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In the Arabian Sea, the ships of Russia, Iran and China have worked out the organization of rescue at sea and countering maritime piracy. Joint actions were practiced during the CHIRU-2022 naval exercise. This was told in the Russian Defense Ministry.

On Friday, January 21, the Russian Defense Ministry released fragments of a letter that the head of the Russian military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu, wrote in response to an invitation from British colleague Ben Wallace to visit London.

Belarus is part of the CIS joint air defense system, the S-400 Triumph is being sent to exercises in order to increase the combat capabilities of the Union State. On Friday, January 21, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Air Force for the joint air defense system of the CIS countries, Reserve Lieutenant General Aytech Bizhev, told Izvestia.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sent a letter to the head of the British military department, inviting him to hold talks in Moscow.

Their peculiarity is in the participation of the troops of the Eastern Military District

The Russian-Belarusian exercises are exclusively defensive in nature, their peculiarity is that the troops of the Eastern Military District will be involved from Russia, head of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Belarusian army Andrei Nekrasevich said on Friday.

The deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, stressed that the situation in the northeast of Syria is of great concern

The involvement of the US armed forces in the elimination of terrorists who previously escaped from the prison in the city of Hasakah may lead to civilian casualties. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused a personal meeting with US President Joe Biden to discuss the situation around Ukraine, The Telegraph reports.

The Alliance will not abandon the presence of troops in its eastern part

The North Atlantic Alliance rejected Russia's demands for the withdrawal of troops from Bulgaria and Romania, American media reported, citing NATO representative Oana Lungescu.

The German authorities do not allow their NATO ally Estonia to supply Ukraine with those weapons that are of German origin, the Wall Street Journal newspaper reported on Friday, citing representatives of the German and Estonian authorities.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Friday in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba discussed a trip to Europe in response to the military buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine, the US State Department reports.

NATO has long planned the Neptune Strike 2022 exercises, which will be held in the Mediterranean Sea, and their conduct is not related to relations between Ukraine and Russia, US Defense Ministry spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing on Friday.

American officials asked their Russian colleagues not to publicly distribute written responses to Russian initiatives on security guarantees that are currently being prepared in the United States, The Washington Post reported.

The United States does not rule out military involvement in the conflict over Ukraine, the US Permanent Representative to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said in an interview with the Moldovan Jurnal TV channel.

19FortyFive: reconnaissance planes of the United States and its allies are watching Russia

The United States and its allies only last Wednesday took ten spy planes into the air to monitor Russian troops, says the American publication 19FortyFive.

The head of the German Navy, Vice Admiral Kai-Achim Schoenbach, said that the next continental war may be in the next few decades.

Popular Mechanics: the "arsenal of democracy" for Ukraine from the USA may include ATGM and MLRS

The composition of the "arsenal of democracy", which can be sent by the United States to Ukraine as part of military assistance in the amount of $ 200 million, includes a portable anti-tank missile system (ATGM) AGM-148 Javelin and a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), writes Popular Mechanics.

The Osa anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) was deployed by Ukrainian security forces near the Kiev-controlled village of Dmitrovka in the Donbass.

Ukraine continues to violate agreements providing for a ban on the installation of weapons near settlements, the press service of the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) reported.

Germany blocked the transfer of German-made artillery from Estonia to Ukraine.

This is reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to German and Estonian officials. According to the article of the American edition, unlike the United States, Great Britain, Poland and other allies, Berlin decided to ban the export of deadly weapons directly to Ukraine.

Roscosmos: non-issuance of a US visa to a Russian cosmonaut may threaten the safety of the ISS

Refusal to issue an American visa to cosmonaut Nikolai Chub may threaten the security of the International Space Station (ISS). Roscosmos called the possible consequences of the incident with the United States. This is reported by TASS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the situation in Karabakh and the progress of negotiations with the United States on security guarantees, the Kremlin's press service reported.