Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation, held a meeting in Syria with the head of the country Bashar al-Assad, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Tuesday.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Syria, where he inspected the progress of the Russian Navy exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the ministry told reporters.

He also presented a special air helmet to a pilot who has flown more than 300 combat missions

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria and heard a report by the commander of Russian troops in Syria, Roman Berdnikov. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The new Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory has transmitted the first data to Earth. The process of its commissioning took a month.

The Taliban movement controlling Afghanistan (banned in the Russian Federation) sends 10,000 militants armed with modern weapons and equipment to the provinces bordering Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The Taliban movement controlling Afghanistan (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) is sending 10,000 militants armed with modern weapons and equipment to the provinces bordering Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the chief of the general staff of the Taliban armed forces, Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat, said on Monday.

The press bureau of the SVR of the Russian Federation reported earlier that the US special services plan to target the sleeping cells of extremists in Damascus, the adjacent region and the province of Latakia to commit targeted actions against employees of the Syrian security forces, as well as military personnel of Russia and Iran.

The Russian military conducted exercises with Syrian volunteer detachments for assault units. This was announced on Monday, February 14, by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Russian military conducted exercises with Syrian volunteer detachments for assault units.

This was reported in the Russian Ministry of Defense. Syrians of completely different professions temporarily forgot about their civilian occupations and signed up as volunteers for assault battalions.

The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CTA) is completing work on a new book dedicated to the current security problems of equatorial and sub-equatorial Africa. The authors of the publication analyze the place and role of the African continent in the foreign policy of Russia and other leading non-regional actors (Great Britain, the EU, the USA, China and France), assess the economic potential of the states of Western, Eastern and Central Africa in terms of their needs for high-tech military, dual and civilian products. In addition, the book describes typical problems of African countries in the field of defense and security.

The Italians launched the Giovanni delle Bande Nere Pattugliatore Polivalente d'altura (PPA) type ship. He became the fourth representative of this project and the first in an improved version.

As noted by the Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff, the activity of NATO naval forces in the waters of the Black and Baltic Seas has increased significantly recently

The Armed Forces of Russia are always ready to open fire on violators of the state border if there is such a decision at the highest level.

To track the American nuclear submarine of the Virginia type, the sailors of the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov used the sonar station "Polinom". The foreign submarine was identified by the sonar track and felt the impact of the anti-submarine system on the hull.

The operation to remove the submarine, which was discovered during exercises in the Pacific Fleet in the area of Urun Island, took about three hours. According to preliminary data, the ship belongs to the USA. This was announced on Monday, February 14, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

The expulsion of a foreign, most likely American, submarine from the waters of Russia took about three hours, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

During exercises in the Pacific Fleet, a submarine was discovered near the Kuril island of Urup — presumably an American one, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin added that "there is a certain protocol of actions against foreign ships - surface or underwater - in the event of their invasion into the territorial waters of the Russian Federation"

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov redirected to the Ministry of Defense the question of possible military actions against foreign ships caught in Russian waters.

Russia is ready to strike at violators of its maritime border, but the decision on this is being made at the highest level, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Stanislav Gadzhimagomedov said.

Warships of the Pacific Fleet in the Sea of Okhotsk as part of the exercises destroyed surface targets imitating a simulated enemy with artillery fire, the information support department of the Pacific Fleet reports.

Large-scale naval exercises in the Black and Mediterranean Seas, in which three Project 1164 Atlant missile cruisers took part, became a formidable warning for NATO. We are talking about the ships "Marshal Ustinov", "Varyag" and "Moscow".