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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has threatened that Paris will withdraw the military from Mali if mercenaries from the private military company Wagner start working in this African country.

The military delegation of Kazakhstan has arrived in Dushanbe to participate in a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils, the press service of the Kazakh Defense Ministry reported.

During a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, Chong Yong, promised that Seoul will continue to make efforts aimed at ensuring peace with the DPRK, and expressed hope that these efforts will be supported by Beijing, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Washington, due to bureaucracy and fear of risks, is extremely slow to act in the military sphere in competition with Moscow and Beijing. This was stated by the American General John Hyten.

A joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils was held in Dushanbe. On the Russian side, it was attended by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, as well as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils agreed on the creation of a Coordinating Council on Biological Security issues. This decision was made on Wednesday in Dushanbe by the secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO member states in Dushanbe. The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev.

There are no Russian military personnel on the territory of Mali, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. When asked whether the Minister of Defense of Mali raised the issue of providing military assistance during his visit to Russia, Peskov replied that Russia maintains contacts, including through the military, with many countries, including the African continent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the members of the Russian Security Council to discuss Russia's participation in international organizations and security issues, taking into account the events in Afghanistan.

The closing ceremony was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region

The closing ceremony of the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021" was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Almost 2.5 thousand military personnel were involved in practical actions

Specialists of the electronic warfare units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District protected the columns of tank regiments from mine-explosive barriers with the help of electronic warfare systems during a practical episode of bilateral exercises of tank regiments in the Chelyabinsk region. This is stated in a message distributed on Wednesday by the press service of the district.

The servicemen of the country's Combat Army Reserve (BARS) will master the tactics and use of all-terrain vehicles with machine-gun and anti-tank weapons. Training sessions for the crews of automobile "wheelbarrows" will be held at the Tarskoye training ground.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has registered a claim of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which demands to recover about 1.2 billion rubles from the Samara PJSC "UEC-Kuznetsov", which produces engines for aircraft and missiles, follows from the information in the file of arbitration cases.

Gone are the days when the electronic filling of an assault rifle or submachine gun was limited to a pair of sights (optical and night vision) that allow a soldier to make an accurate shot.

The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday said at a hearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs that the Afghan government forces would be unable to independently provide control, even if US forces remained in Afghanistan.

At the same time, the terrorists have suffered serious damage, the Syrian government controls 90% of the territory, Putin notes

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the main problem of Syria the preservation of a foreign military presence there without UN permission, noting that this prevents the Syrian authorities from consolidating the country.

There is no political tension around the plans to create a Russian military base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, but there are some circumstances that delay the work, a senior source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

In recent years, Moscow has been creating important strategic military alliances throughout Africa-from Libya to Nigeria, from Ethiopia to Mali - and is gaining an increasingly favorable reputation in society, challenging the dominance of the United States and France on the continent.

Joint command and staff exercises "Unbreakable Stability" have begun in Odessa with NATO, the purpose of which is to "counter hybrid threats" to critical infrastructure in the Black Sea region.

The servicemen of the Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet (SF) have worked out a set of tasks for the defense of the territory of Russia in the conditions of the Far North and the Arctic, the press service of the SF reported on Tuesday.