According to what he reports Interfax, Moscow warns that it has used "another hypersonic missile against Ukrainian military targets ". While 'The Kyiv independent'accuses the Russian military forces of having transferred "thousands of Ukrainian civilians" to "camps" where their cell phones and documents are "checked" and then "deported to remote cities in Russia".
But on Telegram, the municipal authorities of Mariupol, cited by the BBC and Sky News, launch an even more serious accusation: a school would have been bombed last night where "about 400 people had found refuge". Accusation, the BBC points out, not yet "independently verified".
After almost two weeks spent in a bunker, then, again according to 'The Kyiv Independent', 71 orphans "would have been evacuated from Sumy and transferred to safer areas". "These are children who for various reasons do not have parents and most of them need constant medical assistance."
The Ukrainian premier Zelenskymeanwhile, in his new video in which he says that the "crimes committed by the Russians in Mariupol by the Russians will go down in history", Also announces that"the activity of 11 Ukrainian political parties, some of which would have direct links with Moscow, will be limited and brought under control".
Among these, the Opposition platform-For Life, one of the largest pro-Russian parties present in the Kiev Parliament. The restrictions will last "as long as martial law lasts". But it doesn't seem like only bombs are coming from Moscow.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the military has delivered "more than 75 tons of humanitarian aid to Kherson" including "cereals, pasta, sugar and other foodstuffs". And international solidarity with the war-hit country continues.
THEAustralia let you know you want to send "70.000 tons of thermal coal to guarantee Ukraine energy security"And the Foreign Minister, Payne, also explains that Ukrainian refugees hosted in Australia will be given"a 3-year visa that will allow him to have state health insurance and work permits".
Hypersonic missiles
It is a missile that travels ten times the speed of sound, can be launched by Mig 31 and Tu23 and can also carry a nuclear charge, it is guided by sensors that increase its accuracy. It is also difficult to intercept as it flies low and missile defenses do not have time to react.
Weeks ago, a NATO scout had already noticed the flight of a Mig 31 equipped with the Kinzhal in the Kaliningrad area.
China and Russia, wrote the general Pasquale Preziosa su ants.net, showed superior capabilities to the United States to equip with hypersonic technology the nuclear sector. The hypersonic Asian unhinges the previous balance of power in favor of China and Russia. During the "presidential address to the federal assembly", President Vladimir Putin he stated that "in 2024, 76% of conventional military forces will be equipped with the new weapons, while 88% of nuclear weapons will be modernized by 2021".
Intercontinental missiles with hypersonic capabilities are already deployed Avangard (HGV- Hypersonic Glide Vehicle) and the combat systems based on the “Peresvet” Laser for Air defense and Missile defense. Super-heavy ballistic ICBMs will be operational by 2022, Sarmat, capable of evading US ABM defenses and capable of carrying up to 24 HGV warheads. The number of combat aircraft equipped with hypersonic missiles Kinzhal (two thousand kilometers of range, with speeds up to Mach 10) will increase, as will the deployment of cruise missiles Kalibr (subsonic-supersonic) on combat ships. The hypersonic missile Zircon (one thousand kilometers, Mach 8-9) anti-ship (invisible to radar) will enter service shortly.
Russia has developed a more modern system of large Poseidon combat torpedoes for submarines ("tsunami apocalypse torpedo”) Capable of hitting coastal targets with thermonuclear weaponry (2 Megaton) and the named system burevestnik (Petrel), nuclear-powered cruise missile. Russia was keen to reiterate that it has achieved very high levels of national security, never achieved before.
China has already done the first tests on hypersonic aircraft. In the Gobi desert, the tests for the “Jiageng 1” aircraft, developed by Xiamen University after ten years of studies and designs, have long since completed; adopted the "wave-rider" design, similar to the US Boeing X-51 project (Mach 5.1, equal to 5.400 km / h) and last year the Peking University already tested an "I- Plane ”for speeds up to Mach 7.
In the United States, Raytheon is developing new hypersonic missiles with the Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapon concept together with the Air Force and DARPA. European countries have not invested enough in hypersonic technological research and are looking for possible remedies.
While waiting to develop new state-of-the-art technologies and weapons to balance the hypersonic prevalence of Russia and China, the United States is developing the "Integrated Deterrence" for the mitigation of national security risks.
Today's geopolitical framework has changed a lot, decidedly more complex. The United States, and therefore NATO, have lost ground in the field of deterrence as a result of the new hypersonic capabilities achieved by both Russia and China. As a result, Europe, like the US, will no longer be able to enjoy the previous levels of security. The Western hypersonic gap and the new arms race negatively affect the security and defense levels of the US and, consequently, of Europe. The United States has in fact lost the high level of deterrence that had allowed it to exercise "dominance" in the past and consequently NATO is already showing signs of its weakening. The recovery of the military gap is complex from a technological point of view and costly for the financial part. NATO, and therefore the US, must work today to recover the gap technology and restore credible deterrence to restore previous levels of national security.
Russia threatens Italy
"If the government of Rome follows France in declaring total financial and economic war on Russia with new sanctions, there will be corresponding irreversible consequences.“, So of Alexei Vladimorovic Paramonov, 60, former Russian consul in Milan, now director of the European department of the Foreign Ministry.
Paramonov spoke yesterday to the Russian agency Ria Novosti accusing Italy of having taken over forgotten about the aid received by the Kremlin during the Covid-19 pandemic and historical bilateral relations between the two countries, prey to an anti-Russian hysteria which has infected the West. Rome received significant assistance during the pandemic - said Paramonov - e the request for aid was also sent by the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini, which is now one of the main hawks and inspirers of the anti-Russian campaign in the Italian government.
The reactions
The premier, Mario Draghi"full solidarity with Minister Guerini. The comparison between the invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic crisis in Italy is particularly hateful and unacceptable.. Minister Guerini and the armed forces are at the forefront to defend the security and freedom of Italians".
The Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio: “The Russian government, instead of threatening, stop the war in Ukraine which is causing the deaths of Innocenti civilians".
The reason for Moscow's nervousness
In order not to depend on Moscow gas the the Italian government is trying to diversify its sources of supply as soon as possible with the foreign minister Di Maio on a mission to Mozambique after flying in the last two weeks to Algeria, Qatar, Congo and Angola. Di Maio, following his delegation, had always been alongside Eni's CEO, Descalzi.
THEEni illustrated the group's new strategy for 2025 on the basis of an average Brent price between 70-80 dollars per barrel, and a dollar / euro exchange rate of 1,15 to 1,24.
In particular on the gas front, Descalzi clarified that "we have found enormous quantities of gas to be diverted to Italy, we start gradually immediately in the summer, the first batch will be via pipe because in Algeria and Libya we can increase the production of the projects already started. Through pipelines we can cover between 9 and 11 billion cubic meters per year. Then we have the LNG (in Egypt) that we will divert to Europe and by 2023/24 we will have the LNG from Congo (5 billion) and Mozambique (2-3). Finally, there is the increase in national production ".
An account that brings the quota in question that affects Italy to about 19-20 billion "cubic meters" out of a national consumption of over 70 billion. "War in Ukraine - added Descalzi - it is forcing us to see the world differently from how we knew it. This is a humanitarian tragedy, which has generated new threats to energy security we must address them without abandoning our ambitions for a just energy transition".
Eni has decided to accelerate the race towards the goal of zero net greenhouse gas emissions and, in the wake of the new company Plenitude integrates renewables, customer supply and charging network for electric vehicles) is preparing a similar operation in sustainable mobility. An ad hoc company for biofuels, service stations and ride sharing. To this end, capacity is expected to grow (from 1 to 2 million tons per year by 2025), through the expansion of the Venice plant and the conversion of another traditional refinery; the target of 6 million tons will be achieved in the next decade. For the raw material, the development of a network of agro-hubs is planned in many countries where Eni's upstream is present (primarily Africa), with the aim of covering 35% of the supply by 2025. At the green growth will be dedicated 30% of investments by 2025, 60% by 2030 and up to 80% by 2040.