Innovations have been introduced into the tactics of the engineering and sapper units of the Central Military District (CVO) in 2021. This was announced by the head of the engineering troops of the Central Military District Dmitry Koruts.

On Wednesday, army railway workers began laying tracks on their section of the reconstruction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The command to dock the first link of the new route was given by the head of the military department, Sergei Shoigu, via videoconference from the National Defense Control Center of Russia.

Putin also told Biden about the need for legal guarantees of the security of the Russian Federation in connection with the activity of NATO at the Russian borders

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his American counterpart Joseph Biden that Moscow is concerned about the military activity of Ukraine and NATO near its borders, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Moscow expects that its concerns about Ukraine's possible admission to NATO after talks with U.S. President Joseph Biden will be heard, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Washington is not currently considering the evacuation of US civil servants or American citizens from Ukraine, the US Embassy in Kiev says.

American congressmen have included in the draft of the US defense budget for 2022 approved by the House of Representatives provisions providing for counteraction to Russia and China, the world media noted in comments.

In the United States, on December 7, a draft defense budget for 2022 was presented, the text of which was published by the relevant committee of the House of Representatives.

China wants to revise the world order and change the situation that has developed since the Second World War. For this purpose, the country is expanding its military capabilities. This was announced on November 8 by the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli.

On Wednesday, Russian Su-27 fighters flew over the Black Sea at a minimum distance to French Rafale and Mirage fighters trying to approach the border of the Russian Federation, according to data distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry.

An Mi-17V5 helicopter belonging to the country's air force crashed in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. There were fourteen people on board, including the Chief of the Defense Staff of the armed forces, General Bipin Rawat and his relatives.

The United Kingdom, the United States and Italy have raised from the bottom of the Mediterranean the sunken fifth-generation fighter F-35 Lightning II, which got there in November after the crash of the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, reports The Drive.

Azerbaijan is likely to become the second foreign customer of the Hurkus training aircraft / light attack aircraft manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries.

During the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to the UAE, in addition to the contract for the sale of Rafale F4 fighters to the Air Force of this country, an agreement was signed for the supply of H-225M "Caracal" multipurpose helicopters manufactured by Airbus Helicopters.

As reported in the state corporation, now it is necessary to agree with the cosmonaut squad how to build plans for the next three years

Roscosmos has successfully implemented plans for 2021 to support Russian cosmonauts. Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the State Corporation for Economics and Finance, told reporters about this.

Housing under the program can be purchased both on the primary and secondary market

Promsvyazbank and Roscosmos have signed an agreement that implies the provision of preferential mortgages for members of the Russian cosmonaut squad. The agreement was signed after the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft on Wednesday from Baikonur.

For the first time in history, the crew of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft left the Cosmonaut Hotel at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the song "Grass at Home" in Japanese. This was announced on Wednesday, December 8, Roscosmos reports in its Telegram channel.

Japanese space tourists Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano, together with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, opened the hatches between the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft and the International Space Station (ISS). The event is broadcast on Wednesday, December 8, on the Roscosmos website.

The only female cosmonaut of Russia, Anna Kikina, will fly on the American Crew Dragon ship in 2022. This was announced on December 8 by Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of the Roscosmos State Corporation.

The drawing is more suitable for suborbital flights, said the company's CEO Dmitry Loskutov

The lottery draw is suitable for suborbital flights, but is an unsuccessful way to promote flights to the International Space Station. This opinion was expressed during the broadcast of the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft on the Roscosmos-TV channel by the CEO of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov.

According to the head of the state corporation, the Russian Federation does not intend to "give this niche to the Americans"

Roscosmos does not plan to give the USA a niche of space tourism, said Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of the state corporation, at a meeting with Russian members of the cosmonaut squad.