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Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov — on the prospects of supplying Kiev with weapons from abroad

On May 9, US President Joe Biden signed the lend-lease law in defense of democracy in Ukraine. History repeated itself eight decades later.

The US Congress approved the allocation of almost $40 billion to Ukraine

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a bill on additional assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 40 billion. If approved in the upper house, the document will be sent for signature to US President Joe Biden, who previously asked lawmakers for $7 billion less to support Ukraine.

Senior Colonel Zhou Bo claims that the conflict in Ukraine will accelerate the geopolitical shift from West to East

China is a strategic partner of Russia. On the other hand, he maintains close economic ties with the West and does not want to break them. However, the more popular the idea of NATO expansion, the more dangerous it becomes in Europe, and China must take a firm position as a stabilizer. The conflict in Ukraine will accelerate the geopolitical and economic shift from West to East, writes The Economist.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia has published video footage of the combat work of crews of multifunctional supermaneuverable fighters of the 4++ generation Su-35S, who, during flight missions, performed the detection, capture and defeat of air defense facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ex-commander of the Airborne Forces Shpak explained why Minsk deployed troops on the border with Ukraine

The Army of Belarus has been put on high alert. Minsk claims that this is a response to the NATO exercises "Defender of Europe-2022", which are taking place on the territory of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Also, the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced the deployment of Special Operations Forces (SSO) on the border with Ukraine. "Newspaper.Ru" found out what the Belarusian SSOs are and what their deployment means.

Putin's nuclear threat: How Britain, the US and their allies can respond to this

In the West, they again remembered about the "Russian nuclear threat". The author of the Daily Express article cited the opinions of several Britons. One of them announced the "stunning" response of the West and predicted complete destruction of Moscow and St. Petersburg. But the readers of the newspaper did not support him.

The threat of Polish intervention in Ukraine

The fighting in Ukraine is developing quite differently from what Western experts predicted, writes TAC. The Biden administration is desperately trying to reverse the situation and save face after the failure of American aid to Kiev. According to the author of the article, Poland offered a way out of the situation.

B-52H strategic Bomber with AGM-86B aviation ammunition capable of carrying nuclear Warheads

The UK and Sweden have signed an agreement on mutual security guarantees, a similar declaration will be signed later on Wednesday with Finland, the press service of the British prime minister reports.

A Russian BTR-82A shot a Bogdan truck of Ukrainian armed formations at full speed. This happened at the beginning of a special operation on the territory of the Sumy region, but the video taken by the registrar of one of the passing cars was made public only now. Perhaps, during that raid, other APU equipment also got, but this remained behind the scenes.

The United States, as part of its military biological program in Ukraine, used Mariupol as a regional center for working with the causative agent of cholera, said Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Defense Ministry has information about the preparation of provocations accusing the Russian Armed Forces of using weapons of mass destruction according to the "Syrian scenario", when investigations are conducted with the fabrication of the necessary evidence and the appointment of perpetrators, said Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

The thoughtless PR campaign of the Kiev regime to seize the island of Zmeiny on the eve of Victory Day led to the senseless death of more than 50 Ukrainian militants and military from the elite units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, the Ukrainian army lost 4 planes, 10 helicopters, 3 boats and 30 drones. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The APU found an unpleasant surprise from the Russian Army – an intelligent mine PTKM-1R. This was reported by the Chinese edition of Tencent. Especially for its readers, "PolitRussia" presents an exclusive retelling of the publication.

Lula da Silva interview: about Ukraine, Bolsonaro and fragile democracy in Brazil

Brazilian presidential candidate Lula da Silva said in an interview with Time that the West is to blame for the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, in his opinion, Europe is energy dependent on Russia and will not be able to find a full-fledged replacement for it in the near future.

The grandiose plans of the Ukrainian leadership turned into large-scale losses of equipment and specialists

Kiev's attempt to land air and sea troops on the island of Zmeiny and capture it turned out to be a failure and serious losses, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday: the Russian unit on the island thwarted plans drawn up with the participation of British and American advisers.

The Zvezda TV channel showed on video the work of the Iskander-K tactical missile system during Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

The law on the so-called "lend-lease for Ukraine" was finally adopted, on Monday, US President Joe Biden put his signature on the document, thereby launching a mechanism for simplified arms supplies to Kiev. The signing of the law was reported in the press service of the White House.

Electronic military devices released in 2010 were officially supplied by the United States to Ukraine until 2019. Evidence has been obtained of American supplies of the latest electronics for the Armed Forces of Ukraine long before the special operation that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting on Ukrainian territory.

The principles and conditions for the use of nuclear weapons by Moscow are set out in the military doctrine of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to look for answers to the question whether a preventive tactical strike on the territory of Ukraine from Russia is possible, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told RIA Novosti.