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The units of the Western and Southern military districts are returning to their permanent locations after the end of the exercises, the Defense Ministry said. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Vladislav Shurygin commented on the situation around the maneuvers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ministry of Emergency Situations should improve the effectiveness of response to any emergency situations.

"To do this, it is necessary to increase operational, analytical, human resources. Equip the department with the most modern equipment. To do this systematically, consistently, in full accordance with the planned plans," the President said, speaking via video link at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on Wednesday.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov held a conversation with the Ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine Igor Sokol, the parties discussed topical issues of cooperation between the countries in the fields of security and defense.

The United States is temporarily transferring its embassy in Ukraine from Kiev to Lviv for security reasons, and diplomats will return as soon as possible, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Monday.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky sees territorial defense as the basis for the protection of each locality and the state as a whole.

There are no grounds for the introduction of martial law in Ukraine, which, among other things, would entail the regulation of the work of journalists and the functioning of the information space as a whole, said the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny stated the need to create new air defense and missile defense systems

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Lieutenant General Valery Zaluzhny, addressed Ukrainian scientists. He listed the weapons that the military needs. This is reported by Defense Express.

On February 15, the coordination group of the Anti-Terrorist Center under the Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region begins multi-stage counter-sabotage exercises in the Kharkiv region.

The maneuvers are aimed at increasing the level of combat training of military personnel

The operational and tactical aviation of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Southern Military District (SE), together with the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, will conduct exercises during which they will work out the destruction of naval targets in the Black Sea. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the press service of the Southern Federal District.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to negotiate on the situation around Ukraine and on security guarantees for the Russian Federation, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN.

The Pentagon hopes to provide military assistance to Ukraine through ground delivery, The Hill reports, citing an informed source.

He did not rule out the possibility of Western provocations in the Donbas

The reports spread in the West that Russia could allegedly launch an "invasion" of Ukraine on Wednesday, February 16, are strange and ridiculous, said Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN.

Fifteen hundred military personnel are involved in the bilateral tactical exercise

Military personnel of artillery units of the Russian military base of the Southern Military District (SE) in Abkhazia conducted firing from modernized ACS "Acacia" as part of a planned bilateral tactical exercise, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The ships of the Black Sea Fleet conducted tactical maneuvers as part of the exercises and destroyed the submarine of a conditional enemy with the help of artillery combat. This was announced on Monday, February 15, by the press service of the World Cup.

More than 30 warships of various classes take part in the exercises

The crews of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) during the exercises in the Black Sea practiced conducting naval artillery combat, search and destruction of a submarine of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said.

Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi expressed concern about Russia's ongoing military exercises in the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk and stressed that Tokyo regards this as "a demonstration of Russia's military capabilities both in the west and in the east against the backdrop of the difficult situation in Ukraine."

On the eve of his visit to Moscow, Rau said that "Poland supplies Kiev with only defensive weapons in accordance with the fundamental principles of international law."

Calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Hurricane" and "Grad" conducted firing on artillery targets of a conditional enemy at the Opuk training ground in the Crimea, said the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev.

Su-24 bombers and Su-27 fighters of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation bombed a simulated enemy landing party during exercises for the defense of the Crimea, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The number of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine is equivalent to the number of military personnel involved in the Zapad-21 exercises in September last year, but then no one said a word, said Russia's permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov.