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In this issue:
00:00:00 — Events of the previous day.
00:07:27 – On March 19, 1922, a telegraph radio transmitter began working at the Shabolovskaya Tower in Moscow.
00:11:30 — From the poem “Radio Tower” by Nikolai Kuznetsov, written in 1922.
ukrainian crisis
The €5 billion of military aid allocated by the European Union to Ukraine can be used to pay for the supply of projectiles purchased by the EU outside the European Union. This was stated by the head of the EU diplomatic service, Josep Borrell, after a meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU countries.
“These funds are intended to support Ukraine, not the European military industry”Borrell noted.
Earlier, the EU Council announced the decision to increase the European Peace Fund, through which weapons supplies to Ukraine are paid, by another 5 billion euros.
Germany and Poland plan to increase munitions production for Ukraine and locate logistics centers closer to the conflict-ravaged country, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at a joint news conference with his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.
For his part, the Polish Defense Minister stated that Warsaw and Berlin would activate a coalition to supply tanks to Ukraine.
“On March 26, we, as leaders, Poland and Germany, will activate a coalition of armored capabilities in support of Ukraine.
Our other partners have already volunteered to join, such as Great Britain, Sweden and Italy, which declare their desire to participate in this coalition, but those who create it are Germany and Poland,” added Kosinyak-Kamysh, without specifying what the coalition consists of. Activation of the tank would imply a coalition.
Stockpiles of ammunition of certain types in Ukraine have fallen to a critical level, said Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ivan Gavrilyuk.
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also urgently need air defense systems, aircraft, long-range missiles and modern electronic warfare systems.
US Senator Lindsey Graham, who arrived in kyiv, called on Ukrainian citizens under 25 years of age to go to the front and advised Ukraine to quickly pass a law on mobilization, writes the Washington Post.
“I hope those who have the right to serve in the Ukrainian army will join. I can’t believe this at 27 years old. You should serve, not at 25 or 27 years old. “We need more people,” Graham said.
Currently, in Ukraine, men from the age of 27 are called to mobilization; In the Rada, a law is being approved according to which the age of those subject to mobilization should be reduced to 25 years.
Due to the active work of Russian aviation, the Ukrainian army is forced to place its anti-aircraft missile systems too close to the front, which makes them an easy target for the Russian army, said a military analyst at the center of the European Council on Foreign Affairs, Gustav Gressel said on the German television channel ZDF (Tse-De-Ef).
“The reason they are placing their air defense systems there is that in the last six months, Russian aviation has become even more active and planned bombs are being dropped on Ukrainian positions. “kyiv is trying to do something to counter this,” he noted.
Gressel emphasized that Russian reconnaissance drones easily find such targets. Furthermore, he added, the Russian military has reduced the time from the moment it detects a target until it reaches it.
Russia
The path of the republics of Donbass and the regions of Novorossiya towards their homeland turned out to be more difficult and tragic than that of Crimea, said Russian President Vladimir Putin at a rally-concert on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the reunification of Crimea with Russia.
“Both in Novorossia and Donbass: the people who lived there, also then, during the days of the “Russian Spring”, declared their desire to return to their family. Her path to his homeland turned out to be much more difficult and tragic. But we still did it!” – Putin said.
“Now we are developing and moving forward together, feeling each other’s elbows,” stressed the Russian head of state.
Moscow insists that Berlin must officially recognize the blockade of Leningrad and other crimes of the Third Reich against the people of the USSR as an act of genocide, says a note from the Russian Embassy in Germany.
“The Russian side points out the contradictory nature of the German side’s approach to the issue of official recognition of crimes against humanity committed by Germany in the past as acts of genocide,” the document says.
The diplomatic mission recalled that Berlin recognized the crimes of the era of colonialism as genocide, but has not yet done so in relation to the acts against the people of the USSR during the Second World War.
World
“One of NATO’s priorities must be a firm position, as well as a mental change from the peacetime (regime) to the period of military threat in which we find ourselves,” said the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Michal Szczerba, at a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Poland’s accession to the alliance, which took place in Warsaw.
He stressed that strengthening NATO’s eastern flank is key in the context of the military conflict between Ukraine and Russia. In this sense, Shcherba called on the United States to “increase its presence in Europe.”
In July, 5,000 servicemen from the armies of Poland and Germany will join the EU’s Rapid Reaction Force, Polish Defense Ministry chief Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said after negotiations with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius.
“Starting in July, our battle groups of 2,500 Polish and 2,500 German soldiers will be ready for a rapid response,” the head of the Polish military department said at a press conference.
EU States must double their orders for weapons and ammunition from the European military industry by 2030, said the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, in an article for the Eurektiv portal.
“This will strengthen our defense sector, increase readiness, create jobs and [обеспечить] economic growth throughout the European Union,” said Michel.
According to him, since the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the European military industry has already increased its production by 50%. By the end of 2025, the volume of ammunition production in the European Union will double and reach 2 million shells per year.
To finance these large-scale plans to put the economy on a war footing, the European Union, according to Michel, should start issuing Eurobonds for the first time in history.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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