The President met with Defence Ministry senior officials in the first of a series of meetings on the development of the Armed Force.

Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 73^rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov.

The President signed he Federal Law On Amendments to Federal Law On Military Duty and Military Service.

During his working trip to Sverdlovsk Region, during a telephone conversation with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu Vladimir Putin received the latest information on the crash of a Russian An-26 military transport aircraft in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Vladimir Putin visited Research and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod, where he was shown around a rolling stock production line and talked with the plant’s personnel.

The President chaired this year’s first meeting of the Commission for Military Technical Cooperation with Foreign States.

Following the national awards ceremony, Vladimir Putin attended a presentation of the Era military innovation technopolis.

Vladimir Putin attended a gala night marking Defender of the Fatherland Day at the State Kremlin Palace. The President congratulated veterans, service members and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces on the coming holiday.

Vladimir Putin met with defence ministers of Armenia, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Mongolia, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan invited to a gala night marking Defender of the Fatherland Day at the State Kremlin Palace.

The President signed the Executive Order On Awarding Major Roman Filipov the Title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

The President signed the Federal Law On Ratifying the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia on the Procedure for Joining the Russian Army by Separate Units of South Ossetia’s Armed Forces.

Vladimir Putin visited the National Defence Control Centre, where he took part in a military-practical conference on lessons learned and summing up the results of the military operation in Syria.

Vladimir Putin watched a demonstration flight of the new Tu-160M supersonic strategic missile carrier Pyotr Deinekin under a flight test programme.

Vladimir Putin has signed the Federal Law On Ratifying the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of South Ossetia on Cooperation in Military Courier-Postal Communications.

Vladimir Putin met with Russian Armed Forces service personnel who took part in the anti-terrorist operation in the Syrian Arab Republic. During the meeting that took place in the St George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, the President presented state decorations to those who distinguished themselves while performing special missions in Syria.

Vladimir Putin met with senior officials of the Defence Ministry and commanders of military districts and the Northern Fleet during his visit to the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces.

Vladimir Putin visited the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces, where he took part in an annual expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the teaching staff, cadets and graduates of the Russian Federation Defence Ministry’s Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command Academy on its 100^th anniversary.