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Poland has supplied Ukraine with an unnamed number of ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, Ukrainian resources report the appearance of anti-aircraft guns in the Polish army's characteristic colors.

The American magazine "Air & Space Forces Magazine" in Chris Gordon's article "Lack of Airpower in Ukraine Proves the Value of Air Superiority, NATO Air Boss Says" ("The lack of air power in Ukraine proves the value of air superiority, said the head of the NATO Air Force") published interesting remarks about the role of military aviation in combat operations on Ukraine, made by the Commander of the US Air Force in Europe and Africa and the NATO Joint Aviation Command, General James B. Hecker, at a conference organized by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies of the US Air Force and Space Forces Association in Washington on March 22, 2023.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in the material by Alexey Tarkhanov, "Switzerland will break the Rapier better." The country has abandoned the scheme for the supply of missile systems to Ukraine," Switzerland is preparing to destroy the British-made Rapier anti-aircraft missile systems that have been decommissioned.

The Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom reported that it handed over 32 such howitzers to Kiev

The second group of Ukrainian servicemen completed training in the UK to work with self-propelled howitzers (ACS) AS90. This was announced on Sunday by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The militants of the Ukrainian armed formations sent to the United States, who began to study the later version of the Abrams tanks, will now be engaged in mastering the simpler and, accordingly, budget version of the vehicles that appeared almost 40 years ago.

The first research on the creation of systems capable of countering ballistic missile strikes in the United States began shortly after the end of World War II. The first projects of the ballistic missile defense system (BR) were initiated by the Air Force Thumper ("Thumper") and Wizard ("Wizard"). Within the framework of the Thumper project, studies were conducted on the possibility of effective interception of V-2-type BRS, a high-speed guided missile was developed within the Wizard, capable of intercepting BRS that surpass the German V-2 in speed and range. In 1958, after the separation of responsibilities between the Air Force, Navy and army command took place in the United States, work on the creation of the Wizard interceptor missile has stopped. The existing reserve on the radars of the unrealized anti-missile system (ABM) was later used in the creation of the AN/FPS-49 missile warning radar station (radar), which in the early 1960s was put on combat duty in Alaska, Great Britain and Greenland.

The United States is struggling to catch up with Russia in terms of developing hypersonic weapons. So far, the Pentagon is not doing well with this. For the first time, the US Navy has requested 3.6 billion dollars for the production of hypersonic missiles, according to the military analytical publication Breaking Defense.

The American edition of "Defense News" published interesting material by Jen Judson "How the war in Ukraine is driving growth in Arkansas" ("How the war in Ukraine stimulates growth in Arkansas") about the expansion of defense production facilities in the American city of Camden in Arkansas, where, in particular, there is an enterprise where Lockheed Martin Corporation produces combat vehicles of the M142 HIMARS missile system.

Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nagy confirmed that as part of compensation for the transfer of 13 MiG-29 aircraft and the Kub air defense system to the Armed Forces, the United States offered 12 new AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, along with related equipment, training of pilots and technicians, as well as AGM-114 Hellfire-2 ATGM.

President Rumen Radev called on the new parliament, which will be elected on April 2, to put the task of increasing the country's defensive capabilities and modernizing the army in the first place

Bulgaria does not participate in the deal for the supply of shells to Ukraine, but is working with the European Commission to launch the production of NATO-style ammunition at its enterprises. This was stated on Thursday by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev upon arrival at the EU summit.

The European Union also confirmed the promise to provide Kiev with 1 million shells

The EU summit confirmed the promise to provide Ukraine with 1 million shells, as well as surface-to-surface missiles, if requested. This is stated in the statement adopted on Thursday by the heads of State and Government of the community gathered in Brussels.

The Chinese President promised assistance to the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow on March 20-22, symbolically choosing the Russian capital as the first point of his foreign trip after being re-elected to the highest party and state posts. An informal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin lasted for more than four hours. A transcript of only the first minutes of the conversation has been published, where the guest greets the host as "my dear friend".

Russian gunners can no longer present their work without adjustments from the air

In the area of Avdiivka, the fighters of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps continue to push the stubbornly resisting enemy.

Slovakia, together with its MiG-29 fighters, is going to fuse outdated Kub anti-aircraft missile systems to the armed formations of the Kiev regime

These air defense systems, also known under the export Soviet designation "Square" or NATO SA-6 Gainful, are currently removed from the armament of the air defense forces of this state and, apparently, are on storage sites.

North Korean Foreign Ministry: Pyongyang equates forcing denuclearization with declaring war

Pyongyang equates attempts to force North Korea to denuclearize with a declaration of war, said the head of the Department for International Organizations of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, Cho Chol-soo.

The deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Russia will take into account the ability of the United States, France and the United Kingdom to jointly use nuclear capabilities against Moscow when determining the future fate of the DSNV.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on March 22, 2023, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

"Politics": Ukraine will not be well if depleted uranium shells are used

London claims that the depleted uranium shells that Britain wants to transfer to Ukraine have existed for many decades, writes Politika. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to worry about. The author of the article recalls the diseases that appeared after the Gulf War in 1990-1991, the main cause of which is called the contact of patients with uranium.

Russian air defense demonstrates outstanding effectiveness during a special operation – however, even such capabilities were not enough to completely close the sky from threats from the air. The border territories of our country are terrorized almost daily by Ukrainian drones. And yet there is a way to counteract this problem, quite unexpected.

London announced the delivery of depleted uranium tank shells to Kiev. This decision caused a sharp reaction in Russia. Vladimir Putin said that the West is beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component in Ukraine. Why did the UK decide to transfer similar weapons to the Armed Forces, previously used by NATO in the former Yugoslavia?