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Multiple launch rocket systems "Willow" and "Birch bark"

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rocket forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) got a significant number of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of various calibers, including dozens of 122-mm MLRS of the Grad type.

"This is Russia's propaganda game": an expert on the intimidation of the Third World War (Gazeta, Poland)

Moscow warns the West: "Do not interfere in the affairs in Ukraine," writes Gazeta. Putin's order to put the nuclear deterrent forces on alert is designed to provoke an emotional reaction. There is no threat of a nuclear conflict, Moscow is just playing its game.

After the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Western countries took large-scale measures to provide military assistance to the Ukrainian government, breaking the previously existing "taboo" in many states on the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

Kiev is trying to buy time through negotiations

Negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations on the settlement of the situation around Ukraine have not yet brought tangible results. President Vladimir Zelensky said that he had "received some signals" and was ready to "move to the second round of negotiations," as he said in a video message from his office's Telegram channel.

Russia has something to respond to US pressure in Europe

Inversion of meanings. Substitution of concepts. Such terms can be used to describe the West's buildup of a military presence near Russia's borders solely for reasons of exerting additional pressure on the country's military and political leadership.

One of the most combat-ready Ukrainian groups is surrounded in the city

On Tuesday, March 1, the Donbass troops joined with the Russian group advancing from the Crimea and closed the ring around Mariupol. According to experts, this deprives the Ukrainian command of the strongest and most combat-ready part of its armed forces, which will eventually have a positive impact on the timing of the special operation. The headquarters of the operational-tactical group "North" of the AFU lost most of its officers as a result of the strike. The head of the Russian Defense Ministry said that the operation will continue until the goals are achieved.

Experts estimated the losses of the Ukrainian army

The Ministry of Defense told about the defeat of 1146 objects of the Ukrainian military infrastructure. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what such losses mean for the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

One of the main types of weapons used by the Russian Armed Forces to defeat the IG* in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) were cruise missiles (KR). Surface ships and submarines of the Russian Navy have repeatedly struck Islamist targets in Syria using the 3M-14 Kalibr cruise missile.

Military expert Vladislav Shurygin - about what the APU was on the eve of the Russian operation and why it was called a special

The results of the first days of the special military operation in Ukraine allow us to draw the first conclusions about how the Russian army is fighting and what kind of enemy it is opposed to.

Italy joined the list of countries intending to supply weapons to Ukraine on February 28. The Government of the country has signed a decree authorizing the dispatch of MANPADS "Stinger", mortars, ATGM "Milan".

On February 28, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed footage of the use of combat helicopters on Ukrainian equipment with the results of the defeat.

Thirty years of the Scientific research center of the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Smolensk

The military air defense of Russia has gone a long way in development, starting from the three-inch anti-aircraft gun of the 1915 Franz Lender model to the modern S-300V4 long-range air defense system equipped with hypersonic anti-aircraft guided missiles.

US President Joe Biden assured that the residents of the country should not worry about the threat of nuclear war.

Fortifications erected by the enemy on the territory of Donbass have no analogues

In response to the remarks why the offensive of the DPR and LPR forces in the Donbas is developing so slowly, let's figure out what the fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are on the perimeter of the border with the armed forces of the People's Republics.

The training on the protection of airspace on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands was conducted by servicemen with combat calculations of the S-400 Triumph and S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile systems of the air defense units (air defense), the press service of the Eastern Military District reported on Tuesday.

More than 500 servicemen took part in the exercise

Calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical missile systems of the Central Military District (CVO) at an exercise in the Orenburg region worked out the destruction of the base camp of a conditional enemy at a range of more than 300 km, the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.

The first detailed video of the tests of the hypersonic anti-ship missile "Zircon" appeared on the Network. TV journalists went to sea on the frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" to witness the launch of two cruise missiles at once: "Caliber" and "Zircon".

The calculations of the Iskander-M missile defense system worked out the destruction of the base of the conditional enemy in the exercises

Iskander-M operational and tactical missile systems (OTRK) were used at the exercises of the Central Military District (CVO). The OTRK calculations worked out the destruction of the target at a range of more than 300 kilometers. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Central Military District.

The Russian army has struck Ukrainian positions with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply an additional S-400 complex, which is needed to be located west of Minsk.