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If necessary, it will be possible to send more than 40,000 soldiers to Latvia in a short time, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed after a meeting with President Egil Levits.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the company leading real estate operations Shikun & Binui signed an agreement on the construction of a new IDF intelligence center in the Negev.

On November 26, the Japanese government approved additional allocations for defense spending in 2022 in the amount of 774 billion rubles. yen ($6.75 billion).

In the seven years since the conflict in the Donbas, the Ukrainian army has failed to make a leap in technical equipment, but its morale has grown due to propaganda and cleaning of the ranks, Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences (Russia), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

NATO countries are transferring military equipment to the borders of the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

We need a unified security system that takes into account the interests of all countries, the creation of separate alliances leads not to improvement, but to tension of the situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The statement on military activity in the territories adjacent to the CSTO area of responsibility and its impact on Eurasian security were discussed on Tuesday at a meeting of the permanent Council of the organization.

Russia will continue to closely monitor the actions of NATO and Ukrainian troops near its borders

Russia has informed the United States about the absence of aggressive plans against Ukraine, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.

A government commission has considered an initiative allowing test pilots to be awarded a rank one star higher than their position. Thus, pilots-lieutenant colonels with special merits will be able to become colonels. The current rules allow you to give "extra" stars to officers only up to and including the rank of major.

In 2022, promising VVST models, including those with hypersonic weapons, will be put on combat duty. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the Deputy Commander-in-chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.

NATO member countries are increasing the offensive potential of the armed forces near the borders of Belarus, Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing to increase the age limit for military service for marshals, army generals and navy admirals by the decision of the President of the Russian Federation, the document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The situation at the western and southern borders of Belarus is heating up. Minsk is forced to plan retaliatory measures. On Monday, November 29, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus Viktor Khrenin told reporters after a meeting on military security.

The new leadership of Afghanistan, which came to power after the seizure of the country by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), is ready to recognize the Russian status of Crimea.

The military integration of Russia and Belarus is a new challenge to NATO's collective security, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda believes. His opinion is quoted by RIA Novosti.

The North Atlantic Alliance is concerned about the information about the concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine and calls on Russia to de-escalate the situation, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke at the VII scientific and practical conference "The system of interdepartmental information interaction in solving problems in the field of defense of the Russian Federation".

According to him, no task of state importance - be it the defense of the country or the fight against coronavirus - can be solved without consolidated efforts, reliable, uninterrupted functioning of such a system. As the minister noted, it is "constantly improving and adapting to changes in the global geopolitical picture. This was clearly demonstrated by the coordinated work in the conditions of continuing restrictions on the coronavirus pandemic."

Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper sued the Pentagon over a ban on the publication of part of his memoirs, which deals with his work in the administration of President Donald Trump. This was reported by the New York Times on November 28.

About 40 exercises will be held at the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan during the winter training period, which will begin on December 1, the Central Military District (CVO) reported.

The EDEX defense Industry exhibition begins its work on Monday in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, more than 20 countries are expected to participate, including Russian companies.