Russia, offering the West to discuss security guarantees, wants to clearly define the "red lines" and ensure respect for the national interests of the country and the security of its citizens. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin on the air of the TV channel "Russia 1".

Russia's response to the further expansion of NATO to the east may be "very different," President Vladimir Putin said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking about security issues, said that Russia "has been pushed to such a line that we have nowhere else to go."

Moscow appreciates Beijing's reaction to its proposals regarding security guarantees, and calls on the West not to discount the determination of the Russian Federation and China to protect their national interests, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

The Ministry of Defense of Turkmenistan has received permission for a contract with the Turkish company Ronesans Endustri Tesisleri Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. for the design and construction of the first specialized military school for 700 places in Ashgabat.

The Russian military held a gathering of the command staff of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) in Crimea with exercises of ships and marines, the navy said on Saturday.

More than 10 thousand servicemen of the Southern Military District will return to their places of permanent deployment from field exercises that took place at the training grounds of the Crimea, Astrakhan, Volgograd and Rostov regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory.

New ways of conducting combat with tanks, artillery and helicopters were demonstrated during exercises in the Voronezh region, the press service of the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

The Russian Defense Ministry hosted the 1st International Planning Conference on the preparation and holding of the 2022 Army International Games (ArMI-2022).

Senators at a meeting on Friday approved a law removing from military units and organizations the obligation to issue licenses for the development, production, testing, sale, disposal of weapons, military equipment and ammunition.

On December 23, the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center hosted a solemn ceremony of awarding prize winners of All-Russian competitions of scientific research works in the interests of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

I would like relations between Russia and Afghanistan to develop in the best possible way, but as for the recognition of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), we need to proceed from the realities in this matter.

The Australian Ministry of Defense announced the launching ceremony of the lead patrol ship of the ocean zone OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel) of the Arafura class, which took place on December 16 at the Osborne Naval Shipyard.

Combat firing boats of the KCR-60M project of the Indonesian Navy were shown on video. During the exercises, the AU-220M automatic installation, created in the joint stock company "Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" (Nizhny Novgorod), was involved among the weapons samples on board.

The changes are aimed, in particular, at ensuring a higher level of safety of navigation of Russian and Dutch ships, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted

The Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Alexander Fomin, and the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Russia signed a protocol on amendments to the Russian-Dutch intergovernmental agreement on the prevention of incidents at sea outside territorial waters. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A series of exercises with the participation of large amphibious ships of the Pacific Fleet took place in the Sea of Okhotsk. "Admiral Nevelskoy" and "Oslyabya" worked out anti-mine tasks.

The commander of the Novorossiysk Naval Base (NVMB) of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet), Rear Admiral Viktor Kochemazov, summing up the results of 2021, reported on the current state of the unification forces.

Izvestia: BOD "Admiral Levchenko" will join the fleet by the end of 2022

By the end of 2022, the Russian Navy will include a large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Admiral Levchenko" of project 1155. The Russian Ministry of Defense has approved a plan to complete work on the ship. This is reported by the Izvestia newspaper, citing sources in the defense department.

Before the fire, the crew had been preparing for service on this ship for two months

The crew of the Project 20385 Agile multipurpose corvette, which was damaged during a fire on December 17 at the Severnaya Shipyard, will be distributed to other ships under construction. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

TASS: the construction of part of the corvettes of project 20385 will be transferred from the "Northern Shipyard"

The crew of the multi-purpose corvette "Agile" project 20385, which was damaged due to a fire, will be redistributed to other ships. Also, due to the incident, part of the orders for the construction of ships from the Northern Shipyard is planned to be transferred to other Russian enterprises. The consequences of the fire on the "Agile" were revealed by TASS, citing a source close to the Ministry of Defense.