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The Swedish command has sent military personnel to patrol the city of Visby on the strategically important island of Gotland located in the Baltic Sea, European media reported on Friday evening.

Oryx: Su-30SM planes bought by Yerevan from Moscow have become white elephants

Armenia's acquisition of four Su-30SM fighters from Russia remains a mystery, since these aircraft do not allow to realize a qualitative and quantitative advantage over Azerbaijan, Oryx writes.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin developed the idea and details of the CSTO peacekeeping operation in Kazakhstan in an hour.

Breaking Defense: Russia's defense industry will not survive new US sanctions

The Russian defense industry may not survive the consequences of the introduction of new US sanctions, says the American edition of Breaking Defense.

Military expert Konstantin Sivkov on the air of "Solovyov live" called three components of deterrence of the threat emanating from the West.

Space24: OneWeb satellites will allow the UK to monitor Russia

In mid-December last year, Airbus and OneWeb signed a partnership agreement to provide satellite communications services in low Earth orbit in the interests of the military in Europe, Space24 writes. In the future, this will allow monitoring the movements of Russian military and equipment, helping to direct attack drones at targets.

The situation in the CSTO area of responsibility dictates the need to improve the effectiveness of the organization, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said on Saturday on the Belarus-1 TV channel.

In mid-December last year, Airbus and OneWeb signed a partnership agreement to provide satellite communications services in low Earth orbit in the interests of the military in Europe, Space24 writes.

One of the topics of the recent consultations between the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was the "preparation of deterrence measures" for Russia in connection with the "build-up of Russian military power around Ukraine."

Russia insists on concrete responses from the West to its proposals on security guarantees in connection with the growing tension around Ukraine, said the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.

The Euro-Atlantic community demonstrated to the Russian side during the negotiations between Russia and the United States and Russia and NATO this week that it stands firmly on the side of Ukraine, emphasizes the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to hold talks with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi next week.

No business interests are worth a new war in Europe, he said

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba stated his expectations of cooperation with the new federal government of Germany under the leadership of Olaf Scholz to counter threats and attempts of intimidation from the Russian Federation, and also stressed that business interests are not worth a new bloody war in Europe.

Ukraine is working closely with its partners and allies to implement a comprehensive package of deterrence of Russia, which includes diplomatic measures, sanctions and defense cooperation, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said.

The countries of the Middle East do not need external intervention to solve regional problems, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after a series of talks with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Turkey and Iran.

The United States and Russia have once again found themselves in a state of "cold war," Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, told CNN on Sunday.

China will not interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, Chinese Ambassador to Kabul Wang Yu said after his meeting with the acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) Sirajuddin Haqqani.

More than 700 km of military roads have been laid in Kalbajar, Lachin, Zangilan and Gubadli districts of Azerbaijan (on the border with Armenia) since the end of the war, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili expressed gratitude to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for confirming support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Two advisers from the United States got a job on a permanent basis in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

This was reported by the press service of the Directorate of Defense Policy of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

"On January 11, 2022, advisers from the United States Chris Rizzo and Todd Brown began working on a permanent basis in the Directorate of Defense Policy of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine," the message reads.