Moscow will move to a policy of counter-support if NATO tries to restrain Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Wednesday following a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council.

The United States needs to stop threatening Russia and move its military potential away from Russian borders, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov believes.

All Moscow's proposals have been brought to the Russia-NATO Council and are on the negotiating table, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Russian military has named key issues for discussion with NATO, the level of relations with the alliance is described as critically low with risks of incidents and conflicts.

Moscow does not know how many Russian citizens, employees of the Wagner PMCs, are currently in Mali, a high-ranking source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.

Washington welcomes the statement of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the imminent completion of the work of the CSTO peacekeeping forces in the country, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing on Tuesday.

The CSTO peacekeeping operation in Kazakhstan has been completed, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at a meeting in Nur-Sultan with CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zasem.

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

Peacekeepers protect airfields, bakeries, thermal power plants, telecentres

CSTO peacekeepers in Kazakhstan conduct round-the-clock monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles in four aerial reconnaissance areas. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

It is planned to create a motorized rifle regiment and a tank battalion

The formation of two new divisions will be completed this year in the south of Russia. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) with reference to Commander Alexander Dvornikov.

The exercises of the Western Military District, which started on Tuesday, have nothing to do with the negotiations on security guarantees in Geneva and Brussels, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

Combat coordination of motorized rifle, tank platoons and artillery batteries is organized at more than 20 combined-arms training grounds in the south of Russia

More than 10 thousand servicemen of the Southern Military District (SE) as part of battalion tactical groups will master new ways of tactical actions at the training grounds of the south of Russia. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the Southern Federal District.

About 60 units of military equipment will be involved in the two-day exercises

Exercises with the participation of about 1 thousand military personnel of artillery and motorized rifle units of the combined arms association of the Central Military District (CVO) started on Wednesday at a training ground in the Kemerovo region. This is stated in a message distributed on Wednesday by the press service of the district.

In 2022, it is planned to train and participate military formations and military units of the Ground Forces in seven competitions of the Army International Games organized by the Main Command of the Ground Forces.

The American Army is in search of new supersonic aviation capabilities. On January 11, the press service of Boom Supersonic announced the signing of a contract with AFWERX and AFVentures, which are part of the US Air Force and are engaged in the development of commercial technologies.

Denmark will send the frigate of the Navy Peter Willemoes to strengthen security in the Baltic region. Four F-16 fighters will also be delivered to the Shauliai airbase.

The South Korean defense company LIG Nex1 has completed sea trials of the Sea Sword-II unmanned boat. According to the creators, the success was a big step forward in the development of unmanned offshore platforms.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that the launch ceremony of the Richard M McCool Jr. (LPD-29) class "San Antonio" was held at the shipyard of its Ingalls Shipbuilding division on January 7.

The upgraded submarines of the 949AM project will become the most armed Russian cruise missile submarines and will be able to carry up to 72 "Calibers", "Onyx" or "Zircons" on board, a source in the shipbuilding industry told RIA Novosti.

During the modernization, the multipurpose nuclear cruisers of the project 949AM "Antey" will receive 72 launchers of the Kalibr, Onyx and Zircon cruise missiles.