Pobeda Airlines has decided to abandon firm contracts for 20 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. This was announced by the general director of the carrier Andrey Kalmykov.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus plans to receive new Mi-35M combat helicopters for service.

This was announced by the commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic, Major General Igor Golub.

Baku claims shelling from the Armenian side

An exchange of fire between Armenian and Azerbaijani servicemen took place on Monday evening on the Gegharkunik section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, there are dead on both sides, the Armenian Defense Ministry reports.

In the Murmansk region, units of a separate Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet broke through the defenses of a conditional enemy and inflicted artillery strikes. The exercises were held at the training ground near the village of Alakurtti. On the video, you can watch the actions of the fighters.

In the southern military district, a combat army reserve composition is being formed - BARS. This is a kind of second front from the reserves, who will first be called into service in an emergency situation. For example, if there is a threat of armed conflict or aggression against our country. In peacetime, reservists will be trained at military training camps, and all the conditions of their temporary service, including financial, will be written in a special contract.

In accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021"will be held from August 22 to 28, 2021. However, its official opening will take place on August 23.

Private investors will be able to compensate up to 50 percent of the costs of creating an industrial park or an industrial technopark. The corresponding resolution was signed by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.

In total, 2.5 thousand military personnel were involved in the exercises of the three countries

The servicemen of the armed forces of Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, who were involved in joint exercises that ended on August 10 in Tajikistan at the Harb-Maydon training ground 20 km from Afghanistan, returned to their permanent deployment points. This is stated in a message distributed on Monday by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

Rostec is ready to consider the possibility of helping Turkey in the development of a fifth-generation fighter with the appropriate request from Ankara, the general director of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov said in an interview with the Anadolu news agency.

The militants of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) are in Kabul, and they do not have to deal with any large-scale resistance, CNN reports.

The speed with which the Taliban units (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) were advancing up to Kabul caused general surprise, Olivier de Bavenchov, former commander of the French contingent of the international NATO forces in Afghanistan, told France 24 TV channel on Sunday.

Recognizing the legality of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) unilaterally would be an unacceptable step, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on British television.

The head of the British Defense Ministry, Ben Wallace, criticized the withdrawal of Washington's military contingent from Afghanistan, saying that the international community is likely to suffer from the consequences of this US decision, Sky News reported on Friday.

The Taliban were able to capture Kandahar because of the flight of Afghan troops, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan, director of the Second Department of Asia of the Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin assured in a telephone conversation with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that they continue to provide assistance to the Afghan government in the conditions of the offensive of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), the US State Department said.

The Government of Canada will send a special forces unit to Kabul, which will ensure the safety of employees of the Canadian embassy during its evacuation and before closing, the Associated Press reported, citing an informed source.

Former US President Donald Trump and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the tactics chosen by the administration of current President Joe Biden regarding Afghanistan.

The main part of the three-thousandth group of the US military, which will ensure the evacuation of employees of the US Embassy in Afghanistan, should arrive in Kabul by the end of this week, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing on Friday.

The US military considers the complete evacuation of the embassy in Afghanistan inevitable, according to the publication Politico. Earlier, the United States sent 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan to speed up the evacuation of civilian employees of the embassy.

The United States has begun transferring additional forces to Afghanistan. The country's authorities intend to complete this process by the end of the week, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.