Global security news

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.

One of the tasks of the revised global deployment of the US Armed Forces in the world in recent months is to more effectively deter Russia, the Pentagon said.

The US Department of Defense expects to strengthen Russia's deterrence capabilities in Europe. This was announced on Monday, November 29, during a briefing by Acting Assistant to the Deputy head of the Pentagon for Political Affairs Mara Karlin.

The British foreign intelligence service MI6 will need the help of the technology sector to counter threats emanating from China and Russia, which seek to gain an advantage by mastering artificial intelligence, The Guardian reports, citing a speech that the head of the agency Richard Moore will deliver at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Monday blocked the rapid adoption of the defense budget for the next fiscal year. According to American media, 45 senators supported the termination of the debate on the defense budget, while 51 opposed it.

In October of this year, it became known that a sample of the Ukrainian main battle tank BM "Oplot" was delivered to the United States under a contract signed back in 2012. The machine, manufactured at the Kharkov plant of transport engineering named after the Soviet People's Commissar Malyshev, was purchased for careful study.

The United States and the United Kingdom tried to shift responsibility to the European Union for maintaining the viability of Ukraine's economy, including in the face of rising energy prices and the obsolescence of its energy infrastructure, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said.

If necessary, it will be possible to send more than 40,000 soldiers to Latvia in a short time, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed after a meeting with President Egil Levits.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the company leading real estate operations Shikun & Binui signed an agreement on the construction of a new IDF intelligence center in the Negev.

The British foreign intelligence service MI6 will need the help of the technology sector to counter threats emanating from China and Russia, which seek to gain an advantage by mastering artificial intelligence.

On November 26, the Japanese government approved additional allocations for defense spending in 2022 in the amount of 774 billion rubles. yen ($6.75 billion).

Declaring cyberspace and outer space "operational environments" of NATO undermines efforts to prevent the use of these areas for military purposes, according to a statement published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.

In the seven years since the conflict in the Donbas, the Ukrainian army has failed to make a leap in technical equipment, but its morale has grown due to propaganda and cleaning of the ranks, Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences (Russia), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Su-30SM fighters of the Russian Federation and Belarus performed another flight along the border of the republic. This was reported to the Ministry of Defense (MO) of Belarus on Tuesday, November 30.