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The Russian military recorded tests by Israel and China of missiles as part of the improvement of anti-missile defense systems (ABM) by these countries.

Neither the US nor NATO plan to deploy missiles in Ukraine

The United States does not consider Russia its enemy, and Washington has no goal to destabilize it, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.

After the crushing defeat of the Ukrainian armed forces at the end of the summer of 2014, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hastily began to form new formations, for which there was simply not enough serviceable equipment.

Crews of Russian missile cruisers recorded NATO frigates that tried to conduct electronic reconnaissance of Russian ships in the Mediterranean Sea. This was reported to RIA Novosti on February 16 by an informed source.

Russian Su-35 fighters intercepted planes of a simulated enemy during exercises in Belarus, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Svenska Dagbladet journalists called the Russian army the most powerful combat readiness in Europe

The Swedish edition of Svenska Dagbladet published a material with an assessment of the combat readiness of the Russian army. So, according to experts interviewed by the newspaper, Russia has created the most powerful armed forces in Europe.

Russia has updated its Armed Forces and is in full combat readiness. Such an assessment in its material was given by the Swedish publication Svenska Dagbladet.

Echelons with military equipment are being withdrawn from Crimea to places of permanent deployment after the completion of planned exercises. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, units of the Southern Military District that have completed participation in tactical exercises at the training grounds of the Crimean Peninsula are moving to the garrisons.

"The personnel of the unit carried out the loading of tracked armored vehicles - tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery installations on railway platforms at loading stations," the military department said.

Colonel Suchkov spoke about the fixation of the Russian missile launch system in the United States

Over the past year, the Russian Missile Attack Warning System (SPRN) has recorded tests of space rockets (RCN) with an air launch in the United States, Colonel Sergey Suchkov, head of the Main Center for Missile Attack Warning of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia, told the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

Missile and artillery units of the Armed Forces Russia continues to be on combat duty during the joint operational exercise "Allied Resolve-2022", which has been going on for a week at the training grounds of Belarus, the Military department of the Republic of Belarus clarified.

The rear units of the Southern Military District (SE) have begun to march to the points of permanent deployment after the end of the exercises in the Crimea, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday.

The Russian army is able to cope with any enemy in Europe. The latest weapons and training of personnel, combined with the experience of modern military conflicts, make the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation the most powerful in the region.

Popular Mechanics magazine compared the Russian and Ukrainian Air Forces against the background of the ongoing hysteria around Ukraine

According to the Flight Global almanac for 2022, the Ukrainian Air Force has only 69 fighters in service. These are 43 multi-purpose MiG-29 fighter-bombers and 26 Su-27 air superiority fighters. All of them were built during the Cold War. That is, they are more than 30 years old. Since then, the state has not purchased new aircraft.

More than 140 warships and 1,000 units of military equipment were involved in a series of exercises of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.

The head of the Russian Defense Ministry noted that cooperation in the military and military-technical fields contributes to the dynamic development of relations between the countries

Brazil is an important strategic partner of Russia in Latin America. The dialogue between the defense departments of the two countries will contribute to strengthening stability in the region, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday during consultations of the heads of foreign policy and defense departments of Russia and Brazil in the "2+2" format in Moscow.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei announced on February 16 that all Russian military and equipment will leave the republic after the end of the joint exercises.

Russia is set up exclusively for a diplomatic dialogue on the security guarantees it has proposed, it is talking about them precisely because it does not want war, Senator Olga Kovitidi told RIA Novosti.

The Kremlin considers the readiness of US President Joe Biden to negotiate with Russia on security to be positive, and hopes for the beginning of the negotiation process, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published the first image of a long-range missile carrier Tu-22M3 with a new cruise missile X-32 on an external suspension.

The intensity of flights near the Russian borders of American strategic bombers in 2021 increased by 40%, said Mikhail Popov, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.