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The Iver Huidfeldt Niels Juel-class frigate of the Royal Danish Navy tested the SM-2 missile for the first time off the coast of Norway. This is reported by Naval News.

General Zolotarev told how Americans train soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The United States and other NATO countries have begun training the Ukrainian military. According to the press secretary of the US Department of Defense John Kirby, the trainings are held in Germany. In addition, according to media reports, training is carried out in Poland, Slovakia and other Eastern European countries. What is taught to the servicemen of the Ukrainian army - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

Huge losses force the Ukrainian armed formations to return to service the old Soviet equipment, which was decommissioned about 30 years ago. We are talking about the well-known 57-mm AZP-57 guns of the S-60 anti-aircraft artillery complex.

The Ukrainian military has found use of the French Mistral MANPADS supplied by Norway, they will now be installed on SUVs to get a highly mobile short-range anti-aircraft system. Photos of the new "bandermobiles" with the installed anti-aircraft complex have already appeared in Ukrainian public.

Artillery units of the Russian Armed Forces perform tasks to destroy enemy fortifications and equipment during a special military operation in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense publishes footage of the crew of the self-propelled artillery installation (ACS) 2S19 "Msta-S".

The Ministry of Defense has published footage of the combat work of calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and multiple launch artillery systems "Grad" of the Central Military District (CVO) during a special military operation in the Donbass.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has shown how the calculations of self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes "Pantsir-S1" destroyed the Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Bayraktar.

Roscosmos, in a Victory Day video presented to RIA Novosti, openly announced for the first time that its work is far from being limited to the launch of Soyuz and the International Space Station (ISS): the state corporation acts as one of the key segments of the defense industry, the manufacturer of Sarmats, Poplars and Iskanders.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the state corporation had begun to conduct mobilization training to accelerate the production of military products.

Some samples of military equipment supplied by Western countries to Ukraine still reach the combat zone. It is not possible to carry out deliveries en masse, since aviation and high-precision missile weapons of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are working at the places where NATO countries' equipment accumulates in Ukraine, including those located at railway stations.

On May 6, 2022, the US Department of Defense announced the approval by the US President of the next package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 150 million. The total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $ 3.8 billion, and since March 2021 - about $ 4.5 billion.

In Mariupol, the evacuation of civilians from the territory of "Azovstal" was completed

A large-scale battle for the island of Snake in the Black Sea took place on May 7, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. During it, Russian air defense systems shot down two planes, three helicopters with landing troops and two drones.

Slovakia is ready to supply Ukraine with Soviet T-72 tanks from the presence of the Slovak army, but only in exchange for Western vehicles. As the country's Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said the day before, Bratislava would like to receive German Leopard 2 tanks.

Foreign weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western "sponsors" from the United States and NATO are increasingly reaching the combat zone, despite the opposition of the Russian army. British Brimstone missiles have been spotted on the contact line.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that NATO countries would be destroyed by Russia in a nuclear war in half an hour, but urged it not to be allowed, he said in his Telegram channel.

The US has recognized the nuclear missile gap with Russia

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Roscosmos State Corporation, said that the Sarmat rocket currently being tested will be much more powerful than its predecessor Voevoda. Destroying the missile "will be almost impossible." In the United States, the Sarmat tests have intensified the discussion about a new nuclear missile strategy. Details are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

The Ukrainian army will soon be replenished with the next American howitzers of 155 mm caliber, but not M777, which are supplied by the USA and Canada, but M114 of the Second World War. Portugal will supply howitzers.

Tens of thousands of man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS) were sent by the West to Ukrainian troops. It is assumed that these weapons should deprive the Russian military aviation of an advantage in the air. How do these systems work, what are the difficulties of using "Stingers" and how can Russian pilots counteract them?

The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov said that Russian troops destroyed American equipment delivered to Ukraine, as well as the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledar area.

The Ministry of Defense has published footage of the combat work of the calculations of self-propelled artillery installations "Malka" in the conduct of counter-battery warfare during a special military operation.

It is reported that the adjustment of the combat work of artillery calculations is carried out during the day and at night using unmanned aerial vehicles.