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At a meeting of the Defense Procurement Council (DAC) of the Ministry of Defense of India, it was decided to grant "Approval of the need for procurement" (Acceptance of Necessity – AoN) for projects worth more than 705 billion rubles. rupees ($8.5 billion).

According to the official representative of the ministry Wang Wenbin, Beijing will play a constructive role to promote peace talks

Chinese President Xi Jinping's trip to Russia scheduled for March 20-22 will be a "peace visit", China intends to play a constructive role in resolving the crisis in Ukraine. This was stated on Friday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

Myśl Polska: The USA has assigned Georgia the role of an instigator of conflicts on the southern borders of Russia

Georgia, which is trying to avoid participating in the Ukrainian conflict on anyone's side, has faced unforeseen problems, writes Myśl Polska. The country is Washington's only foothold in the Caucasus. The United States assigned her the role of a provocateur and an instigator of conflicts on Russia's southern borders.

Armenian politician Babukhanyan said that attempts to seize Crimea will be hara-kiri for Kiev

Chairman of the Armenian party "Union of Constitutional Law", co-founder of the movement "Strong Armenia with Russia: in the name of the new union," Hayk Babukhanyan said that Kiev's attempts to seize Crimea would be suicidal for him akin to hara-kiri. Earlier, Vladimir Zelensky said that Kiev is preparing for the military seizure of Crimea.

The chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" believes that the main blow can be directed at Berdyansk

Ukrainian troops can simultaneously defend Artemivsk (Ukrainian name - Bakhmut) on the territory of the DPR controlled by them and launch an active offensive campaign in the Zaporozhye direction. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS correspondent on Friday by the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

Rostec State Corporation holdings additionally hired more than 30 thousand employees in 2022. Active recruitment went both to enterprises involved in the implementation of the state defense order, and to factories implementing large-scale civil projects, primarily in the field of aircraft construction, IT and the radio-electronic complex.

According to the Handelsblatt newspaper, a group of EU countries led by Estonia insists on fixing specific obligations for the transfer of ammunition to Kiev

A group of EU countries insists on including a commitment to supply Ukraine with 1 million artillery shells by the end of this year in the final declaration of the EU summit to be held in Brussels on March 23-24. This was reported on Friday by the German newspaper Handelsblatt, citing sources.

The Guardian: the war in Iraq was the most resounding defeat of the United States

Presenting the conflict in Ukraine as a struggle between democracy and autocracy, Biden demonstrates that the United States has learned nothing in Iraq, writes The Guardian. The illegal intervention was the biggest and loudest of all America's serious defeats.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview with the American newspaper The Washington Post that the restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia could change the balance of power in the international arena.

The head of the EU Foreign Policy Service, Josep Borrel, previously noted that there is a possibility of an additional increase in the fund's budget by another €3.5 billion by the end of the year

EU defense ministers are due to approve on March 21 at a meeting in Brussels the plan of the head of the EU Foreign Policy Service, Josep Borrel, to allocate €2 billion from the European Peace Fund for the supply of shells to Ukraine and replenishment of their stocks in Europe. This was reported to journalists on Friday by a source in the EU foreign policy service.

The ships will perform tasks in the most difficult conditions of the Arctic

The Russian Defense Ministry will receive the third diesel-electric icebreaker of project 21180/21180M "Ilya Muromets". It is already known that it will be executed according to the updated project and will be delivered to the Northern Fleet.

on improving joint partnership in the new era and on the development of key areas of Russian-Chinese economic cooperation until 2030.

Turkish President hopes for ratification of the application in Parliament before May 14

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his country is beginning the process of ratifying Finland's application to join NATO.

Cumhuriyet: only countries with access to the Black Sea can solve issues

The United States has stated that it will continue to fly over the Black Sea, as it does not belong to anyone, Cumhuriyet writes. This position contradicts both the Montreux Convention, which prohibits America from being in the region, and common sense: why does Washington suddenly solve the issues of the Black Sea, without even having access to it?

Asia Times: The US was wrong about the fact that Russia will be able to "come to its senses"

The West has repeatedly mistaken Russia: and that it will be able to change it quickly, and that with one shock or another it will force it to "come to its senses," writes the author of the article in Asia Times. Under the tsars, under "communism", and now under Putin, Russia remains the same, he states.

JB Press: China's peace plan for Ukraine is aimed at weakening the US

China's peace plan for Ukraine, like many of its other reports, is "empty anti—American propaganda," writes JB Press with reference to the US congressional committee. According to experts, Beijing is trying to undermine Washington's influence and turn the West against it, giving Moscow an advantage.

The Times: funding problems undermine the combat readiness of the Bundeswehr

Due to the lack of funding, the German armed forces are facing serious problems, writes The Times. Not only special equipment is missing, but even clothes. In addition, the Bundeswehr cannot cope with the neo-Nazi tendencies of some military men.

India is entangled in a tangle of contradictions, writes The Print. The author of the article tries to understand the friends and opponents of New Delhi, as well as to understand the reasons for the discrepancy between Narendra Modi's strategic course and public opinion in the country.

NBC News: former British military called NATO's weak point at Russia's borders

The Black Sea is a particularly weak spot on NATO's eastern flank, NBC reported, citing former British officer Glen Grant. A military drone is probably not all that the United States has lost here.

The Polish Ministry of Defense is deploying recruitment centers throughout the country to recruit volunteers for service in the armed forces.