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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.

As part of the state tests, a successful launch of the Bulava ballistic missile from the Knyaz Oleg nuclear submarine from the White Sea was carried out. This was announced on October 21 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The small island of Shemya in Alaska may become a primary target in the conflict between the United States and an equally powerful enemy - such as China and Russia. The other day, the American special operations forces conducted a training to protect the island. Although in the event of the beginning of the Third World, special forces are unlikely to help.

Ukraine's accession to NATO would be an extremely dangerous step, it would force Moscow to react, the alliance is warned of possible consequences, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Chinese military conducted two tests of hypersonic weapons in the summer of 2021, the Financial Times newspaper writes, citing informed sources.

The United States assessed the capabilities of the Russian Arctic transport refrigerator "Ivan Papanin", which will be able to carry Kalibr cruise missiles. The publication 19FortyFive called the ship a sign of the transformation of the Arctic into a battlefield.

The strategic missile submarine "Prince Oleg" fired a ballistic missile "Bulava" from the waters of the White Sea. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Viktor Litovkin commented on the tests.

The US military predicts that in the event of a hypothetical conflict between the US and Russia, as well as China in the Pacific Ocean, even the remote state of Alaska will become a battlefield.

That is why the missile defense system in Alaska is given priority, Defense Express reports.

The United States has nothing to defend against Russian and Chinese long-range missiles. This was stated during a virtual round table on American air defense, which was organized by the Alliance on Missile Defense.

Arms supplies to Ukraine from the West will not contribute to the settlement, but they may encourage Kiev to carry out new provocations in the Donbass. This was announced on October 21 by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko.

The British Ministry of Defense, in response to RIA Novosti's request to comment on the Times newspaper reports that the government is negotiating the sale of Brimstone missiles to Ukraine, said that it was a deal that was made public in June of this year, but the names of the missiles were not indicated in the June message.

In North Korea, work continues on the creation of ballistic missiles for submarines (SLBMs). Last Thursday, it became known about the conduct of new tests of such weapons.

According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, currently only one diesel-electric submarine of the DPRK, which is a carrier of ballistic missiles, is known. This submarine was built in 2014. It was named "8.24 Engun" ("Heroes of August 24th"). In the West, it was designated as Sinpo-B or type Gorae.