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The US declares the need for assistance from China

The US intelligence community has come to the conclusion that the COVID-19 coronavirus was not developed as a biological weapon, according to a report published on Friday.

Scouts of the Amur Combined Arms Association of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed on the territory of the Amur Region, the Jewish Autonomy and the Khabarovsk Territory, in Tiger and Typhoon-K cars, cleared an important object from conditional terrorists, the press service of the district reports.

A new Brimstone Sea Spear missile, developed by the British company MBDA UK, may be delivered to Ukraine. This was announced on October 29 by the Ministry of Defense of the country.

Currently, the issue of arming ships with these unmanned vehicles is being worked out. Kamikaze drones, or, as they are officially called, barrage ammunition, will be used to strike ground targets and enemy ships.

The German newspaper Bild published an article about the "alarming" training of Russian pilots on the suspension of training bombs on military transport aircraft Il-76.

Russia is not ready to accept that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is being transformed into an instrument of political pressure, and will make every effort to normalize its work, said Andrei Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office in Geneva, speaking at the First Committee of the General Assembly (GA).

At the Partner 2021 international exhibition in Belgrade, the Serbian Defense Industry presented various samples of new military equipment of national production.

Arms supplies to Ukraine may lead to increased violence and suffering of civilians in the country. This was announced on October 21 by the Russian Embassy in London. According to the embassy, London prefers not to notice that Kiev does not fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements.

Brimstone surface–to-surface missiles, which the UK plans to supply to Ukraine, will allow "destroying" Russian warships. This was stated by Lieutenant General, ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Romanenko in an interview with the Observer portal published on October 21.

On October 20, the command of the Turkish Navy received the first medium-altitude long-duration UAV (MALE) Aksungur manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

As a result of the explosion and fire in the powder shop of the plant near Ryazan, 16 people were killed, another one received burns of 80% of the body surface. This was stated by the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of Russia Alexey Kuznetsov.

The Verkhneturinsk Machine-building Plant of the Technodinamika holding has produced the first samples of test parts of shell casings for field and tank artillery. The production of trial products is carried out at the site of a new mechanical workshop, where commissioning works are carried out. The cost of the production site was 400 million rubles.

The Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the South Korean Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) signed a memorandum of understanding on October 20 within the framework of the program for the development and production of barrage ammunition.

Arms supplies to Ukraine from the West will not contribute to the settlement, but they may encourage Kiev to carry out new provocations in the Donbass. This was announced on October 21 by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko.

The British Ministry of Defense, in response to RIA Novosti's request to comment on the Times newspaper reports that the government is negotiating the sale of Brimstone missiles to Ukraine, said that it was a deal that was made public in June of this year, but the names of the missiles were not indicated in the June message.

The Peruvian Navy conducted the first live firing exercises using MM-40 Exocet Block-3 Surface-to-surface and AM-39 Exocet air-to-surface missiles developed by MBDA Group.

The Russian military conducted a master class for Syrian servicemen and showed how to handle a domestic Bumblebee flamethrower. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Thursday, October 21.

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, "the involvement of pilots of non-nuclear member states of the bloc in exercises to work out the use of tactical nuclear weapons is of particular concern"

The US military has begun active work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in European countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.

The NATO bloc holds annual exercises "Steadfast Noon" (Steadfast Noon), which began on October 18, during which a nuclear war scenario will be worked out. 14 European countries, including Germany, are taking part in them. Dozens of aircraft are involved, including nuclear-armed fighters, combat aircraft, as well as tankers and reconnaissance aircraft, the Swiss Telegraph Agency (SDA) reports.

Next year, the South Korean military will begin using new hand-held mine detectors capable of detecting both metal and non-metallic mines. According to Aju Daily, they will also allow finding North Korean wooden mines concentrated along the border.