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Yang Guangbin: The Age-old struggle of the Russians and the reconstruction of the world order

For a hundred years, the Russians have been fighting the world order, dominated by the United Kingdom and the United States, and conquered half the world. This time they launched a "special operation" to protect their national security and directly oppose the entire Western world, according to the rector of the Institute of International Relations of the People's University of China.

On Sunday, May 1, fierce fighting broke out in the northern Iraqi province of Sinjar between units of the Iraqi armed forces and the Resistance Units of Sinjar, a local armed formation consisting of Yezidis. Recall that the Yezidis are a Kurdish people who profess the ancient religion of Yezidism and inhabit the northern regions of Iraq.

Supersonic cruise missiles "Onyx" destroyed hangars with foreign weapons in Odessa, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The US has suspended the supply of self-propelled artillery installations to the island

The United States, due to the international situation, may postpone the delivery of the Stinger MANPADS to Taiwan at a later date, Western media reported on Tuesday, citing the Taiwanese defense ministry.

The Russian President signed a decree on retaliatory sanctions measures against those countries that had previously imposed several packages of anti-Russian sanctions. The decree is called "On the application of special economic measures in connection with the unfriendly actions of some foreign States and international organizations."

The situation in Ukraine will have significant consequences for Sweden, the defense budget will be increased as quickly as possible, security issues also include debates about possible NATO membership, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson told reporters on the sidelines of a visiting meeting of the German government.

According to the German newspaper Welt, the German government still decided to provide military assistance to Ukraine in the form of the supply of self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000, which are in service with the German army.

The Ukrainian ambassador in London, Vadim Pristayko, said in an interview with British media that Kiev refuses peace talks with Moscow and intends to return the occupied territories by military means. According to Prystaiko, the reason for this decision was the events in Bucha.

The commander of the battalion "Rus" of the army of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) told Izvestia about the tactics of the Ukrainian military near Donetsk.

May 2 marks the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War by the British nuclear submarine Conqueror. For almost 40 years, the cruiser General Belgrano was considered the largest warship lost at sea after the Second World War. The events of the last month have made the story of the death of this ship relevant again.

"We fully believed that the police would come to our aid, but they did not come" — eight years ago, as a result of violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Euromaidan, the Odessa House of Trade Unions broke out. This fire was one of the largest in terms of the number of victims: 42 people died from fire, smoke and injuries. About the events of May 2, 2014 and their historical consequences — in the material of RIA Novosti.

What does the participation of four Arab defense ministers in the conference on arming and supporting Ukraine initiated by the Americans mean?

Morocco, Jordan, Qatar and Tunisia took part in the conference in support of Ukraine. However, there were no representatives of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, most of the countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arab Maghreb Union. What will be Russia's response?

In the near future, the Republic of Korea will acquire SM-6 missiles for the KDX III Batch II destroyers. The SM-6 missile, also known as the RIM-174 extended-range anti-aircraft missile (ERAM), is capable of performing air and missile defense tasks, as well as combating surface targets.

Russia's tactical aviation destroyed up to 160 Ukrainian military. This was announced on Monday, May 2, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of combat work during a special operation in Ukraine of the calculation of the Iskander-M tactical missile system.

The plot is short - it lasts just over two minutes. But the video captures the main stages of preparation for firing, the rocket launch itself and the results of the enemy's fire defeat.

A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet was destroyed in an air battle near Slavyansk, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

Germany faced a problem when planning the transfer of Gepard 1A2 anti-aircraft self-propelled guns to Ukraine, removed from the Bundeswehr armament more than 20 years ago and stored by the manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. As already reported, Berlin simply does not have shells for these anti-aircraft installations.

Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok called the minus of air defense systems that the West handed over to the APU

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly asked the United States and other NATO countries to "close the sky" over the country, but instead the collective West has limited itself to the supply of anti-aircraft missile technology. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok figured out what kind of weapons Kiev received and whether it would help the APU.

Finland has terminated the contract with Rosatom for the construction of a nuclear power plant. However, for Russia, the outcome of this project is, one might say, a great success, because Rosatom signed up here for financially unfavorable conditions. It is better to exit the project now, while the main investments have not yet been made. Why did the state corporation fit into this project? And what economic benefits is Finland depriving itself of?

An extremely remarkable video was released by the Japanese TV channel ANN News. The story, which was released a few days ago, showed tank exercises on the island of Hokkaido in the context of preparation for a possible military clash with the Russian Federation.