NATO uses strategic aviation in unplanned exercises in the Black Sea, and this is a serious challenge for Russia, President Vladimir Putin said.

Conflict in the Black Sea The activity of Western military forces has been observed in the Black Sea since the beginning of this week.

The reason was the entry into the waters of the US Navy ships - Mount Whitney and Porter. According to the official version of the United States, the ships have been sent to the region to conduct joint exercises with NATO countries and partners.

The aggressive military activity of the United States and NATO countries in the Black Sea region poses a threat to regional security and strategic stability, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that it continues to monitor US military activity in the Black Sea region. "The active actions of the US Navy ship grouping and NATO aviation reconnaissance flights have shifted and are being conducted in the northwestern part of the Black Sea," the Russian military department said in a statement on Saturday.

The Turkish defense company Baykar will soon test two new UAVs.

They will expand the capabilities of drones from ground to naval operations, its CEO said. Haluk Bayraktar, one of the two engineering brothers running the defense firm Baykar, said the new drone will be tested in the next two years and will be able to take off from a Turkish Navy ship, which is currently in production, Duvar points out.

The United States has acknowledged that as a result of the bombing in 2019 of the vicinity of the Syrian city of Baguz, at least 80 people were killed, most of them women and children, but they justify the actions of their military, the New York Times reported.

Israel is seriously considering a military solution to the problem it sees in the Iranian nuclear program. November 11, portal military.com He reported that the IDF is preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict with Iran.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kyani said that Iran and the UK have reached an agreement in principle to pay Tehran a debt of 400 million pounds ($535 million) for tanks that were not delivered in 1979.

It is envisaged to create a technopolis development fund, which will allow in the form of grants and interest-free loans to finance the research and work carried out by the participants

The State Duma at the plenary session on Thursday adopted in the first reading a bill on state support for participants of the innovative technopolis of the Russian Ministry of Defense "Era".

In October of this year, formations, military units and institutions of the Central Military District received more than 150 units of weapons, special and aviation equipment.

Motorized rifle and tank units of the 201st military base of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan conducted more than two hundred live firings in 2021, the Central Military District (CVO) reported.

Specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation again flew to Laos to help local colleagues from the U-58 detachment in clearing the territory of explosive objects.

On November 9, the first meeting of the Working Group on Regulatory and legal support of the financial stability of the organizations of the military-industrial complex at the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia took place, the press service of PJSC Promsvyazbank reported.

In a few years, the Armed Forces will have officers professionally trained to conduct psychological defense. Such specialists will be trained at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. This was reported on Thursday in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the department.

Putin noted the destabilizing nature of the activity of the armed forces of the United States and NATO countries in the Black Sea

During a telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, the topic of the conflict in Donbass was touched upon.

The President of Ukraine commented on the information that Russia is allegedly pulling its troops to the borders of the "Nezalezhnaya". Zelensky said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready to fight back against Russian troops. At the same time, he forgot to say that the information about the "Kremlin threat" published in the American media is fake.

National Security Adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan at a meeting with the head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andriy Ermak and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba welcomed Ukraine's commitment to the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, the White House reports.

Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov believes that the Charter on Strategic Partnership between the United States and Ukraine signed on November 10 is aimed at aggravating the situation.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the US administration will work with Congress to ensure the continuation of military assistance to Ukraine.

Photos were posted online showing Russian Su-75 Checkmate and Su-57 aircraft in the export version together for the first time. Earlier, the Aerospace Forces received the first serial fighter of the fifth generation.