The meeting of German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was canceled due to the refusal of the German side to provide military assistance to Kiev, CNN reported, citing an informed source.

French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said in the European Parliament on February 7 that Paris does not want arms supplies to Ukraine to provoke an escalation of the situation around this country, but at the same time recognizes Kiev's right to defense, RIA Novosti reports.

The command and staff exercises "Blizzard-2022" on the management of groups of troops during combat operations have begun in the Ukrainian army, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements on the settlement in the south-east of Ukraine, and Kiev must fulfill them, whether it likes them or not.

Further expansion of NATO does not meet the interests of world security and stability, the Chinese delegation to the European Union said.

The United States and NATO have virtually ignored Russia's security concerns, and the alliance's position on Ukraine could turn into a threat of a full-scale war. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference after talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, RIA Novosti reports.

The statement that Russia is behaving aggressively contradicts common sense - it is the NATO infrastructure that has approached the borders of the Russian Federation, and not vice versa, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Moscow will continue to seek from NATO and the United States a response to the key provisions of its initiative on security guarantees, there are things in the responses from Washington and Brussels that can be discussed, but they are of a secondary nature, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Since December 2021, teaching officers of the International Mine Action Order of the Kutuzov Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been training Lao servicemen on the basis of the center's branch in Khammuan Province (Laos).

Russian-Kazakh allied relations are filled with practical content and are developing dynamically, the countries will strengthen and improve the peacekeeping potential of the CSTO, Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Alexey Borodavkin said.

By the end of February, more than three dozen tactical exercises will be held in the Southern Military District. T-72B3 tanks, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR-82A armored personnel carriers will be involved there. And also - anti-tank missile systems "Kornet".

During tactical exercises that took place in the Leningrad region, calculations of electronic warfare systems "Palantin-K" prevented air strikes on the positions of our troops. The ZVO headquarters clarified that over 450 military personnel and about 80 units of weapons, military and special equipment were involved in the exercises.

The head of the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the head of the Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Major General Alexander Zaliznyuk, said that more than 20 R&D projects on the noise immunity of navigation support facilities have been planned until 2030.

In 2022, the modernization of the ground-based special complex of the space geodetic system will be completed, said the head of the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the head of the Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Major General Alexander Zaliznyuk.

This year, the troops of the Western Military District (ZVO) will receive more than 1.6 thousand devices of satellite navigation equipment for individual use, the press service of the ZVO reported on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Defense noted that the complexity and importance of the tasks solved by the service has increased significantly, taking into account the needs of modern weapons and control systems

The Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation celebrates the 210th anniversary of its creation on Tuesday.

The General Staff of the Russian Federation and the All-Russian Cossack Society signed an agreement on cooperation in attracting Cossacks to the mobilization reserve of the country, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the VSKO.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has approved an agreement with Belarus providing for the dispatch of up to 200 Belarusian military personnel to Syria to provide humanitarian assistance. The corresponding order is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Secretary of State of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich promised to give a fitting rebuff in the event of NATO aggravation of the situation on the border.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation said that after the exercises, the troops will return to their permanent locations

Russian troops will leave Belarus after the end of the exercises, there was never any talk that they could stay, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, told reporters.