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This year, several types of military aircraft will be tested in the Arctic, including Su-34 bombers, Su-35 fighters and Be-200 amphibians.]

They will be tested for their readiness to operate in the Arctic and in the area of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This was told to Izvestia by sources in the defense ministry.

The American destroyer Thomas Hudner ("Thomas Hudner") on Tuesday morning left the Black Sea, said the 6th operational Fleet of the United States.

The US coalition confirmed the shelling of a base in Syria in the northern province of Deir ez-Zor, but denied the presence of victims, a spokesman for the coalition said.

Since the militants do not comply with the terms of the Russian-Turkish truce agreement, the Russian Aerospace Forces resumed strikes on the bases and strategic targets of the Islamists in the Syrian province of Idlib.

The United States intends to modernize the missile defense software due to the appearance of hypersonic weapons in Russia, RT reports, citing a document from the American Missile Defense Agency.

The US Ambassador to Ankara, David Satterfield, warned Turkey against purchasing a second regimental set of S-400 air defense systems, RIA Novosti reports.

The first satellite images have appeared on the Internet showing the consequences of the drone attack on the Saudi Aramco oil refinery, located near Riyadh.

As a response to the NATO exercises in the Black Sea, Russia sent six submarines on combat duty at once. Bulgarian readers are wondering how one of them — Rostov-on-Don-managed to "disappear" from the NATO radar.

Russia's traditional, decades-old friendship with India has begun to be questioned. Despite the emotional and military-technical ties, New Delhi is increasingly sounding not hopes, but fears about Russia. Why is this happening and what does India's relations with Afghanistan have to do with it?

A broad coalition of countries that oppose US unilateral sanctions should appear in the world. Only in this case, the United States will lay down these weapons to preserve world domination. This, among other things, was said by Sergey Lavrov in a program interview on the eve of the talks in China. What are Moscow and Beijing ready to offer the world to abandon American dependence?

Taiwan - based technology company Delta Electronics, a supplier of power components to Apple and Tesla, is cutting staff at Chinese factories and moving production to Southeast Asian countries and India.

Washington threatens Jakarta with sanctions for partnership with Moscow

Indonesia seems to be becoming the first major state to abandon full-scale military-technical cooperation with Russia.

There were no violations of the Russian airspace

Russian radar stations (RLS) for a week found more than 40 aircraft of foreign countries, which conducted reconnaissance along the borders of Russia. Such data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is cited on Friday by the newspaper "Red Star".

For Kamchatka submariners, 2021 is a double anniversary year: it marks the 115th anniversary of the formation of the Russian Submarine Fleet and the 290th anniversary of the Pacific Fleet.

Two new nuclear-powered submarine missile cruisers of the Borey-A project, Prince Potemkin and Dmitry Donskoy, will be laid on the slipways of Sevmash this year. This was stated in an interview with the newspaper "Red Star" by the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

Photos of another T-90S tank of the Azerbaijani armed forces, destroyed during the recent war for Nagorno-Karabakh, have appeared on the Internet.

MEDIA: US secretly exports nuclear bombs from Europe

The US has secretly reduced its nuclear arsenal in Europe from 150 to 100 B61 nuclear gravity bombs. The reduction affected military bases in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, the media reported, citing sources.

Combat drones of the Chinese state-owned company Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC) are increasingly involved in various local conflicts around the world. This list includes the operations of the Nigerian government forces against the Islamic group Boko Haram, the UAE's participation in the civil conflict in Libya, Egypt's struggle with the rebels in Sinai, and the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

The United States puts Russia on the list of countries with which the export and import of weapons and defense services is completely prohibited. This is stated in the statement of the US State Department, published on its website on Wednesday, March 17.

There were no agreements on holding meetings of the NATO - Russia Council, and the main problem is that military contacts have been completely cut off.