The Minister of Defense of Mongolia Gursediin Saikhanbayar and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, discussed issues of military-technical cooperation between the two countries at a meeting in Ulaanbaatar.

The Main Directorate of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on November 28 celebrated 92 years since its formation. On this day in 1929, the post of Chief of Armaments of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established and his apparatus, the Red Army Armament Service, was created.

The statement on military activity in the territories adjacent to the CSTO area of responsibility and its impact on Eurasian security were discussed on Tuesday at a meeting of the permanent Council of the organization.

On November 24, a meeting of the board of the Russian Ministry of Defense was held

The Board considered the issues of combat readiness of the Armed Forces, military education, the moral and psychological state of Russian servicemen, and a number of others. In particular, it was noted that the growing activity of NATO near the Russian borders requires maintaining the combat readiness of nuclear forces, increasing the potential of non-nuclear deterrence forces, including equipping troops with precision weapons and effective means of destruction.

One of the tasks of the revised global deployment of the US Armed Forces in the world in recent months is to more effectively deter Russia, the Pentagon said.

The US Department of Defense expects to strengthen Russia's deterrence capabilities in Europe. This was announced on Monday, November 29, during a briefing by Acting Assistant to the Deputy head of the Pentagon for Political Affairs Mara Karlin.

NATO countries are transferring military equipment to the borders of the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

The United States and the United Kingdom tried to shift responsibility to the European Union for maintaining the viability of Ukraine's economy, including in the face of rising energy prices and the obsolescence of its energy infrastructure, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said.

Russia will continue to closely monitor the actions of NATO and Ukrainian troops near its borders

Russia has informed the United States about the absence of aggressive plans against Ukraine, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.

In the seven years since the conflict in the Donbas, the Ukrainian army has failed to make a leap in technical equipment, but its morale has grown due to propaganda and cleaning of the ranks, Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences (Russia), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

If necessary, it will be possible to send more than 40,000 soldiers to Latvia in a short time, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed after a meeting with President Egil Levits.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Monday blocked the rapid adoption of the defense budget for the next fiscal year. According to American media, 45 senators supported the termination of the debate on the defense budget, while 51 opposed it.

On November 26, the Japanese government approved additional allocations for defense spending in 2022 in the amount of 774 billion rubles. yen ($6.75 billion).

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the company leading real estate operations Shikun & Binui signed an agreement on the construction of a new IDF intelligence center in the Negev.

A government commission has considered an initiative allowing test pilots to be awarded a rank one star higher than their position. Thus, pilots-lieutenant colonels with special merits will be able to become colonels. The current rules allow you to give "extra" stars to officers only up to and including the rank of major.

The Board of Directors of PJSC Irkut Corporation prematurely terminated the powers of the current CEO Ravil Khakimov and elected Andrei Boginsky instead.

Russia will supply aircraft to the Armed Forces of Mongolia, as well as help in the modernization of the airfield infrastructure, said the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov during a meeting with the President of Mongolia Ukhnagiyn Khurelsuh.

Belarusian and Russian fighter jets conducted joint patrols along the Belarusian border, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reports.

Su-30SM fighters of the Russian Federation and Belarus performed another flight along the border of the republic. This was reported to the Ministry of Defense (MO) of Belarus on Tuesday, November 30.

Irkut specialists have assembled the first MS-21-300, which has a wing made of composite materials of Russian production. His first flight is due to take place soon.