The Ministry of Defense of India announced on December 5 at the GRSE (Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers) launch ceremony of the main large hydrographic vessel SVL (Survey Vessel Large), designed for the country's Navy.

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.

The data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on the decline in Russian arms sales are not true. On Monday, December 6, military expert Andrei Frolov told Izvestia.

The leadership of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) refuted the conclusions of experts from the SIPRI Institute about the decline in Russian arms exports.

According to Dmitry Shugaev, the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research uses only open data that is not complete

The methodology of the analysis of the global arms market used by the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI) does not reflect the real situation. Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told reporters about this, commenting on the SIPRI report released on Monday, according to which sales volumes of Russian arms manufacturers are falling.

The state corporation explained that all calculations are given in dollars, but the main volume of domestic defense industry products is the state defense order, where calculations are made in rubles

Conclusions of experts from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) The decline in sales of Russian weapons on the world market cannot serve as an objective source of information.

The portfolio of orders for the supply of military equipment and weapons to India exceeds $ 14 billion, said Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia.

Russia and India have signed an agreement on a program of military-technical cooperation from 2021 to 2031. This was announced on Monday, December 6, by the Kremlin's press service.

"I am glad that a number of agreements, contracts, protocols on small arms and military cooperation have been signed," Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh commented on Twitter on the results of a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in New Delhi on Monday.

Russia and India will expand regular dialogue on defense issues, follows from the joint statement on the results of the XXI Russian-Indian summit "Russia- India: Partnership for Peace, progress and Prosperity", published on the Kremlin's website.

On December 8, a meeting of the Military Committee on the Development of Military Cooperation of the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held. This was reported in the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The command staff of the Southern Military District will consider the issues of covert and operational redeployment of troops at the operational mobilization gathering, Vadim Astafyev, head of the press service of the Southern Military District, told reporters.

Shooting practice has begun on the Kuril Islands.

This is reported by the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO). "The servicemen of the motorized rifle unit of the army corps of the Air Force in the Kuril Islands, as part of the week of intensive training that has started, have begun working out standards for the main subjects of combat training," the press release says.

The Ukrainian army is capable of "breaking any aggressive plans of the enemy." On Monday, December 6, it follows from the statement of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. The President's message was published on the day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The new Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov called on Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to jointly and quickly provide military support to Ukraine.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov proposed to send 500 military instructors from Canada to the country. The head of the Defense Ministry said this on December 5 in an interview with the Canadian edition of The Globe and Mail.

Ukraine should act cautiously and diplomatically, and an increase in the number of troops on the territory of the country will irritate Russia. This opinion was expressed on Monday, December 6, by the Chief of the Canadian Defense Staff Wayne Airy.

The far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour wants the country to stop being a member of NATO.

Classified US intelligence data suggest that China plans to establish a base in Equatorial Guinea on the Atlantic coast of Africa, The Wall Street Journal newspaper reports, citing unnamed representatives of the American authorities.

We are talking about the conclusion of an agreement on the development of facilitated conditions for the import of military personnel, the exchange of classified information, mutual fuel supply and other technical support.