The government of Afghanistan should not think about staying in power, but about the future of the country, and start negotiations with the Taliban as soon as possible (the Taliban movement is banned in the Russian Federation), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The heads of the defense departments of Kazakhstan, Nurlan Yermekbayev and Tajikistan, Sherali Mirzo, discussed in a telephone conversation the issues of Kazakhstan's assistance to Tajikistan to counter the existing risks and challenges on the Tajik-Afghan border.

At four o'clock in the morning, by order of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Leader of the Nation, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, Army General Emomali Rahmon, for the first time in the history of the independent state of Tajikistan, a check of the combat readiness of the Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and personnel of mobilization reserves called "Marz-2021" (Border-2021) began throughout the republic.

The Syrian military, using Russian-made air defense systems, destroyed Israeli missiles fired at the territory of the republic, said Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, on July 22.

As reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it will be held as part of the working trip of the Russian delegation to the country

A joint meeting of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Russia and Syria on the return of refugees and the restoration of peaceful life will be held in Damascus on July 26. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Russian Defense Ministry has delivered 250 thousand doses of the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine and 1 million tests for laboratory diagnostics of the coronavirus to Syria, the Russian military department told reporters.

On July 20, the Ministry of Defense of India announced that it had sent a request for proposals within the framework of the acquisition program for the country's Navy of six equipped VNEU based on fuel cells of the "Project-75(I)" (P-75(I)).

On July 22, 2021, the German Federal Defense Procurement Agency BAAINBw (Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr) announced the issuance of a contract to the German shipbuilding company Fassmer GmbH Co. KG for the construction of two large experimental vessels of a new project for the 71st experimental test center (71 Wehrtechnische Dienststelle-WTD 71) of the German Navy in Eckernferd. The vessels should be commissioned in 2023.

The US Navy has received an unusual vessel that resembles a brick in its shape, writes Popular Mechanics.

The Pentagon will massively write off defective ships of the US Navy (Navy). RIA writes about this, the document has not yet been finalized, but the approximate list of" faulty " vessels is already known.News.

The situation in the Black Sea is "artificially inflated" by non-regional players, Moscow will closely monitor the implementation of the Montreux Convention, the Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti.

The Ministry of Defense earlier reported on the successful execution of the shooting "Zircon" from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" on a ground target

The first test launch of a hypersonic missile "Zircon" from a submarine carrier-a nuclear submarine (submarine) of the project 885 "Severodvinsk" of the Northern Fleet - can be performed approximately in August 2021. This was reported to TASS on the sidelines of the MAKS-2021 air show by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In the branch of the SRZ" Nerpa "of the Ship Repair Center" Zvezdochka "(part of the USC), preparations have begun for the transportation of the first domestic nuclear submarine K-3 ["Leninsky Komsomol" project 627] to Kronstadt.

The rescue tugboat "Captain Guryev" from the squadron of rescue vessels of the Novorossiysk naval base of the Black Sea Fleet is making the transition to the Gulf of Oman, the Fleet Information Support department reported on Saturday.

The Iranian warship Sahand, which was heading for the naval parade in St. Petersburg, entered the territorial waters of Estonia on Friday without having a permit, and left them after the relevant order of the Estonian authorities.

A parade of ships dedicated to the Day of the Russian Navy was held in Sevastopol, where the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet is located, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

A naval parade in honor of the country's Navy Day was held in Dagestan at the base of the Caspian Flotilla. It was attended by 30 ships, boats and support vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense.

The main naval parade was held on the roadstead in Kronstadt in the waters of the Gulf of Finland, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

The boats will serve in the Baltic Fleet

Two serial special-purpose boats were launched at the Zelenodolsk Shipyard named after A.M. Gorky.

The Russian Navy has everything necessary to protect the country. The country is capable of launching a military strike against any enemy. This was announced on July 25 by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the naval parade in St. Petersburg in honor of the Navy Day.