The purpose of checking the reaction forces of the Union State is to assess readiness to neutralize threats at the borders, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has approved the idea of a joint exercise of the Belarusian and Russian armed forces, it will be called "Allied Resolve-2022", the Telegram channel "Pool of the First", close to the press service of the head of state, reported.

The exercises of the Russian Federation on its territory have nothing to do with the process of internal Ukrainian settlement, said the permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.

At military training grounds in Tatarstan, Altai, Khakassia, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, the Central Military District reserves will be collected. The press service of the Central Military District reported that from January 24 to January 26, military personnel from the combat army reserve of the country - BARS will work out combat training tasks there.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state Yair Lapid explained that NASA had offered Israel "to sign an international treaty on the study of the Moon and Mars, as well as comets and asteroids"

The Israeli government and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA are preparing to sign the so-called "Artemis Agreements" on joint space exploration, in particular the Moon and Mars, as well as asteroids and comets. This was announced on Sunday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state Yair Lapid.

The American company Boom Supersonic installed engines on the demonstrator of the supersonic passenger aircraft XB-1 and began testing them. It tests all three power plants at idle in turn and simultaneously, and also checks them in different operating modes.

Iran should take into account that the time frame for reaching an agreement to return to compliance with the provisions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program is limited, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on NPR radio.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to hold talks with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi next week.

China will not interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, Chinese Ambassador to Kabul Wang Yu said after his meeting with the acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) Sirajuddin Haqqani.

The countries of the Middle East do not need external intervention to solve regional problems, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after a series of talks with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Turkey and Iran.

The concept of the DDG(X) combat destroyer was presented in the USA. It will be a new generation ship armed with hypersonic missiles and lasers. It is assumed that they will be ten times more powerful than current missiles and laser installations.

The USA has officially completed the last of the experimental Zumwalt-type destroyers. On January 14, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that the Lyndon B. Johnson ship (DDG-1002) left the Bath Iron Work shipyard and went to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula (Mississippi) to activate the combat system.

TASS: the submarines of Project 955 "Borey" have a technical novelty of no more than 40 percent

According to unconfirmed reports, one nuclear submarine of the Borey project costs 23 billion rubles to the Russian budget, while the submarine of the Yasen project costs more than 200 billion. The submarines were compared by TASS military columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

On board the "Epron" is a group of Sevastopol scientists of the Institute of Biology of the South Seas, who will conduct expedition studies of the ecological state of the seas of the Mediterranean basin.

Large Landing Ship (BDK) The Russian Navy "Orsk", having passed the Bosphorus, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Istanbul observers reported in social networks, publishing photos of its passage through the strait.

FAR EAST - The crews of the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, as well as the corvettes Gremyashchy and Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov conducted an air defense training in Primorsky Krai, the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) reported on Friday.

The ship's systems are being audited, preparations are underway for the final stage of state tests, which begin next week

The passage of factory sea trials is completed on the small rocket ship "Cyclone", built for the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet). A number of systems have already been tested, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet told reporters on Friday.

The newest small rocket ship "Cyclone" of the Karakurt project, built for the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Kerch, is completing factory sea trials, the head of the Fleet information support department, Captain of the second rank Alexey Rulev, told reporters on Friday.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation summed up the preliminary results of its activities in 2021. As noted, the corporation's enterprises handed over almost two dozen ships and vessels to customers.

The Baltic Plant (part of the USC) has completed the construction of the first serial universal nuclear icebreaker project 22220 "Siberia": on January 12, the vessel departed from the mooring wall of the enterprise and headed to the home port in Murmansk.