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The President of Belarus accused the West of looking for a reason to advance its troops to the borders of the Union State.

A multibillion-dollar sum previously transferred by Ankara, intended to pay for the contract for the purchase of American F-35 stealth fighters, was blocked due to the acquisition of the S-400 Triumph air defense system from Russia.

The head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma is sure that the Ukrainian "bayraktars" will not pass in the Donbass.

The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Andrei Kartapolov, told the Military-Industrial Courier: "The use of the Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicle by the Ukrainian military in the Donbass (which was announced by the General Staff of Ukraine) leads to a further escalation of the conflict inside Ukraine. 

The Indian Armed Forces conducted a test launch of an Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of over 5 thousand km. This is reported by The Times of India newspaper with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the country. 

The loss of one Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) worth five million dollars "will immediately cool the ardor of Ukrainian generals" in the Donbas. Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, called RIA Novosti a similar way to stop the escalation of the conflict in the region.

American B-1B Lancer bombers, with which the United States promises to sink the Black Sea Fleet, are outdated even by their own standards, military expert Alexei Leonkov believes. In conversation with the "Tape.He recalled that Russian air defense systems had already successfully repelled their attacks in 2018.

The German Foreign Ministry said it was alarmed by the use of the Bayraktar strike drone by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass. To this, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk said that Kiev has a legitimate right to defend itself. He advised German diplomats to express less concern.

US lawmakers from Democrats and Republicans have called on the administration of President Joe Biden to block the sale of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.

Special attention was paid to the Central Asian direction, said the first deputy director - head of the border service of the FSB of Russia, Army General Vladimir Kulishov

The situation on the external borders of the CIS member states and the trends of its development were analyzed by the participants of the meeting of the Council of Commanders of the Border Troops of the Commonwealth countries in Sochi.

Weapons for the destruction of ports have been tested in China. The Chinese military destroyed a training target with an underwater explosion. This is reported by the Global Times.

Russia and ASEAN intend to exchange information on terrorist groups, potential attacks and threats, according to the comprehensive action plan for the implementation of the strategic partnership between the Russian Federation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation held a conference where they summed up the results of the Army International Games of 2021 and told how they plan to organize competitions for ARMI-2022.

In the Indo-Pacific region, one can see the formation of two main allied power blocs, as evidenced by recent naval exercises, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

About 50 servicemen participated in the training

A detachment to combat underwater sabotage forces and means conducted special exercises in Kamchatka to repel an attack by a sabotage group of a conditional enemy on a permanent deployment point of submarines of the Pacific Fleet.

Combat crews of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) conducted tactical exercises in Kamchatka to cover the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet from an air attack by a conditional enemy, and a detachment to combat underwater sabotage forces and means also conducted exercises.

Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles R-30 "Bulava" are invulnerable to any missile defense system. This was announced to journalists on Wednesday, October 27, by the chief of staff of the command of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Arkady Navarsky.

Russian Su-25 attack aircraft returned to their base airfield in Kyrgyzstan after participating in the exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) "Interaction-2021" in Tajikistan. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday, October 27, by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has published a video of the first combat use of the Bayraktar TB2 drone. The drone struck a guided bomb at an artillery battery in the Donbass. The APU reported the destruction of one D-30 howitzer along with the calculation, and then published a video of the operation.

The Russian patrol ship Dmitry Rogachev, having passed the Bosphorus, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Istanbul observers reported on social networks, publishing photos of its passage through the strait.

The annual US military spending on the purchasing power index is comparable to the combined defense spending of China and Russia, writes USNI News.