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The General Staff of the Russian Federation and the All-Russian Cossack Society signed an agreement on cooperation in attracting Cossacks to the mobilization reserve of the country, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the VSKO.

The Ministry of Defense noted that the complexity and importance of the tasks solved by the service has increased significantly, taking into account the needs of modern weapons and control systems

The Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation celebrates the 210th anniversary of its creation on Tuesday.

The statement that Russia is behaving aggressively contradicts common sense - it is the NATO infrastructure that has approached the borders of the Russian Federation, and not vice versa, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Moscow will continue to seek from NATO and the United States a response to the key provisions of its initiative on security guarantees, there are things in the responses from Washington and Brussels that can be discussed, but they are of a secondary nature, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements on the settlement in the south-east of Ukraine, and Kiev must fulfill them, whether it likes them or not.

The meeting of German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was canceled due to the refusal of the German side to provide military assistance to Kiev, CNN reported, citing an informed source.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes that Russia's actions against Ukraine are forcing NATO to strengthen its position in Europe.

Russian-Kazakh allied relations are filled with practical content and are developing dynamically, the countries will strengthen and improve the peacekeeping potential of the CSTO, Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Alexey Borodavkin said.

The Accounts Chamber (JV) this year will check the effectiveness of the use of budget funds allocated by the Ministry of Defense for the operation of the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, for the development of new types of weapons and equipment, as well as for equipping the fleet, according to the inspection plan of the control department.

The servicemen continue to perform tasks as part of the verification of the reaction forces of the Union State on the territory of Belarus, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported on Tuesday.

The head of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, expressed the opinion that the United States should "directly or indirectly" participate in the work of the "Normandy format" (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France) on the settlement in the Donbass.

Further expansion of NATO does not meet the interests of world security and stability, the Chinese delegation to the European Union said.

The United States and NATO have virtually ignored Russia's security concerns, and the alliance's position on Ukraine could turn into a threat of a full-scale war. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference after talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, RIA Novosti reports.

French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said in the European Parliament on February 7 that Paris does not want arms supplies to Ukraine to provoke an escalation of the situation around this country, but at the same time recognizes Kiev's right to defense, RIA Novosti reports.

The exercises are held in the Volgograd Region, Stavropol Territory, Adygea, Chechnya, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, at Russian military bases in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Military personnel of the Southern Military District (SE) will take part in more than 30 bilateral company tactical exercises in the coming weeks, which began at 15 training grounds in the south of Russia, the press service of the district reported on Tuesday.

Secretary of State of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich promised to give a fitting rebuff in the event of NATO aggravation of the situation on the border.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation said that after the exercises, the troops will return to their permanent locations

Russian troops will leave Belarus after the end of the exercises, there was never any talk that they could stay, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, told reporters.

The command and staff exercises "Blizzard-2022" on the management of groups of troops during combat operations have begun in the Ukrainian army, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

An unmanned aerial vehicle in the shape of a drop was invented in the laboratory of Sevastopol State University (SevSU). According to one of the creators Sergey Dudnikov, the unusual shape was chosen for a high and high-quality coefficient of lift. The development is based on solving the inverse problem of thermodynamics.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov assessed the probability of a significant escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict as low, the press service of the country's military department reported.