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The United States can send up to 5,000 military personnel, ships and aircraft to the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, The New York Times reports, citing knowledgeable sources in the US administration.

Units from the Amur Region have been sent to Belarus for exercises, where they will have to perform training tasks at unfamiliar training grounds.

The troops of the Eastern Military District with weapons and military equipment continue to arrive on the territory of the Republic of Belarus to undergo exercises. This was announced on Monday, January 24, by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

CEO of the corporation Boris Obnosov noted that this "makes "Tactical missile weapons "one of the largest players in the global arms market"

The revenue of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) increased to 300 billion rubles in 2021. This was announced in an interview with TASS in honor of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the corporation by the general director of KTRV Boris Obnosov.

According to the information published by Euractiv.bg On January 21, the Bulgarian Navy Command began negotiations on the purchase of two diesel-electric submarines.

The US State Department has approved the potential provision of additional logistics support services for the MQ-9 UAV fleet to France as part of the Foreign Military Sales program, as well as the supply of related equipment.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the training of African servicemen will be carried out at the facilities of the training and material base, equipped with the experience of performing tasks in Syria

For the first time, servicemen from the Republic of Djibouti will be trained to work with the Uran-6 robotic mine clearance complex at the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, stationed in Nakhabino near Moscow. This was reported on Monday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Private aerospace company Axiom Space plans to launch the first mission in the history of cosmonautics with a fully commercial crew on board to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 31, the company announced on Twitter.

Russian sappers have cleared more than 130 hectares of territory in Laos in four years, defusing more than 2 thousand explosive objects, said Yuri Stavitsky, head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The US administration has allowed the Baltic states to supply Ukraine with American-made anti-tank and portable anti-aircraft missile systems.

Greece has officially expanded the fleet of fighter aircraft with French aircraft. On January 20, the press service of Dassault Aviation announced that six Rafale fighters had arrived at Tanagra Air Base.

In the Arabian Sea, the ships of Russia, Iran and China have worked out the organization of rescue at sea and countering maritime piracy. Joint actions were practiced during the CHIRU-2022 naval exercise. This was told in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Qatar's armed forces have received an updated proposal on the possible delivery of the SAMP/T medium-range anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the Eurosam consortium.

Belarus is part of the CIS joint air defense system, the S-400 Triumph is being sent to exercises in order to increase the combat capabilities of the Union State. On Friday, January 21, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Air Force for the joint air defense system of the CIS countries, Reserve Lieutenant General Aytech Bizhev, told Izvestia.

Defense Minister of the Republic of Korea So Uk met with his Thai counterpart in Bangkok on January 17 to discuss issues of bilateral defense cooperation.

Their peculiarity is in the participation of the troops of the Eastern Military District

The Russian-Belarusian exercises are exclusively defensive in nature, their peculiarity is that the troops of the Eastern Military District will be involved from Russia, head of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Belarusian army Andrei Nekrasevich said on Friday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused a personal meeting with US President Joe Biden to discuss the situation around Ukraine, The Telegraph reports.

The German authorities do not allow their NATO ally Estonia to supply Ukraine with those weapons that are of German origin, the Wall Street Journal newspaper reported on Friday, citing representatives of the German and Estonian authorities.

NATO has long planned the Neptune Strike 2022 exercises, which will be held in the Mediterranean Sea, and their conduct is not related to relations between Ukraine and Russia, US Defense Ministry spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing on Friday.

TASS: The United States did not issue a visa to Roscosmos cosmonaut Chub for training at the American center

The United States did not issue a visa to Roscosmos cosmonaut Nikolai Chub to participate in a training session at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source familiar with the situation.