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What is behind Ankara's unwillingness to agree to the "Scandinavian expansion" of NATO

The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO is blocked by Turkey, which categorically does not agree to this arrangement. The main obstacle is the Kurdish issue and the existing restrictions on the supply of weapons to Ankara. However, there are other, no less compelling reasons. Hamshahri writes about them.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Monday, May 23, demonstrated footage of combat sorties of Su-35S fighters of the Western Military District (ZVO) to destroy military infrastructure facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) during a special military operation to protect Donbass.

The European Union has lost its main stocks of military equipment, this was caused by the support of Ukraine, under which the EU supplies weapons to Kiev. This was stated by the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrel.

US and NATO warships need to return to the Black Sea, so Joe Biden must convince Erdogan to open the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits, closed after the start of the conflict in Ukraine. Seth Cropsey, a former assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations, came to this opinion in his article for The Hill newspaper.

The UK and other NATO countries are discussing the possibility of supplying weapons to Moldova. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the British Foreign Ministry Liz Truss in an interview with the Telegraph.

The Czech Republic supplied the Ukrainian military with self-propelled artillery units (ACS) vz.77 Dana 152 mm caliber. In the publication of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the installations were called outdated.

The Russian aviation complex of electronic warfare "Khibiny", used on front-line bombers Su-34, will be upgraded. This decision was made following the results of the use of aircraft with an electronic warfare system during a special military operation in Ukraine.

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska urged to remember the danger of nuclear war and the words of one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, academician Andrei Sakharov, that this is "collective suicide."

The United States is ready to send weapons to Moldova if the country's government asks for it. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated on May 22 at a briefing in Chisinau by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives, Gregory Mix.

Taipei has another reason to worry. The fact is that Chinese marines are practicing landing on the coast of Taiwan during naval exercises.

NATO should not be led by Erdogan, the alliance needs to "risk a conflict" with Turkey, thereby inciting it to cooperate. This opinion was expressed by Der Spiegel journalist Maximilian Popp.

The Russian military destroyed the equipment of the 10th brigade of the Ukrainian army being transferred to Donbass. This was announced at a briefing by the representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The Russian military has begun to mine the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Beijing criticized the words of US President Joe Biden about the US readiness to use military means to "protect Taiwan", pointed out that the Taiwan issue is an internal matter of the PRC.

The allocation by the United States of new aid to Ukraine in the amount of $ 40 billion, of which about $ 20 billion will go to arms supplies, may move Washington to transfer to Kiev the American HIMARS MLRS with a firing range of up to 70 km. Also, a number of military experts do not exclude that the United States may supply Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine in order to close the skies for Russian aviation.

"Navy seals" are called special purpose units of the US Navy SEAL, which include the crews of special purpose warships and the Special forces themselves. For many decades, Navy seals have participated in special operations around the world – in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. But now the confrontation with Russia and China is coming to the fore.

Arguments against Finland joining NATO

Today is the time to reduce the US presence in Europe, not expand it, writes TNI. The publication cites experts' calculations, according to which Finland's accession to NATO will cost America from one to five billion dollars in advance and from 550 to 730 million dollars a year.

The German press writes about the problems that arise for Ukraine in terms of the implementation by the German government of sending heavy equipment for the needs of the Armed Forces. We are talking about Berlin's promised deliveries of the Marder BMP to Kiev.

The efficiency of Turkish UAVs is rapidly falling, they are already worse than Chinese commercial quadrocopters

A scan of an alleged letter from Andrei Ermak, head of the office of the President (OP) of Ukraine, to the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, appeared in Ukrnet, which states Baykar Makina's concern about the weak effectiveness of the Bayraktar TB2 UAV in the Ukrainian theater of operations.

The Broken Socket

The "Pearl of Taiwan" is called the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing company – TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company).