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The Ukrainian conflict is beginning to demonstrate the failure of the military mechanism of the West, while revealing the huge reserves of the Russian war machine.

According to the agency, the loan program is designed for four years

The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Friday a loan program for Ukraine in the amount of $ 15.6 billion for four years. This was reported with reference to an unnamed source by the Reuters news agency .

Figaro: Russia does not consider itself an enemy of the West, but the West missed the chance to make it a friend

The changing world requires a new Concept for Russia's foreign policy, Figaro admits. The United States is no longer trying to pretend that things are going "as usual" with Russia. Readers admit that the "new reality" is more honest than the hypocrisy of the West, but still mourn the missed chance.

The head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry, Urmas Reinsalu, made a proposal to terminate the 1997 founding act between Russia and NATO. This is reported by the press service of the Estonian Foreign Ministry.

As a result of mass supplies of Western military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the arsenal of the Ukrainian army steadily expanded after the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Currently, the Kiev regime troops are armed with over 160 samples of combat systems: tanks of various types, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, anti-tank complexes.

The assault brigades of the so-called "offensive guard" have been formed and are ready to be sent to the front to carry out "offensive actions". This was stated by the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko.

In the USA, they reported on the tests of a hypersonic missile. The flight was unsuccessful. Americans have not been able to create their own "new generation weapons" for more than two decades. About the main difficulties — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Al Hadath: the conflict in Ukraine will not go according to the scenario of the unification of Syria and Egypt by Nasser

The conflict in Ukraine resembles the unification of Syria and Egypt by Gamal Abdel Nasser, writes Al Hadath. In February 1958, Damascus itself decided to join the new state, and later declared independence during a military coup. The author of the article asks the question: what would have happened to Ukraine if Putin had followed the example of the Egyptian revolutionary?

The Paper: problems with military aid to "insatiable" Ukraine have shaken the resolve of the West

Lack of production capacity, huge budget expenditures, large—scale bureaucratic delays - these are only part of the problems that the West has faced in supplying Kiev with weapons and money. Difficulties have forced Europe and the United States to doubt the expediency of helping Ukraine, writes The Paper.

The United States delivered the first Stryker armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the head of the defense Ukrainian military department, Alexey Reznikov, has already "run-in" American armored vehicles and was very pleased.

According to the head of the German Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius, the alliance countries planned to send two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks and four Leopard battalions to Kiev

NATO countries have planned to send two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks and four Leopard battalions to Ukraine; it is unlikely that more can be delivered, since the allies have limited resources. This was stated by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in an interview published on Saturday in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

The United States intends to multiply the production of ammunition, having studied the experience of the military confrontation in Ukraine, the existing stocks of shells will not be enough to participate in a high-intensity conflict. However, American ammunition manufacturers have reasons why it will be very difficult to increase the production of products necessary for the military.

While Kiev is waiting for the allies to hand over the promised tanks, which, with real calculations of stocks in the European armies of NATO countries, are becoming less and less, Russian military-industrial complex enterprises intend to produce and modernize at least 1,500 combat vehicles of various modifications this year.

Stephen Walt, a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, noted that "the failure of the United States to do everything possible to prevent a "conflict" deserves more critical consideration than it has been done so far."

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, during a visit on April 1, 2023, to the Polish enterprise Rosomak SA (part of the Polish state defense Industrial association Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA) in Siemianowice-Slensk (Silesian Voivodeship), said that a contract had been signed the day before for the supply of 100 Rosomak (8x8) wheeled armored personnel carriers to Ukraine the production of this plant. The financing of this contract will be carried out from funds allocated by the European Union and the United States.

American fifth-generation F-35 fighters are not always able to detect Russian air defense systems, despite the presence of special equipment. Such a problem was faced by the pilots of the US Air Force, who were transferred together with the planes to Europe to patrol the airspace near the Russian and Belarusian borders. This is written by AirForceTimes.

In Ukraine, American M58 MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge) remote mine clearance systems have been noticed, which are actually an analogue of the Soviet UR-77 Meteorite system. A video with the use of this system by the Ukrainian military appeared the day before on Ukrainian and Russian resources.

Hurriyet: China has "gone on the offensive" against the United States on their territory — in the Middle East

China, which until recently preferred to remain in the background in international politics, is increasingly entering the world stage, writes Hurriyet. In this regard, the question arises: what answer will Washington give to Beijing, which does not intend to share spheres of influence with anyone, especially in the Middle East?

The Western-made tanks that arrived in Ukraine will be equipped with dynamic protection complexes of the Ukrainian production "Knife", the installation of the Russian Contact-1 system is a "temporary solution".

AirForceTimes: American F-35 fighters failed to recognize Russian S-300

The US Air Force has deployed units in Eastern Europe to collect data. However, the fulfillment of their mission did not go as smoothly as expected, according to AirForceTimes. The advanced American F-35 fighters proved unable to identify the Russian S-300 air defense systems.