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The Belarusian-Russian exercises "Allied Resolve - 2022" confirmed the defensive nature of the military doctrine of the Union State, said SG Secretary of State Dmitry Mezentsev, who on Saturday observed the exercises at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus.

Poland has passed the last hurdle before buying new American tanks. On February 18, the press service of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense announced the receipt of a certificate for the sale of M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 tanks to Poland.

At the final stage of the joint operational exercise of the armed forces of Belarus and Russia "Allied Resolve-2022", the communications troops of the Armed Forces of Belarus are returning to their permanent locations, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported on Saturday.

The Presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, decided to continue checking the reaction forces of the Union State due to the situation in the Donbass. This was announced by Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin on Sunday, February 20.

The General Staffs of Belarus and Russia will work out further steps to check the forces of the Union State, first of all they will be aimed at preventing war, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said.

Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze, who is in Brussels on a visit, met with the chairman of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Robert Bauer on Wednesday, the press service of the Georgian Defense Ministry reports.

In Belarus, during the exercise "Allied Determination-2022", the crews of Su-35 fighters of the Eastern Military District of Russia, raised from an airfield in the Brest region, practiced intercepting an aircraft that conditionally violated the airspace of the Union State. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The US military deployed the M-LIDS system at the Polish airport

The United States has transferred new equipment to combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Poland. Radars, air defense systems (air defense) and a system of protection against drones were noticed at the airport of the city of Zamosc, Defense Express reports.

Armored vehicles and objects of the conditional enemy were destroyed in the framework of the exercises "Allied Determination-2022", which are taking place on the territory of Belarus, by calculations of multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) The Eastern Military District, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Flight tests of the first multi-purpose J-10C fighters produced for the Pakistan Air Force have begun at the factory airfield of the Chinese corporation Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAIG).

Deputies of the Senate (upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at a plenary session on February 17 approved a bill on ratification of the agreement between the republic and Russia on military cooperation, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the head of Roscosmos, retrofitting the launch will give European astronauts the opportunity to get to the ISS on their own

Retrofitting the Soyuz launch complex at the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana for manned launches will help European taxpayers save billions of euros. This opinion was expressed by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The head of Roscosmos proposed to finalize the Kuru complex for launching manned ships

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, proposed to finalize the Kourou launch complex for launching manned ships. The head of the state corporation announced this in his Telegram channel.

Venezuela is ready for the closest military cooperation with Russia in the event of a conflict with NATO and in a confrontation with the United States over Ukraine. This was stated by Venezuelan President Maduro at a briefing after negotiations with the Russian delegation headed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, writes Olga Bozheva in an article for the electronic edition "MK.ru ".

The Bangladesh Ground Forces received a new batch of 15 M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicles of the MRAP class as part of the American Surplus Military Equipment (EDA) program.

On February 9, AeroVironment confirmed the conclusion of a contract with the US Department of Defense for the supply of small-sized Puma LE UAVs to an unnamed union state under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.

Representatives of the European side stated that they want to have their own manned spacecraft. Roscosmos has already responded to this: According to Dmitry Rogozin, the simplest solution would be to organize opportunities for launching Soyuz-MS at the Kourou cosmodrome.

Vladimir Putin does not have a joint inspection of military exercises in Belarus together with Alexander Lukashenko in the schedule, but the presidents can agree on "anything" at a meeting on Friday, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, said on Thursday.

The Russian military will return from Belarus after the exercises to their places of deployment. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, answering journalists' questions.

"This is out of the question now," Peskov said in response to a question about the possibility of the presence of Russian military in Belarus after the exercises. After the maneuvers, "at the end of one or another phase of the exercises, the troops are withdrawn to their permanent location," he noted.

Russian Su-35 and Belarusian Su-30SM fighters have worked out the procedure for conducting air combat at low altitudes as part of a joint exercise. This was announced on Thursday, February 17, by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.