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Russia's policy towards Ukraine became the main topic of discussion at the meeting of US President Joe Biden with members of the National Security Council (NSC), the White House said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to instruct Defense Minister Ben Wallace to accept the invitation of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to hold talks in Moscow, Sky News channel reported on Sunday, citing sources.

London declares the UK's readiness to support Ukraine, but considers it extremely unlikely that it will be possible to send its military to the border in the event of a suspected Russian invasion, Sky News channel reported on Sunday.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk considers the resignation of Kai-Achim Schoenbach from the post of commander of the German Naval Forces an insufficient step to restore full confidence in Berlin.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, in congratulating DOSAAF on the anniversary, noted that the defense organization has brought up millions of real patriots, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

Former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hop Scheffer said that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO in the near future. "In the foreseeable and unforeseen future, they (Ukraine) will not become a member of NATO. And I think the whole group at the table in Bucharest (in 2008) knew that. It was already clear that for the opponents (of Ukraine's membership in NATO), this (delay in joining the alliance) will last until hell freezes over," the Financial Times newspaper quotes the ex-Secretary General.

Russia will not wait indefinitely for a response from the United States and NATO on security guarantees and will protect its security by other methods, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said on the Izolenta live YouTube channel.

France's withdrawal from NATO would be "the biggest gift that can be given to Russia," he believes

The French leadership does not expect an open conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but the EU should be ready to react at any moment in case of a complication of the situation, according to the Secretary of State for European Affairs at the French Foreign Ministry Clement Bon.

Yemeni rebels used not only drones, but also ballistic and cruise missiles during the attack on Abu Dhabi this week, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Wednesday, citing the UAE Ambassador to the United States, Yusuf al-Uteib.

The process of delimitation of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border should be carried out without any preconditions, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov said.

EU Diplomacy Chief Josep Borrel discussed the Ukrainian crisis and Russian proposals on European security with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau.

The eighth flight to Ukraine in the last three days was carried out by heavy military transport aircraft C-17A Globemaster III of the British Royal Air Force, according to data from Western aviation resources.

On Wednesday, January 19, the trial of the former chief of one of the military missions of the Ministry of Defense, Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Zalivin and the former managing director of JSC "Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Devices" Amir Alyamov ended with a rather harsh sentence.

The Drive: NLAW missiles will act as a balancer for the Ukrainian military

The United Kingdom on military transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster III delivered to Ukraine, probably hundreds of portable anti-tank guided missiles Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW). Defensive weapons will act as "a means of deterring future Russian aggression," says The Drive.

Russia is militarily head and shoulders superior to Ukraine, but in the event of an attack, it will face immediate consequences

Russia is much stronger militarily than Ukraine and will win in the event of a conflict, but the price of victory and the consequences of an attack will be high, US President Joe Biden said.

Any crossing of the border with Ukraine by Russian troops will be considered by Washington as an invasion, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

The peacekeepers also worked out actions when declaring an alarm and options for repelling a conditional attack on the post

Russian peacekeepers at observation posts in Nagorno-Karabakh, due to the increase in the number of emergency situations, worked out actions when declaring an alarm. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The commandos of the 49th combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District have mastered the technique of covert penetration into specially protected objects of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The instruction to review "confidence-building measures", as well as to consider the possibility of resuming "all temporarily suspended" activities due to Washington's "hostile policy" was announced during a meeting of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea, held the day before under the chairmanship of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have appealed to the US State Department with a request to approve the transfer of part of their American-made weapons to Ukraine, Politico reported, citing sources.