Russia is ready to leave the International Space Station “after 2024,” said the new head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov. After the start of the war, his predecessor, Dmitry Rogozin, issued ultimatums to the West, demanding the lifting of sanctions on Russian cosmonautics, and NASA condemned the crew of the Russian segment of the ISS, which unfurled the LDNR flags. At the same time, it became known that Russian woman Anna Kikina will fly into space on a private ship Crew Dragon. The history of relations between Russia and the United States in space has developed in this way – with grandiose ups and sharp falls, with great joint achievements and serious insoluble contradictions. But if until now Russia has been able to remain among the leaders of manned cosmonautics, now the country is at risk of losing the competence to launch a man into space.

Russia has temporarily suspended checks that should take place under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-3) at its military facilities by the United States

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is ready to discuss prisoner exchange with the United States

In the Khimki Court of Moscow, the prosecutor requested for the Olympic champion, basketball star from the United States Brittney Griner, who is accused of drug smuggling to Russia, 9.5 years in a penal colony and a fine of 1 million rubles

The United States excluded from the sanctions list the company Aktivbizneskonsult LLC, a subsidiary of Sberbank

Ukraine received four more HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems from the United States

The flight of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, which was supposed to end with a landing in Taiwan, and China’s new live-fire exercises in Fujian province reminded the world of a smoldering geopolitical conflict that risks escalating into an armed confrontation at any moment due to the situation with Taiwan .PRC considers the island a breakaway province, which is ready to return by force if necessary, and is concentrating a fleet around the island, accusing the US of pushing Taiwan to declare independence. The United States, for which Taiwan is the most important technological hub, promises to supply weapons to the island and plans to create an “anti-Chinese front”. In the event that countries move from threats to actions, the world is threatened by a war between the two largest states and a technological crisis. Whether such a scenario is real and why a small island is so important for the United States and China – in the review of The Insider.

Russia has not yet managed to destroy a single HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) supplied by the United States to Ukraine

The United States estimates that Russian casualties in Ukraine to date are about 15,000 (we are talking about killed soldiers)

Estonia to buy up to six multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) M142 (HIMARS) from the United States, worth up to $500 million