The plane has performed a test flight following maintenance and upgrade. ‹› 1/3 The world’s largest cargo aircraft An-225 Mriya, made in Ukraine, has departed from the Kyiv-Antonov-2 International Airport for the first commercial flight after maintenance and upgrading. An-225 is involved in transportation from China to the European Union of humanitarian aid – medical supplies to fight the coronavirus,

Belarus will not buy 30,000 Russian-made coronavirus test kits due to stalled negotiations and their poor accuracy, said Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. “We were in talks with two Russian companies to acquire 30,000 units, but these negotiations have stalled. And now we do not need these test kits: we produce test kits ourselves, and about 50,000 more. We have

Texas Republican presses theory tracing new coronavirus to Chinese biolab, and sees threats to medical supplies as act of aggression WASHINGTON — As the world fights its way through a pandemic and flash recession, Sen. Ted Cruz is warning that Saudi Arabia and China have each misbehaved in ways that should make the United States wary — and may even

Mykolaiv-based Shipyard repaired and restored combat efficiency of the Ukrainian Navy’s Nikopol and Vyshgorod armored artillery boats. That’s according to Defense Express. On the Nikopol boat, restoration of electrical systems and equipment is still underway after it has been put back in water. All works are scheduled to be completed before the end of the month. At the same time,

The Moldovan government will meet next week for a special meeting to consider changes to the 2020 budget, taking into account external sources of funding. On April 10, Moldovan Presindent Igor Dodon confirmed that Russia would provide the previously promised multimillion-dollar loan. “The government of the Russian Federation has decided to approve a loan agreement with Moldova. Yesterday there was

As of April 9, 56 of Russia’s more than 80 regions had decreased the severity of the measures they are taking to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, TASS reported. Most regions did so by expanding the kinds of businesses that are permitted to operate during the national non-working days ordered by Vladimir Putin to extend through April 30. For example,

Last last week, multiple news agencies reported on an interview with Sergey Sobyanin recorded by the state TV network Pervyi Kanal, where the Moscow mayor argued against cash stimulus handouts to the public during Russia’s coronavirus lockdown. Memorably, according to reports by the news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, Sobyanin said, “The budgets are cracking — they won’t even be able to cover the

More than 1,000 patients and medical workers are currently quarantined in Ufa’s Kuvatov Republican Clinical Hospital. On April 10, regional Health minister Maxim Zabelin announced that 170 of them have tested positive for the new coronavirus, while the rest have tested negative. Zabelin emphasized that another round of tests will be conducted to verify those results. On April 5, an