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More than 1.2 thousand servicemen from the United States, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland are taking part in the multinational tactical exercise "Three Swords - 2021" to protect the territory from an external aggressor, which started on Monday near Lviv, the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

The Pentagon has seen reports of a test of a hypersonic Zircon missile in Russia and believes that such weapons have a destabilizing effect, said John Kirby, a representative of the US military department.

The US Department of Defense does not claim that Russia may allegedly be related to the manifestation of symptoms in American civil servants in Vienna similar to those previously observed in US diplomats in Cuba and became known as the "Havana syndrome". This was stated on Monday, July 19, at a regular briefing by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.

The United States called the main obstacles to the development of weapons in Russia. This was written by experts of the American research corporation RAND in their report.

Russia and the United States are expected to hold consultations on strategic stability on July 28, The Hill reports. "It is expected that US and Russian officials will meet on July 28 to hold the first dialogue on strategic stability at the negotiations on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons..." the newspaper notes.

The Russian Embassy in the United States said that the deployment of hypersonic missiles by the United States would be an extremely destabilizing step.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will go on an Asian tour on July 23, during which he will demonstrate the US interest in developing relations with the ASEAN countries and maintaining international order in the region, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

The joint military exercise of the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan will be held in the area bordering Afghanistan from July 30 to August 10, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Tuesday.

The new Voronezh-M radar station of the Russian missile attack warning system (SPRN) near Sevastopol will "see" the Mediterranean Sea and the central part of the Atlantic Ocean, the general designer of the SPRN Sergey Boev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.

The Federal Security Service has published a draft order of the director of the FSB, which contains a special list of unclassified information prohibited for transfer to foreign states. The list includes information that is not related to state secrets, but which may harm the interests of Russia. The draft order is posted on the official portal of legal information.

Old Soviet T-55 tanks continue to be used in Syria. During the recent clashes in Southern Idlib, representatives of illegal armed groups managed to destroy one such combat vehicle.

Russia's creation of hypersonic missiles is also a response to the deployment of the American missile defense system in Romania and Poland. This was announced on Tuesday, July 20, by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The approaches of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in resolving the conflict in the Donbas have become worse than those of the previous head of the Ukrainian state Petro Poroshenko, said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia.

Attempts to impose on Moscow the obligations of the parties to the conflict in the Donbass are absurd

Moscow is providing humanitarian assistance to the Donbas, the OSCE observers could not find evidence of the Russian military presence in the region, said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, in an interview with the French publication Politique Internationale.

The Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear – Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), L. Zerbo, met with the head of the Special Control Service, Deputy Head of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel Igor Tokarev, in Moscow.

It turns out that to spy on foreign military bases, you do not need to sit in a secret bunker and study images from military satellites with a magnifying glass.

The US authorities are planning to build a special intelligence base to monitor the actions of Russia and China in space. This became known to Sky News.

The EU is ready, if necessary, to assist Azerbaijan and Armenia in carrying out the delimitation of the state border, European Council President Charles Michel said.

The United States is leaving Afghanistan

The other day, my old friend, a colleague from the Israeli special forces unit "Duvdevan" wrote to me and asked: how do I feel about the fact of the planned withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan?

Facebook on Thursday announced that it had taken measures against a group of Iranian hackers who used the platform of this social network to conduct operations aimed at American military personnel and defense companies.