JSC "Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar" (PSZ, part of the USC) is seeking to obtain new contracts under the State Defense Order, General Director of the enterprise Ilya Samarin told Interfax.

On June 1, at the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk, a solemn ceremony of launching the latest naval transport of weapons "Gennady Dmitriev" project 20360M was held.

The fourth-generation cruiser "Kazan" of the project "Ash-M"entered the permanent base

The Russian Ministry of Defense has published a video recording of the arrival of the fourth-generation nuclear submarine Kazan of the Yasen-M project to the place of permanent deployment to the Northern Fleet.

Moscow has seen the statement of Sudan's intention to reconsider the decision on the military base, the discussion is going on through diplomatic channels, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

Negotiations on changing the conditions for the deployment of a Russian naval base in Sudan should be preceded by a financial assessment of the issue, Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Chepa said on Wednesday.

Sudan's decision to renegotiate the agreement on the construction of a logistics point for the Russian Navy may be caused by pressure from the United States, which probably threatens Khartoum to return it to the list of terrorist states, the vice-president of the League of Military Diplomats (Russia) told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.) Vladimir Vinokurov.

The State Duma at a meeting on Tuesday adopted in the second and third, final reading a law introducing the concept of official secrets in the field of defense.

Rosoboronexport is fulfilling its obligations to supply products against the background of the US sanctions, and the work is going well, the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

In October 2020, Iran's Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali stressed that the countries have good prospects for the development of military-technical cooperation with the end of the UN arms embargo.

[b]According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the parties "confirmed their intention to deepen the dialogue".]

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin discussed bilateral cooperation with Deputy Minister of Defense and Support of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Khojatollah Koreishi at a meeting in Moscow. This was reported to journalists in the Russian military department.

More than 4,500 exercises and trainings will be held during the summer training period in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday, June 1, by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

During the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021", which are due to take place in September this year, military aviation will be massively used. This was announced on Tuesday during a departmental conference call by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. According to him, according to the scenario of the exercise, a difficult air situation will be created.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the head of United Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, described the West's policy towards Russia with the word "oborzeli", noting that the West had not previously gone to such a confrontation with our country.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia will supply modern weapons to the republic, RIA Novosti reports.

At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, there was no talk of "surrendering" sovereignty, issues of rapprochement between the countries were resolved. This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, June 1.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, called the existing agreements between Russia and Belarus a threat to Kiev.

Ukraine is considering the risks of a possible military escalation due to Russia's actions on most of its border - from the east, south and north-at any time before the end of September, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is grateful to Germany and its Chancellor Angela Merkel for their help and assistance to Ukraine, while noting that this assistance can be more, including defensive weapons.

The supply of weapons to Ukraine will not help solve the conflict that is taking place in the east of the country. This was announced on June 1 by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

The Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation will significantly increase the intensity of flights during the summer training period, and it is necessary to determine the optimal load for young pilots, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call on Tuesday.