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Russia will take retaliatory measures if it fails to reach an agreement with the West on security guarantees, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has prepared an updated version of the Concept of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

At the moment, there are 206 American rangers in Bulgaria (in Russian -saboteurs).

Bulgarian Defense Minister Stefan Yanev told the deputies of the People's Assembly of such a number of US military personnel on the territory of his country. 

Moscow will carefully study the written responses of the United States and NATO, after which it will decide on its further actions

The issue of providing Russia with long-term, legally secured security guarantees was the main topic of a lengthy telephone conversation between the Presidents of Russia and France, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, the Kremlin's press service reported.

Joint exercises of the NATO combat group stationed in the country with Estonian servicemen on conducting combat operations in winter conditions will begin in Estonia.

US President Joe Biden said that he intends to send additional military personnel to the territory of NATO countries in Eastern Europe soon, Western media reported. According to them, Biden explained that he would do it "in the near future."

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed issues related to the situation around Ukraine during telephone conversations with his German counterpart Christine Lambrecht and French Florence Parly, according to press releases distributed by the Pentagon.

Defense News: China can access data from F-35 fighter jet via UAE

The use of telecommunications equipment of the 5G standard of the Chinese company Huawei in the event of the UAE acquiring fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters will provide Beijing with an opportunity to get a lot of information about how the US aircraft works, Emily Harding, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Defense News.

Issues of regional and international security were discussed during a videoconference by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov with the UN Deputy Secretary General, Head of the UN Counter-Terrorism Directorate Vladimir Voronkov, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan reported on Saturday.

An unknown aircraft made a dangerous maneuver near the borders of Russia

The plane, which could not be identified, made a "dangerous maneuver" near the Russian border. This is reported by Avia.pro .

In preparation for the inspection of the reaction forces of the Union State, the commander of the troops of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation, Alexander Chaiko, visited the 38th Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of Belarus on Saturday.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced a visit to Kiev with his German counterpart Annalena Berbock on February 7-8 and confirmed his intention to seek de-escalation around Ukraine within the Normandy format.

During the exercises in Severomorsk, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great" was able to repel an "attack" from the air of a conditional enemy, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Northern Fleet.

NATO's response to the development of the situation around Ukraine may follow due to a number of factors, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

There were no preconditions for sending the CSTO peacekeeping contingent to Kazakhstan during the January riots, the country's president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.

French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly spoke in favor of dialogue and a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis, while recalling France's readiness to deploy a military force in Romania.

The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on Saturday evening on the anti-Russian plot of the Swiss TV channel SRF "Russia is pulling its troops to the border with Ukraine," assessing it as "another horror story for an ignorant audience."

Heavy transport aircraft of the United States and Britain, since the second half of January, have made at least 15 flights to Ukraine for the supply of weapons and military equipment, it follows from the monitoring of Western aviation resources.

The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to move the area of the upcoming exercises of the Russian Navy in the Atlantic Ocean outside the exclusive economic zone of Ireland, so as not to interfere with the Irish fishing business, the Russian embassy in Dublin reported on Saturday.

The Marine Corps used Grad, Gvozdika and Nona installations during exercises in the Arctic

Crews of artillery installations of the Marine Corps of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy used artillery during exercises in the Arctic. A video showing the firing of marines was published by the Zvezda TV channel.