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At the same time, General Ivashov sees no signs of a possible major military conflict in Europe

The danger of military incidents has increased due to the growing tension in relations between Russia and NATO - against the background of the beginning of Russian manners in the Baltic and the plans of the North Atlantic Alliance to send additional ships and aircraft to Eastern Europe, a military expert, retired Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, told Interfax on Monday.

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.

Ukraine will not be able to join NATO in the foreseeable future, former Secretary General of the organization Jaap de Hop Scheffer said.

To participate in the combat readiness check of the reaction forces of the Union State, an echelon with military personnel and military equipment from Russia arrived at the Polonka railway station in the Brest region on Sunday. Information about this was reported on January 23 by the official Telegram channel of the branch department of Belarus.

The wide-body long-haul passenger aircraft IL-96-400M will become a flying laboratory for testing the PD-35 engine family with thrust from 24 to 50 tons. According to TASS, the first flight of the aircraft is scheduled before the end of the year.

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.

In 2021, the Armed Forces received more than 5,000 new and upgraded weapons, military and special equipment. Among them are the S-400, S-350 air defense systems, Bastion missile systems, more than 100 aircraft and helicopters. This was announced on Thursday at the Single Day of Acceptance of Military products by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

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.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, issued a festive order on the occasion of the Day of Engineering Troops, which is celebrated in Russia on January 21.

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.

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

Within the framework of the visiting meeting of the State Duma Committee on Defense, deputies together with experts discussed the creation, functioning and development of Patriot military-patriotic parks of culture and recreation in all military districts and in the Northern Fleet. The meeting was held in the Moscow region on the site of the Congress and Exhibition Center. It was attended by the directors of all Patriot parks and representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

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.