As reported in the state corporation, now it is necessary to agree with the cosmonaut squad how to build plans for the next three years

Roscosmos has successfully implemented plans for 2021 to support Russian cosmonauts. Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the State Corporation for Economics and Finance, told reporters about this.

During the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to the UAE, in addition to the contract for the sale of Rafale F4 fighters to the Air Force of this country, an agreement was signed for the supply of H-225M "Caracal" multipurpose helicopters manufactured by Airbus Helicopters.

Azerbaijan is likely to become the second foreign customer of the Hurkus training aircraft / light attack aircraft manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries.

The United Kingdom, the United States and Italy have raised from the bottom of the Mediterranean the sunken fifth-generation fighter F-35 Lightning II, which got there in November after the crash of the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, reports The Drive.

On Wednesday, Russian Su-27 fighters flew over the Black Sea at a minimum distance to French Rafale and Mirage fighters trying to approach the border of the Russian Federation, according to data distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry.

China wants to revise the world order and change the situation that has developed since the Second World War. For this purpose, the country is expanding its military capabilities. This was announced on November 8 by the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli.

In the United States, on December 7, a draft defense budget for 2022 was presented, the text of which was published by the relevant committee of the House of Representatives.

American congressmen have included in the draft of the US defense budget for 2022 approved by the House of Representatives provisions providing for counteraction to Russia and China, the world media noted in comments.

Washington is not currently considering the evacuation of US civil servants or American citizens from Ukraine, the US Embassy in Kiev says.

Moscow expects that its concerns about Ukraine's possible admission to NATO after talks with U.S. President Joseph Biden will be heard, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Putin also told Biden about the need for legal guarantees of the security of the Russian Federation in connection with the activity of NATO at the Russian borders

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his American counterpart Joseph Biden that Moscow is concerned about the military activity of Ukraine and NATO near its borders, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

On Wednesday, army railway workers began laying tracks on their section of the reconstruction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The command to dock the first link of the new route was given by the head of the military department, Sergei Shoigu, via videoconference from the National Defense Control Center of Russia.

Innovations have been introduced into the tactics of the engineering and sapper units of the Central Military District (CVO) in 2021. This was announced by the head of the engineering troops of the Central Military District Dmitry Koruts.

The same title was awarded to Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the VKS Andrey Yudin and Chief of Staff of the Central Military District Mikhail Teplinsky

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of Colonel-General to Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces Andrei Yudin and Chief of Staff of the Central Military District Mikhail Teplinsky. The corresponding decree of the head of state is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The military infrastructure on the territory of Tajikistan will be improved in the interests of the coalition groups of collective forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Chairman of the CSTO Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said.

The military infrastructure on the territory of Tajikistan will be improved, and the military of the CSTO countries will improve their collective combat potential. This was stated today at a meeting of the CSTO Military Committee by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov.

The meeting also approved the activities of the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy as a basic organization for the training of military personnel for the CSTO member states in the specialties of missile troops and artillery.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that representatives of Russia and the United States will "very promptly" begin discussing strategic security issues raised during a videoconference between the presidents of the two countries Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden.

An Mi-17V5 helicopter belonging to the country's air force crashed in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. There were fourteen people on board, including the Chief of the Defense Staff of the armed forces, General Bipin Rawat and his relatives.

The unfinished Talayieh reconnaissance ship of the Iranian Navy capsized in the dry dock of the Bandar Abbas port in the Persian Gulf. The ship partially disappeared under water, as the dock turned out to be dry only in class. As a result of the accident, a serviceman was killed, writes Dambiev.