Stavros Atlamazoglu, a veteran of the Greek army, said that NATO is preparing to launch nuclear strikes against Russia. He wrote about this in an article for 19Fortyfive.

Russia currently does not threaten the Baltic states, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes.

"Despite a significant increase in Russia's aggressiveness, there is currently no direct military threat to the Baltic states," Stoltenberg told Estonian Television.

Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin received in Moscow the head of the US CIA William Burns.

Cooperation in the fight against terrorism was discussed with the Americans, the SVR reported.

"The director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Naryshkin, on the initiative of the American side, received the director of the US CIA, Burns," the press bureau of the SVR said in a statement.

Moscow and Washington have shown that they are ready to take responsibility and agree on information security issues, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

A contingent of Belarusian servicemen left for training maneuvers in Tatarstan on Thursday, the Belarusian Defense Ministry reports. The exercises "Unbreakable Brotherhood-2021" of the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO will be held at the training ground of the Kazan Tank School from November 8 to 12.

The regional grouping of the troops of the Union State will be strengthened. This was stated by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on November 4 at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State during a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The updated military doctrine and the Concept of the migration Policy of the Union State were approved at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of Russia and Belarus.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed with Australian Foreign Minister Maris Payne efforts to ensure a peaceful Indo-Pacific region and trilateral cooperation with AUKUS, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

A meeting of senior politicians in India is scheduled for November 10.

The main topic will be security in the region against the background of the Afghan aggravation. The Indian authorities expect that high-ranking officials from Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will arrive at the meeting of representatives of the national security services.

The state shipbuilding company SIMA (Servicios Industriales de la Marina) plans to launch a second amphibious helicopter ship-dock (DVKD) "Paita" (Paita) class "Makassar" (Makassar) in the middle of 2022.

The United States decided to dismantle the 155-millimeter guns in the bow of the Zumwalt, installing vertical shafts with hypersonic missiles in their place.The US plans to equip the "scandalous" Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with hypersonic weapons are becoming more and more specific.

The US Navy plans to equip the Zumwalt destroyers with hypersonic glider missiles. According to Naval News, they will replace 155-millimeter guns that have never fired. The first "Zumwalt" will begin to be refitted in fiscal year 2024.

The American Navy will soon receive the twelfth San Antonio-class amphibious assault ship. On November 2, the press service of Huntington Ingalls Industries announced the successful completion of the first stage of sea trials of the Fort Lauderdale ship (LPD 28).

The Command of the US Coast Guard announced the ceremony of commissioning a new fast patrol boat FRC (Fast Response Cutter) of the Sentinel class – (WPC 1145) "Emlen Tunnell" (Emlen Tunnell), which took place in Philadelphia.

Chinese military blogs reported on successful ground tests of electromagnetic catapults created for the third aircraft carrier of the People's Republic of China.

The third US Navy ship headed for the Black Sea.

The US Navy posted on Twitter a photo of the tanker tanker John Lenthall going to the Black Sea to join a joint operation with NATO allies. This is the third American ship following this course. Earlier, the command ship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitne and the destroyer Porter entered the Black Sea.

The visits of US Navy ships to the Black Sea are becoming a demonstration of NATO's strength, flag and ability for a military conflict with Moscow. Igor Korotchenko, the editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, told REN TV about this on November 3, commenting on the data that the third US warship is heading to the Black Sea.

During the exercises, the crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles at a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy.

The crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercise

The crews of submarines of the Black Sea Fleet during the exercises worked out a missile strike on a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

It is very difficult to detect a diesel-electric submarine like the Russian project 636 submarine of the Varshavyanka type because of the nature of its acoustic signature or even the absence of such a signature, Kevin Noonan, a veteran of the US Navy (Navy), writes in the American edition of The Drive.