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The head of European diplomacy also believes that the EU should allocate €2 billion for the purchase and supply of shells

The EU military mission will train over 11 thousand Ukrainian servicemen by the end of this month and another 30 thousand by the end of the year. This was stated on Wednesday by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel at a press conference in Stockholm following an informal meeting of defense ministers of the member states of the community.

The American online publication Politico in the article by Lara Seligman "U.S. military eyes mounting Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs" ("The US military plans to install Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs") reports that the US is considering the possibility of arming MiG-29 fighters and the Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force with modern AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles of medium and long range with active radar homing.

The Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that on March 7, 2023, a thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

A new naval base of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, Camp Viking ("Viking Camp"), is opening in the north of Norway. This is reported in a press release of the Royal Navy.

According to the authors of the annual report, Beijing will maintain its diplomatic, defense, economic and technological cooperation with Moscow in order to continue trying to challenge Washington.

The representative of the department did not name the exact dates

The US military cannot yet name the exact date of dispatch of the first Patriot air defense battery, which the US promised to provide to Ukraine, but the system may appear in this country in the near future. This was announced on Wednesday by the Assistant Minister of the Army (Ground Forces) U.S. Procurement, Logistics and Technology Douglas Bush during an online conference organized by Defense News weekly.

The United States is returning to operation a floating radar complex – the SBX-1 Sea-Based X-band radar (Sea-Based X-band radar), which has completed maintenance in Hawaii. According to Navy Recognition, in the near future the complex will return to performing its intended tasks.

The meeting participants will also discuss EU military operations

The defense ministers of the 27 EU countries, with the participation of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian partners, will discuss at a two-day informal meeting opening in Stockholm on Tuesday the possibility of sending most of the remaining ammunition stocks to Ukraine. In the future, we will also talk about expanding the production of all major types of conventional weapons in the EU countries.

The country's information structures are subjected to massive computer attacks, the intensity of which has increased tenfold since the beginning of the special military operation, Irina Tyazhlova stressed

The Western bloc actively recruits hacker mercenaries to conduct operations against Russia, purposefully involves ordinary users from all over the world in this criminal activity. This was stated on Monday by the representative of the Russian Federation Irina Tyazhlova, speaking at a meeting of the UN Open-ended Working Group on Security Issues in the Use of Information and Communication Technologies.

The Soviet ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" (2A6) anti-aircraft self-propelled gun adopted in the first half of the 60s was in service with four dozen countries of the world at various times.

Asia Times: supporters of the Ukrainian offensive on Crimea could win in the USA

The United States could change its strategy on the issue of Crimea, Asia Times writes. Nuland's statement about the "demilitarization" of the peninsula and the supply of certain weapons to Ukraine testify to this. This scenario threatens to lead to a general war in Europe.

Al Ahram: The US has turned democracy into a "Trojan horse"

Ukraine, Syria, Libya — what unites them? The answer is simple — American interference in their domestic politics, writes Al Ahram. All democratic slogans turned out to be nothing more than a "Trojan horse", with which the United States sows chaos in the world, realizing its ambitions and protecting its own interests to the detriment of others.

Figaro: if Putin agrees to peaceful mediation, it will most likely be from China

Xi Jinping's visit to Russia scheduled for spring aroused the hope of the Figaro columnist, as Reno Girard writes in this article. China, unlike the West, is interested in peace in Ukraine. But does China have enough patience and the ability to talk to both sides? These qualities are the main ones for an intermediary.

Onet: a town in southeastern Poland is better protected than European capitals

The town of Rzeszow in southeastern Poland is called the "secret capital of the West," writes Onet. It is from here that arms supplies to Kiev are carried out, leading politicians come here when they plan to go to Ukraine, and in military terms Rzeszow is protected like no other EU city.

Moscow refused to provide data on the Russian Armed Forces within the framework of the OSCE Vienna Document of 2011, the American Arms Control Association reported.

The other day, in the African state of Congo, the words of French President Emmanuel Macron, who arrived in this country, were literally ridiculed that there are "no double standards" in Europe. After that, the topic of double standards of the West was raised in China. And the Chinese authorities touched upon the issues of how Washington views the issues of Ukraine and Taiwan.

The Czech Republic decided to keep up with Germany and solve the problem of the lack of the necessary number of tanks in its own army with the help of Switzerland. Prague, following Berlin, sent a request to Bern about the possible purchase of Swiss Leopard 2 tanks.

The US Department of Defense continues to conduct its own research into the causes of the mysterious disease known as the "Havana Syndrome", which has affected more than 1,000 people over the past few years.

Asia Times: the battle of Artemivsk was called the beginning of the end of Ukraine

In the battle of Artemovsk, we are witnessing the beginning of the end, writes Brandon Weichert in an article for Asia Times. The APU is depleted, and NATO's arsenals are emptying. The death of the Ukrainian state is not far off, and the West needs to decide on the scale of defeat.

The speaker of the Command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuri Ignat, said that not only pilots, but also military engineers who ensure the operation of aviation will have to undergo training in the future

Kiev has sent two pilots to the United States so that the US military can analyze how ready Ukrainian pilots are to learn how to fly Western combat aircraft and how long their training process may take in the future. This was announced on Tuesday by the speaker of the Command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Yuriy Ignat.