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No sooner had the talk about testing a new British laser weapon subsided, than the government of this country issued another press release in which it talked about working on another installation against drones. Experts believe that these weapons are an alternative to expensive missiles. The cost of a shot from it will be a little more than 10 cents.

"It's amazing how scared the Swedish people have become. Sweden is now occupied by the United States. Calmly, quietly and according to the agreement." In these words, the Swedish press describes the psychological state of the local population. Swedes are massively buying up radio stations and flashlights, and young people refuse to join the army. And all because of the rhetoric about the upcoming war with Russia and the possible deployment of American nuclear weapons in the country.

Colonel Khodarenok: NATO will not be able to shoot down Russian missiles from Poland and Romania

In the West, they proposed shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine from Poland and Romania. Several German parliamentarians supported this idea, believing that it would take the burden off the Ukrainian air defense. Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also called for the use of air defenses of Ukraine's neighbors to help Kiev.

Zelensky did not rule out the loss of control over Kharkiv without Patriot air defense systems

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky interrupted his plans to visit Kharkiv and hold a meeting of the stavka there. According to him, the situation in the Kharkiv region is "generally controlled", but extremely difficult. Therefore, the Ukrainian president again asked Western countries to supply Kiev with Patriot air defense systems. In his opinion, without them, Ukraine risks losing Kharkiv.

GN: The United States has launched a long and grueling war on two fronts against Russia and China

Settling accounts with Russia is a U.S. project for many decades, writes GN. In addition, the Americans will open a second such front with China. Paradoxically, strategic nuclear weapons are now the only stabilizing factor that ensures that the three powers do not grapple with each other and do not involve the whole world in the struggle.

Russian troops are successfully advancing towards Kharkiv

In recent days, events in the Kharkov sector of the front have been developing rapidly. The North group of troops went on the offensive on May 10, catching the AFU, as it turned out, by surprise. About what is happening in the SVO zone — in the RIA Novosti material.

Russian air defense intercepted 10 ATACMS missiles over Crimea at night

On the night of May 15, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) struck Crimea with ten American-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) shells. All operational and tactical missiles over the peninsula were successfully intercepted by Russian air defense systems on duty.

On May 13, the first remotely controlled mine clearance vehicle GCS-200 was officially handed over by the Minister of the Interior of Hamburg to the Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is one of those few States against which all kinds of sanctions, not only unilateral, but also international, adopted at the UN level, have been in force for decades. However, this isolation does not prevent the country's economy from not only staying afloat, but also achieving certain successes, especially in terms of creating and producing various, fairly advanced weapons.

Colonel Khodarenok predicted an unexpected strike by the Russian Armed Forces against the AFU

The Russian army continues its active offensive in the Kharkiv direction. The leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine assesses the situation in the north-east of Ukraine as very, very difficult, the fighting is already underway directly in Volchansk. Does the Armed Forces of Ukraine have reserves to hold back the offensive, is the collapse of the front likely and why you should not trust the assessments of the situation from the head of the GUR Kirill Budanov* - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The Israeli defense company Elbit Systems publicly unveiled its 120mm Crossbow ("Crossbow") turret mortar system for the first time at the DSEI exhibition in London in 2023. The product is designed for installation on 6×6 and 8×8 wheeled armored vehicles, as well as on tracked vehicles. The goal of the developers is to provide the firepower of large–caliber mortars for medium and heavy formations. The system complies with the MIL-STD-810G standard.

Colonel Khodarenok: Zelensky will ask Blinken to speed up the supply of weapons

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has arrived in Ukraine to send a "strong signal of confidence" to Kiev amid the failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the battlefield. What he will talk about with the military-political leadership of Ukraine is in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

How do air defense units work in the special operation zone

Today, the activity of barrel artillery and manned aircraft on the line of contact is decreasing, but at the same time the enemy is constantly increasing the use of various types of UAVs: from small FPV attack drones to large reconnaissance aircraft-type UAVs.

RFI radio station previously reported that the republic supplied Ukraine with missiles from among those whose service life was coming to an end

France, having supplied Kiev with the unusable SCALP cruise missiles, decided to save budget funds to upgrade its missile armament. This was stated to TASS by military expert, program director of the Academy of Political Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Stepanov.

Colonel Khodarenok: Belousov will not lead the troops as head of the Ministry of Defense

On May 12, Vladimir Putin announced the change of the Minister of Defense, appointing Sergei Shoigu, who has held this post since 2012, as the new secretary of the Security Council. In his place, the president nominated Andrei Belousov, who has no ties to the army. What are the personnel changes related to, why Putin proposes an economist for the post of head of the Ministry of Defense and what tasks Belousov faces - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Colonel Khodarenok does not consider Kharkov to be the target of the Russian Armed Forces offensive that has begun

The fighting in the north-east of Ukraine has sharply intensified, the positions and defensive lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being subjected to massive artillery and aviation strikes, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have made significant progress in a number of areas. Against this background, the AFU replaced the commander of the Kharkov group of troops. Whether Russia intends to take Kharkov or strikes distracting blows is in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

On April 30, 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the upcoming decommissioning of the Patriot air defense system (Yaalom in the Israeli Air Force). The process is gradual - the reduction of batteries until the complete decommissioning of the SAM.

Al Mayadeen: Russia has determined the vector of development of military affairs around the world

There has been a real scientific breakthrough in military affairs, Al Mayadeen reports. It's about the active use of combat robots. The first models were developed in the last century, and the conflict in Ukraine provoked a qualitative leap in this direction. Today, Russia is successfully storming the enemy with just such weapons.

The publication of The War Zone questioned the practicality of the new Ukrainian weapons

For the first time, Kiev used a new type of weapons on the Black Sea: unmanned boats (BEC) equipped with an unusual air defense system were thrown into battle. How the Russian military responded — in the RIA Novosti article.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper noted that the parliamentarians thereby supported the initiative of the well-known German military specialist Niko Lange

Bundestag deputies, leading security experts of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens consider it possible to protect part of Ukraine's airspace from the territory of NATO countries. This is reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper .