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Kiev has requested the supply of Su-25 attack aircraft from Washington

Despite the high density of air defense fire, aviation is actively used by all parties to the conflict in Ukraine. In the six weeks that have passed since the beginning of the special military operation of the Russian troops to protect Donbass, there has not been a single day when downed planes, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) did not appear in the reports of the Russian Defense Ministry, the People's Militia of the Luhansk and Donetsk Republics, as well as the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

Dmitry Litovkin — about the modernization of the Mi-24P, which has repeatedly proven itself in combat

40-year-old Mi-24P machines are returning to service. In military circles, they are called "Crocodile" — helicopters built according to an airplane scheme, armored and extremely dangerous because of their striking capabilities.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia confirmed that the reorganization of the structure of internal affairs bodies is being prepared.

It is assumed that the positions of police chiefs, who are simultaneously deputy heads of territorial and interregional departments of the department, will be abolished.

The Russian Armed Forces are methodically grinding the Ukrainian defense every day, taking new territories, preparing for a major offensive. However, the polls, paradoxically, show that the absolute majority of Ukrainians believe in the upcoming military victory of their country over Russia. How can this be logically explained?

Russia has named the planes on which Russians will fly after the resource of foreign Boeing and Airbus is exhausted. In addition to the Sukhoi Superjet-100, these will be long-haul Tu-214 and Il-96. Why were these planes chosen, will Russia be able to produce them, and why have they been uninteresting to Russian airlines so far?

Moscow and Tokyo will defend the "island territories" more actively

The gradual degradation of Russian-Japanese relations in recent weeks has been moving along an accelerated program. Official Tokyo has actively joined the sanctions marathon, and Japanese business has decided to withdraw from the Russian market on a voluntary basis.

The White House has requested $813 billion for military spending

The United States Department of Defense may receive $773 billion in military spending in fiscal year 2023 (starting October 1). Together with the funds allocated to the Ministry of Energy for nuclear weapons, the total amount of US military spending may amount to $ 813.3 billion, according to the draft budget submitted by the White House on March 28.

The scale of American military assistance to Kiev in 1992-2022

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, independent Ukraine received at its disposal a rather impressive arsenal of weapons, military and special equipment of various classes and purposes.

The Russian Armed Forces continue to strike at the military infrastructure of Ukraine, disabling ammunition and fuel depots, as well as military equipment, depriving the Ukrainian army of reserves.

The main Russian processor manufacturer, Zelenograd "Micron" showed a net profit at the end of the year for the first time in the last 12 years. It amounted to 258 million rubles. The previous 11 years brought him losses of more than 19 billion rubles.

Global Times (China): obituary on the death of NATO

The caustic material of the Global Times, close to the CPC Central Committee, "To the Death of NATO." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization suffers from "brain death", severe split personality and lies, as well as irrepressible perverted ambitions. Patients do not live long with such symptoms. Now NATO is already close to death, but it is still swaggering. As the proverb says: "He will die, but he will not lie down."

The American Conservative(USA): Biden's stupidity in Ukraine

The desire to promote NATO to Russia's western borders at the expense of Ukraine may well be considered the greatest foreign policy mistake of the United States since World War II, the author of The American Conservative is convinced. But Washington learns nothing and remembers nothing.

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.

Federación de Periodistas del Perú (Peru): They want to erase Russia from the map and from history

Rewriting history happens often, writes FPP. Especially often – in relation to Russia. The author of the article is looking for the roots of Western fear of Moscow and calls for a sober look at what is happening.

High-ranking general: the likelihood of a "serious international conflict" is increasing (CNN, USA)

The world based on "US rules" is becoming increasingly unstable, the US general said at a congressional hearing. The Pentagon is going to strengthen the confrontation with Russia in Europe.

There were shots with preliminary consequences of a missile strike inflicted on the facility of the fuel and energy complex of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region. We are talking about the fuel terminal, which was located on the territory of the Novomoskovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted targeted strikes with missile weapons, completely eliminating the reserves of petroleum products that were used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist armed formations.

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.

Special forces of the Rosgvardiya in the Kharkiv region found a warehouse of equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was carefully disguised as a storage base for agricultural machinery.

The West has excluded Russia from international law and believes that anything can be done with regard to this country, including with regard to captured soldiers, whose information about torture by Ukrainian nationalists turns a blind eye, said MGIMO professor, program director of the Valdai Club, in an interview with Izvestia on Wednesday, April 6." Oleg Barabanov.

Kiev notified Britain that it refused to comply with the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War

The Kiev regime applies torture and violence to Russian servicemen akin to punishers during the Great Patriotic War, and the UN, OSCE and ICRC do not notice this, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.