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Military expert Belousov named three problems with the supply of German IRIS-T air defense systems to Kiev

Germany is ready to supply Ukraine with modern IRIS-T air defense systems, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. However, the Bundeswehr has no extra systems, and the production of new ones will take several months. "Newspaper.Ru" was looking into what IRIS-T is capable of and why there may be difficulties with its supplies to the APU.

On June 1, 2022, US President Joe Biden announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine. According to the US Department of Defense, the volume of the new package is $ 700 million. The total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $4.6 billion. side.

The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned about reports of a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry understands Turkey's concerns in connection with threats to national security emanating from the border areas of the SAR.

Following the decision announced by the United States on June 1, 2022 to transfer the M142 HIMARS ground-based missile systems with high-precision GMLRS missiles to Ukraine as military assistance, it became known about the intentions of Germany and Great Britain to transfer to Ukraine from the presence of their armed forces upgraded missile systems (multiple launch rocket systems) of American production M270 MLRS, also capable of using GMLRS missiles.

The West is preparing for war before starvation rations

It is quite difficult to unambiguously assess the effectiveness of the actions of the Ukrainian ground air defense during the current conflict. At the time of the collapse of the USSR, it could be considered almost the best in the world in terms of the quantity and quality of air defense systems and air defense systems per unit area of the country. During the post-Soviet period, the Ukrainian air defense was not updated and gradually degraded.

Warsaw and Kiev merge in an embrace to spite the Kremlin

Poland is completely safe, despite the "aggressive policy" of the Kremlin, which carries a potential threat to the democratic community, said the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. He spoke on May 26 at a briefing after the Defender Europe 2022 exercises with the development of combat interaction between the Polish and American militaries.

The loss of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet raises questions

After the sinking by the Ukrainians of their flagship of the Navy "Hetman Sagaidachny" in the port of Nikolaev, hardly anyone expected that the Russian Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" would also be in danger. How this happened is still a mystery and causes a lot of misconceptions. Of course, the commission appointed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to investigate the causes of the death of the Black Sea Fleet's largest warship by displacement will sort everything out. But the continuing aura of mystery around this emergency gives rise to unnecessary unhealthy questions, guesses and assumptions.

As the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported in the article by Klaus Geiger, Gregor Schwung "Trotz Versprechungen liefert Deutschland seit neun Wochen kaum Waffen" ("Despite promises, Germany has practically not supplied weapons in nine weeks"), apparently, over the past nine weeks the German government has reduced its military support to Ukraine to minimum.

Biden: The US is not looking for a war with Russia

"We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia… Until the United States or our allies are attacked, we will not directly participate in this conflict, either by sending American troops to Ukraine or by attacking Russian forces. We do not encourage or allow Ukraine to strike outside its borders. We don't want to prolong the war just to hurt Russia," Biden said.

The Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, June 1, showed footage of the combat work of the calculations of multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) "Hurricane" of the Central Military District (CVO) during a special military operation to protect Donbass.

Anti-Russian sentiment is even stronger in Poland than in Ukraine

Anti-Russian sentiment is strongest... in Poland. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of a recent opinion poll conducted in 52 countries around the world. It is noteworthy that Poland even outstripped Ukraine in this indicator. The author of the publication Myśl Polska reflects on what is the reason for such an attitude of Poles towards Russia and what it can lead to.

What can China learn from the experience of the Russian special operation in Ukraine

Japan believes that China is carefully studying the experience of the Russian operation in Ukraine for its possible application in Taiwan. The author of the article names eight important moments of the special operation that particularly attract Beijing.

The cost of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine with HIMARS MLRS will be $700 million

US President Joe Biden wrote in his article in The New York Times that the United States will continue to supply Ukraine with modern weapons, but will not allow it to strike at Russia. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky also promised that Kiev would not attack the territory of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of National Defense of Greece on May 31, 2022 reported that following the results of previous negotiations with Germany and following the meeting of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on May 31, an agreement was reached on the transfer by Greece of BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles received from the arsenals of the army of the former GDR in 1994 to Ukraine and simultaneous replacement There are an equal number of Marder infantry fighting vehicles transferred to Greece by Germany.

More than 100 ships and submarines, 40 aircraft and 10 coastal missile systems were involved in the exercises.

The new package of American military assistance to Ukraine provides for the supply of MLRS HIMARS, it will be officially announced on June 1.

The Ukrainian army will soon receive Slovak self-propelled guns Zuzana, this was stated by the President of Slovakia Zuzana Chaputova, who visited Kiev and addressed the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.

The conflict in Ukraine and the German turmoil. Is the "European unity" disintegrating, as Berlin claims, or did it not exist?

Europe has a great consolidated economic strength, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said before the start of the EU summit, Advance writes. However, she directs this force not to end the Ukrainian conflict, but to incite it, the author of the article believes.

According to the Polish Ministry of Defense, during the visit of Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak to the Republic of Korea, which began on May 29, negotiations were held with the head of the Defense Procurement Agency (DAPA) Kang Eun Ho and representatives of the largest defense companies, including Hanwha Defense President Jail Son.

A British Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft took to the sky to monitor Russian troops and flew over the Baltic Sea in the process of tracking. This was reported in the UK Defense Journal.