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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.

The Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 has an impressive strike potential. This conclusion was reached in the publication Military Watch Magazine.

The fifth-generation Russian fighter is capable of destroying enemy ships alone.

The wide range of weapons used by Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters forced the American edition of The Military Watch to recognize the lethality of this combat vehicle not only for aerial purposes, but also for ships.

The Americans are preparing to get their enemies out of the ground. On October 13, the press service of the US Air Force reported that the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator bomb passed the first test by air drop.

The US Air Force has completed a series of tests of the new GBU-72 concrete-piercing bomb weighing 2.3 tons, during which it was dropped from the F-15 Strike Eagle heavy fighter-bomber. The striking capability of the GBU-72 will be significantly higher than that of the comparable GBU-28, which the US military has been using for three decades.

Seventy-year-old HYDRA 70 rockets have received modern capabilities. On October 12, the press service of BAE Systems announced the successful use of APKWS ammunition against aerial targets.

It is impossible to say that Russia's possible loss of the ammunition market in the form of the United States is critical for the Russian side, and there are also no grounds for mass state support. This was stated to Izvestia by lawyer, mediator Yuri Kapshtyk, commenting on the relevant media reports on Tuesday, October 12.

During the large-scale exercises of two brigades of the Pacific Fleet marines, rocket-propelled mine-clearing installations, nicknamed "Snakes of the Mountain" in the troops, were involved. Mounted on boats, they successfully cleared the offensive paths for attacking black berets.