The approaches of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in resolving the conflict in the Donbas have become worse than those of the previous head of the Ukrainian state Petro Poroshenko, said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia.

The Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear – Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), L. Zerbo, met with the head of the Special Control Service, Deputy Head of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel Igor Tokarev, in Moscow.

Russia and the United States are expected to hold consultations on strategic stability on July 28, The Hill reports. "It is expected that US and Russian officials will meet on July 28 to hold the first dialogue on strategic stability at the negotiations on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons..." the newspaper notes.

The Federal Security Service has published a draft order of the director of the FSB, which contains a special list of unclassified information prohibited for transfer to foreign states. The list includes information that is not related to state secrets, but which may harm the interests of Russia. The draft order is posted on the official portal of legal information.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill allowing to increase the term of service of marshals, army generals and fleet admirals.

In the Leningrad Region, servicemen of the Keletsko-Berlin Artillery Brigade of the Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) began live firing from closed firing positions at targets simulating enemy fortifications and armored structures.

The joint military exercise of the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan will be held in the area bordering Afghanistan from July 30 to August 10, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Tuesday.

The events of the upcoming International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021 "will be held under the motto"Artificial Intelligence-technology of the 21st century".

The United States called the main obstacles to the development of weapons in Russia. This was written by experts of the American research corporation RAND in their report.

The United States is leaving Afghanistan

The other day, my old friend, a colleague from the Israeli special forces unit "Duvdevan" wrote to me and asked: how do I feel about the fact of the planned withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan?

The Canadian Navy has received another Arctic patrol ship. July 16, portal navaltoday.com he reported that the second ship of the Harry DeWolf type was handed over to the Canadian Navy at the Irving Shipbuilding shipyard in Halifax.

The US missile destroyer USS Ross left the Black Sea on Friday after a 20-day stay, the US 6th Operational Fleet said.

Up to 10 aircraft and ships of the NATO Navies were constantly present in the area of the exercises

Submariners of the Northern Fleet have completed a two-week exercise on weapons testing in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, the press service of the fleet reported.

The Russian military has completed tests of weapons of submarines in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, they were monitored daily by NATO ships. This was announced on July 16 by the press service of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation.

The crew of the Ka-27PS search and rescue helicopter of the naval aviation and air defense of the Black Sea Fleet was also involved, which accompanied the submarine during the passage of minefields, said Alexey Rulev, head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet.

After completing a long campaign, the strategic nuclear missile submarine "Vladimir Monomakh"returned to Kamchatka.

The pilots worked out the retention of altitude, intervals and distances between aircraft of various types, reaching specified points at a certain time

The first consolidated training for ships and aircraft of the Main Naval Parade was held in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. This was reported on Sunday in the press service of the Western Military District.

On July 15, a solemn ritual of the first raising of the St. Andrew's Flag took place in Primorsk, Kaliningrad Region, on the newest high-speed landing boats of the BK-16 type project 02510, built for the Baltic Fleet at the Rybinsk Shipyard JSC.

July 15, 2021 at JSC "Vimpel Shipbuilding Plant "(as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region) the ceremony of laying the next anti-sabotage boat of Project 21980 (code "Grachonok")for the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy took place with the factory number 01229.

According to the Media Club web resource, about 5 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal treasury for the digital shipyard of the Onega Shipbuilding Plant in Petrozavodsk [JSC Onega Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant, which has been subordinate to FSUE Rosmorport since 2014]. This was announced by the Head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov at a meeting of the Government of Karelia on July 16, 2021. According to him, a supervisory board has already been created, which includes competent people.