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Slovak media reported that Slovakia handed over to Ukraine, as a military aid, its only division of the Soviet-made S-300PMU anti-aircraft missile system, which is already located on the territory of Ukraine. According to the published video, on April 5, 2022, an echelon with the equipment of this division was sent from the Slovak station Sereda to Ukraine.

Barrage ammunition in military conflicts

Analyzing the special military operation in Ukraine, many experts focus on the unjustifiably low use of barrage ammunition (BB).

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that American portable anti-aircraft missile systems Stinger were found on the territory of the Ukrainian city of Izyum taken under the control of Russian troops.

Haber7 (Turkey): The US gave the green light to the sale of F-16 to Turkey

The State Department has approved a plan to sell F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, as this step "meets the interests of Washington," Haber7 reports. Readers of the publication are wondering why they are trying to sell junk and where the interests of Turkey itself are reflected in this deal.

The transferred units from the Kiev and Chernihiv directions are called upon to help the LDPR units

The Russian Armed Forces continue to launch air and missile strikes on fuel storage bases and military facilities of Ukraine during a special operation. At the same time, no significant progress at the front was officially reported. Experts believe that regrouping continues before a decisive offensive against the AFU troops in the Donbass. Meanwhile, the National Defense Control Center raised the issue of the treatment of Russian servicemen in captivity. In addition, the Russian military department announced the upcoming provocations by the nationalists.

The armed forces of the Russian Federation have destroyed more than 400 drones and up to 1,900 tanks and other armored vehicles since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Thursday.

According to the Greek resource Ekathimerini, the US administration has appealed to the government of Cyprus with a request for the possibility of transferring to Ukraine the Russian-made air defense systems available in the country's Armed Forces, including the Tor-M1 air defense system, S-300 air defense systems, T-80U, BMP-3 and Mi-35 attack helicopters.

According to press releases from the Czech vehicle manufacturer SVOS and the Swedish company Saab Dynamics, they have completed the joint development and conducted test firing of the highly mobile short-range air defense system MSHORAD (Mobile Short-Range Air Defense ).

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.

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.

On April 5, 2022, at the location of the 1st Warsaw Armored Brigade named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko of the Polish Army in Warsaw, Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak signed an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and Poland in the form of an exchange of letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) on the acquisition of 250 main tanks M1A2 SEP v.3 Abrams. On the American side, the agreement was signed by US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski.

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.

The Indian Ground Forces have adopted a batch of Igla-S portable anti-aircraft missile systems, which were recently acquired in Russia as part of the emergency procurement procedure.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of the destruction of the Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicle by Ukrainian nationalists using the tactical anti-aircraft missile system Tor.

It is reported that 20 air targets were detected during combat duty. As a result of the competent actions of the calculation of the anti-aircraft missile system "Tor" under the command of Sergei Pachepka, all targets were taken for escort and destroyed.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on new powerful strikes on military facilities in Ukraine. Contrary to rumors spread by the Kiev regime and Western media that the Russian army is running out of stocks of high-precision weapons, the use of such weapons during a special military operation is only increasing.

There was a photo of the destroyed command post for the S-300 air defense systems belonging to the AFU. He was found on the highway between Mangush and Berdyansk.

Lidovky (Czech Republic): what weapons are we sending to Ukrainians? All these are proven types, starting with machine guns and ending with anti-aircraft systems

The Czech Republic has allocated more than a billion crowns for weapons for Ukrainians, Lidovsky writes. Pictures have already appeared on social networks, from which it is clear which technique is used in battles. Deliveries are made at the request of NATO.

CNN: The US hid the successful test of a hypersonic missile

The United States successfully tested a hypersonic missile in mid-March, CNN reported, citing a representative of the Ministry of Defense. Then the President of the United States Joe Biden was going to go to Europe for the NATO, G7 and EU summits, so the fact of the tests was hidden from the public for two weeks to avoid increasing tensions with Russia.

Russia has attracted all types and kinds of armed forces to the military special operation in Ukraine, with the exception of the "nuclear triad". Both time-tested weapons and brand-new ones are used. About what the Russian army is fighting with — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region, together with the government of St. Petersburg and cooperative enterprises, is creating a unique UAV flight monitoring system.