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A group of ten ships of the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy made a joint patrol in the Pacific Ocean, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Large-scale operational and strategic exercises of the collective forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) "Combat Brotherhood-2021", which ended in Tajikistan, is a response to the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan, said the commander of the Central Military District (CVO), Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that the past exercises demonstrated a high level of interaction between the military contingents of the CSTO member states.

Kyrgyzstan will not deploy an American airbase on its territory, President of the Republic Sadyr Zhaparov said, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, the alliance is not ready for an equal dialogue

NATO is consistently pulling forces to the borders of the Russian Federation amid calls for military deterrence of Russia. This was stated by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in response to a statement by German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

Specialists of the People's Liberation Army of China have begun to remake their Type 59 tanks, which are being decommissioned, into samples similar to those of a likely enemy.

So, an imitation of the American M1A2 was seen at one of the polygons. Army craftsmen quite close to the original (especially in the frontal projection) decorated a clone of the Soviet T-54.

There is no legitimate and internationally recognized Government in Afghanistan, the authorities do not work, human rights are systematically violated, which indicates a catastrophic situation in this country.

Sergei Sudakov, an American political scientist and corresponding member of the Academy of Military Sciences, commented on the words of German Defense Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer, who said that NATO could use weapons against Russia if necessary.

China has the opportunity to quietly disable enemy satellites. October 23, portal scmp.com He reported that Hunan Defense Polytechnic Institute has developed a new type of space weapon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructed the country's Foreign Ministry to send ambassadors of 10 countries.

Of these, 7 NATO member states called for the release of human rights defender Osman Kavala from prison. 

NASA Director Bill Nelson admitted the possibility of the existence of aliens. At the same time, he expressed the hope that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) do not appear as a result of the actions of some enemy on the Ground.

Russia's rejection of relations with NATO will not entail anything terrible, the efforts of the Russian Federation to develop cooperation with the alliance were still in vain, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The head of NASA, Bill Nelson, previously said that the pilots saw some flying objects, but do not know what they are

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, said that humanity often encounters objects and phenomena that cannot be explained from the point of view of modern science.

The United States will continue to hinder Russia's attempts to gain a dominant position in the Black Sea region, the head of the US defense department, Lloyd Austin, said at a press conference in Romania on Wednesday.

Russia is considering the possibility of resuming the work of the Consulate General in Mazar-I-Sharif in Afghanistan, the special representative of the President for Afghanistan, Director of the second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

The Minister of the Armed Forces of France, Florence Parly, presented a new military doctrine of the fight against information influence (document L2I).

Excerpts of the speech, which took place in the main building of the military department in the south of Paris, are posted on the Minister's page. 

The President of the United States Joe Biden was concerned about the testing of hypersonic weapons by the People's Republic of China (PRC). This became known on Wednesday, October 20.

North Korea has said its recent test launch of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was not aimed at the US.

Paratroopers from Russia and Egypt, as part of the joint exercise "Defenders of Friendship-2021", conducted fire training classes using elements of tactical shooting at the paratrooper training ground near Cairo, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

As part of the first phase, it is planned to build a regimental headquarters, two soldiers' dormitories, a canteen, a checkpoint, as well as a platform for military and special equipment

The first infrastructure facilities for the new airborne assault regiment in Crimea will be handed over by the end of 2021. This was reported on Thursday in the Russian Defense Ministry.