US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will go on an Asian tour on July 23, during which he will demonstrate the US interest in developing relations with the ASEAN countries and maintaining international order in the region, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

The US Department of Defense does not claim that Russia may allegedly be related to the manifestation of symptoms in American civil servants in Vienna similar to those previously observed in US diplomats in Cuba and became known as the "Havana syndrome". This was stated on Monday, July 19, at a regular briefing by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.

More than 1.2 thousand servicemen from the United States, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland are taking part in the multinational tactical exercise "Three Swords - 2021" to protect the territory from an external aggressor, which started on Monday near Lviv, the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

Attempts to impose on Moscow the obligations of the parties to the conflict in the Donbass are absurd

Moscow is providing humanitarian assistance to the Donbas, the OSCE observers could not find evidence of the Russian military presence in the region, said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, in an interview with the French publication Politique Internationale.

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.