Speaking beside Egyptian Defense Minister Sidqi Sobqi in Moscow, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the two nations were planning on expanding their cooperation in military affairs, The Moscow Times reports.

"This document will for many years determine the direction of our cooperation in the military sphere," Shoigu said. He added that it was time to begin to fill the agreement with "concrete content."

The two countries will hold a joint naval drill in the Mediterranean, and select Egyptian soldiers and officers will be trained in Russian military academies.

"Naturally, in focus will be issues of training Egyptian servicemen at Russian higher education establishments of the Russian defense ministry and a number of other matters of mutual interest," Shoigu said, according to Tass.

The announcement comes as relations between Egypt and the US have cooled during the rule of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Close allies for decades, the relationship has suffered following Sisi's ouster of the democratically elected government led my Mohammed Morsi.