Russia's withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty (DON) will be a logical step that will not lead to risks in the field of defense and security, former head of the international treaty Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, retired Lieutenant General Yevgeny Buzhinsky, told Interfax on Tuesday.

A car carrying Russian peacekeepers was blown up by an anti-tank mine in Nagorno-Karabakh, two people were injured. This was announced on Tuesday, April 27, by the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized republic, Unan Tadevosyan.

The number of people vaccinated against coronavirus by the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine exceeded 667.3 thousand people in the army and navy. Many of them were also vaccinated with the second component of the drug. In total, the Armed Forces delivered almost 706 thousand doses of the vaccine against a life-threatening infection.

Europeans and Americans have announced plans to create an Interstellar probe that should reach interstellar space, 149 billion kilometers away from Earth. To begin with, the project will need to get NASA approval.

The crews of the Mi-8AMTSh-V "Terminator" transport and combat helicopters and the MI-24 attack helicopters of the Central Military District returned to their permanent deployment points in the Novosibirsk region after tactical flight exercises, the press service of the Central Military District reports.

Global defense spending continues to grow. Yesterday, April 26, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report that shows global defense spending for 2020.

The melting of glaciers due to climate change led to the shift of the earth's axis and geographical poles, which occurred in the 90s of the XX century. This conclusion was reached by scientists from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the results of the study are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Briefly about the scientific work is described in the press release on Phys.org.

The United States is ending one of the longest wars in its history. Yesterday, April 25, the Reuters news agency reported that the US military has begun the process of curtailing its presence in Afghanistan.

The Indonesian navy simultaneously lost a combat submarine and 53 sailors. On April 24, the press service of the Indonesian Navy announced the official death of the submarine Nanggala-402, lost last week.

At the Hong Ha shipyard in Haiphong (Vietnam), the launch ceremony of the first high-speed patrol boat, which is being built in Vietnam for the country's Coast Guard with technical and financial assistance from India, was held.

The crews of the landing boats "Ivan Kartsov", "D-704" and "D-57" and "D-107" of the brigade of landing ships of the Pacific Fleet for two days conducted joint tactical and special training with the Marine Corps units on loading and unloading the landing troops on the unequipped coast of Russian Island.

Two large amphibious assault ships of the Northern Fleet, the Alexander Otrakovsky and the Kondopoga, remain in the Black Sea after major exercises near Crimea, the Russian military said on Monday.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, on April 23 in Severomorsk summed up the results of the interspecific command and staff exercise (KShU), which took place under his leadership in the Northern Fleet.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, made a planned working trip to Severodvinsk on April 24.

On April 23, the frigate Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov arrived in Severomorsk, the main base of the Northern Fleet, from its first long-distance campaign.

The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon has transferred 175 million IP addresses to an unknown firm. Global Resource Systems has gained control of 6% of all identifiers on the Internet. As a result, according to this indicator, the company surpassed the largest providers in America, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

On April 23, the Military Innovation Technopolis "ERA "summed up the results of the III All-Russian Scientific and Technical Conference dedicated to the state and prospects of the development of modern science in the field of"Information Security".

The first navigation spacecraft of the new generation, Glonass-K2, will be launched into orbit at the end of 2021. This is reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the company "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolai Testoedov.

Specialists of the Research Center at the state aerospace company China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) have developed an exoskeleton for firefighters involved in extinguishing forest fires.

In Serbia, they worked on their own new-generation tank, which received the preliminary designation M-20UP1. Information about this was announced in the summer of 2015.

At the same time, several images of a promising machine were made public, which outwardly very much resembled the T-14 on the heavy unified Armata platform.