The training took place against the background of a British Navy patrol ship entering the Black Sea

Exercises to destroy air targets of a simulated enemy were conducted by the crew of the patrol ship "Inquisitive", the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) said on Monday.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet will make seven long voyages this year. Russian sailors will visit ports in Syria, Cyprus, Sudan and Oman. The fleet's personnel will conduct more than 34 combat training sessions of various directions, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The most large-scale event will be the Russian-Belarusian exercise "West-2021".

Ships of the Russian Baltic Fleet will make seven long-distance voyages this year, including to Sudan, where, as reported, a base of the Russian Navy will be established.

According to Admiral Alexander Nosatov, NATO plans to conduct more than 20 exercises in the region, during which the ship grouping can be increased to 30-40 ships

The US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class URO destroyers are on permanent combat duty in the Baltic and North Seas. This was announced by the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Admiral Alexander Nosatov, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

Russia can continue the construction of nuclear-powered strategic missile submarines of the project 955 ("Borey") after all ten such submarines contracted for today are ready, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, a member of the Marine Board under the government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The construction of the Borey-A project 995A strategic missile submarines can be continued after the execution of the contract concluded with the Ministry of Defense for the supply of 10 ships.

According to the public relations service of the Armed Forces of Pakistan ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations), at the enterprise of the Chinese company Hudong Zhonghua in Shanghai, the keel laying ceremony of the third (of the four ordered) Type-054A/P class frigate for the Pakistani Navy was held.

Israel and the United States signed a deal for the supply of American weapons amid the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This is reported on May 17 by the Jerusalem Post.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has criticized his American counterpart Joe Biden for selling $735 million worth of precision weapons to Israel. He said this on May 17 during a press conference in Ankara, broadcast on the politician's Twitter.

The US has left an air base in the southern province of Kandahar, Pentagon officials said.

The military base in Kandahar was one of the largest bases where US and NATO troops were stationed. At the height of the war with the Taliban, there were about 26,000 foreign troops on it.

The special Operations forces of the Russian Defense Ministry plan to go on expeditions to the Kemerovo Region, Altai and Gorny Altai next year. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel. As TASS emphasizes, during such expeditions, special forces are trained in survival skills in a variety of conditions.

"The President of the country supported our initiative to develop a network of centers for military-patriotic education of young people "Avangard". It is planned to create them not only at the regional level, but also in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand people, " Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday at a conference call with representatives of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The Armed Forces have created a multifunctional system for training qualified specialists in the interests of the country's defense. It is closely connected with military-patriotic work. "The projects, the programs that the Ministry of Defense is conducting in this direction - they are all interconnected," the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, said on a conference call on Friday.

In the Southern Military District (SE) in the Volgograd region, more than 320 junior specialists of the training battalion of the railway troops passed final exams in 7 military accounting specialties.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Vasily Piskarev, said that measures against the Czech Republic and Washington as unfriendly countries will work until they reconsider their policy towards Russia.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov said that in the near future, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky may sign a decree on the creation of cyber forces in the country, this issue was discussed at a meeting of the NSDC in closed mode on Friday, May 14.

The military leadership of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and representatives of the US Embassy on Friday will solemnly welcome the participants of the stage of the largest NATO exercise Defender Europe 21, the Ministry of Defense of the country said.

More than 90 retired French police officers have addressed President Emmanuel Macron with an open letter, where they set out a demand to pay attention to the security situation in the country, according to Valeurs Actuelles.

Specialists of the Ministry of Defense will go on an expedition to find places for hydroaerodromes. This was stated in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

"A large expedition is now being planned," he said. "We are identifying hydroaerodromes all over the north, then Kamchatka and our entire eastern coast, where Be-200 aircraft can land."

First-class pilot Andrey Krasnoperov explained why one Russian Su-30 fighter was able to drive away three French Air Force planes that appeared over the Black Sea. His words are transmitted by the portal "Tsargrad".