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The air forces of NATO member countries have begun full-scale use of the former Soviet airbase Lielvarde in Latvia. It was established back in 1970 and was the largest in the Baltic States.

The North Atlantic Alliance should not be afraid of creating an army of the European Union, you just need to put up with it. This statement was made by the Minister of the Armed Forces of France, Florence Parly.

On October 25, Russian senator from Crimea Sergey Tsekov criticized the words of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich that Kiev could send missiles towards Moscow in the future.

Russia plans to launch a Space Monitoring System (SCCP) into space, the development of an appropriate satellite constellation is underway, the general designer of the SCCP (IAC Vimpel Corporation, Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region) said in an interview with Interfax Vitaly Goryuchkin.

Chinese scientists have developed a method for secretly disabling spacecraft. To do this, it is planned to place small explosive charges in the nozzles of their engines. The consequences of triggering these bombs will look like malfunctions of the engines themselves, according to an article published by Professor Sun Yongzhong from the Polytechnic Institute of Defense Industry. Excerpts of the work are cited by the South China Morning Post.

Moscow expects to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan this week, including medicines, Zamir Kabulov, special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, head of the second department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

The military exercises "Hoguk" ("Defense of the Fatherland") began on Monday in South Korea with the participation of three branches of the armed forces to work out their strategic interaction, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the country's armed forces.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov visited as an observer a joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO "Interaction-2021" in the Republic of Tajikistan for the purpose of parliamentary monitoring of the military-political situation in the Central Asian region.

Military Watch magazine made an interesting excursion into history, recalling where the Iranian nuclear program came from, which is perceived by the United States as one of the main threats in the world.

Since the mid-1980s, the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons has caused serious concern in the West, which has only intensified as the country's economy and defense sector have been modernized and an increasing number of North Korean-made missiles have been acquired.

The speaker of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group, Aleksey Arestovich, apparently completely out of his mind, "threatened" the Russian president to send Ukrainian missiles to Moscow. So, on the air of the propaganda channel "Dom", he commented on Putin's statement about the presence of NATO in Ukraine.

The US Air Force has deployed several F-16 fighter jets at the minimum possible distance from the borders of Russia - on the small island of Shemya in the Pacific Ocean.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania, the government of the country has developed a draft state budget for 2022, according to which it is planned to increase spending on national defense by 128 million euros (7.1%) to 1.176 billion. euro ($1.367 billion).

The preparation of the personnel of the combined Russian-Egyptian parachute unit for the active phase of the Defenders of Friendship-2021 exercise, which takes place several dozen kilometers from Cairo, has been completed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Monday.

It is necessary to monitor Kiev's attempts to create missile systems, but they will probably end in failure. This was announced on Monday, October 25, by the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control Konstantin Gavrilov.

On Monday, the story continued with the scandalous statement by the German Defense Minister about the so-called policy of deterrence against Russia. The Military Department of the Russian Federation reported that on October 25, the defense attache at the Embassy of Germany in the Russian Federation was invited to the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation.

The United States should not fixate on China, while hoping for the decline of Russia. This is written by the journalists of the publication Foreign Affairs. According to the authors of the material, Michael Kofman and Andrea Kendall-Taylor, first of all, Russia will remain a military force to be reckoned with.

The parties agreed that it would be necessary to establish cooperation between Moscow and London in a number of areas

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Kremlin's press service reported.

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.