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Global Times (China): obituary on the death of NATO

The caustic material of the Global Times, close to the CPC Central Committee, "To the Death of NATO." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization suffers from "brain death", severe split personality and lies, as well as irrepressible perverted ambitions. Patients do not live long with such symptoms. Now NATO is already close to death, but it is still swaggering. As the proverb says: "He will die, but he will not lie down."

The American Conservative(USA): Biden's stupidity in Ukraine

The desire to promote NATO to Russia's western borders at the expense of Ukraine may well be considered the greatest foreign policy mistake of the United States since World War II, the author of The American Conservative is convinced. But Washington learns nothing and remembers nothing.

Washington plans to transfer to Kiev a large batch of Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicles ("Switchblade"). Small-sized drones belong to the class of barrage ammunition, it is an effective weapon at the tactical level. But the Russian army has something to answer.

A video of the suppression of nationalist firing points in Mariupol by fire of armored vehicles, tanks and BTR-82A appeared on the Network. The video was shot by action cameras mounted on the armor.

Federación de Periodistas del Perú (Peru): They want to erase Russia from the map and from history

Rewriting history happens often, writes FPP. Especially often – in relation to Russia. The author of the article is looking for the roots of Western fear of Moscow and calls for a sober look at what is happening.

High-ranking general: the likelihood of a "serious international conflict" is increasing (CNN, USA)

The world based on "US rules" is becoming increasingly unstable, the US general said at a congressional hearing. The Pentagon is going to strengthen the confrontation with Russia in Europe.

There were shots with preliminary consequences of a missile strike inflicted on the facility of the fuel and energy complex of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region. We are talking about the fuel terminal, which was located on the territory of the Novomoskovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted targeted strikes with missile weapons, completely eliminating the reserves of petroleum products that were used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist armed formations.

The United States and Israel have approved Germany's acquisition of the Israeli Arrow-3 missile defense system (Arrow 3 or Hetz 3). As The Jerusalem Post reminds, in early April 2022, Germany announced its interest in acquiring an Israeli-made missile defense system to protect against modern air threats, including (mainly) Russian Iskander missiles based in Kaliningrad.

Experts explained why Joe Biden refused SLCM-N missiles

US President Joe Biden canceled the program to create a sea-based nuclear cruise missile, which was adopted by Donald Trump in 2018. It was supposed to be the "American response" to the tactical nuclear complexes of Russia and China. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why the American leader did it.

NASA astronaut Vande Hai told how the events in Ukraine affected the work of the ISS

American astronaut Mark Vande Hai gave his first interview after returning to Earth. In it, he spoke about his impressions of almost a year on the ISS, about the yellow and blue suits of astronauts and how the situation in Ukraine affected the crew members.

The Drive (USA): the newest hypersonic cruise missile of the USA made a secret test flight

The United States announced a successful test of hypersonic weapons, writes The Drive. But it's too early for Americans to rejoice, because such "successful tests" have been going on for more than ten years.

The Russian Armed Forces are ready to ensure the entry of ships into and out of the port of Berdyansk for evacuation

The Russian armed forces continue to destroy the military infrastructure of Ukraine. On April 4, the Russian military struck 31 targets. Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complexes, command posts and communication centers, fuel and ammunition storage facilities were hit. Fighting continues in Mariupol. The command of the Russian Federation offered the Ukrainian militants to lay down their arms and go in the direction of Zaporozhye to the territories controlled by Kiev. Meanwhile, the Russian servicemen who returned from captivity confirmed the facts of torture, bullying and murder.

Special forces of the Rosgvardiya in the Kharkiv region found a warehouse of equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was carefully disguised as a storage base for agricultural machinery.

The West has excluded Russia from international law and believes that anything can be done with regard to this country, including with regard to captured soldiers, whose information about torture by Ukrainian nationalists turns a blind eye, said MGIMO professor, program director of the Valdai Club, in an interview with Izvestia on Wednesday, April 6." Oleg Barabanov.

Kiev notified Britain that it refused to comply with the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War

The Kiev regime applies torture and violence to Russian servicemen akin to punishers during the Great Patriotic War, and the UN, OSCE and ICRC do not notice this, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.

Ministry of Defense: The United States has spent more than five billion dollars on biolabs over 17 years

The total amount of funding for Pentagon contractors associated with the program for the construction of biological laboratories around the world has exceeded $ 5 billion since 2005, the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Federation Igor Kirillov said at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council.

Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov — about the first two Naval formations that received elite status

At the end of March, two Marine corps formations — the 155th Separate Brigade and the 126th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade - received the honorary name "guards". Military units of the Navy are marked with this status for the first time since the Great Patriotic War. Why did these brigades receive a high rank?

Russia has appealed to the UN, OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as to the leadership of Germany, Turkey and France to demand that Ukraine allow the ICRC to Russian prisoners of war, about the conditions of detention and medical condition of which little is known, said on Wednesday the head of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response in Ukraine – the head of the National The Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.

What military equipment and why does Eastern Europe promise to transfer to the APU

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that "it is necessary to have time to rearm Ukrainian troops in the coming weeks." How the alliance is going to rearm Ukraine and how realistic it is - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

Bloomberg (USA): the head of EU diplomacy called the summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dialogue of the deaf"

The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, called the negotiations of the bloc's representatives with Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dialogue of the deaf," Bloomberg reports. At the same time, the diplomat questioned Beijing's readiness to cooperate with the West in order to complete Russia's special operation in Ukraine.