French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that representatives of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) do not fulfill the promises they made after coming to power.

The airstrike carried out by the US military forces on August 29 in Kabul really helped to prevent the imminent threat of a second attack on the airport. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the Pentagon on Saturday, September 11. Thus, the US Defense Ministry commented on the publications that appeared in the media that an airstrike could have killed, allegedly, not a terrorist, but a humanitarian worker working for America.

An NGO employee who sought asylum in the United States could have mistakenly turned out to be a target that was attacked by the United States in Kabul at the end of August. Such information on Friday, September 10, is cited by The New York Times, referring to information from relatives and colleagues of the deceased as a result of the American attack.

The heads of state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will sign an agreement on equipping the collective forces with modern weapons and equipment at a meeting in Dushanbe on September 16, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

The CSTO is ready to repel any possible threats coming from Afghanistan, Anatoly Sidorov, the head of the Joint Staff of the organization, said on Thursday in response to a question from RIA Novosti.

Representatives of the armed forces of China, Vietnam and Myanmar are invited to the exercises as observers

Foreign observers are invited to the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021". This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the Western Military District.

The exercises will involve up to 200 thousand personnel, about 80 aircraft and helicopters, up to 760 units of military equipment, including 290 tanks, 240 guns, multiple rocket launchers and mortars, as well as up to 15 ships.

The joint strategic exercise Zapad-2021, which started on Thursday, is of a defensive nature, the Russian Defense Ministry says. "The opening ceremony of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus" West-2021 "was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Region," the Russian military department reported.

Russia and Belarus are preparing for a guerrilla war with the North Atlantic Alliance at the Zapad-2021 exercises. This is written by the columnist of the American edition of the National Interest, Mark Episcopos.

The military of the CSTO countries conducted a training counter-terrorist operation, worked out the coordination and joint destruction of illegal armed groups that invaded from outside.

"Today, the final stage of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region of Collective Security of the CSTO" Rubezh-2021 "took place in Kyrgyzstan at the Edelweiss training ground, during which more than 30 introductory exercises were worked out," the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff reported.

The Russian servicemen used the calculation of the Tachyon drone, which helped to control the capture groups and fire cover, which made it possible to neutralize the conditional saboteurs at the captured checkpoint in the shortest possible time.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov believes that the cooling of relations between Moscow and Washington does not mean that the countries have been working in the field of counterterrorism for the last 20 years in vain.

The US position on the need to include non-strategic nuclear weapons in future agreements with Russia is unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched the military parade held in Pyongyang last night, but did not make a speech, KCNA reports.

The United States is concerned about the threat that can be carried by promising and modern single-engine aircraft of Russia and China. Analysts of Military Watch magazine compared the Russian Su-75 Checkmate with the Chinese J-10C fighter.

Minsk believes that the creation of a combat training center will "strengthen the practical component of the unified regional air defense system of the Union State"

Belarusian and Russian Air Force and air defense units have taken up combat duty in Belarus as part of the joint training training center. This was reported on Thursday by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

Currently, the" good name "of the Ukrainian aviation industry makes a "safety margin" of the An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft, which will finally go out of airworthiness in the 2040s. The corresponding dates of the disappearance of the Ukrainian aircraft industry are predicted by Defense Express.

During the visit of the delegation of Kazakhstan led by Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar to the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec State Corporation), further prospects for the development of cooperation in the production of Mi-171 helicopters were discussed.

The Fifth Fleet of the US Navy, based in the Middle East, said that it will deploy a new task force in the region, which will include air, surface and underwater unmanned vehicles.

The forces of the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (PFOT) operating against the troops of the Ethiopian Federal Government lost a T-72B tank. The combat vehicle is completely disabled.

As a result of an internal explosion of ammunition, the tower separated from the hull, several support rollers broke off from each side, the engine turned into debris.