VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General and Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam Hoang Xuan Chien, and his Russian counterpart Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin co-chaired the 8th Vietnam–Russia Strategic Defence Dialogue on September 3 in Hanoi.

Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich held phone talks with his Russian counterpart General Sergey Shoigu on October 30, during which they reviewed defence cooperation results over the past time and set forth future orientations.