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The Syrian air defense destroyed seven of the eight rockets fired by Israeli fighter jets at the area of the international airport in Damascus. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, on Thursday, December 16.

Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov called the missile forces a reliable guarantor of national security and protection of the interests of the fatherland

Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov congratulated rocket scientists, their family members, designers and specialists of the military-industrial complex on the Day of Strategic Missile Forces, which is celebrated on December 17.

The head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, noted that they could become an alternative to the Open Skies Treaty.

19FortyFive: Finland's purchase of the F-35 will deter Russia from invading Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Finland has decided to purchase fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters manufactured in the United States because of the danger emanating from Russia, explains the reasons for the deal between Helsinki and Washington, the American publication 19FortyFive.

Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Karakaev: the first regiment "Sarmatov" will be on duty by the end of 2022

The first regiment of the newest Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles "Sarmat" will take up combat duty at the end of 2022. The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) told about this on the air of the Zvezda TV channel Sergey Karakaev, RIA Novosti reports.

Moscow does not intend to sell weapons to the new Afghan authorities, all talk about such a possibility is nonsense. This was stated on Friday, December 17, in an interview with the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, Director of the Second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov.

The US Department of Justice announced an attempt of espionage in favor of Russia. Former Pentagon contract worker Jane Murray Rowe has been arrested. The man detained in the USA is 63 years old, he had access to secrets for 40 years, the Izvestia TV channel reports. We are talking about classified information in the field of aerospace technologies. The FBI does not claim that Jane Rowe had any contact with Russia. The man himself contacted the agent, whom he considered Russian. Now the arrested person may face a life sentence.

The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, spoke about the ratio of mobile and stationary strategic complexes in the Missile Forces.

According to him, the missile systems of stationary mine-based Avangard, Voevoda, Stiletto, Topol-M and Yars are now in service with the Strategic Missile Forces. And the mobile-based grouping includes mobile soil complexes "Topol", "Topol-M" and "Yars".

Russia is developing new missile defense systems, including for a missile system with hypersonic warheads.

The Strategic Missile Forces plan to begin the phased replacement of heavy ballistic missiles "Voevoda" with a new generation ICBM "Sarmat" in 2022. The first new weapon will receive the Uzhur rocket compound near Krasnoyarsk.

The reconstruction of the runway, which started there in September this year, will finish at the Kherson International Airport.

The combat radius of the inconspicuous F-35 fighter chosen by Finland is approximately 1200 kilometers. These "electronic monsters" are more like a rocket launcher than an air combat weapon.

The Russian Federation proposed to consolidate the principle of the impossibility of unleashing a nuclear war in the draft treaty on security guarantees with the United States.

Russia and the United States undertake not to deploy nuclear weapons outside their territory and return those already located outside its borders, according to the draft treaty on security guarantees published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The 17th meeting of the Belarusian-Chinese Coordinating Committee for Cooperation in the Field of Armaments and Military Equipment was held via videoconference on December 17.

Anti-Russian sanctions are an instrument of unfair competition, and Western countries will always find reasons for their introduction, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

Hundreds of scientists have called on Joe Biden to officially declare that the United States has no plans to be the first to use nuclear weapons in the event of an armed conflict. The New York Post writes about this.

The United States is open to discussing issues with Russia on the NATO negotiating platform or in the OSCE format, US Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland told reporters during an online event on Friday.

Washington is not satisfied with the negotiations on the JCPOA with Iran, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on US public television.

The EU, in response to Russia's proposals on regional security guarantees, supports discussing this issue in existing formats, the official representative of the EU Foreign Policy Service Peter Stano told RIA Novosti.