Structure and personnel news

The Ukrainian military will be sent to 13 countries for training in 2022, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. "The document stipulates that next year 167 servicemen and employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be sent to 13 countries for training. The selection of candidates who meet the requirements will continue until January 28, 2022," the message reads.

The facts of large-scale theft of spare parts and components for armored vehicles were revealed in one of the military units of the Khmelnitsky region. The damage caused is estimated at UAH 1 million (about 2.7 million rubles).

Yusaku Maezawa stressed that for the first time in his life he works for someone

Japanese space tourist Yusaku Maezawa, in an interview with TASS, given on board the International Space Station, called the commander of the crew of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft Alexander Misurkin a super commander.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment of the Pipeline Troops Day in the armed forces.

On Thursday, December 30, a draft amendment to the Government decree of July 17, 1996 "On the procedure for issuing weapons to persons subject to State protection" was published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. Along with military personnel of the Ministry of Defense, employees of the FSB, SVR, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardiya, FCS, as well as judges and prosecutors, it is proposed to issue weapons to employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in case of a threat to their lives.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on the provision of support measures and benefits to citizens participating on a voluntary basis in the protection of the state border of the Russian Federation.

The new regiment also appeared as part of the 76th Airborne Division in Pskov

The formation of a new airborne assault regiment of Airborne Troops (airborne) has been completed in the Crimea. This was reported on Wednesday by the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda with reference to the commander of the Airborne Forces Andrei Serdyukov.

The heads of the largest scientific, educational and industrial structures of Russia exchanged experience at the training and methodological gathering at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Roscosmos congratulated Oleg Kononenko, Oleg Artemyev and Alexey Ovchinin on the presentation of state awards and wished them "new space achievements for the good of Russia"

Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, who survived the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle accident in 2018, was awarded the Order of Courage in the Kremlin. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

The head of the Ministry of Defense stressed that the Day of the Rescuer is a special and expensive holiday for him

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu considers the Russian emergency prevention and response system to be the most effective and powerful in the world. This is stated in the congratulations on the Day of the Rescuer, which the Minister of Defense sent on Monday.

The units of the military air defense celebrated the 106th anniversary of its formation on December 26.

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, sanctions make their creation impossible

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu believes that international rescue coordination centers could help in case of emergencies in different regions of the world, but sanctions make their creation impossible. He expressed this opinion in an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper published on Monday.

Dismissal on such grounds is possible if there is no other military position that is not related to the operation of nuclear munitions, to which a serviceman can be appointed under a contract.

Rostec State Corporation PJSC UAC summed up the results of work for 2021 under the program "Mentoring for the managerial personnel reserve of UAC Group enterprises" implemented by the Personnel Management Department of the corporation.

Now people with fractures and poor eyesight can fly into space

The medical requirements imposed on participants of short-term space flights have greatly decreased in recent years, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

Before the fire, the crew had been preparing for service on this ship for two months

The crew of the Project 20385 Agile multipurpose corvette, which was damaged during a fire on December 17 at the Severnaya Shipyard, will be distributed to other ships under construction. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

Russia puts drone production on stream. On December 22, the press service of the Kronstadt company announced the opening in Dubno of the first specialized serial factory of large-sized unmanned aerial vehicles in the Russian Federation.

The Kronstadt company stressed that the center will additionally create more than 1.5 thousand jobs in the region

The Kronstadt company has created a center for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of aircraft and helicopter types in Dubna near Moscow. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the company.

The first factory for the production of Orion and Sirius attack drones has been built in Russia. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Litovkin commented on the event.