Russia wants to resolve the issue related to Ukraine's accession to NATO, now, during the negotiation process, the promise not to accept it does not suit the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

On the eve of his visit to Moscow, Rau said that "Poland supplies Kiev with only defensive weapons in accordance with the fundamental principles of international law."

Russia considers Warsaw's proposal to resume a dialogue on European security in the OSCE interesting, but negotiations with the United States and NATO on security guarantees remain a priority for Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

NATO allies are open to dialogue with Russia on security issues, US Permanent Representative to the alliance Julian Smith said on Tuesday.

He did not rule out the possibility of Western provocations in the Donbas

The reports spread in the West that Russia could allegedly launch an "invasion" of Ukraine on Wednesday, February 16, are strange and ridiculous, said Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN.

There are no grounds for the introduction of martial law in Ukraine, which, among other things, would entail the regulation of the work of journalists and the functioning of the information space as a whole, said the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

Fox News (USA): what is the benefit of Ukraine joining NATO

Former member of the US House of Representatives Tulsi Gabbard analyzed the grounds for Ukraine's accession to NATO.

Canada will provide Ukraine with rifles, machine guns, pistols and 1.5 million rounds of ammunition, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Canadian Ministry of Defense.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Berlin is studying individual requests from Ukraine for arms supplies and will announce its decision upon completion of the analysis, RIA Novosti reports.

The United States is temporarily transferring its embassy in Ukraine from Kiev to Lviv for security reasons, and diplomats will return as soon as possible, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Monday.

The Pentagon hopes to provide military assistance to Ukraine through ground delivery, The Hill reports, citing an informed source.

On February 15, the coordination group of the Anti-Terrorist Center under the Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region begins multi-stage counter-sabotage exercises in the Kharkiv region.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky sees territorial defense as the basis for the protection of each locality and the state as a whole.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov held a conversation with the Ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine Igor Sokol, the parties discussed topical issues of cooperation between the countries in the fields of security and defense.

Military aviation exercises have begun in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Pilots of supersonic fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM will have to work out interception and counteraction to high-precision weapons of a conditional enemy.

Su-24 bombers and Su-27 fighters of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation bombed a simulated enemy landing party during exercises for the defense of the Crimea, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The maneuvers are aimed at increasing the level of combat training of military personnel

The operational and tactical aviation of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Southern Military District (SE), together with the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, will conduct exercises during which they will work out the destruction of naval targets in the Black Sea. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the press service of the Southern Federal District.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during an inspection of the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, introduced a new tradition there - he presented a special helmet to a pilot who had flown more than 300 sorties, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Tuesday.

Long-range Tu-22M3 and MiG-31k aircraft with the Dagger aviation complex arrived at the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria to participate in a naval exercise of the Navy's inter-fleet grouping in the eastern Mediterranean. This was reported on February 15 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The new drones are characterized by optimal speed for monitoring, as well as the ability to hover

Helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as the latest BAS-200, have a significantly higher power-to-weight ratio than multicopters, and unlike aircraft-type UAVs, the optimal speed for monitoring.