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The US military command will transfer to Germany, among other things, intelligence officers, gunners, specialists in cyber operations and electronic warfare (EW), said on Tuesday the representative of the US contingents in Europe and Africa, Colonel Joe Scrocca.

The PLA exercises in the Taiwan Strait are a forced measure to protect the country's sovereignty, Beijing says

The policy of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait was the main reason for the deterioration of the situation in the area, said the head of the Office of Taiwan Affairs at the State Council of the People's Republic of China Ma Xiaoguang.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that additional measures are needed to guarantee the protection of the national interests of the Russian Federation in Crimea and the inhabitants of the peninsula against the background of growing tensions around this region due to the actions of the United States, NATO and Ukraine.

Navigation along the Northern Sea Route may become year-round in the coming years, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The exercise with the participation of servicemen of the Ural tank division started at the training grounds of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Wednesday.

The right to use part of the water area of the Gulf of the Sea of Azov is granted to the Ministry for 20 years

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on granting the Ministry of Defense for 20 years to separate water use of a part of the water area of the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov. The document was published on the official portal of legal information.

A meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov. Despite the difficult epidemiological situation, all the chiefs of the General Staffs of the countries participating in the Treaty took part in this event. By the way, last year, the coronavirus pandemic did not allow the members of the Military Committee to meet, so two meetings were held via videoconference.

The operation of the Istanbul shipping channel after its completion should not be regulated by the Montreux Convention, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said again on Wednesday.

To date, the water intake, built in the Republic of Crimea by the forces of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry, has transferred more than 1 million tons of fresh water to the city waterworks of Sevastopol.

The German military training ground Altengrabov held exercises of soldiers of the Bundeswehr, said Das Erste. The TV channel called the maneuvers preparation of NATO for the operation to "intimidate" Russia in Lithuania.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the first unit equipped with combat robots will be formed in the Russian army in the near future. According to the head of the General Staff of the Ground Forces V. Tonkoshurov, we are talking about five "Uran-9" robocomplexes developed by specialists of 766 UPTK (Nakhabino, Moscow region). In total, the unit will receive two dozen combat vehicles.

The Slovenian company Pipistrel, commissioned by the largest Chinese courier company SF Express, will finalize its electric cargo drone Nuuva. According to eVTOL, as a result of further development, the device will be able to perform stable flights at an altitude of 6 thousand meters in airplane mode and 2.5 thousand meters in vertical take-off and landing modes.

Canada has canceled permits for the export of military products and technologies to Turkey because they were used by Azerbaijan in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Canadian Foreign Minister Mark Garneau said.

As part of the control check for the winter training period, the unit of the Primorsky marine corps of the Pacific Fleet was alerted, the head of the information support department of the VVO press service for the Pacific Fleet, Captain second rank Nikolay Voskresensky, told RG.

In accordance with the training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, control checks are conducted in the military administration bodies, formations and military units. During April, 4,048 exercises of various scales, including 812 bilateral ones, will be held at 101 training grounds and 520 objects of the training and material base. This was announced on April 13 by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Marines of the Northern Fleet conducted exercises in the Murmansk region. The soldiers practiced defense tactics in the conditions of the Far North. There was also an off-road march, according to the Izvestia TV channel. More than 500 military personnel and 50 pieces of equipment took part in the exercises.

Moscow will continue to protect the Russian-speaking population, despite US statements that Russia will "pay the price" for aggressive actions in eastern Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

In order to ensure advanced training of specialists, modern models of weapons and military equipment are delivered to the universities of the Land Forces as a matter of priority.

Issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security in the Southern Federal District, including the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, were discussed at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) on Tuesday.

The United States and its NATO allies are actively building up naval and land forces in the Arctic. This was announced at a meeting in Severomorsk on April 13 by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. According to him, NATO countries are increasing the intensity of combat training, as well as expanding and modernizing military infrastructure in the Arctic region.