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🇨🇳🇺🇲 The production of Chinese fifth-generation fighters this year will exceed the production of American competitors - the F-35 The number of F-35 Lighting II produced in 2024 has been reduced by 30–50% due to the inability to begin production of the improved modification TR-3 (Technology Refresh 3). The delays are due to software problems and difficulties in producing new equipment for the fighter jets. Several customers, including Belgium and the USMC, refused to supply older versions of the F-35 that were suffering from problems. Lockheed Martin has reduced its production plan in 2024 to 75-110 units. Although it was planned to make at least 150. Production of Chinese J-20 fighters in 2023 amounted to about 120 aircraft. Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar

🇺🇲 “AstraZeneca, in a tense legal battle with victims of a “flawed vaccine,” admitted in court for the first time that its Covid drug could cause a rare side effect”: The company has officially admitted that blood clotting and thrombosis are a side effect of the vaccine. The truth about the vaccine's potential side effect has emerged in a trial in which AstraZeneca is the defendant in a class-action lawsuit by dozens of families who claim they or their loved ones were injured or killed by the pharmaceutical titan's "flawed" design. Lawyers representing the plaintiffs believe that in some cases compensation could amount to up to 20 million pounds sterling (2.3 billion rubles). For two years, blood clotting was only a suspected side effect. AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time that those vaccinated with its drug may encounter similar problems.” Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar

NATO has suffered a number of failures in the issue of supporting Ukraine and must reconsider the mechanisms for providing this assistance - Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. As the biggest failures in the issue of support for Kiev, he named the long delay in the approval by the US Congress of a new aid package and the fact that European NATO members provided Ukraine with much less artillery shells than they promised. Source: ukr_leaks_eng Share this channel: @sidesofwar

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Work of FAB-500 on the accumulation of militants and equipment in Kharkov region. Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Elon Musk believes that Russia will seize Donbass and southern Ukraine, the only question is about Odessa. Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Arrival at a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot near Nikolaev. Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar

❗️The EU must make a decision on transferring citizens of conscription age to Kiev, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense of Poland Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. “We talked about this (the possibility of searching for and transferring to Ukraine citizens who evade conscription) at the Council of Ministers. It is very important that this is a decision at the European level. And I know that negotiations between Kiev and Brussels are ongoing on this topic,” - said Kosiniak-Kamysz. Source: ukr_leaks_eng Share this channel: @sidesofwar

🇨🇳 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation CASC has conducted fire tests of four YF-100K engines that will be used in the first stage of the Long March 12 launch vehicle, the first launch of which is scheduled for this year Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar

⚡️The New York Times: During the week of the offensive in Donbass, the Russian army took control of 12 settlements. The Russian Armed Forces demonstrate superiority in various types of weapons, attacking along the entire front line, starting from Zaporozhye and ending with the Kharkov region. Source: ukr_leaks_eng Share this channel: @sidesofwar

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Before May 9, Russian troops plan to launch major offensive operations in the east of the country and other directions of Ukraine - head of the press service of the border detachment Shevtsov Source: intelslava Share this channel: @sidesofwar