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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.

The US can supply Kiev with strike weapons on a bilateral basis, he said

Moscow understands perfectly well that NATO's guaranteed refusal to move further to the borders of the Russian Federation will not ensure Russia's security, since Ukraine, for example, can receive shock weapons on a bilateral basis from the United States, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace will soon meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, BBC News reports.

In total, up to 1.2 thousand personnel and about 140 units of combat and special equipment will be involved in the exercises

Units of the coastal troops and air defense of the Northern Fleet have moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region, where they will take part in exercises together with the Arctic Expeditionary Group. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The United States condemns North Korea's latest missile launch, but remains committed to a diplomatic solution to the DPRK problem, Yonhap news agency writes, citing a State Department representative.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, explained to his Chinese counterpart the global security and economic risks in the event of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said.

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev believes that there is no need to revise the nuclear doctrine, since the document is a comprehensive formula that allows solving a variety of tasks.

Withdrawal from various arms agreements is always a bad decision, but if the United States does not provide Russia with guarantees of strategic security, then dialogue on the extension of such agreements, for example, on the limitation of strategic offensive arms, will be extremely difficult, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with leading Russian media, including RIA Novosti.

Russia and China do not seek to conclude a military alliance, but this does not exclude their cooperation in the military sphere, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

Cuba and Venezuela are seeking to normalize relations with the United States, so the deployment of Russian military infrastructure on their territory is out of the question, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, said that China stands for resolving the Ukrainian issue on the basis of the Minsk agreements.

Izvestia: Russia will show NATO its capabilities at the Navy exercises

Russia will show NATO its capabilities "in relation to the Middle East and North Africa" during the largest exercises of the country's Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, Vasily Kashin, director of the HSE Center for Integrated European and International Studies, told Izvestia.

Alexander Gerst said that the Ukrainian crisis worries the Germans

German astronaut of the European Space Agency Alexander Gerst believes that cooperation with Russia in space can help strengthen mutual understanding and thus contribute to the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis.