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North Korea launched an unidentified projectile towards the East Sea on Sunday, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the South Korean Armed Forces.

North Korea has taken a step towards renouncing its obligations not to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) by launching the first medium-range ICBM since 2017 on Sunday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said.

They want to "tighten" Ukraine into NATO, its entry into the alliance will really undermine relations between Russia and the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The British authorities are considering all options for sanctions

The British authorities in the event of a "Russian attack on Ukraine" will be ready to consider any options for helping Kiev, British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said on Sunday.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that he sees no contradictions between the EU countries regarding the reaction to Russia's possible actions against Ukraine, either in terms of economic sanctions or in military terms.

The Vice-President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba was present at the final stage of the exercises

The first joint Russian-Abkhaz anti-terrorist exercises ended on Sunday in Sukhum, the leadership of the State Security Service (SSS) of Abkhazia rated them "good", a TASS correspondent reports from the exercises.

The North Atlantic Alliance's response to Russia's security demands does not contain major concessions.

This was reported by the DPA agency, citing unnamed diplomatic sources. "NATO's response to Russia, according to sources, should not be published. According to diplomats, it does not contain big concessions," the message says.

In NATO's response to Russia's proposals on security guarantees, "there are no serious concessions," the DPA news agency reports, citing sources in the alliance. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

Germany's decision on the possibility of transferring German-made 122-mm howitzers to Ukraine will be prepared and transferred to Estonia in the near future, German Ambassador to Tallinn Christiana Hochmann said.

The second batch of American weapons with a total weight of more than 80 tons has been delivered to Ukraine. This was announced on Sunday by Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov. The first batch of American weapons was accepted in Kiev on January 22.

Task for the EU: liberate Ukraine from the shadow zone (Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland)

Ukraine was again in the spotlight because of Moscow's actions, Gazeta Wyborcza writes. Even if a conflict can be avoided now, the country will not gain stability and security as long as it remains in the buffer zone between Russia and the West. The author of the article calls on the West to help Kiev to break out of the "gray zone" forever and not spare any money for this. He doesn't care about Moscow's reaction.

NATO has submitted its proposals to Russia in response to Moscow's initiatives on security guarantees in Europe, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

The international community will have to take this issue very carefully in the near future, the state corporation noted

The international community should develop a legally binding document that will regulate the development of space resources for commercial purposes. This was stated to TASS in the press service of Roscosmos on the eve of the 55th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on the Principles of the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.

Turkey does not need tension on the border with Ukraine, and therefore it is still ready, if necessary, to accept talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday evening.

Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, said that all parties should be guided by the "Minsk agreements", and then there will be no need to support Donbass and Ukraine with weapons or finances.

The collapse of the USSR ignited many wars on the territory of the post-Soviet space. For example, at that time, the conflict in Transnistria broke out in full, where the fighters of the People's Republic opposing the Chisinau formations were significantly inferior to the first in technical equipment.

The issue of NATO expansion is currently not relevant, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gar Stere believes. "I don't see NATO expansion on the agenda today," Stere said in an interview with the Associated Press.

U.S. and Polish Defense Ministers Lloyd Austin and Mariusz Blaszczak discussed the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border during a telephone conversation, the Pentagon said.

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.