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Representatives of the Afghan Taliban movement (banned in Russia as a terrorist movement) at a meeting in Qatar with a delegation of American officials confirmed that the territory of Afghanistan will not be used for attacks or threats to third countries, the US State Department said.

Airborne troops (airborne troops) will hold a new academic year under the motto "tactical surprise and combat initiative troops," the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Military exercises have started in the south of Russia, in which over ten thousand soldiers and officers of motorized rifle and tank formations of the Southern Military District take part. The corresponding information was distributed by the press service of the Southern Federal District.

The Eastern Military District will hold more than 2 thousand special exercises in 2022, the press service of the Air Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

The troops of the Eastern Military District will prepare for the strategic command and staff exercise "Vostok-2022" in the new academic year, the press service of the VVO reports.

Most of the tactical events will be held in a bilateral format

Phased preparation for the strategic exercises "Vostok" began in the Eastern Military District (VVO) with the beginning of the new school year, the press service of the district reported.

According to the current state of the armed forces, Poland is similar to Armenia, and Russia and Belarus are similar to Azerbaijan, writes Defence24, analyzing the last major conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Baku, which had strike-reconnaissance drones, won a landslide victory over Yerevan.

Russia's intentions are still unclear, but its actions near the border with Ukraine and rhetoric have recently forced NATO to prepare for the worst, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

The planes of the Russian Ministry of Defense, consisting of three sides, arrived in Kabul and delivered 36 tons of humanitarian cargo to the Afghan capital. This was announced on Wednesday, December 1, by the press service of the Russian department.

They will last until December 3

The first-ever naval exercises of Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened in Indonesia. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Wednesday at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to ASEAN.

The head of the military police Department in the republic, Alexander Fomenko, said that the personnel celebrate the memorable date on combat duty without holding festive events

The units of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation celebrate a professional holiday - 10 years since its formation. The Russian military police in Syria is celebrating a memorable date on combat duty without holding festive events, the head of the military police department in the republic, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Alexander Fomenko, told TASS on Wednesday.

Russia does not require special conditions for itself, stands for consideration of mutual interests in the dialogue with NATO

Russia will insist in dialogue with the United States and NATO on developing strong agreements that exclude the advance of the North Atlantic Alliance to the east, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Landfills in the Crimea, Volgograd and Rostov regions are involved

More than 10 thousand servicemen as part of battalion tactical groups of motorized rifle formations of the Southern Military District marched to the areas of combined-arms ranges, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The anti-covid measures taken will protect Russian cosmonauts from the new strain of the Omicron coronavirus, the Cosmonaut Training Center told Interfax on Wednesday.

Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky on Wednesday, December 1, in an interview with Izvestia, assessed the beginning of the exercises in the Southern Military District, and also spoke about their characteristic features.

Belarus needs Russian S-400 or S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems for effective protection against a missile attack, President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Russian military announced a new successful test launch of a hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov".

On November 24, a meeting of the board of the Russian Ministry of Defense was held

The Board considered the issues of combat readiness of the Armed Forces, military education, the moral and psychological state of Russian servicemen, and a number of others. In particular, it was noted that the growing activity of NATO near the Russian borders requires maintaining the combat readiness of nuclear forces, increasing the potential of non-nuclear deterrence forces, including equipping troops with precision weapons and effective means of destruction.

The American missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke, having completed her stay in the Bulgarian port of Varna, went to sea "to continue operations in the Black Sea," the US 6th Operational Fleet said on Monday.

The appearance on the Web of a photo of a government tank destroyed in 2019 caused controversy among experts and those who are seriously interested in armored vehicles. The initial claims in authoritative sources that this is one of the modifications of the T-90 were rejected.