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Sudan's decision to renegotiate the agreement on the construction of a logistics point for the Russian Navy may be caused by pressure from the United States, which probably threatens Khartoum to return it to the list of terrorist states, the vice-president of the League of Military Diplomats (Russia) told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.) Vladimir Vinokurov.

Moscow has seen the statement of Sudan's intention to reconsider the decision on the military base, the discussion is going on through diplomatic channels, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

Negotiations on changing the conditions for the deployment of a Russian naval base in Sudan should be preceded by a financial assessment of the issue, Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Chepa said on Wednesday.

From June 22 to 24, the Moscow Conference on International Security will be held in the Russian capital for the ninth time. more than 600 delegates from more than 100 countries confirmed their participation in the conference.

Ukraine is assigned the role of colonial troops in possible NATO wars, State Duma deputy Ruslan Balbek told Izvestia on Wednesday, June 2. Earlier in the day, it was reported that under the cover of major military exercises in Ukraine with the involvement of the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance Sea Breeze, they plan to deliver a batch of modern weapons to the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with a group of US senators and discussed with them the possibility of increasing military assistance to the country. This was announced on June 2 by American politicians at a briefing following the meeting.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, called the existing agreements between Russia and Belarus a threat to Kiev.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the head of United Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, described the West's policy towards Russia with the word "oborzeli", noting that the West had not previously gone to such a confrontation with our country.

Nikolai Korchunov, the Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-large and a senior official of the Arctic Council, explained in an interview with RIA Novosti why Russia is restoring military infrastructure in the Arctic.

Russia has the world's largest nuclear arsenal and thus intimidates NATO, American journalist Mark Episkopos said in an article in the National Interest magazine.

Turkey cannot accept the proposals of other countries to abandon the use of the S-400 air defense system. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, RIA Novosti reports.

Ukraine is considering the risks of a possible military escalation due to Russia's actions on most of its border - from the east, south and north-at any time before the end of September, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said.

Strategic exercises in the Arctic and interspecific exercises to ensure the security of the Northern Sea Route will be held by the Northern Fleet in the autumn.

The State Duma at a meeting on Tuesday adopted in the second and third, final reading a law introducing the concept of official secrets in the field of defense.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is grateful to Germany and its Chancellor Angela Merkel for their help and assistance to Ukraine, while noting that this assistance can be more, including defensive weapons.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia will supply modern weapons to the republic, RIA Novosti reports.

During the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021", which are due to take place in September this year, military aviation will be massively used. This was announced on Tuesday during a departmental conference call by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. According to him, according to the scenario of the exercise, a difficult air situation will be created.

In October 2020, Iran's Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali stressed that the countries have good prospects for the development of military-technical cooperation with the end of the UN arms embargo.

The supply of weapons to Ukraine will not help solve the conflict that is taking place in the east of the country. This was announced on June 1 by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, there was no talk of "surrendering" sovereignty, issues of rapprochement between the countries were resolved. This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, June 1.