Military aviation exercises have begun in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Pilots of supersonic fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM will have to work out interception and counteraction to high-precision weapons of a conditional enemy.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov held a conversation with the Ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine Igor Sokol, the parties discussed topical issues of cooperation between the countries in the fields of security and defense.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky sees territorial defense as the basis for the protection of each locality and the state as a whole.

On February 15, the coordination group of the Anti-Terrorist Center under the Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region begins multi-stage counter-sabotage exercises in the Kharkiv region.

The Pentagon hopes to provide military assistance to Ukraine through ground delivery, The Hill reports, citing an informed source.

The United States is temporarily transferring its embassy in Ukraine from Kiev to Lviv for security reasons, and diplomats will return as soon as possible, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Monday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Berlin is studying individual requests from Ukraine for arms supplies and will announce its decision upon completion of the analysis, RIA Novosti reports.

Canada will provide Ukraine with rifles, machine guns, pistols and 1.5 million rounds of ammunition, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Canadian Ministry of Defense.

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Former member of the US House of Representatives Tulsi Gabbard analyzed the grounds for Ukraine's accession to NATO.

There are no grounds for the introduction of martial law in Ukraine, which, among other things, would entail the regulation of the work of journalists and the functioning of the information space as a whole, said the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

He did not rule out the possibility of Western provocations in the Donbas

The reports spread in the West that Russia could allegedly launch an "invasion" of Ukraine on Wednesday, February 16, are strange and ridiculous, said Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN.

NATO allies are open to dialogue with Russia on security issues, US Permanent Representative to the alliance Julian Smith said on Tuesday.

Russia considers Warsaw's proposal to resume a dialogue on European security in the OSCE interesting, but negotiations with the United States and NATO on security guarantees remain a priority for Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

On the eve of his visit to Moscow, Rau said that "Poland supplies Kiev with only defensive weapons in accordance with the fundamental principles of international law."

Russia wants to resolve the issue related to Ukraine's accession to NATO, now, during the negotiation process, the promise not to accept it does not suit the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in the responses of the United States and NATO to Russia's proposals on security guarantees there are a number of considerations that Moscow has proposed in previous years and is ready to discuss now.

Russia cannot turn a blind eye to how freely the United States and NATO interpret the principles of indivisibility of security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to negotiate on the situation around Ukraine and on security guarantees for the Russian Federation, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN.

Modern Russia opposes the war, but the country cannot be within the borders of the "obscene world" established in 1918 after the signing of the Brest Peace with Germany: the western border of present-day Russia almost literally coincides with the line of restriction designated then, according to former assistant to the President of Russia Vladislav Surkov.

The Ministry of Labor has expanded the list of professions for alternative civil service for 2022: this year there will be 127 instead of 124. The draft order of the department on this is undergoing public discussion.