For the first time in recent history, the large landing ship "Azov" of the Black Sea Fleet was awarded the aft St. George naval flag in memory of the victory won by the battleship "Azov" in the Battle of Navarino in 1827. The ceremony took place at the pier of the Sevastopol sea station. Before that, the flag was consecrated in the Vladimir Cathedral - the tomb of the admirals.

The Russian submarine Kursk, wrecked in August 2000 in the Barents Sea, could not sink due to a collision with American submarines, because it was significantly larger than them. The impossibility of destroying a Russian vessel by US submarines is explained by the Polish edition of Defence24.

On Thursday evening, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reported that the forces and means of the Black Sea Fleet began tracking the actions of the US Navy's Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer, which entered the Black Sea on November 25.

The situation in the Black Sea region can be called tense for a year, and the degree of tension is unlikely to decrease. Military expert Vladislav Shurygin told Izvestia on Friday, November 26.

Moscow is concerned about the "information vacuum" around the AUKUS alliance and the secrecy of this partnership between Australia, the UK and the USA, and is waiting for answers to questions, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.

Sea trials of a new non-nuclear submarine have begun near Shanghai. The ship's departure to sea was caught on video and appeared on social networks. The music in the video is cheerful, so watch with sound.

The Golan Heights is one of the most difficult and dangerous regions of Syria. And it is in it that the Russian military police conducts its constant duty. The war against terrorists in Syria has been going on since the spring of 2011. The tension on the Golan Heights has lasted for almost half a century, and now there is a military police post No. 1.

The head of the RF IC, Alexander Bastrykin, during a working trip to Syria, held talks with the head of the National Security Bureau of the republic, Ali Mamluk, and the Minister of Justice of the country, Ahmed Al-Seyidomi. During the talks, the results of joint work on bilateral cooperation were discussed. In addition, topical issues of further cooperation were raised during the discussion.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will hold talks with their Indian counterparts in the "two plus two" format in New Delhi on December 6.

Rosoboronexport plans to bring heavy attack drones and kamikaze drones to foreign arms markets in the near future, this year it sold 50 Orlan-10E reconnaissance UAVs abroad, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev said on Thursday on the eve of the EDEX 2021 international arms exhibition.

Following the results of the joint international exercise "Interaction-2021", which took place last month at the Kharb-Maydon training ground, five units of the 201st military base of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan were awarded the honorary name "shock".

The Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at a plenary session on Thursday adopted the law "On ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on the provision of gratuitous military-technical assistance," the correspondent of the Interfax-Kazakhstan agency reported.

The Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at a plenary session on Thursday adopted the law "On ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on the provision of gratuitous military-technical assistance," the correspondent of the Interfax-Kazakhstan agency reported.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting offensive operations in the area of the settlements of Staromariivka and Granitnoye. This was stated on Thursday, November 25, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova during a briefing, referring to the reports of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed Russia's actions on the border with Ukraine and issues of the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers during a telephone conversation, the US State Department reported on Thursday.

Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Ukraine and the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for the Settlement of the situation in Donbass, said that the security situation along the contact line is extremely unstable.

The United States and NATO are "pumping" Ukraine with weapons and continuing the "military development" of this country, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

Outdated artillery, which Ukraine relies on, will not help protect the country in the event of a hypothetical attack by Russia, this opinion was expressed by war correspondent David Ex in an article for Forbes magazine.

US Senators Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Gene Shaheen insist on increasing the supply of lethal weapons to Kiev amid reports of an alleged accumulation of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine.

Ukraine sees no restrictions on the supply of weapons from Germany, the country will raise this issue in negotiations with the new German government. This was announced on Thursday, November 25, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba.