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Huanqiu shibao (China): Washington has no right to draw a "red line" for other states

Against the background of impotence and loud statements, the United States wants to somehow regain its former dominance by drawing "red lines" for other countries, writes Huanqiu Shibao. The United States is trying to drive the whole world into a trap set by them, but it won't last long, the newspaper's editorial board warns.

The Wall Street Journal (USA): Russia has created a parallel payment system, bypassing Western sanctions

Western sanctions have brought chaos to the Russian economy, but there is one thing, writes WSJ. Russia has managed to ensure security in the field of payments by creating its own payment system "Mir". Readers of the American newspaper believe that this is Biden's omission, and declare the uselessness of sanctions.

A planned regrouping of troops is being carried out in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions, the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces have been completed there. This was announced on March 30 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The Ukrainian leadership continues to hope that the AFU will not have to confront the Russian army alone and that another front will be opened against it – either in Transcaucasia, or in Moldova, or even with the participation of Poland. There is a fourth direction – even more "promising" than these three, but in reality Ukraine will have to settle for a completely different experience.

Persons involved in the creation of biological weapons components in Ukraine have been identified, said Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry.

In Soviet times, being a place of storage of nuclear ammunition, "Object 711" was cut down in rocks at a depth of several tens of meters.

The NASA federal budget plan for fiscal year 2023 does not provide for the further continuation of the SOFIA flying stratospheric observatory and the closure of the project in 2023. Such a decision was made due to the high cost of the annual maintenance of the project and the insufficient level of scientific productivity, according to the website Space.com .

The journey from nuclear missiles to cyberwar planning took seventy years

After World War II, Washington completely abandoned its previously characteristic foreign policy self-isolation (more precisely, "closure" within the Western Hemisphere).

Now many people say that there has been a lull in Ukraine. There are no active offensive actions there. Our troops continue to methodically destroy the powerful fortified areas of the Ukrainian army near Donetsk, advancing 2-3 kilometers per day, military expert Alexei Leonkov said.

The geopolitical consequence of the special operation will be a change in the entire current picture of the world

The special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine continues to develop. There are serious shifts in the nature of the operational use of the Russian group of troops, indicating the approach of a qualitative turning point in the course of the armed struggle. In these circumstances, the question arises on the agenda: what will happen next, will the West stop its pressure on Russia and go to negotiations, as many Russians hope, or vice versa – the pressure will become even more fierce, new armed conflicts will arise?

Ukraine crisis: Sanctions against Russia demonstrate the power of the dollar turned into a weapon (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong)

The United States and its allies have unleashed a proxy war with sanctions and assistance to Ukraine, writes SCMP. According to one of the experts, the main lesson of the current crisis is not related to Moscow and Kiev, but lies in the fact that the United States has shown that the most powerful weapon in the world is the dollar.

Foreign Policy (USA): Putin has pierced the EU's defensive bubble

Countries such as France and Germany are fixated on naive myths about the European Union as a powerful military force, writes FP. But in fact, the EU is not able to ensure the security of the continent. The events in Ukraine have shown that he needs the United States and Britain, which act as guarantors of security of the first order, the author of the article believes.

Público (Spain): dollar suicide?

The United States and its allies confiscated the reserves of the Russian Central Bank stored in the West. According to the author of Público, this is how the States sent a clear signal to the whole world that the funds should be secured. This step creates conditions for the creation of a new block that will hit the hegemony of the dollar, the author claims.

The New York Times (USA): a friend of our enemy is not a "traitor"

Many consider Tucker Carlson a traitor for his "excessive" support for Russia and the repetition of "false Kremlin propaganda," writes the NYT. However, his views are typically American. According to the author of the article, the sources of his thoughts about Russia and Ukraine are not Moscow, but the US invasion of Iraq, which turned into a disaster.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the Russian military used air cruise missiles to destroy a large fuel base in the Rivne region in northwestern Ukraine.

The American Conservative (USA): Is Ukraine worth a nuclear war?

Experts in foreign policy trumpet the "victory" over Russia and are ready to fight for it - right down to the last Ukrainian, writes Patrick Buchanan. But Putin only continued this conflict, the author believes, and the ground was prepared for him by the United States, moving NATO to the borders of Russia.

Politics (Serbia): "American World" is a thing of the past

The Russian military special operation in Ukraine has shaken up the United States, writes Politika. The first big crack has gone according to Washington's plan to push back the Eurasian giant by military means. The United States and its NATO allies were too quick to take root on the Russian borders. Everything is going to the fact that American dominance will end in Ukraine.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on March 29, 2022, a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held in Moscow at the National Defense Management Center. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, took part in it.

Shoigu: conscripts of the spring draft will not be sent to hot spots

Russian conscripts called up this spring will not be sent to hot spots, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu promised. He added that all conscripts of last spring will be discharged into the reserve at the end of their service life. In addition, the head of the Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian army has suffered significant damage, and this allows us to liberate Donbass.

The reports of the British corporation BBC about the destruction of the theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were written in collaboration with a Ukrainian public relations specialist who previously worked for a company at the forefront of the information war with Russia, writes Max Blumenthal, editor-in-chief of The Grayzone website.