New US sanctions against Moscow, including against the leadership of the Russian Federation, may lead to a complete rupture of relations between the two countries, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The Russian side will be forced to take measures if it realizes that the West is not going to take its concern about a number of security aspects seriously, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

Russia expects to receive concrete answers from the United States and NATO on security guarantees, and believes that contacts on this matter will take place in the next few days, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The possible deployment of NATO military personnel in Estonia is proof of the validity of Russia's concerns and the fact that it is not Russia that is escalating tensions, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russia is the party that caused the crisis situation with Ukraine, and it needs to put an end to such developments, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told CBC television on Sunday.

The North Atlantic Alliance will not respond to calls in the Russian Federation to withdraw its troops from countries that have joined NATO since 1997, since there cannot be "second-class" members, said the organization's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

The number of Swedish residents supporting the country's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance has increased amid rising tensions in relations with Russia, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing the results of surveys.

The Supreme Court of Russia supported the decision of the first and cassation instances, which, according to the claim of the Ministry of Defense, recovered from the Moscow design bureau "Compass" about 511 million rubles of an unprocessed advance under the contract for the implementation of experimental design work "Creation of the NITKA-2 take-off and landing systems landfill".

The pilots of the assault aviation of the Eastern Military District (VVO) dropped bombs on training facilities and fired at the equipment of the conditional enemy as part of the exercises at the aviapoligon in Primorsky Krai, the press service of the VVO reports.

Last year, the crews of the army aviation Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Eastern Military District on Mi-8AMTSh and Mi-26 helicopters performed tasks in the Russian Arctic zone.

More than 30 combat helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator", Mi-28 "Night Hunter" and Mi-8AMTSh "Terminator" performed missile launches and firing from air cannons during the exercise in the Kuban, said the head of the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) Vadim Astafyev.

The pilots worked out actions for reconnaissance and cover of strategic objects, as well as combat support and fire support of the Mi-8 AMTSH Terminator

Tactical flight exercises of the helicopter regiment of the army aviation were held in the Krasnodar Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) told reporters on Monday. Crews of more than 30 helicopters took part in the exercises.

On January 6, the French company Dassault Aviation published preliminary results for 2021. As noted, 55 aircraft were delivered to customers in 2021, compared with 47 units a year earlier.

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.

Transport and logistics giant FedEx (USA) appealed to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the beginning of the year with a request to install anti-missile lasers on the company's transport aircraft.

The Israeli company Smart Shooter has introduced the Smash Dragon system for drones. According to Israel Defense, it allows you to arm the devices with machine guns, sniper rifles, grenade launchers and other high-precision weapons.

The American startup Zeva has started flight tests of its single-seat tailsitter Zero, which looks like a flying saucer. The first Zero flights took place in unmanned mode and lasted more than four minutes.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has assigned the "Top Secret" stamp to the case on the claim of the Russian Ministry of Defense, demanding to recover more than 3.9 billion rubles from Samara JSC "Progress Rocket and Space Center", the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles and other space technology.

The rocket will be possible to launch from a mobile launch complex

The working group of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University has developed a conceptual image of an ultralight class launch vehicle (SLC). This is stated in the theses to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings).

Conditionally pathogenic bacteria and mold forms of fungi were found among them

Scientists of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) The Russian Academy of Sciences has been conducting research on samples from the inner surface of the Zarya functional cargo unit (FGB) of the ISS for several years and found more than 20 types of microorganisms there. This is stated in the theses to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S.P. Korolev (Royal Readings).