Iran may join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the beginning of the procedure for including the country in the organization will be announced at the upcoming SCO summit, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

According to Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, at the moment life in Karabakh is in full swing, problematic issues are gradually being resolved

The former commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, positively assessed the work of Russian peacekeepers in this region. He said this to TASS at a meeting with participants of the All-Russian patriotic action "Watch of Heroes of the Fatherland" in Makhachkala.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has handed over a batch of combat reconnaissance vehicles (BRDM) to the armed forces of Tajikistan, the Russian military department reported on Saturday.

The ministry accused Russia and Belarus of insufficient transparency in conducting strategic exercises

The Estonian Defense Ministry has accused Russia and Belarus of insufficient transparency during the West-2021 strategic exercises.

NATO is closely monitoring the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercises "West-2021" and calls on Moscow and Minsk to act transparently and predictably.

This is stated in a statement by the official representative of the alliance, Oana Lungescu, for the German media group Funke.

By mid-October, the return of troops to permanent deployment points after the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercises "West-2021", in which about 200 thousand servicemen participate, should be completed.

Repelling the offensive of enemy troops and launching a counterattack were worked out on Sunday during the joint Belarusian-Russian military exercise "West-2021", Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said.

What are the military of Russia and Belarus working out at the Zapad-2021 exercises

Until September 16, joint maneuvers "West-2021"will be held in Russia and Belarus. As part of the exercises, the military has already worked out the capture of the coast, the mass release of paratroopers with night vision devices in the dark, bombing attacks from a height of 1 km and firing cruise missiles in the Barents Sea.

Belarus plans to buy more than $1 billion worth of weapons from Russia, President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko told reporters while visiting the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground near Baranovichi during the Zapad-2021 military exercises.

The Navy of the Republic of China received the first corvette catamaran of the Tuo Jiang II project. A total of 11 such ships should be built. Taiwan is seriously concerned about the growing power of the Chinese Navy. One of the efforts to neutralize the threat was the Tuo Jiang II missile corvette-catamaran project.

The US has stated that it does not intend to recognize the Taliban government in the near future

At the virtual meeting of representatives of a number of countries on Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged the world community to adopt a unified approach to the policy of the Afghan authorities, the US State Department said.

Militants in the Syrian city of Deraa handed over more than 300 small arms. This was announced on Thursday, September 9, by the representative of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties, Alexander Gulyaev.

Russia is against the transformation of Syria into an arena of confrontation between third countries, the military of the Russian Federation and Israel will continue contacts on Syrian issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

In the UK, a hybrid of a speedboat and a submarine was assembled. Portal janes.com He reported that today, on September 9, the SubSea Craft company begins testing a prototype of the Victa boat.

On September 7, the Spanish company Navantia announced the start of sea trials of the lead of five Avante-2200 class corvettes ordered for the Saudi Arabian Navy.

Israel Shipyards Ltd. announced the signing of a contract with the Israeli Defense Ministry for the implementation of the development stage of the working project of the next-generation corvette Reshef for the Israeli Navy.

At the enterprise of the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering company in Okpo (O.On September 8, the launch ceremony of the URO frigate of the FFX-2 project (also known as Daegu and Ulsan Batch-II) took place.

Two submarines are making an inter-fleet transition from the Baltic to the Pacific Fleet, a source in the shipbuilding industry said

The grouping of non-nuclear submarines of the project 636.3 of the Russian Navy (Navy) in the Mediterranean Sea has been brought to five units for the first time. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

For the first time, Russia has deployed five submarines in the Mediterranean Sea, known as "black holes" and serving as carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles, TASS reports, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.

Israel has completed the acceptance of four corvettes from Germany. September 8, portal defensenews.com He reported that the ship Nitzahon arrived in the port of Haifa after a two-week journey from Germany.