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The head of the German Defense Ministry, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, is known for her anti-Russian position, so she could have introduced a personal element in her statement, distorting the state position. On Monday, October 25, the former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, ex-Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ordzhonikidze told Izvestia.

Moscow hopes that there will be those in Germany who are able to keep German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer from testing the Russian Armed Forces. This is stated in the comments of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, published on October 25 on the official website of the department.

Arms supplies to Ukraine may lead to increased violence and suffering of civilians in the country. This was announced on October 21 by the Russian Embassy in London. According to the embassy, London prefers not to notice that Kiev does not fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements.

If the activities of PMCs come into conflict with Russian laws, the Russian Federation will react

The activities of private military companies abroad do not reflect the interests of the state, this is a private business, and if their activities conflict with Russian laws, Russia will react, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Russian and Egyptian paratroopers in the framework of the joint exercise "Defenders of Friendship-2021" in Egypt made the first joint landing, according to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

China has called on all parties on the Korean peninsula to be restrained in their actions. This statement was made by the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the United Nations (UN) Zhang Jun on Thursday, October 21.

The US does not want a cold war with China, but is ready to defend Taiwan

US President Joe Biden believes that American citizens should not worry that Russia and China may have more powerful armed forces than the United States.

NATO must respond decisively to the aggressive actions of Russia, which is carrying out maneuvers aimed at "destabilizing the situation in Europe." No one should attack the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance in the Baltic or the Black Sea. The Kremlin should understand that the Western security bloc will eventually be ready to use weapons, German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said.

Brimstone surface–to-surface missiles, which the UK plans to supply to Ukraine, will allow "destroying" Russian warships. This was stated by Lieutenant General, ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Romanenko in an interview with the Observer portal published on October 21.

The US Army and Navy have tested prototypes of hypersonic weapons systems. Earlier it became known about the tests of the HAWC air-based missile.

The American Heritage Foundation Research Institute has published an analysis of the US military potential. The assessment turned out to be the worst in recent years.

According to analysts of the institute, the power of the military potential is only 2/3 of what should be in reality. The problem is also a rather outdated technique that does not meet the challenges of the time.

In northern Iraq, security forces seized an anti-aircraft missile, known by the designation "358", and an improvised launcher for it from local militias.

These weapons, presumably of Iranian manufacture, were found near the Al-Harir air base, which is used by US military personnel for their own purposes.

Ukraine will engage in diversions on the territory of Russia only in the event of a full-scale war. This was stated on the air of the Internet channel Politeka by the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich.

As a result of the explosion and fire in the powder shop of the plant near Ryazan, 16 people were killed, another one received burns of 80% of the body surface. This was stated by the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of Russia Alexey Kuznetsov.

As specified in the Ministry of Defense, fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35S aircraft of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District

Two Tu-95MS missile carriers accompanied by Su-35S fighters performed a scheduled flight over the Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russian aviation launched missile strikes on the whole of southern Idlib.

The terrorists' attempt to damage the Syrian army deployed in Idlib, expressed by artillery shelling of SAA positions, forced the Russian military to demonstrate the use of force to the militants. 

In Tajikistan, at the Harbmaydon training ground, Belarusian servicemen, together with colleagues from Russia and Kazakhstan, worked out actions to search for a militant camp near the border with Afghanistan.

The Joe Biden administration will be able to save "tens of millions of American lives" from enemy attacks only if it takes steps to strengthen national defense, writes former combat and staff officer of the US Army Devin Pine in the magazine The National Interest.

The planes were flying in international airspace, the US Department of Defense said. The report does not detail how close the Russian planes flew to the United States, the author writes, nor does it specify either the model of these aircraft or the American ones that were alerted.

The Russian Navy may receive 18 small rocket ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt". The capabilities of Russian ships were evaluated in the United States. "Karakurt" demonstrates the modernization of the Russian Navy, writes The National Interest.