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The units of the Marine Corps of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) were alerted by a training alarm and began to march in a combined way to the Scorpion training ground (Dagestan), the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

Two crews of Ka-29 transport and combat helicopters at the Radygino training ground worked out the tasks of fire support for marine units, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Wednesday.

US support contributes to provocations and the conduct of military operations in the Donbass by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, according to the Russian Embassy in the United States.

Forbes: in case of a conflict with Russia, the Ukrainian Navy will be sunk in an hour

The naval forces (Navy) of Ukraine, in particular, the Ukrainian landing ship "Yuriy Olefirenko" of project 773, in the event of a conflict with Russia, can be sunk in an hour, predicts the American magazine Forbes.

Russia's security will be reliably ensured under any circumstances, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Roscosmos considers Cuba, Svalbard and Bellingshausen station in Antarctica as locations for tracking stations of the warning system about dangerous situations in orbit, follows from the data of the public procurement portal.

Defence24: the Russian ships "Buyan-M" to be helpless in the open sea

Small missile ships of project 21631 "Buyan-M", equipped with cruise missiles "Caliber", you do not have a powerful system of antiaircraft defense (air defense), so be defenseless in the open sea to strike a potential enemy, says the portal Defence24 Polish military commentator Maximilian Stupid.

Russia is finalizing agreements with the EurAsEC states that will not allow foreign military personnel to be on the territory of biological laboratories of these countries, and will make the activities of such laboratories transparent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet reported that a large group of warships and support vessels were going to sea. They left their bases in Sevastopol and Novorossiysk to participate in maneuvers. The command of the Black Sea Fleet in total attracts more than two dozen crews to them.

The Krasnogorsk Zverev Plant (KMZ) and the Partner Center of Rostec State Corporation in Skolkovo have signed a cooperation agreement, Shvabe Holding said on Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in response to a question about the possibility of supplying certain types of weapons to the self-proclaimed republics of southeastern Ukraine, said that Moscow stands for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and the West should encourage Kiev to do so.

The former commander of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, Lieutenant General Valery Gorbenko, on Wednesday, January 26, in an interview with Izvestia, commented on the relocation of multi-purpose Su-35S fighters to Belarus as part of the verification of the reaction forces of the Union State.

The United States annually budgets expenditures for the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI) program. It was launched in 2014 three months after the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The main objective of the program is to expand the US military presence in Europe in order to reduce the concern of NATO members about "Russian aggression". As part of the initiative, Washington is strengthening existing units, modernizing infrastructure, and conducting joint exercises. See in the infographic Ria.ru , how much this activity costs America.

In December last year, the Commissioner for Civil Rights of Poland visited several dozen posts on the Polish-Belarusian border in the Podlaskie Voivodeship near the settlements of Bialowieza, Dubich-Cerkevny, Cheremkha (Polovtse), Melnik. After that, a report was prepared with shocking conclusions.

The launchers of the Yars mobile ground-launched missile system have entered combat patrol routes in the Ivanovo region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday

The Western Military District (ZVO) has deployed a new electronic warfare battalion in the Belgorod region (bordering Ukraine in the south), which "will shorten the time to obtain the necessary information," the ZVO told reporters on Tuesday.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, highly appreciated Russia's support in light of the recent attacks carried out by Houthi rebels from the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement on civilian facilities in the UAE.

In the Irkutsk region, mobile strategic complexes "Yars" went to field positions. Autonomous launchers of the local division of the Strategic Missile Forces entered the combat patrol routes as part of the exercise. The command involved about a thousand soldiers and officers, as well as more than 100 units of military and special equipment of various types and purposes.

Military expert Vladislav Shurygin on Tuesday, January 25, in an interview with Izvestia, commented on the ongoing check of combat readiness of formations and military units of the Southern Military District (SE).

During the fighting in the Syrian city of Hasaka, Kurdish formations used an unusual tracked homemade armored vehicle against militants of the terrorist group "IG" banned in Russia.