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NATO and the West should heed Russia's warnings and prevent a nuclear catastrophe

The West should not ignore Moscow's warnings about the possible use of nuclear weapons, writes the South China Morning Post. NATO no longer attached due importance to Russia's demand for non-expansion to the east, the author recalls. Everyone knows how it ended.

At a hearing before the US Senate Armed Services Committee on May 5, 2022, US Army Secretary Christine Wormut announced that in the summer of 2022, the United States Army Alaska - USARAK, stationed at the Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Military Base, would be reorganized into the management of the new 11th Airborne Division (11th Airborne Division), which will include two brigades currently in Alaska (1st and 4th) of the 25th Infantry Division, which is controlled in Hawaii. Thus, the second (after the famous 82nd) airborne division will be created as part of the American army.

The Ministry of Defense has published footage of the combat work of calculations of 203-mm self-propelled artillery units "Malka" in a special military operation.

Ukraine will not receive tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the NATO standard, this position has been adopted by a number of Western countries that are suppliers of "military assistance" to Kiev. This was stated by the State Secretary of the German Ministry of Defense and Bundestag deputy Zimtje Meller.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a statement in an interview with Western journalists about what is happening in Ukraine. According to Abe, an interview with whom The Economist publishes, fighting on the territory of Ukraine could have been avoided if at one time the West, led by the United States and specifically the American president, had been able to influence the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky.

The West, showing anti-Russian solidarity, is trying to stuff Ukraine with weapons that are expected to contain the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Along with the supply of thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, dozens of types of armored vehicles are being transferred. Australia, whose authorities consider the country to be a "civilized" Western world, has also contributed to the buildup of the military potential of the independent.

It can deliver a payload to anywhere in the world

The Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is the only missile that can fly around the entire globe and deliver a payload to anywhere in the world.

The range of Sarmat's combat equipment has been expanded, including in terms of the number of combat units and types, including planning hypersonic units

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will carry hypersonic and cruise warheads of a large power class.

Vladimir Ermakov, Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, spoke in an exclusive interview with TASS about Washington's role in illegal biological activities in Ukraine, and also answered questions about new weapons of Russia and the United States.

This is stated in the SBU report on the military-political activity of the United States in Ukraine, written in 2017

The Security Service of Ukraine recorded the likelihood that the United States is using cooperation with Ukrainian laboratories to develop biological weapons.

The Russian military reports almost daily about enemy planes and helicopters shot down in the Ukrainian sky. However, back in March, it was reported that "almost all" combat-ready aircraft of the Kiev regime had been destroyed. It turns out that Ukraine receives aircraft from abroad and somehow manages to quickly repair damaged cars. What do the Ukrainian Air Force fly and how combat-ready are they still?

The United States seems to have decided to further raise the stakes in the Ukrainian conflict – it was decided to supply Kiev with weapons of terrible destructive power. The M142 Himars missile systems are comparable to the Russian Iskanders and can give Ukraine the opportunity to strike far into the territory of Russia. But this is theoretical. What will actually happen?

Thousands of tons of enriched uranium and plutonium have been found at the Ukrainian Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which is currently controlled by Russia. The IAEA is seriously concerned about this circumstance, and for good reason. Could these stocks have become raw materials for Ukraine to create nuclear weapons, and if so, how exactly?

Boris Johnson proposed to Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine to create a new alliance directed against Russia, the Italian press reports. According to the British Prime Minister, the "political, economic and military alliance" should become an alternative to the EU and, in addition to Russia, resist Germany. What are London's goals and what are the prospects for Britain to lead a new force in Europe?

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that now there are more than 160 Russian satellites in orbit (including military ones). According to him, "this is not enough, there should be thousands." But will the Russian economy be able to pull the development, creation and launch of thousands of spacecraft? And will our allies in other countries help us to implement this idea?

The Ukrainian army has been replenished with modern self-propelled howitzers of 155 mm caliber. According to the Polish press, Warsaw handed over Krab self-propelled artillery units of its own production to Kiev.

The Turkish military will be ready to conduct an operation against Kurdish militants in northern Syria, regardless of the US position on this issue, Turkish President Recep Erdogan said on Sunday.

Who would have thought in the IV century BC that the principle, which at that time was first formulated by the father of Alexander the Great – Tsar Philip, in more than two thousand years would become the basic law for the rulers of a country whose history today has less than two and a half centuries? 

Arms shipments from the US to Taiwan will provoke Beijing to use force

The United States is ready to supply weapons to Taiwan "following the example of Ukraine," but at the same time does not want to participate in a possible armed conflict between Beijing and Taipei. Washington's plans were reported by The New York Times newspaper, citing sources in the American government. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out exactly what the US supplies and what it can lead to.

The whole military era went down with the cruiser "Moscow"

An American military expert writes in The Atlantic that the Ukrainian conflict forces the United States to take a new look at the war. The states are lagging behind, it is necessary to invest in new technologies and rather create an "army of tomorrow," he writes.