The Syrian air defense (air defense) repelled an Israeli attack in the sky over Homs, the Syrian state television channel Al-Ekhbariya reported.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon said that there is no military solution to the Afghan problem, and a way out of the current situation should be found peacefully.

During the military exercises in Tajikistan, all units of the armed forces and law enforcement agencies of the country numbering 100 thousand personnel, as well as more than 130 thousand reserve officers and soldiers were alerted and put on full combat readiness, Defense Minister of the Republic Sherali Mirzo said in his report to President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.

The northern provinces of Afghanistan are rapidly turning into a new hot spot, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko.

Washington is leaving, the war continues

The situation in Afghanistan, whose people have never been brought to their knees by anyone, continues to escalate.

The rejection of the dollar and a flexible approach to arms customers are Russia's main countermeasures against Western sanctions. This was stated on July 21 during the MAKS-2021 air show by Dmitry Shugaev, Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS).

To prepare for participation in the joint strategic exercise of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021" on Wednesday, July 21, the first military echelons with Russian servicemen and equipment arrive in the Republic of Belarus. This became known from the information of the military department in Minsk.

Russian tankers in Tajikistan as part of the exercises marched to the Kharb-Maydon training ground bordering Afghanistan, the Central Military District (CVO) reports.

Fighters of a separate special-purpose detachment "Peresvet" and employees of the SOBR "Bulat"of the Main Directorate of the Rosgvardiya in the Moscow region held a practical lesson at a training center in the Moscow region Electrostal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to assess in which regions it is necessary to increase the grouping of the Defense Ministry to fight forest fires.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on reports about the surveillance of the phone of French leader Emmanuel Macron, said that the Russian government uses a special communication system that is reliably protected and does not need additional protection.

The FSB proposes to add a number of defense and military information that is not related to state secrets, but which may harm the interests of Russia, to the list of information prohibited for transmission to foreign states. The corresponding draft order of the FSB Director has been published on the Federal Portal of Draft Regulatory Legal Acts.

According to him, the documents "found" by the BBC confirm that the provocation was planned

Attempts to test Russia's strength, such as the incident with the British destroyer Defender in the Black Sea, will continue, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted exercises to repel air strikes on the border with Crimea, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Facebook. "As part of the tactical training of air defense units <...>, combat crews of Buk anti-aircraft missile systems were trained to repel an airstrike by a conditional enemy," the release says.

NATO condemned "malicious cyber activity", in particular against Microsoft, and called for a" peaceful and secure " cyberspace.

The MiG company demonstrated models of new aircraft at the MAKS Air show. One of them is a promising multifunctional ship-based fighter.

The official representative of the Sukhoi company, Anastasia Kravchenko, said that the aircraft is already ready for testing

The Sukhoi company can create a two-seat modification of the Checkmate single-engine fighter. This was announced on Wednesday by Anastasia Kravchenko, director of the Information Policy and Public Communications Department of the company, on the air of the Rossiya-24 TV channel as part of the MAKS-2021 air show.

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) "Rostec" will create an unmanned version of the Checkmate light tactical fighter ("Checkmate"), equipped with one engine. Rostec said this at a presentation during the International Aviation and Space Salon of 2021 (MAKS-2021), TASS reports.

Mikhail Strelets, First Deputy Managing Director - Director of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, noted that we are talking about both manned versions of the fighter and its unmanned modifications

The new Checkmate light single-engine fighter can operate in a network-centric combat system and work as part of a group of manned and unmanned aircraft.

The new Russian light tactical aircraft (LTS), called Checkmate ("Checkmate") or Su-75, is capable of simultaneously escorting two land and sea targets, the chief designer of this fifth-generation single-engine fighter, Mikhail Strelets, told TASS.