The training sessions were held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region

Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Army General Dmitry Bulgakov checked the logistics support group (MTO) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during special training that took place in preparation for the West-2021 maneuvers, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Friday.

During the maneuvers, the preparation for conducting a strategic operation is practiced

The evacuation and repair of equipment damaged in battle with the help of a special train were worked out by specialists of logistics support units (MTO) at exercises in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.

The Russian military during the exercises for the first time in the world landed a fully equipped military hospital from airplanes, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

A youth personnel reserve will be formed in the Russian military-industrial complex.

This was announced by the deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation Oleg Bochkarev following the results of a round table on the topic "The role of the youth personnel reserve of the defense industry in solving the problems of the development of the defense complex".

PATRIOT PARK. August 28. INTERFAX. The Russian Defense Ministry signed an agreement on the terms of financing the production and logistics complex in Sevastopol for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Army-2021 forum, the military department told reporters.

It will be integrated into the emergency response system of the Disaster Medicine Service

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov laid a memorial stone in Kazan on Friday, marking the beginning of construction of a military hospital in the capital of the republic.

The Russian military does not have data that the COVID-19 virus is man-made, said the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov of the Russian Armed Forces.

Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan received a delegation headed by First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Hassan Kaloev, in Yerevan on Friday, the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reports.

The phase of the CIS exercises "Caspian-Antiterrorism-2021" has started in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, the press service of the National Security Committee of the republic reported.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu called for building an effective defense against anti-Russian propaganda coming from abroad. The military commander made such a statement at the conference " Army and Society. Psychological defense" within the framework of the ongoing international military-technical forum "Army-2021". According to him, at present, "deep work is being carried out against us gradually, step by step."

The Pentagon has banned American military bases in Europe from entering into contracts for the purchase of Russian energy resources. The US Department of Defense posted a notification about this in the so-called Federal Register of Official Documents of the US government.

Units of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Federation have arrived in Grodno to form a joint training center for the Air Force (Air Force) and air defense forces (air defense) with Belarus.

A total of about 10 explosions occurred in a military unit in the south of Kazakhstan as a result of a fire, the Minister of Defense of the republic Nurlan Yermekbayev said.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu does not consider Ukraine a threat to Russia. "I would not talk about Ukraine as a threat. I believe that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people are a fraternal people. These are not only our neighbors, we are one people. Here, I don't even want to argue and reflect on this topic at all. Because this is a creation and plans and a program that is implemented, you know, by whom, how and for what money, " Shoigu said.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky spoke in favor of the presence of the NATO bloc in the Black Sea. "Ukraine consistently supports the presence of NATO in the Black Sea," he said at a briefing in Chisinau after a quadripartite meeting with the presidents of Moldova, Poland and Romania.

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has offered the European Union to finance the creation of an air defense system in the country to protect against the "Russian threat".

Servicemen of the fifth naval construction battalion of the US Navy (NMCB-5) began to build copies of military equipment from wood. The military erected plywood copies of Humvee cars. The models are designed to equip the 17th combat logistics regiment during the exercises, writes the Defense Blog portal.

Rosoboronexport is waiting for a decision from India on the acquisition of a fifth-generation Checkmate light fighter and is ready to consider a corresponding request from New Delhi, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev told RIA Novosti.

The fighters performed more than 30 combat training sorties for live firing

The crews of the fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and the Air Defense Forces of the Western Military District used guided missiles during exercises in Karelia. This was reported on Saturday by the press service of the Western Military District.

The Su-24 tactical front-line bomber that crashed in the Perm Region is a complex, but time-tested machine. Vadim Lukashevich, an aviation expert, a former designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, told about this in an interview with Radiotochka NSN.