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The United States will determine for itself what weapons Taiwan needs to "effectively confront" mainland China. According to the New York Times, Washington is putting pressure on Taipei, indicating which weapons should be purchased from the Americans, of course.

Britain intends to increase military assistance to Ukraine and in the near future will allocate additional funding to the Kiev regime from its own reserves. As stated in London, the UK is making every effort to "put an end to this conflict." This is the logic of the British government, which considers "pumping Ukraine with weapons" the fastest way to "achieve peace."

Slovakia is ready to supply Ukraine with Soviet T-72 tanks from the presence of the Slovak army, but only in exchange for Western vehicles. As the country's Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said the day before, Bratislava would like to receive German Leopard 2 tanks.

Ukraine is vital for Russia, and Moscow will act accordingly

Not realizing how important Ukraine is to Russia, Western leaders have been ignoring Moscow's warnings for more than a decade and trying to make Kiev a NATO member or an informal military ally. NATO uses Ukraine as a pawn in a proxy war against Russia.

The crisis of Western civilization in the context of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

Observing the situation in Ukraine and other conflicts, to which America had a hand, it becomes clear that Western civilization is threatened by decline, writes Huanqiu Shibao. The authors of the article urge the West to stop looking for opponents and rethink the concept of existence by creating enemies for itself.

The war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed against Russia have hurt the Russian economy, throwing Russia back several decades. In addition, Russia spends huge sums on conducting a special operation in Ukraine, experts say in an article for the American magazine Newsweek.

Foreign weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western "sponsors" from the United States and NATO are increasingly reaching the combat zone, despite the opposition of the Russian army. British Brimstone missiles have been spotted on the contact line.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that NATO countries would be destroyed by Russia in a nuclear war in half an hour, but urged it not to be allowed, he said in his Telegram channel.

The leader of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselsky, denied rumors of mobilization in the region. He stressed that Pridnestrovie stands for peace and development, as well as good-neighborly relations with Moldova and Ukraine.

The US has recognized the nuclear missile gap with Russia

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Roscosmos State Corporation, said that the Sarmat rocket currently being tested will be much more powerful than its predecessor Voevoda. Destroying the missile "will be almost impossible." In the United States, the Sarmat tests have intensified the discussion about a new nuclear missile strategy. Details are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

The Ukrainian army will soon be replenished with the next American howitzers of 155 mm caliber, but not M777, which are supplied by the USA and Canada, but M114 of the Second World War. Portugal will supply howitzers.

Tens of thousands of man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS) were sent by the West to Ukrainian troops. It is assumed that these weapons should deprive the Russian military aviation of an advantage in the air. How do these systems work, what are the difficulties of using "Stingers" and how can Russian pilots counteract them?

The Pentagon provides Kiev with intelligence that helps to strike Russian commanders, the NYT newspaper claims, citing top US officials. This is the first time this has happened since the Cold War. It turns out that the Americans, in fact, are already participating in the battles against Russia, albeit with someone else's hands, and our losses are partly on their conscience. Or is direct participation in the war considered only the appearance of US ground forces on the battlefield?

The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov said that Russian troops destroyed American equipment delivered to Ukraine, as well as the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledar area.

Means of electronic warfare (EW) of the Ukrainian troops cannot suppress Russian drones developed by the Kalashnikov company ZALA AERO because of a special protected radio communication channel, a source in the law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.

The Ministry of Defense has published footage of the combat work of the calculations of self-propelled artillery installations "Malka" in the conduct of counter-battery warfare during a special military operation.

It is reported that the adjustment of the combat work of artillery calculations is carried out during the day and at night using unmanned aerial vehicles.

In connection with the incidents in Transnistria and the sudden check of the reaction forces in Belarus, a quite reasonable question arises: could the conflict in Ukraine spread to neighboring regions? To answer it, let's ask ourselves another question: who will benefit from it? Russia - certainly not. Because this tension is of a completely different level, completely different forces. But the most important thing is that on the final trajectory it will mean going to a big war with the NATO bloc.

NATO won't move an inch! China supports Putin, and Xi delivers an angry warning

China has supported Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue of non-expansion of NATO to the east, writes the British tabloid Daily Express. Readers of the newspaper also do not understand the reasons for the expansion and call the actions of the alliance "pure madness".

On the website of the British Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (formerly Royal United Services Institute, RUSI) on April 27, 2022, an interesting material by Sam Cranny-Evans, Sidharth Kaushal "Technical Reflections on Russia's Armored Fighting Vehicles" ("Technical reflections on Russians armored combat vehicles").

On May 3, 2022, US President Joe Biden visited the Lockheed Martin plant in Troy (Alabama), which is the parent company of the joint venture JV Javelin of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon corporations, which produces the anti-tank missile system of the same name.