On August 22-28, the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "ARMY-2021" and the Army International Games – 2021 were held in the military-patriotic park "Patriot".

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to provide funds in the budget for the indexation of salaries of military and security forces above the inflation rate. The corresponding list of instructions following the results of the second stage of the XX Congress of the United Russia Party is published on the Kremlin's website.

The topic of military-technical cooperation is constantly present in the course of Russian-Belarusian contacts at the highest level, the Kremlin representative noted

Russia and Belarus will continue to develop military-technical cooperation (MTC) and the practice of conducting joint military exercises, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Monday.

The main stage of the joint exercises of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021" started on September 13 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, reported on the progress of the strategic exercises "West-2021" to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin observed the actions of a unit of combat robots during a trip to the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021"are taking place. This is reported by TASS.

The Terminator tank support combat vehicles and the Pacer and Outpost attack drones at the Zapad-2021 exercises supported the offensive of the motorized rifle division and tank brigade of Russia and units of Armenia and Belarus with fire and air strikes.

Engineering troops undermined a multi-row fire shaft with a length of 1.5 kilometers, disrupting the approach of the reserves of the conditional enemy during the episode of the Zapad-2021 exercise at the Nizhny Novgorod Mulino training ground.

The heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is designed for fire support of infantry and tanks, destruction of enemy manpower. The complex "Agriculture" is built on the principle of multiple launch rocket systems.

The calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical complexes from the starting positions located 50 kilometers from the Mulino training ground at the Zapad-2021 exercises carried out a group missile strike on the command post and other critical objects of the imaginary enemy, the Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday.

About 800 units of weapons and equipment, as well as more than 40 aircraft and helicopters of army and tactical aviation will be involved in the exercises

The bilateral exercises will be held over the next week at several training grounds of the Southern Military District, the press service of the Southern Military District reported. More than 6 thousand military personnel will take part in the exercises.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that during a meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in Washington, he said that Ukraine should be in NATO, but it depends not only on the US president. Zelensky said this during an interview with Farid Zakaria on CNN.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that it is incorrect to compare Ukraine and Afghanistan from the point of view of American aid.

The Ministry of Defense is working on the issue of equipping not only helicopters, but also combat aircraft with the latest guided missiles of the LMUR.

The crews of the Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF) during the exercises in Kamchatka worked out the destruction of a simulated enemy submarine. This was reported to journalists on Monday, September 13, in the press service of the TOPF.

Japan sent a protest to the Russian Federation through diplomatic channels because of the alleged violation of the airspace by a Russian aircraft. This was announced by the Secretary General of the Japanese government Katsunobu Kato at a press conference on Monday, September 13.

On September 10, the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko visited the Beriev Transport Aviation Plant (part of the transport aviation division of PJSC UAC of the Rostec State Corporation) as part of a working visit to the Rostov Region.

The Mi-35 and Mi-24 helicopters of the Army aviation of the Western Military District provided cover for the practical actions of the ground forces within the framework of the Zapad-2021 exercise, using the "helicopter carousel" tactics.

The Malaysian Air Force will continue operating the F/A-18D Hornet and Su-30MKM fighters until 2035 and 2040, respectively.

On September 12, 2021, the first reconnaissance unmanned vehicle El-2 (Borodach-2) of national development made its first flight in Mongolia at the Nalaykh airfield near Ulaanbaatar. It is reported that the Mongolian UAV has a range of 100 kilometers with a ceiling of 3000 meters.