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The meeting of German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was canceled due to the refusal of the German side to provide military assistance to Kiev, CNN reported, citing an informed source.

In accordance with the plan to provide troops with new military and special equipment, at the end of last year, modern military equipment of the rear service, in particular the ADCPT-10 tankers, was received by the troops of the Air Defense Forces.

Specialists have started designing the power supply system of the National Space Center on the territory of the Khrunichev State Scientific Research Center, Deputy Mayor of Moscow Pyotr Biryukov told reporters on Monday.

Today, the innovative electric steelmaking complex Interpipe Steel is 10 years old. It was on January 17, 2012 that the first melting of metal was made at the plant.

The latest mobile engineering power plant ED-30 AI has entered service with a separate engineer-sapper regiment of the combined arms army of the VVO, stationed in the Republic of Buryatia.

Chubais: ferrous metallurgy faces deep restructuring due to energy transition

The ferrous metallurgy is facing a deep restructuring related to the energy transition: the abandonment of coal, the restoration of iron with the help of methane and hydrogen, Anatoly Chubais, special representative of the President for relations with international organizations, said at the Gaidar Forum on Thursday.

On Friday, January 14, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu congratulated the pipeline troops on their professional holiday.

He noted that the servicemen honorably perform their official duty and contribute to strengthening the country's defense potential. "The personnel of the troops have repeatedly proved their professionalism and readiness to act in the most difficult conditions," the Defense Minister stressed.

Formations and military units of the Central Military District (CVO) received about 50 modern tankers in 2021.

The ex-head of Rusnano compared the energy transition with the information revolution of the XX century. A country that does not complete this process will look like it would look now without the Internet, he believes

Specialists of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of Roscosmos) have completed work on the project of a promising solar space power plant (SCES), which will provide electricity to hard-to-reach areas of the Earth, the RKS press service reported.

Afghanistan will receive 3.5 billion kWh of electricity from neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in 2022, Inamullah Samangani, deputy official representative of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), said on Sunday.

Representatives of the Danish company Ørsted reported on the generation of the first batch of electricity at the Hornsea 2 wind farm. It should take over the status of the largest and most powerful facility of this type in the world from its predecessor, the Hornsea 1 power plant. But this is only the middle of the road – two more segments of the energy complex, Hornsea 3 and Hornsea 4, are already under construction.

The US Air Force Research Laboratory and Northrop Grumman have converted solar energy into radio frequency waves using sandwich tiles. This is the first step in creating a system for transmitting energy from space to terrestrial military bases, in the future it is planned to assemble more powerful composite panels from such tiles.

Specialists of the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School named after Marshal of Engineering Troops Proshlyakov of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation have developed a drone project that can be recharged from power lines, which significantly increases the duration of the flight of small drones, follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.

The chemical current source has a long service life - up to 2.7 thousand or more charge-discharge cycles, depending on the operating conditions, Rostec noted

Frost-resistant lithium-ion batteries for robots and military equipment were developed in the holding company "Roselectronics" of the Rostec State Corporation. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the state corporation.

Specialists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have developed a fundamentally different coating for nuclear fuel cells. According to them, it will significantly increase their corrosion resistance and almost eliminate the risk of leaks.

It is not enough just to cooperate, you also need to know the peculiarity of the local mentality. This is the opinion of Romanian Defense Minister Vasile Dyncu, who explained the long-term theft of fuel at the American military base.

Tests of an adaptive energy saving complex (ACES) for industrial enterprises have started in Moscow as part of the city's innovative solutions testing program.

One of the scientific enterprises of the Russian nuclear concern, NIKIET, within the framework of the program entitled "Development of promising low-power energy sources" and with the participation of representatives of the St. Petersburg Institute of Laser and Welding Technologies, for the first time created a mock-up of capacitive equipment for the pressure and volume compensation of a thermal carrier for a low-power nuclear reactor using additive technologies. Or, if more understandable, using 3D printing.

German Defense Minister Kristine Lambrecht on Sunday, December 19, in an interview with Bild am Sonntag, said that the German authorities may use threats of sanctions against Russia against the background of the situation with Ukraine.