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North Korea has fired, presumably, two short-range ballistic missiles in the direction of the Sea of Japan, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, citing the South Korean military.

The crews overcame about 8 thousand km from the airfield in the Khabarovsk Territory

The Su-35S multi-purpose fighters, which will take part in the verification of the reaction forces of the Union State, have completed relocation to Belarus. This was reported to journalists in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The US can supply Kiev with strike weapons on a bilateral basis, he said

Moscow understands perfectly well that NATO's guaranteed refusal to move further to the borders of the Russian Federation will not ensure Russia's security, since Ukraine, for example, can receive shock weapons on a bilateral basis from the United States, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace will soon meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, BBC News reports.

In total, up to 1.2 thousand personnel and about 140 units of combat and special equipment will be involved in the exercises

Units of the coastal troops and air defense of the Northern Fleet have moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region, where they will take part in exercises together with the Arctic Expeditionary Group. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The United States condemns North Korea's latest missile launch, but remains committed to a diplomatic solution to the DPRK problem, Yonhap news agency writes, citing a State Department representative.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, explained to his Chinese counterpart the global security and economic risks in the event of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said.

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev believes that there is no need to revise the nuclear doctrine, since the document is a comprehensive formula that allows solving a variety of tasks.

Withdrawal from various arms agreements is always a bad decision, but if the United States does not provide Russia with guarantees of strategic security, then dialogue on the extension of such agreements, for example, on the limitation of strategic offensive arms, will be extremely difficult, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with leading Russian media, including RIA Novosti.

Russia and China do not seek to conclude a military alliance, but this does not exclude their cooperation in the military sphere, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

Cuba and Venezuela are seeking to normalize relations with the United States, so the deployment of Russian military infrastructure on their territory is out of the question, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, said that China stands for resolving the Ukrainian issue on the basis of the Minsk agreements.

Izvestia: Russia will show NATO its capabilities at the Navy exercises

Russia will show NATO its capabilities "in relation to the Middle East and North Africa" during the largest exercises of the country's Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, Vasily Kashin, director of the HSE Center for Integrated European and International Studies, told Izvestia.

Alexander Gerst said that the Ukrainian crisis worries the Germans

German astronaut of the European Space Agency Alexander Gerst believes that cooperation with Russia in space can help strengthen mutual understanding and thus contribute to the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis.

The position of the German Government on the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine remains unchanged. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated on January 26 at a briefing in Berlin by a representative of the German Defense Ministry.

The joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus "Allied Resolve-2022" are defensive in nature and do not pose a threat to the European community and neighboring countries, First Deputy Defense Minister of the republic Viktor Gulevich said. His words are quoted by the press service.

No one has expressed objections to the involvement of the United States in the negotiation process to resolve the situation in Ukraine, in fact, Washington is already actively influencing Ukrainians, but now it is trying to create problems, said Deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus Viktor Gulevich said that when developing the idea of checking the reaction forces of the Union State on the territory of the republic, an analysis of the development of events that took place around Belarus in 2020, the crisis situation in Kazakhstan was taken into account.

The Drive: The USA handed over the M141 BDM hand grenade launcher to Ukraine

The United States handed over to Ukraine the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition (BDM) hand grenade launcher, designed to destroy protected targets at short distances. The possibilities of the weapons sent to Kiev were revealed by The Drive.

The upcoming exercises of the Russian Navy have caused concern among the Irish authorities: Western experts believe that in fact the events are a kind of message for the UK and the NATO leadership.