The government of Mali has denied information according to which mercenaries from the Wagner PMCs arrived on its territory, French media reported on Saturday.

"American troops have been on the territory of Afghanistan for 20 years, spanning four presidencies, and our government has constantly fed us lies, half-truths and distortions about the fighting on the other side of the world," Mel Warwick, a popular publicist and historian in the States, gave this assessment just the other day.

The military exercises conducted by Iran this week in the Persian Gulf were a warning to Israel, said Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, amid fears that Tel Aviv may be hatching plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.

The aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition against Yemeni Houthi rebels struck and destroyed nine weapons depots in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Saudi state television reported, citing a coalition statement.

Russia and China have launched projects to jointly create weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "We are even developing separate high-tech types of weapons together today," the president said at a press conference on Thursday.

In 2021, the formations and associations of the Air Defense Forces received more than 800 units of modern models of VIVT, including T-80BVM tanks, infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3. The composition of the TOPF included the Magadan DPL, Bastion coastal missile systems.

The servicemen of the motorized rifle units of the Russian military base in Tajikistan have worked at the Lyaur mountain range to block conditional terrorists trying to enter a military facility and destroy them, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The West should give guarantees immediately, not to talk about this issue

Russia's actions against other countries will depend not on the course of negotiations on security guarantees, but on the need to ensure its own security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Global and regional security was discussed on Thursday during telephone talks between the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, and the Chief of the British Defense Staff, Anthony Radeikin, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

Italy could play a mediating role in the negotiations between Russia and NATO on security guarantees, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Russia has offered the United States specific dates for the start of a dialogue on security guarantees, and is waiting for Washington's response, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

Threats of "consequences" against Russia in the event of an invasion of Ukraine continue. Lithuanian Foreign Minister insists on abandoning dialogue with Russia

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Head of European Diplomacy Josep Borrel confirmed their readiness to coordinate efforts on Russia's policy towards Ukraine, the US State Department said following a conversation between the two politicians.

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not rule out that Kiev is preparing a new military operation against Donbass, believes that it is necessary to prepare for this.

Zelensky fell under the influence of radical elements instead of thinking about the world

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia wants to build good-neighborly relations with Ukraine at any cost, but Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has fallen under the influence of radical elements.

The decision of the participants of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) to resolve the situation in Donbass to return to full compliance with measures to strengthen the ceasefire regime of July 22, 2020 is a step towards de-escalation, said the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak.

The US State Department has published data on the amount of approved applications from foreign countries for the potential supply of VIVT.

According to the delivery plan for the main samples of the ViVT in 2021, a batch of five MiG-31BM high-altitude interceptor fighters was received by the fighter aviation regiment of the Central Military District stationed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Long-range aviation is a component of strategic nuclear forces, an integral part of the Aerospace Forces and serves to solve problems in all strategic directions.

A video dedicated to the Day of Long-range Aviation appeared on the Web. You can observe in what difficult conditions pilots work - in any weather and at any time of the day.

In 2021, long-range aviation crews took part in the joint strategic exercise "West-2021" and Russian-Uzbek maneuvers

The combat training plan for 2021 has been fully implemented by representatives of long-range aviation. This was reported to journalists by the Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday.