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Director of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops – Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, Army General Viktor Zolotov, held an extended meeting of the final board of the Rosgvardiya with the leadership of the department, district commanders, heads of territorial bodies, commanders of military units and formations of the National Guard troops of the Russian Federation, during which the results of the service and combat activities of the Rosgvardiya in 2020 were summed up, as well as the tasks for the current 2021 were clarified.

"United Shipbuilding Corporation" began to face systematic refusals of foreign companies to service already delivered equipment, said the head of the USC Alexey Rakhmanov.

The United States once again called on Turkey to abandon the advanced Russian S-400 system, which Washington considers a threat to its own security.

The United States and Western countries have launched a "mental" war against Russia, the purpose of which is the destruction of self-consciousness, said the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the actual state adviser of the third class Andrey Ilnitsky.

The Russian point of logistics of the Navy in Sudan will become a guarantor of stability in the Red Sea region, said the head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev.

The first issue of the magazine "Arms Export" for 2021 published an interview with Rear Admiral Jihat Yayji-Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces of the Republic of Turkey in 2017-2020. We present to your attention the full text of the conversation.

Supporters of the movement "Ansar Allah" (Houthis) released a video showing the destruction of another drone belonging to Saudi Arabia in the sky over the province of Marib.

The differences between the EU, NATO and Russia should not become an obstacle to joint work on the elimination of chemical weapons submerged at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, according to Vadim Paka, Chief researcher of the Atlantic Department of the P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The success of the Russian operation in Syria, the development of modern weapons and the special attention in Western countries to space as a theater of possible military operations confirmed the correctness and timeliness of the creation of Space Troops in Russia, the first commander of the Space Forces, Colonel-General Anatoly Perminov, told RIA Novosti.

North Korea on Sunday last week launched two cruise missiles from its west coast, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday.

In the vicinity of Aleppo, it is again restless — the other day, the city was shelled by mobile units of militants from the group "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham"*. In response, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a powerful airstrike on the control center, destroying the headquarters and destroying dozens of terrorists, including the leader. At the same time, the aircraft attacked several targets in the province of Idlib. About what is happening in Syria now - in the material of RIA Novosti.

According to sources in Reuters and Bloomberg, the command of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) has imposed a ban on the use of Tesla electric vehicles on the territory of military facilities in the country out of fears that they can perform espionage functions.

The European Union has now received a kind of military budget - the European Peace Fund( EFM), an extra-budgetary fund of 5 billion euros for the period 2021-2027, which will be funded by contributions from EU member states.

This year, several types of military aircraft will be tested in the Arctic, including Su-34 bombers, Su-35 fighters and Be-200 amphibians.]

They will be tested for their readiness to operate in the Arctic and in the area of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This was told to Izvestia by sources in the defense ministry.

The American destroyer Thomas Hudner ("Thomas Hudner") on Tuesday morning left the Black Sea, said the 6th operational Fleet of the United States.

The US coalition confirmed the shelling of a base in Syria in the northern province of Deir ez-Zor, but denied the presence of victims, a spokesman for the coalition said.

Since the militants do not comply with the terms of the Russian-Turkish truce agreement, the Russian Aerospace Forces resumed strikes on the bases and strategic targets of the Islamists in the Syrian province of Idlib.

The United States intends to modernize the missile defense software due to the appearance of hypersonic weapons in Russia, RT reports, citing a document from the American Missile Defense Agency.

The US Ambassador to Ankara, David Satterfield, warned Turkey against purchasing a second regimental set of S-400 air defense systems, RIA Novosti reports.

The first satellite images have appeared on the Internet showing the consequences of the drone attack on the Saudi Aramco oil refinery, located near Riyadh.