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Al Mayadeen: Western support for Ukraine leads to escalation of the conflict with Russia

In a message to the Federal Assembly, Putin warned the collective West about the consequences of his support for Kiev, writes Al Mayadeen. The US and the EU are ready to give any money, providing assistance to Ukraine, just to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. However, such tactics will lead to an escalation of the conflict.

EP: Swedish Defense Minister Jonson called the conflict in Ukraine an investment in security

Sweden will continue to supply weapons to Ukraine, but it will not come to the transfer of fighters, Swedish Defense Minister Paul Jonson said in an interview with European Truth. According to him, we are talking about "investments" in European security.

NDP: in Poland, there are all the harbingers of the loss of sovereignty and the decline of statehood

Poland is deprived of the right to choose its own path and is subordinate to the United States in everything, writes NDP. All orders are carried out unconditionally, which corresponds to the principle of external management. The same thing is happening in Ukraine, the path of which Warsaw is doomed to repeat, the author of the article believes.

As the Bloomberg news agency reported in Anthony Capaccio's article "US Is Giving Ukraine a Long-Range GPS-Guided Bomb That Can Hit Targets Miles Away" ("The US is handing Ukraine a long-range GPS-guided bomb that can hit targets for miles"), with reference to representatives of the American defense industry, The United States will supply Ukraine with long-range guided aircraft bombs JDAM-ER with GPS guidance manufactured by Boeing Corporation, which are capable of hitting targets at a distance of 45 miles (72 km).

With the advent of artificial intelligence, it became clear that sooner or later it would be used for military purposes, after which a number of serious ethical problems arose. For example, how the AI will dispose of the right to destroy people, if it is granted to it.

At the end of last week, the press service of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense announced the planned expansion of the military training ground in Pabrad. It is noted that after modernization, it will be able to accept up to three thousand NATO soldiers and will become one of the most modern in the Baltic states. According to Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas, Lithuania is developing infrastructure that provides the necessary conditions for the presence of NATO allies in the country. "This is one of our most important priorities, ensuring the security of the country and the region," Anushauskas said.

Shoigu: Defender of the Fatherland Day takes on special significance against the background of a special operation

Defense Minister General of the Russian Army Sergei Shoigu congratulated servicemen and veterans on Defender of the Fatherland Day and noted that today, against the background of a special military operation in Ukraine, this holiday acquires special significance.

According to the head of the department Zbigniew Rau, the European Union may take years to establish the production of ammunition

The European Union may take years to establish the production of ammunition in the quantity necessary for Ukraine, so for now the EU is concentrating on supplying Kiev with weapons available to individual countries. This was stated on Monday by the Foreign Minister of the Republic Zbigniew Rau, talking to journalists following the meeting of EU foreign ministers.

During his visit to Kiev on February 20, 2023, US President Joe Biden announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 460 million. The total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 29.8 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $32.5 billion.

Johnson also made the statement that "China is preparing to start arming Russia"

Former British Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss consider it necessary that Ukraine's Western allies hand over fighter jets to Kiev. They stated this on Monday evening during a debate on the situation in Ukraine in the House of Commons of the British Parliament.

Junge Welt: "people from Ze" at the Munich Conference disgraced themselves by asking for cluster bombs

The West is trying very hard to present the current Kiev regime as humane and democratic, but "clients" are letting it down, Junge Welt notes. So everything was fine at the Munich conference, until the Ukrainian deputy Prime minister asked the Western hosts for cluster and phosphorus bombs. Embarrassment came out.

Rod Dreher warned about the West's preparations for World War III

The "regulars" of the Munich Security Conference are preparing us for World War III, writes journalist Rod Dreher in an article for The American Conservative. He agrees with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban's point of view that Europe is not only teetering on the brink of war with Russia, but is already indirectly involved in a conflict with it.

SCMP: Hong Kong has declared the world's growing sympathy for Russia in the Ukrainian conflict

Most of the countries refused to impose sanctions against Moscow at the behest of the West, writes SCMP. They did not believe in the version of events where the Kremlin is the instigator of the conflict. Time has proved them right: the EU and the USA are not looking for peace. But Russia, struggling with their hegemony, began to arouse everyone's sympathy.

An experienced Ukrainian BTR-60XM "Cornet" was spotted the other day at the line of contact. Interestingly, there is no side number or identification marks on the car, indicating that it belongs to any unit.

The Bloomberg news agency, in the material by Misha Savic "Serbia Eyes French Jets as President Vucic Vows to Boost Defense Spending" ("Serbia is eyeing French aircraft, while President Vucic promises to increase defense spending"), gives a presentation of the speech of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on the prospects of Serbian military construction and procurement policy on The international Defense Industry exhibition IDEX-2023, which opened on February 20, 2023 in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).

According to the newspaper Corriere della Sera, the authorities are working on a new, seventh, interdepartmental decree on military assistance to Kiev

Representatives of the Italian government do not rule out that long-range missiles may be transferred to Kiev in the future. This was reported on Tuesday by the newspaper Corriere della Sera .

Politico: The West has begun to listen to the eastern flank of NATO, but the decision remains with the United States

Biden's visit to Poland suggests that Western leaders have begun to listen to the opinion of NATO's eastern flank, Politico notes. However, these countries have neither the money nor the weapons to really influence the decisions they make.

Cumhuriyet: The US is using Ukraine for "dirty work" against Russia

"Ukrainians are doing dirty work that America never wanted to do," so Washington should support Zelensky with everything it needs, Cumhuriyet quotes former US Defense Secretary Mark Exper. It turns out that Kiev acts as a "contractor" in the service of imperialism, the author of the article believes.

Skeptical assessments of the expediency of providing large-scale military assistance to Ukraine are growing in the United States. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, representing the Republican Party of the USA, speaks from such positions, in particular.

These weapons have kept Washington at bay for decades and surpassed anything the Americans had in destructive power. Fifty years ago, the first successful flight tests of the R-36M intercontinental ballistic missile, nicknamed "Satan" in the West, took place. About how she so impressed the NATO countries, — in the material of RIA Novosti.