At this moment in the defense of the National Defence Control Center of Russian Federation is hosting the annual extended board of the Defense Ministry with Vladimir Putin.

His speech began with a discussion of the participation of Russian Armed Forces in Syrian conflict.

‘I order you to act very tough’, the president said. ‘Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our ground infrastructure must be destroyed immediately’.

Terrorists in Syria are a direct threat to Russia, according to Putin.

‘Russia’s actions are dictated not by abstract interests but the intention to defend our own country’, Putin said.

The board of the department will summarize the activities of the Russian Armed Forces in 2015. The Head of State will determine the main tasks for the Defence Ministry for 2016 and discuss issues of military construction and the current situation with the armed forces.