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As the head of the Defense Ministry noted, virtually all the commanders of all units went through the Syrian operation

Over 90% of military pilots have combat experience, some have made 400 sorties. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu on the air of the TV channel "Russia-1".

The entire command staff of the Russian Armed Forces has Syrian combat experience, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

On the TV channel "Russia-1" in an interview with the program "Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin" Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke about the situation with coronavirus in the armed forces. According to him, thanks to the almost continuous vaccination of military personnel, it is not as acute as in the whole country.

The frigate (patrol ship) "Admiral Essen" conducted exercises in the Black Sea to cover the base point of ships in the Crimea from a strike by a group of aircraft of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reports.

The USA, Russia and China remain the strongest and most protected countries in the world. On November 1, the Global Firepower analytical center published a rating of the strongest armies in the world according to data for 2021.

The Army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. This is stated in the report of the US Department of Defense, distributed on Wednesday, November 3.

The crews of the Russian submarines Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod of the Varshavyanka project worked out the launch of Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercises. Conditional defeat of surface targets was made after the entry of the US Navy destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) into the Black Sea. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia.

The First Committee of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday rejected a draft resolution proposed by Russia providing for the renewal of the international mechanism for investigating the use of chemical weapons.

Moscow and Washington have shown that they are ready to take responsibility and agree on information security issues, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The upcoming equipping of the Russian Navy with Zircon missiles will be a powerful deterrent to any potential enemy, military political analyst Alexander Perendzhiev expressed this opinion on Sputnik radio.

The non-governmental organization "White Helmets" is preparing staged filming in Idlib province, which is not controlled by the Syrian authorities, said Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in the Arab Republic. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

Russia currently does not threaten the Baltic states, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes.

"Despite a significant increase in Russia's aggressiveness, there is currently no direct military threat to the Baltic states," Stoltenberg told Estonian Television.

Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin received in Moscow the head of the US CIA William Burns.

Cooperation in the fight against terrorism was discussed with the Americans, the SVR reported.

"The director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Naryshkin, on the initiative of the American side, received the director of the US CIA, Burns," the press bureau of the SVR said in a statement.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed with Australian Foreign Minister Maris Payne efforts to ensure a peaceful Indo-Pacific region and trilateral cooperation with AUKUS, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

The United States considers Singapore a strong and reliable partner in solving global security problems and hopes to strengthen cooperation with it in the military sphere, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.

To achieve success at the Vienna talks on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it is necessary that all parties to the negotiation process take into account each other's interests, stressed Deputy Foreign Ministers of China Ma Zhaoxu and Russia Sergey Ryabkov.

Google is going to compete with Microsoft and Amazon for working with the Pentagon to create a cloud infrastructure project for the department. Three years ago, the company refused such an offer from the US Defense Ministry after the protests of its employees, but now the IT giant intends to return to cooperation with the military, as sources told The New York Times on November 3.

The Pentagon has denied a statement about an attempt by the US Navy to intercept an oil cargo on board an Iranian tanker in the Gulf of Oman. This was announced on Wednesday, November 3, by the press secretary of the US military department, John Kirby.

The next round of negotiations on the Syrian settlement is planned to be held in the capital of Kazakhstan in mid-December, Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said.

The conflict between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the US Navy was shown on video.

The network published a video of a recent incident in the Gulf of Oman between the forces of the IRGC and the US Navy. The confrontation was filmed, among other things, from Iranian drones.