Cooperation news

Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said that the North Atlantic Alliance should demonstrate unity in support of Ukraine.

The President of Estonia, Alar Karis, spoke in favor of discussing security issues with all allies in the North Atlantic Alliance, the press service of the head of state reported.

Estonian President Alar Karis said that during a telephone conversation with the heads of state of the eastern wing of NATO on Thursday, the US president promised to transfer additional troops to the alliance countries if necessary.

Philippine Defense Minister Delphine Lorenzana said that an initial payment will be made in the near future under the program for the purchase of Russian Mi-171 helicopters for the country's Air Force.

According to the command of the Hungarian Armed Forces, on December 3, the last (out of 20 ordered in 2018) light multipurpose helicopter H-145M landed at the 86th helicopter base "Szolnok".

The Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, held a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Argentine Republic for International Defense Issues Francisco Cafiero.

Shvabe Holding has sent civilian sights and night vision devices to South Africa. "The delivery was carried out by the Novosibirsk enterprise to assess the market and analyze the prospects for exports to this region," the press service of the holding said.

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov gave an interview to the Greek TV channel ANT1, in which he also spoke about Turkey.

As the telegram channel "Turkey's Agenda" notes, he also told about Russia's plans to supply Turkey with an additional batch of S-400.

In October, the United States handed over 30 Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine. The Ukrainian military also received 180 missiles to them, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The cost of command and launch units is $60 million. Deliveries of Javelin ATGMs to Ukraine began under Donald Trump. According to media reports, in 2018-2019, the military received 50 complexes.

A railway echelon with new military equipment – BTR-82A armored personnel carriers has arrived at the Grodno garrison of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. The delivery was realized by JSC Arzamas Machine-Building Plant (Russian Federation).

The only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad will make her first flight in 2022

The only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad, Anna Kikina, was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity to carry out the first flight into space under the cross-flight program.

In particular, the parties will discuss agreements on the implementation of the Baiterek project

The next meeting of the Kazakh-Russian intergovernmental commission on the Baikonur complex will be held in Nur-Sultan on December 13, where agreements on the creation of the Baiterek space rocket complex will be discussed. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Alexey Borodavkin.

Yuri Urlichich, Deputy General Director for the Development of the orbital grouping and Promising Projects, also called on specialists to participate in the creation of laws in this area

Roscosmos invites the international community to come to a common understanding of these ecomonitoring systems. This was stated on Friday at the International Energy Forum in Moscow by Yuri Urlich, First Deputy Director General for the development of the orbital group and Promising projects.

On December 9, at the enterprise of the Pakistani company KSEW in Karachi, a cutting ceremony of the first steel was held for the construction of the fifth Hangor-class DPL ("Type-039B"), which looks little different from the previously developed "Type-039A".

China has started exporting VT-2 main battle tanks to Africa. Two such combat vehicles, painted in colorful camouflage, were seen last Thursday at a military equipment show dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of Tanzania's independence. They were taken on car trawls through the stadium of the country's largest city - Dar es Salaam.

Expert on the Chinese claim for "Motor Sich" in The Hague: officials are to blame, not investors.

There can be only one explanation for such a strange inaction - corruption of the highest level with very high stakes, the expert believes.

The Egyptian Armed Forces demonstrated the ASN-209 UAV adopted during the EDEX-2021 exhibition held in Cairo. Egypt began production of this multipurpose UAV under a Chinese license in June 2012.

Russian BTR-80 are traditionally popular in the armed forces of almost three dozen countries. For example, in the early 90s, armored personnel carriers were purchased by the Turkish gendarmerie. In total, more than two hundred and thirty units were delivered.

NATO is ready to discuss with Russia topics that cause it concern, but it cannot be about depriving Ukraine and other countries of the right to decide independently whether to join the alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

Canada confirmed its unwavering support for Ukraine and readiness to use the available tools to prevent the escalation of the conflict in the Donbas.