The scale of Russian military activity in the Voronezh and Belgorod regions will be checked by inspectors from Switzerland in the period from 19 to 21 May this year, said the head of the National Center for Nuclear Risk Reduction Sergey Ryzhkov.

The situation almost along the entire perimeter of the borders of the CSTO member states remains tense, said Stanislav Zas, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Russia will help Tajikistan build a modern border post on the Tajik-Afghan border, and a corresponding agreement will be signed in the near future.

The staff of the Russian Security Council has finished work on the draft of the updated National Security doctrine for the period up to 2027. Changes and updates to the doctrinal document are related to new challenges and threats that have recently emerged.

The Israeli army recorded six rockets fired from Lebanon towards the northern part of the country. This was announced on Tuesday, May 18, by the army press service on Twitter.

The continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may lead to the destabilization of the situation in the region and other negative consequences, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley.

As the well-known observer of underwater vehicles and special means H. I. Sutton reports on his resource "Covert Shores", more information is gradually emerging about small submarines being built in Italy for the Qatari navy. It is known that the contract worth 190 million euros provides for the supply of two small submarines to Qatar and the corresponding training of personnel.

The Pacific Fleet will receive this submarine in November

Mooring tests of the diesel-electric submarine of the project 636.3 "Magadan" for the Pacific Fleet will be completed in early June of this year, the crew of the submarine is involved in them, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, congratulated the Baltic sailors on the Baltic Fleet Day.

In his congratulatory message, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov noted that " The Baltic Fleet remains the most important tool for ensuring Russia's security in the western direction.

The flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the Guards missile cruiser " Moscow "and the frigate" Admiral Grigorovich " at a joint exercise in the Black Sea, fired torpedoes and rocket bombs at a submarine of a simulated enemy. This was announced today by the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet Alexey Rulev.

Russian shipbuilders use all modern technologies to reduce radar visibility, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, a member of the Marine Board under the government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The new Russian aircraft carrier, with a displacement of 70-80 thousand tons, can cost the Russian defense budget 500 billion rubles. Nevertheless, the ship will be cheaper than US aircraft carriers with a displacement of 110 thousand tons. This was stated to RIA Novosti by Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation.

The Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, when preparing a new state armament program for 2024-2033, will assess the feasibility of including plans for the construction of a new aircraft carrier, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, a member of the Naval Board under the government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"Arctic shamrock" - the second unique residential complex of a closed cycle, built in the interests of the Northern Fleet in the high-latitude areas of the Arctic

Thirty journalists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, China, the United States, France and Japan were able to see for the first time the base "Arctic Shamrock" and a demonstration training of calculations of coastal missile systems "Bastion" on Franz Josef Land, reports TASS correspondent.

A successful physical launch of the T-15MD tokamak took place at the Kurchatov Institute, which became the first new thermonuclear installation in Russia in 20 years. It is expected that it will carry out both experiments in the framework of the ITER thermonuclear reactor project, and experiments in the framework of the development of a hybrid reactor, TASS reports.

The EU Council announced on Monday its decision to extend the framework of restrictive measures against cyber attacks that threaten the EU or its member states, which affect citizens and organizations from Russia, for another year, until May 18, 2022.

The analysis of cyberattacks on state authorities of the Russian Federation gives grounds to believe that they are backed by resources at the level of foreign special services, said Nikolai Murashov, deputy director of the Russian National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents.

The United States rejects Russia's proposals to criminalize the creation of software suitable for cyber attacks, said Nikolai Murashov, deputy director of the Russian National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents.

The information that constitutes state secrets was not stolen during the recent cyber attacks on the Russian authorities, Deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents Nikolai Murashov said at a press conference in MIA "Russia Today".

The newest battalion complex of electronic warfare (EW), which is in service with a unit of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO), will be presented at the main site of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in the Trans-Baikal Territory.