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The THAAD anti-missile system intercepted a ballistic missile during a Houthi attack in Abu Dhabi. According to Defense News, this is the first known use of the American complex in a combat operation.

Russian sappers have cleared more than 130 hectares of territory in Laos in four years, defusing more than 2 thousand explosive objects, said Yuri Stavitsky, head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Losses in tanks during the battles in Grozny, which began on December 31, 1994, were due to a number of reasons. Including the fact that some of the combat vehicles did not have the required dynamic protection, which could effectively neutralize the actions of enemy cumulative ammunition of various types.

The Japanese side welcomes the extension by Russia and the United States of the Treaty on Measures for Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START-3), and also advocates that the parties continue the dialogue on strategic stability, Japan and the United States said in a joint statement.

19FortyFive: the F-35 plane continues to make history and frightens Russia

The American fifth-generation fighter F-35 Lightning II "continues to make history" and "scares Russia," says the publication 19FortyFive, commenting on the first successful landing of a variant of the aircraft with a short takeoff and vertical landing of the US Marine Corps (ILC) on the amphibious assault ship Tripoli.

The US administration has allowed the Baltic states to supply Ukraine with American-made anti-tank and portable anti-aircraft missile systems.

Two strategic missile carriers Tu-160 performed a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean, the Barents and White Seas for about 13 hours.

Columnist Litovkin: Russia can build and operate military transport aircraft

Currently, Russia has all the capabilities for the mass construction and operation of military transport aircraft, admits TASS military observer Dmitry Litovkin.

The UK is considering the possibility of additionally sending several hundred troops to NATO member countries located near Ukraine, The Times newspaper reported, citing sources in the Ministry of Defense.

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.