Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (part of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, MHI) announced the launch ceremony of the second (out of two ordered by the Philippine Coast Guard) multi-purpose patrol ship MRRV (Multi-Role Response Vessels) on November 18.

The Ministry of Defense of India announced the official ceremony of the adoption of the fourth of the six ordered Scorpen-class submarines ("Kalvari"), which took place on November 25 at the naval base in Mumbai.

The new leadership of Afghanistan, which came to power after the seizure of the country by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), is ready to recognize the Russian status of Crimea.

More than 2.5 thousand tons of food and basic necessities were delivered to Syria, Armenia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cuba

The Russian Armed Forces have increased the volume of humanitarian aid delivery to Russian regions and foreign countries several times in 2021, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Armed Forces in 2021 were three times more often involved in international exercises than a year earlier, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation, at a conference on Friday.

On November 27, Russia celebrates the Day of the Marine Corps - one of the most combat-ready formations of the Russian army.

For more than 300 years of history, these troops have taken part in many fateful battles.

The sides also discussed the development of military-technical cooperation in the CSTO format

CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov discussed regional security issues during a meeting in Moscow. This was announced to journalists on Friday by the CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov.

Additional details of the dialog are not provided

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, held a telephone conversation with the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of France, Army General Thierry Burkar. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On Friday, on the sidelines of the VII scientific and practical conference "The system of interdepartmental information interaction in solving problems in the field of defense of the Russian Federation", the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu and the head of the Russian Historical Society Sergei Naryshkin signed an agreement on the exchange of information between the military department and RIO.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu congratulated the personnel of the Information and Mass Communications Department of the Ministry of Defense on the 50th anniversary of the Information Support System of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and noted their contribution to the implementation of the information policy of the state.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Friday signed about ten more agreements with the heads of the regions of the Russian Federation concerning the development of military enlistment offices. "These agreements concern military commissariats, the creation of their modern appearance. And for this we need to do a lot," Shoigu told the participants of the VII scientific and practical conference "The system of interdepartmental information interaction in solving tasks in the field of defense of the Russian Federation."

On Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke at the VII scientific and practical conference "The system of interdepartmental information interaction in solving tasks in the field of defense of the Russian Federation".

According to Shoigu, no task of national importance, whether it is the defense of the country or the fight against coronavirus, can be solved without consolidated efforts, reliable and uninterrupted functioning of such a system.

NATO is committed to dialogue with Russia, and the organization's proposal to hold a Russia-NATO Council remains open, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday.

Former national security adviser to the US President John Bolton, in an article for the publication 19Fortyfive, revealed a plan to strike at Russia's positions in the former USSR.

The Russian army is not capable of waging a prolonged war in Europe, because it has limited logistical capabilities, military analyst Alex Vershinin writes on the pages of the American edition of War on the Rocks.

The deployment of the British military in Germany will not help to reduce tensions between NATO and Russia. This was announced on Sunday, November 28, by the Russian Ambassador in London Andrey Kelin.

State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich fears possible provocations due to the accumulation of Polish military at the border due to the migration crisis.

Secretary of State of the Security Council: "we won't let them provoke us," but "we are ready to fight back"

State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich fears possible provocations due to the accumulation of Polish military at the border due to the migration crisis.

Behind the reports that Russia is allegedly preparing to invade Ukraine is Washington's desire to push Kiev to attack the Donbass, said the head of the SVR Sergei Naryshkin.

In the event of a war with Russia, Ukraine will be defeated because of its artillery. The reason for Kiev's loss in a potential conflict with Moscow was named by the American magazine Forbes.