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The Russian military police in Syria conducted training with their Syrian colleagues on a special obstacle course in Aleppo province in the immediate vicinity of the Idlib de-escalation zone. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Friday, December 3.

In 2019-2020, as part of the work to substantiate the RF application for the outer boundary of the Russian continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean, Navy hydrographers organized and conducted comprehensive bathymetric studies in order to obtain additional data.

Under the leadership of the Head of the Main Department of Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Major General Alexander Osadchuk, the final meeting of the Commission of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Innovative Information Technologies for 2021 was held.

After analyzing the composition of conscripts sent to the troops, the General Staff came to the conclusion that the attractiveness of military service has grown among older citizens in Russia. This makes it possible to recruit units for the most part with people who have been trained in educational organizations and already have specialties that are in demand in the Armed Forces.

The topic of military cooperation remains one of the main ones in the context of cooperation with India

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will take part in a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on military and military-technical cooperation with India on December 6, Russian Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

The military of the two countries will continue to work together in Idlib

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, spoke in favor of further coordination of the efforts of the two countries to resolve the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Kremlin's press service reported.

It is too early to believe that the negotiations in Vienna on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have encountered insurmountable difficulties, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in the Austrian capital, said on Friday.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Friday that Russia and Ukraine need to adhere to the Minsk agreements in order to achieve de-escalation of the conflict with Ukraine.

The topic of Ukraine will become one of the central issues at the talks between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, the possibility of whose behavior is currently being discussed, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a briefing on Friday.

The new Iranian government has not demonstrated a constructive approach to the resumed negotiations in Vienna on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel welcomed the establishment of structural cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of defense.

Moscow, not Kiev, should take steps to reduce tensions near the Russian-Ukrainian border, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Russia should not influence NATO's decisions on the expansion of the alliance, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

U.S. Defense Ministers Lloyd Austin and Japan's Nobuo Kishi agreed in a telephone conversation to discuss issues of deepening cooperation in the field of defense in the near future at a meeting in the "2 +2" format, the Pentagon said.

Russia and China do not want an exchange of nuclear strikes more than the United States, the American edition of SpaceNews reports a statement by former Deputy Defense Minister for Research and Technical Development of the United States (under the administration of President Donald Trump) Michael Griffin.

The People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic recorded the operation of electronic warfare stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of three settlements controlled by Kiev in the Donbass.

Azerbaijan handed over 10 servicemen to Armenia, the State Security Service of Azerbaijan reports.

"On December 4, the Republic of Azerbaijan, guided by the principles of humanism, handed over 10 Armenian servicemen to the Armenian side. These persons were detained on November 16, 2021 while preventing a provocation by the Armenian Armed Forces in the Kelbajar direction of the state border," the statement reads.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Saturday, December 4, at a forum organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, avoided a direct answer to a question from journalists about whether Washington considers Russia's invasion of Ukraine possible. The broadcast of the speech of the American minister was conducted on the Pentagon's Twitter account.

The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, on Saturday, December 4, announced the readiness of the United States to support the defensive potential of Taiwan. In addition, Washington will resist any forceful pressure on the island's population. He said this during a speech at a forum organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Defense Minister of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov called on Western leaders to support and strengthen his country, as well as to resist Russian pressure.