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A meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov. Despite the difficult epidemiological situation, all the chiefs of the General Staffs of the countries participating in the Treaty took part in this event. By the way, last year, the coronavirus pandemic did not allow the members of the Military Committee to meet, so two meetings were held via videoconference.

The operation of the Istanbul shipping channel after its completion should not be regulated by the Montreux Convention, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said again on Wednesday.

The German military training ground Altengrabov held exercises of soldiers of the Bundeswehr, said Das Erste. The TV channel called the maneuvers preparation of NATO for the operation to "intimidate" Russia in Lithuania.

Canada has canceled permits for the export of military products and technologies to Turkey because they were used by Azerbaijan in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Canadian Foreign Minister Mark Garneau said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that Baku is still waiting for a response from Yerevan about the origin of the Iskander-M missiles, the wreckage of which was found in Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh. He said this on Monday, April 12, at the opening of the Military Trophy Park in the capital of Azerbaijan.

In accordance with the training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, control checks are conducted in the military administration bodies, formations and military units. During April, 4,048 exercises of various scales, including 812 bilateral ones, will be held at 101 training grounds and 520 objects of the training and material base. This was announced on April 13 by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Moscow will continue to protect the Russian-speaking population, despite US statements that Russia will "pay the price" for aggressive actions in eastern Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

The crews of the operational and tactical aviation of the Southern Military District have been transferred to field airfields for joint exercises with the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet. The air maneuvers involve Su-27SM and Su-30SM fighters, as well as Su-24M and Su-34 front-line bombers.

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Clint Hinault questioned whether the F-35 is ready for a big war.

Lieutenant General of the US Air Force Clint Hinout believes that the F-35 should not be included in the command and staff games. He made this statement to Defense News following the results of last year's large-scale game to repel the Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

It would seem that the acute phase of the military conflict in Syria is already in the past, but in the United States, as before, they continue to talk about the threat from "dangerous Russians".

Issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security in the Southern Federal District, including the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, were discussed at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) on Tuesday.

Artillery boats of the Bumblebee project and landing craft of the Dugong and Serna types of the Caspian Flotilla passed through Rostov-on-Don in the direction of the Taganrog Bay. 15 ships and support vessels of the Caspian Flotilla are involved in the transition from Makhachkala to the Black Sea.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, engineering teams of Russian peacekeepers are combing the area on the outskirts of the city of Mardakert. Before the armed conflict, there was agricultural land there. And when the war began, the military adapted them for artillery positions.

The trip of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the Northern Fleet has begun. Military expert Vasily Dandykin told Sputnik radio about the tasks facing this fleet at the moment.

The United States and its NATO allies are actively building up naval and land forces in the Arctic. This was announced at a meeting in Severomorsk on April 13 by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. According to him, NATO countries are increasing the intensity of combat training, as well as expanding and modernizing military infrastructure in the Arctic region.

The Northern Fleet is capable of effectively countering the existing challenges and threats to Russia in the Arctic, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.

MIPT professor Golubkin was arrested in Moscow on suspicion of treason

In Moscow, a professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) was arrested on suspicion of treason.) Valeria Golubkina. The professor himself, who deals with the problems of hypersonic technologies, did not admit guilt. The university where he teaches said that he did not have access to information that represents state secrets.

The state armament program for 2024-2033 will receive funding in the amount of at least 21-22 trillion rubles, first Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission Andrey Yelchaninov said.

Shoigu announced the withdrawal of US and NATO troops to the borders of Russia

US troops are being transferred to Europe from the continental parts of North America to the Russian borders, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. According to him, NATO intends to concentrate a large number of forces at the borders of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the Russian side has transferred two armies and three airborne units to its western borders.

Advanced low-visibility strategic bomber B-21 Raider of the Air Force (Air Force) The US can change power in the Pacific, writes United States Marine Corps (USMC) veteran Alex Hollings in the Sandboxx blog.