Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

According to the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the dialogue took place on the initiative of the Turkish side. The main topic of the conversation was the situation in Ukraine.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have agreed to establish a direct line of communication at the level of defense ministers to prevent incidents around Nagorno-Karabakh. This became known on Friday, November 19.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed on Sunday by phone with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan measures to stabilize the South Caucasus region in the context of the implementation of the agreements on Karabakh.

State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolay Pankov on Saturday summed up the results of the seventh all-Army competition "Commander's Starts" and presented awards to the winners, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told reporters.

An active phase of the joint exercise "Cobalt-2021" took place at one of the military training grounds in Tajikistan. It was attended by formations of special forces, internal affairs bodies, state security, ministries and departments for emergency situations and drug control of the Collective Rapid Response Forces of the CSTO.

In 2022, the State Military Industry and organizations of the defense sector of the economy of the Republic of Belarus will take part in 38 foreign international exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, which will be held on the territory of 25 states in almost all regions of the world.

According to the decision of the President of Russia, it will be possible to increase the age limit for military service for marshals, army generals and fleet admirals. Such a law was approved by the Federation Council on November 19.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has published a scheme for joint patrolling of Tu-95MS bombers and Chinese Hun-6K bombers over the Japanese and East China Seas, from which it follows that the aircraft of the Russian Federation and China did not violate the borders of neighboring states, including Japan.

Three Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry are evacuating more than 380 citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Ukraine and Afghanistan from Afghanistan. According to the military department, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu instructed to create an aviation group for the removal of people, which took off from the Chkalovsky airfield to Kabul. Each plane delivered 36 tons of humanitarian cargo from the Russian Federation to Afghanistan.

The Russian Defense Ministry, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, is evacuating citizens of Russia and other countries from Afghanistan who need to leave given the extremely turbulent situation there, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, told reporters on Thursday.

The head of the Kabul Emergency Management Department, Mirwais Watanmal, thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the Russian Defense Ministry and its head, Army General Sergei Shoigu, for the humanitarian aid delivered, also telling reporters how it would be distributed.

Three Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which arrived in Afghanistan to evacuate 380 citizens of the Russian Federation, delivered 108 tons of humanitarian cargo to the country. This was reported to journalists on Thursday, November 18, by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The first batch of Russian humanitarian aid arrived at Kabul airport on Thursday, the Aamaj News news agency reported.

Russia does not accept attempts to divide the Syrian Arab Republic and create quasi-states on its territory, Russian President's special representative for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev said during a round table held in Damascus as part of the visit of the Russian interdepartmental delegation.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition launched massive strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen after intercepting and destroying a drone that was trying to attack the Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi news agency SPA reported on Thursday.

Taiwan will soon have the first submarine of its own design. November 17, portal navalpost.com He reported that a closed ceremony of laying the keel of a new submarine was held at the CSBC Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Kaohsiung.

France is launching large-scale naval exercises POLARIS 21, which will be held in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and off the Atlantic coast of the country, the press service of its Navy reported.

France on Thursday begins large-scale naval exercises POLARIS 21, which will be held in the western Mediterranean Sea and off the Atlantic coast of the country, its Navy said.

The command of the US Navy announced the baptism ceremony of the next-generation tanker (T-AO-206) Harvey Milk of the John Lewis class in San Diego (California).

The Spanish company Navantia offers Turkey to exercise an option for the construction of the second Anadolu-class UDC, developed on the basis of the project of the universal landing ship L-61 "Juan Carlos I" of the Spanish Navy.