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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that at the moment he does not know what Russia's plans for Ukraine are. "We don't know what President Putin is going to do," she said at the Munich Security Conference.

Military attaches of 16 countries watched the final drawing of the tactical episode of the exercise "Allied Resolve-2022" on Saturday, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported.

At the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus, during the main stage of practical actions at the joint exercises "Allied Resolve - 2022", the coalition group, after practicing actions in defense, launched a counteroffensive against a conditional enemy on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The exercises with strategic offensive forces have worked out the infliction of guaranteed defeat to the enemy, said the chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

The Belarusian-Russian exercises "Allied Resolve - 2022" confirmed the defensive nature of the military doctrine of the Union State, said SG Secretary of State Dmitry Mezentsev, who on Saturday observed the exercises at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus.

Russia wants to reduce NATO's military and political presence on its borders, but will receive "even more NATO," Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the Munich Security Conference.

At the final stage of the joint operational exercise of the armed forces of Belarus and Russia "Allied Resolve-2022", the communications troops of the Armed Forces of Belarus are returning to their permanent locations, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported on Saturday.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov announced the arrival of a plane with weapons from Canada to the country. "We have received military assistance in the form of rifles, machine guns with optical sights, night vision and surveillance devices, military equipment," Reznikov tweeted.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes that the current situation around Ukraine may result in the largest after the Second World War in Europe.

The words of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky about the possible withdrawal of Ukraine from the Budapest Memorandum can be considered a "cunning move," according to military observer, retired Colonel Viktor Baranets.

The Presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, decided to continue checking the reaction forces of the Union State due to the situation in the Donbass. This was announced by Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin on Sunday, February 20.

Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said that the neighboring countries of Belarus are "pumping" the most modern weapons and that Europe "smells very strongly of gunpowder."

The General Staffs of Belarus and Russia will work out further steps to check the forces of the Union State, first of all they will be aimed at preventing war, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said.

Military training of reservists in Russia is conducted annually. 2022 will not be an exception. By presidential decree, some reserve officers and soldiers will be temporarily summoned to the Armed Forces, state security agencies and the Federal Security Service.

Washington considers the continuation of the exercises of the Belarusian and Russian armies on the territory of Belarus to be evidence that Russia intends to invade the territory of Ukraine.

NATO is expanding, and when Russia reduces the number of troops in Kaliningrad, no one will even say thank you, said Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.

Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze, who is in Brussels on a visit, met with the chairman of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Robert Bauer on Wednesday, the press service of the Georgian Defense Ministry reports.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday informed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken about Moscow's sending a response to Washington within a couple of days to American proposals on security in Europe.

As promised a day earlier, on Wednesday, February 16, Russian units of troops engaged in tactical exercises in the Crimea continued to withdraw from the territory of our peninsula. "An echelon with military equipment of the units of the Southern Military District crossed the Crimean Bridge by rail and proceeded to the points of permanent deployment," the military department reported.

The Telegraph (UK): Putin exposed the weakness of the West

The West is confused by Putin's "ambiguous signals", writes The Telegraph. But while he is lost in guesses, the Russian leader has tested the resolve of Western countries and found its flaw.