to RIA Novosti, was announced by the Minister of National Defense of Greece Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos at a meeting of the permanent parliamentary commission on national Defense and foreign Affairs, the text of the speech was distributed by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.

Marianne: Macron and von der Leyen's visit to China destroys France's diplomatic status

As president, Macron became an active diplomat, but all his ideas failed, Marianne writes. Mediation in Ukraine has failed, France is trailing in the wake of US policy and even Germany. And the forced decision to go to China paired with the scandalous Ursula is just the "bottom" of humiliation.

The German newspaper Bild tried to convince its readers that Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose image in the West has been almost demonized quite often lately, is actually not so terrible in terms of fulfilling his threats.

Former Polish Ambassador to Russia Pelczynska-Nalencz: the idea of a Polish-Ukrainian union is unrealistic

The idea of creating a Polish-Ukrainian union is illusory, dangerous and wrong, former Polish ambassador to Russia Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalencz said on RMF FM. This concept seems attractive, but it does not withstand a collision with reality, she noted.

On the eve it became known that Kiev and Warsaw agreed on a new package of military assistance. Ukraine will receive MiG-29 aircraft, Rosomak armored personnel carriers, Piorun anti-aircraft missile systems, Rak self-propelled mortars.

The fact that Tehran has strategically important relations with Damascus has long been known. It is no secret that the main enemy for these states is Israel.

The French President also called for preventing the use of nuclear weapons in the current conflict in Ukraine

France opposes the proliferation of nuclear weapons beyond the borders of its possessor countries and considers it important to exclude the possibility of their use in the current conflict in Ukraine. This was stated on Thursday by French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference following a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

TAC: the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of Crimea with NATO support will lead to a large-scale war

Due to Finland's accession to NATO, Ukraine has become bolder, writes Bradley Devlin in an article for TAC. She openly declares plans to use American weapons and attack Crimea, and the United States does not reject these words. All this can lead to a large-scale war.

For the first time ever, Russia has used a number of different weapons in its military. These include the Dagger complex, the world's first hypersonic aviation missile. There is not much information about her. But what is known inspires serious respect for its creators. Details are in the RIA Novosti material.

Political scientist Mirsheimer warned about the "horror" that will begin after the Ukrainian conflict

The consequences of the Ukrainian conflict will be catastrophic for Europe both economically and politically, Glasove quotes the words of political scientist, professor at the University of Chicago John Mearsheimer. He also spoke about the origins of this crisis and revealed the main goals of the West.

Today, an unmanned aerial vehicle of Ukrainian formations was shot down in the Valuysky city district in the Belgorod region. This was announced in his Telegram channel by the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

Al Jazeera: Macron and von der Leyen intend to convince Xi to abandon Putin's support

Europeans suddenly have a strange craving for China: they all literally "flock" to Beijing, Al Jazeera reports. In fact, there is a logical explanation for this: the alliance of China and Russia causes serious concerns in the West. Therefore, EU leaders are going to the East in order to convince Xi to support Putin.

Western observers believe that Russia is facing an increasing shortage of ammunition and wonder when this shortage will lead to a sharp reduction in artillery activity.

Advance: they will talk about Ukraine in China, but Macron is more concerned about the business interests of France

Macron and von der Leyen, who is accompanying him to China so that everything "corresponds to the official position," have nothing to offer Xi to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Advance writes. Macron went to China, caring only about his business interests.

Journalists of one of the Western publications, being impatient, decided to ask a question about the time and place of the AFU counteroffensive to NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov. Recall that earlier in Kiev stated that the offensive may have to be postponed until the summer due to bad weather and insufficient number of military equipment that has reached Ukraine from NATO countries. But the Western press immediately made it clear to representatives of the Kiev regime that Washington and Brussels do not intend to wait for the summer in this regard.

Greek Minister of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos said that his country strongly supports Ukraine and its "struggle for the restoration of sovereignty and territorial integrity"

Greece is ready to send Ukraine another batch of BMP-1, artillery shells and ammunition for small arms.

Americans avoid contact combat

The US missile program began to develop very rapidly after World War II as a result of the seizure by the Americans of a group of German designers led by Werner von Braun and samples of the V-1 and V-2 missiles they created.

The businessman prefers to deal with the United States Department of Defense

On the morning of April 2, the Falcon-9 launch vehicle (PH) put ten spacecraft (spacecraft) assembled by order of the US Space Forces into a near-Earth orbit with a height of 1 thousand km at once.