The ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet on Thursday repelled a massive air attack as part of a bilateral tactical exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's Arctic borders from threats from sea directions. They hit eight cruise missiles.

Diesel-electric submarines "Volkhov" and "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" conducted training exercises in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Thursday.

The unmanned surface vehicle from the Pentagon's "Master of the Phantom Fleet" program made a journey of 4,421 nautical miles (about 8,187.7 kilometers). According to the US Navy, 98 percent of the route it was in autonomous mode, but the captain led it through the Panama Canal.

A Russian soldier was killed and three others were injured in an armored car explosion in the Syrian province of Hasakah. On Wednesday, June 9, reports "RIA Novosti" with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The international military mission in Afghanistan is coming to an end. On June 9, the press service of the Bundeswehr on its official YouTube channel showed how the collection of things of military personnel and army property takes place.

The Pentagon is discussing possible actions if the capital of Afghanistan or other parts of the country fall into the hands of the Taliban (banned in Russia - IF), senior administration officials told The New York Times.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, met with the Governor of the region Igor Rudeney during a working trip to the Tver region.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced plans to hold a series of preparatory exercises that will precede the strategic command and staff exercises "West-2021".

On Wednesday, in St. Petersburg, the heads of the CIS general staffs agreed on the idea of a joint exercise with live firing. "The exercise" Combat Commonwealth-2021 "of the joint air defense system will be held in September in two stages at the training grounds of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan," said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.

The first tank army will be involved in the planned Russian-Belarusian strategic maneuvers "West-2021" in September, the Western Military District (ZVO) said on Wednesday.

The control check of the Russian Armed Forces was carried out this spring in accordance with international standards and in a planned mode, but for some reason it frightened Western countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, attended the training of naval special forces in the Southern Military District. On the air of Sputnik radio, the director of the Center for Military and Political Studies of MGIMO, Alexey Podberezkin, spoke about the peculiarities of the training of special forces soldiers.

All military commissariats of the country will be updated, including technically equipped. Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu announced the start of the program of updating military enlistment offices on Wednesday. According to him, military registration and enlistment offices in all Russian regions will be brought up to date.

"We have completed vaccination by almost 93 percent, including not only military personnel, but also their relatives," Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday at a plenary meeting of the Public Council under the Russian Defense Ministry.

A telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov would have been very short if Germany had announced the supply of weapons to Ukraine. This opinion was expressed on June 9 by the head of the German Foreign Ministry, Heiko Maas, during a press conference.

The German government's decision not to supply weapons to Ukraine is political. This was announced on Wednesday, June 9, by the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba at a joint briefing with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

The air group of the Baltic Fleet is planned to be strengthened with the latest super-maneuverable Su-30SM fighters. "Drying" will be able not only to fight in the sky, but also, if necessary, to hit sea and land targets. Strengthening the Western Military District this year has been declared a priority task against the backdrop of NATO's activation in the region and the bloc's large-scale Baltops exercises.

Multifunctional Su-34 fighter-bombers of the mixed Aviation Division of the Central Military District will use air-to-air missiles for the first time.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, combat missile launches will take place as part of a tactical flight exercise in the Astrakhan region.

In the past, Russian aircraft of old types with inefficient navigation systems sometimes accidentally "hooked" the territory of the airspace of European countries, which caused an angry reaction from neighboring states and accusations of wanting to occupy the region, writes Izvestia columnist Anton Lavrov.

The research and production enterprise (NPP) of the defense industry "Radar MMS" will create a fully electric helicopter-type UAV and a tiltrotor by 2022. This was announced by the company's executive director Ivan Antsev in an interview with TASS.