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During Georgia's participation in the mission in Afghanistan, 32 Georgian soldiers were killed, the Georgian Defense Ministry said in a statement released on Thursday night in connection with the NATO decision to complete the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan by September this year.

Stoltenberg believes that peace in Afghanistan can only be ensured by the Afghans themselves

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has acknowledged that the peace process in Afghanistan is not guaranteed to succeed.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Iran needs to "cool down" after the recent operation at the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, allegedly committed by Israel.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation conducted an exercise on the use of electronic warfare units (EW) in the Arctic zone, the press service of the fleet reported on Thursday.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk in Berlin called on Western countries to think about returning his country's nuclear status. He said this on the radio station Deutschlandfunk.

The United States made the right decision if it really changed its mind about sending two missile destroyers to the Black Sea, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, retired Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, told Interfax on Thursday.

The fact that the United States stopped its destroyers with URO on the way to the Black Sea will not lead to a detente at this stage of the escalation of the situation around Ukraine. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

A new column of Ukrainian armored vehicles has been spotted near Mariupol.

Interestingly, most of the samples in it were previously intended for export, but after the events of 2014, they appeared in the units of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Ukraine renounced its status as a nuclear power after the collapse of the USSR. Earlier, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the rejection of nuclear weapons is a big mistake, but it is wrong to seek to return the nuclear status. But the infamous Ukrainian ambassador to Germany does not agree with the Ukrainian leader.

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) called Washington's statements about the service's involvement in the cyberattack on SolarWinds nonsense.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong protest in connection with the announcement of the Russian Federation on the closure of part of the Black Sea waters in the direction of the Kerch Strait from next week until October 2021 for warships and state vessels of other countries under the pretext of military exercises, and demands to immediately cancel the decision on the illegal closure of certain waters of the Black Sea.

Formations of the 58th Combined-arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of diverse tactical ones at the Opuk combined-arms training ground in the Crimea, the press service of the SE.

The US military command will transfer to Germany, among other things, intelligence officers, gunners, specialists in cyber operations and electronic warfare (EW), said on Tuesday the representative of the US contingents in Europe and Africa, Colonel Joe Scrocca.

The Northern Fleet is capable of effectively countering Russia's existing challenges and threats in the Arctic, " Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on April 13.

According to him, the overall situation in this region remains difficult. Competition for access to the resources of the Arctic Ocean and transport communications is increasing among the leading countries of the world.

Twenty-seven US Senate Democrats support US President Joe Biden's efforts to return to the Iran nuclear deal.

Two more radars will go on combat duty in the Arctic until the end of 2021

The Resonant-N hypersonic target detection radar (RLS) will go on combat duty in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago no later than June 2021. This was reported to TASS by the General Director of the research Center (SIC) "Resonance" Alexander Shramchenko.

The PLA exercises in the Taiwan Strait are a forced measure to protect the country's sovereignty, Beijing says

The policy of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait was the main reason for the deterioration of the situation in the area, said the head of the Office of Taiwan Affairs at the State Council of the People's Republic of China Ma Xiaoguang.

On the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, the Resonance-N hypersonic target detection radar will be put on alert. This will happen no later than June of this year.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet went to the Black Sea to conduct artillery firing. The control check of the fleet forces will take place against the background of the entry into the waters of two US destroyers with guided missile weapons Roosevelt and Donald Cook.