The topic of Ukraine will become one of the central issues at the talks between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, the possibility of whose behavior is currently being discussed, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a briefing on Friday.

The People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic recorded the operation of electronic warfare stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of three settlements controlled by Kiev in the Donbass.

Moscow, not Kiev, should take steps to reduce tensions near the Russian-Ukrainian border, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Is studying the possibility of retaliatory measures for Kiev's purchase of Turkish drones

The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin promised to destroy Turkish Bayraktar drones in case Kiev tries to strike them on the territory of the DPR.

Ukraine should be forced to comply with the Minsk agreements, Moscow calls on Berlin and Paris to contribute to this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Friday that Russia and Ukraine need to adhere to the Minsk agreements in order to achieve de-escalation of the conflict with Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus handed a protest note to the military attache at the Embassy of Ukraine in the republic in connection with the increased cases of border violations, the press service of the defense department reported.

Ukraine denies violation of the air space of Belarus during the exercises

Belarusian border guards said that the Ukrainian military aircraft "Mi-8" crossed the state border of the republic and went deep into its territory for a kilometer. And they published a video where a helicopter flies over the forest. In Kiev, another version - there was no incident, there was no violation of the state border of Belarus. About the situation - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

Azerbaijan handed over 10 servicemen to Armenia, the State Security Service of Azerbaijan reports.

"On December 4, the Republic of Azerbaijan, guided by the principles of humanism, handed over 10 Armenian servicemen to the Armenian side. These persons were detained on November 16, 2021 while preventing a provocation by the Armenian Armed Forces in the Kelbajar direction of the state border," the statement reads.

The military of the two countries will continue to work together in Idlib

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, spoke in favor of further coordination of the efforts of the two countries to resolve the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Kremlin's press service reported.

This year, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation together with the Russian Geographical Society conducted several unique expeditions, State Secretary of the Military Department Nikolai Pankov said on Friday at the summing up of the joint work of the Armed Forces and the Russian Geographical Society.

About one hundred units of the VVST received formations and military units of the Central Military District stationed in the Samara, Saratov, Novosibirsk regions, as well as in Udmurtia and the Republic of Tajikistan, in November of this year.

Podolsk resident Arseniy Babashov became the millionth participant of the movement The

millionth participant joined the ranks of the Unarmia movement at a solemn ceremony at the walls of the Memorial Road museum complex in Kubinka, a TASS correspondent reports.

After analyzing the composition of conscripts sent to the troops, the General Staff came to the conclusion that the attractiveness of military service has grown among older citizens in Russia. This makes it possible to recruit units for the most part with people who have been trained in educational organizations and already have specialties that are in demand in the Armed Forces.

The topic of military cooperation remains one of the main ones in the context of cooperation with India

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will take part in a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on military and military-technical cooperation with India on December 6, Russian Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Under the leadership of the Head of the Main Department of Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Major General Alexander Osadchuk, the final meeting of the Commission of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Innovative Information Technologies for 2021 was held.

France and the United Arab Emirates have signed an agreement on the development of spacecraft for missions on the moon, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC), responsible for the UAE lunar program, said.

The American Navy is learning to work with the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker. On December 3, the press service of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced that the first prototype of the "flying canister" was delivered to the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN-77).

The incident between Afghan and Iranian border guards in Nimroz province has been brought under control, the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) reports.

The Australian Navy has completed the procedure for transferring two Adelaide-class air defense frigates to the Chilean Navy, FFG-11 Captain Prat (formerly named FFG-06 Newcastle) and FFG-14 Almirante Latorre (formerly FFG-05 Melbourne) under the contract from 2019.