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Russia is against the transformation of Syria into an arena of confrontation between third countries, the military of the Russian Federation and Israel will continue contacts on Syrian issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The exercises will involve up to 200 thousand personnel, about 80 aircraft and helicopters, up to 760 units of military equipment, including 290 tanks, 240 guns, multiple rocket launchers and mortars, as well as up to 15 ships.

Minsk believes that the creation of a combat training center will "strengthen the practical component of the unified regional air defense system of the Union State"

Belarusian and Russian Air Force and air defense units have taken up combat duty in Belarus as part of the joint training training center. This was reported on Thursday by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

The forces of the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (PFOT) operating against the troops of the Ethiopian Federal Government lost a T-72B tank. The combat vehicle is completely disabled.

As a result of an internal explosion of ammunition, the tower separated from the hull, several support rollers broke off from each side, the engine turned into debris.

Large-scale exercises have started in the Arctic, in which about 8 thousand military personnel, 800 units of combat and special equipment, as well as up to 50 ships and vessels will take part.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of land and coastal troops, as well as air defense troops of the Northern Fleet moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region as part of an exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group.

The Northern Fleet has begun large-scale exercises in the Arctic zone, its press service told reporters. The maneuvers will take place in the waters of the Barents and Kara Seas, the Laptev Sea, in the area of the Novosibirsk Islands and the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun exercises in the Arctic zone, at one of the stages the defense of the Northern Sea Route will be worked out, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia and Belarus are preparing for a guerrilla war with the North Atlantic Alliance at the Zapad-2021 exercises. This is written by the columnist of the American edition of the National Interest, Mark Episcopos.

The US position on the need to include non-strategic nuclear weapons in future agreements with Russia is unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Russia is superior to the United States in some aspects of weapons. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

In Kamchatka, the division of the coastal anti-ship missile complex "Bal", which is part of the missile connection of troops and forces in the North-East of Russia, was alerted as part of a tactical exercise that has begun, said on Wednesday the head of the information support department of the press service of the VVO for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3 rank Ilya Kolesnikov.

Large-caliber NSV machine guns have entered service at the Russian military base in Tajikistan. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the Central Military District (CVO).

More than 500 Russian servicemen, tanks and artillery are involved in the exercise, which began on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Wednesday.

The EU countries should actively work on creating their own military unit. This was first stated by the European People's Party — the largest supranational political association of the European Union.

Negotiations with the regime in Afghanistan, except for contacts through the Russian Embassy in this country, are not yet planned, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

Russian-Indian consultations on security issues were held on Wednesday in the capital of India. Representatives of a number of Russian and Indian ministries and departments took part in the consultations. The Russian delegation was headed by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, who arrived in New Delhi at the invitation of the Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, Ajit Dowal.

South Korea has become the eighth country in the world to be armed with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. On September 8, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Defense Development Agency (ADD) of the Republic of Korea announced the successful launch of the SLBM.

The information published by CNN that the CIA helped Ukraine organize a special operation to detain 33 Russians in Belarus last year is confirmed. The FSB of Russia called such data "reliable and objective".

Within five days, the foreign military will be familiarized with the training sites, will conduct a sighting of weapons and military equipment

Military contingents from seven countries arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to participate in the strategic exercises "West-2021". This was reported to journalists in the press service of the Western Military District.

In the course of the exercise, the issues of interaction between the parties when performing tasks to defeat pre-set and suddenly emerging targets on the territory of the republic were worked out

TASS, September 7. A joint exercise of Syrian and Russian helicopter pilots took place in the desert in the Syrian Arab Republic. It was the first in the history of interaction between the two states, the chief of aviation of the Russian Federation's troops in Syria, Andrey Ermakov, told reporters.