NATO continues to play its game, saying it is ready to discuss topics with Russia that are far from Moscow's proposed security guarantees. This opinion was shared by Senator Alexey Pushkov in his Telegram channel.

Issues of development of Tajik-Turkish cooperation in the field of defense were discussed in Ankara at a meeting of the Ambassador of Tajikistan to Turkey Ashrafjon Gulov with the Minister of National Defense of the host country Hulusi Akram, the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan reported on Wednesday.

All the peacekeepers, military equipment and weapons of the CSTO, who performed tasks in Kazakhstan, have returned home, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The accelerated method of testing for the presence of coronavirus developed by the Russian military differs from PCR studies on the enzymes used. Andrey Kuznetsovsky, deputy head of the branch of the Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia about this on Wednesday, January 19.

A senior representative of the US State Department told reporters that the US considers the relocation of Russian military to Belarus as a possible preparation for the invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the planned large-scale joint exercises with Belarus do not contradict the Vienna Document of 2011 on confidence- and security-building measures.

The exercises will be held from 10 to 20 February

The first units of the Russian Armed Forces involved in the verification of the reaction forces of the Union State have arrived in Belarus. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In particular, aspects of the resolution of armed conflicts and stabilization of the situation in the countries of the Central Asian region will be worked out

The number of training events for Russian troops has been increased by 10% in 2022 in the Central Military District (CVO) compared to last year - up to 900 events.

The bill is aimed at creating conditions for reducing the rates on loans attracted for the implementation of the state armament program

The State Duma Committee on the Financial Market supported in the first reading a bill that provides for a ban on charging interest to an authorized bank for using funds held in a special account under a state defense order. The document was submitted to the State Duma by the President.

Two divisions of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft complexes of the Russian Aerospace Forces will be transferred to Belarus as part of the verification of the reaction forces of the Union State. Also, 12 Su-35 fighters and a division of the Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes will go to the neighbors, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin.

Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov have begun a seven-hour spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS), the first this year.

The Japanese Defense Ministry believes that North Korea on Monday launched short-range solid-fuel ballistic missiles, which it has already tested before.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition said that in response to the attacks by the Yemeni Houthis on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it is launching round-the-clock air raids on the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The European Union strongly condemns the drone attack carried out by the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) on a fuel storage facility near Abu Dhabi airport (United Arab Emirates).

A video of the destruction of the Mi-17 military transport helicopter of the Afghan Air Force in Wardak province has appeared on the Network. The description of the video says that it was filmed in March 2021. The moment of hitting an anti-tank guided missile launched by the militia of field commander Abdul Ghani Alipura is captured.

Russia, Iran and China will hold joint naval exercises. This was reported on Tuesday, January 18, by the press service of the Pacific Fleet.

The Varyag missile cruiser, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs and a sea tanker have made a call at the Iranian port of Chahbehar, the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) reported.

Russia is gradually disabling the nuclear submarines of project 971 "Pike-B". On January 17, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Bratsk submarine was declared unfit for repair and will be written off, and the Samara submarine of the same type will still "fight for life."

A new Hephaestus training complex has been commissioned at the S.O.Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School, designed to train naval specialists in the fight for the survivability of a surface ship and a submarine in emergency situations.

A scientist at the Quantum Electronics Center of the Shvabe Holding has received a grant from the President of Russia, which will be used to develop a new generation of high-power IR laser emitters based on nanostructures, the press service of the holding said on Tuesday.