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We expect to receive 40-50 F-16 fighters from our partners, β in an interview with Politico, adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yuriy Sak.
Ukraine wants to get enough planes to form three or four squadrons to protect its skies from Russian bombing, especially against the background of the use of guided glide bombs by the Russians, which hit targets at a greater distance.
Moldova will leave the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly [the Russian 'commonwealth']
This was announced by the Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova Igor Grosu at a briefing
Grosu emphasized that after the Russian Federation, a founding country of the CIS, barbarically attacked another founding country β Ukraine, occupying its territories and killing its citizens, this organization can no longer be called a commonwealth.
The government of Armenia tightens control over sanctioned goods at customs, β Armenia Today.
Negotiations with the USA preceded the decision. Washington suspects China, Armenia, TΓΌrkiye, and Uzbekistan of supplying prohibited goods to Russia and Belarus.
Parts of Western planes worth millions of dollars got to Russia despite the sanctions, the NYT reports
It became known about more than 5,000 deliveries of aviation parts to the aggressor country during the war β from simple propellers to engines worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Among them are the goods of such giants as Boeing and Airbus.
These deliveries were made possible by illegal sanctions evasion schemes involving fictitious buyers. Most of the products were sent through countries such as the United Arab Emirates, TΓΌrkiye, China and the Maldives.
The European office of the World Health Organization is closed in Moscow.
The decision was made by an absolute majority of votes at a special session of the WHO Regional Committee. The office will be moved to Copenhagen (Denmark).
The President of the Czech Republic called on partners to speed up the supply of weapons to Ukraine for a counteroffensive. [I do wish he could be the next NATO Secretary General!]
The girl who tore down and threw the Russian flag on the floor in the occupied Melitopol was sentenced for a year in prison
Also donates to the Armed Forces: Kadyrov bought a horse from the Ukrainian special services for $18,000.
According to the leader of Chechen TikTokers, his thoroughbred horse Zazu has been in the Czech Republic since 2014 due to sanctions. And at the beginning of this year, representatives of the Ukrainian special services came to him and offered to buy him. Zazu cost Kadyrov 18 thousand dollars.
A good donation for the army of Ukraine.
π»Hungary has blocked the allocation of a new tranche in the amount of 500 million euros for Ukraine from the "European Peace Fund," β the Italian agency ANSA, citing a source in Brussels
β‘οΈGermany will send four more IRIS-T air defense systems
According to Nadine Krugers, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Defense, their production continues.
The United States still does not plan to transfer ATACMS operational-tactical missiles to Ukraine, despite the supply of British Storm Shadow, the White House said.
π¬πͺ Georgia allowed the Russian airline "Azimut" to fly in its direction. Moscow β Tbilisi flights will start on May 17 and will be operated seven times a week.
π·πΊ Russian dropped out of the top 10 languages studied by Duolingo users for the first time.
The author of the report writes that the popularity of Russian dropped sharply precisely because of the invasion of Ukraine β before that, the occupiers' language confidently held the 8th place.
The French-Italian SAMP/T air defense system is already on combat duty on the territory of Ukraine, reports the Italian publication La Stampa.
SAMP/T can destroy enemy aircraft at a range of 3 km to 100 km and ballistic missiles at a range of 3 km to 25 km, with an altitude of up to 25 km. All eight Aster-30 missiles, contained in one launcher, can be fired in one salvo in 10 seconds.
β’οΈ A third of Russians expect a nuclear attack on Ukraine
29% of Russians believe that Putin is ready to use nuclear weapons in a war with Ukraine if necessary, according to Levada Center survey data. 60% of Russians hold the opposite opinion.
As many as 29% of respondents consider a nuclear attack on Ukraine justified. Only 56% of Russians believe that the use of nuclear weapons cannot be justified under any circumstances.Only 56% of Russians believe that the use of nuclear weapons cannot be justified under any circumstances. [what a disgusting set of people]
During April alone, the Russian occupiers committed 6,139 war crimes, which led to the death of 207 peaceful Ukrainian citizens, including 11 children, β the permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, at the UN Security Council, where the humanitarian situation in Ukraine caused by the Russian war was discussed.
All six Kh-47 "Kinzhal" missiles that were shot down at night were flying towards Kyiv, but anti-aircraft defenses destroyed them, said Yuriy Ignat, the spokesman of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
βοΈRussia spent at least 120 million dollars on the night attack on Ukraine
The data was calculated by Economichna Pravda (eng. Economic Truth newspaper):
β«οΈThe Kalibr missile costs $6.5 million, i.e. the total cost of the projectiles fired at night is $58.5 million.
β«οΈHypersonic missile Kh-47 "Kinzhal" can cost from 10 million dollars and above, the total cost of 6 launches β is 60 million dollars.
β«οΈIranian attack drones Shahed-136/131, according to information in open sources, cost from 20 thousand dollars up to $50,000 per unit. On average, six such UAVs cost $280,000.
β«οΈThe Russian drone "Orlan-10" costs, according to the General Staff, 100 thousand dollars.
β«οΈThere is no data on the price of the SuperCam drone in open sources, so we will assume that it is close to the price of the Orlan-10 UAV. Therefore, three drones cost 300 thousand dollars.
So, in general, the missiles and drones launched over Ukraine on the night of May 16 cost $119.08 million.