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Russian Security Council: Tajik-Afghan border will be strengthened
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.
A new body to combat bio-threats will be created in the CSTO
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.
Presidential spokesman Peskov: there are no Russian military personnel on the territory of Mali
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.
The Russian Security Council discusses issues of participation in international organizations in the context of the events in Afghanistan
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 Zapad-2021 exercise has ended
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.
EW specialists of the Central Military District protected tanks from mines with controlled interference at exercises near Chelyabinsk
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.
In the south of Russia, reservists will be transferred to rocket and machine-gun "cars"
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 Ministry of Defense demanded in court 1.2 billion rubles from the Samara PJSC "UEC-Kuznetsov"
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.
ARCAS sight will turn an assault rifle into an information combat center
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 Americans will combine groups of small satellites into a "space layer"
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".
Blinken at a congressional hearing again tried to justify Biden's decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan
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.
Putin: the presence of foreign armed forces in Syria without the permission of its authorities is the main problem
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 tension around the creation of a Russian military base in Port Sudan"
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.
NATO countries are concerned about Russia's military presence in Africa
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.
Under the patronage of NATO, Ukraine will hit Russia with "Unbreakable stability"
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 Russian military destroyed the armored vehicles of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Arctic
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.
Putin said that it is necessary to increase the income of the Russian military, taking into account the situation in the economy and the level of inflation
The income of the Russian military should grow taking into account the situation in the economy and the level of inflation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
A field camp for the training of combat reserves was created in North Ossetia
The construction of a field camp is being completed at the Tarskoye training ground in North Ossetia, where units of the country's combat army reserve (BARS) will come for training. The readiness of the camp was checked by the commander of the Southern Military District, Army General Alexander Dvornikov. This was reported in the press service of the military district.
Putin called one of the tasks in the Tula region the diversification of defense enterprises
The President also noted that the topic of increasing the average income level of people in the region is one of the problem points
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for diversifying the" well-represented "defense industry in the Tula region and developing industry as a whole to ensure the growth of real incomes of residents of the region.
In the North Caucasus and in the south of the Russian Federation, exercises will be held with the participation of more than 6 thousand military personnel
About 800 units of weapons and equipment, as well as more than 40 aircraft and helicopters of army and tactical aviation will be involved in the exercises
The bilateral exercises will be held over the next week at several training grounds of the Southern Military District, the press service of the Southern Military District reported. More than 6 thousand military personnel will take part in the exercises.
