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FAR EAST - The international Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021" will take place at one of the training grounds in the Primorsky Territory - the military personnel of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) will take part in it.

The Russian Pacific Fleet conducted large-scale exercises on the high seas. The event was attended by various types of troops, including naval aviation.

The majority of Russian citizens (86%) expressed confidence in the ability of the Russian army to ensure the security of the country. This is evidenced by the data obtained during the survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), provided on Tuesday, June 15.

According to the head of Roscosmos, planetary protection is one of the most important tasks for cosmonautics

No country can independently create a system capable of changing the trajectory of celestial bodies threatening the Earth.

Intensive flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces and naval aviation near Alaska are ruining American combat aviation. To counter it, it is necessary to constantly maintain F-22 Raptor fighters in combat readiness and send them into the sky for a long time, which costs the US Air Force very expensive, the US military complained.

Kiev expects to receive an action plan for NATO membership in 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said. He said that Kiev has carried out enough reforms to get an action plan for NATO membership, the main obstacle to getting it is " unwillingness to send such a signal to the Russian Federation."

The USS Ronald Reagan entered the South China Sea on June 14 as part of a strike group, according to the US 7th Fleet.

Under the auspices of the UN, the development of a comprehensive convention on combating information crime has begun. The creation of the basic document will take approximately 2.5 years. This was stated by Dmitry Bukin, Deputy Director of the Department of International Information Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaking at the 12th International IT forum with the participation of representatives of the BRICS and SCO countries.

Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers conducted a patrol over the Baltic Sea. This was reported on Tuesday, June 15, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Italian, Danish and Swedish fighter jets took to the air due to the eight-hour flight of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, hopes that the NATO member states will find a consensus on Ukraine's entry into the Alliance as soon as possible and emphasizes that the Ukrainian state is currently in danger and needs help.

NATO will continue to build up its military capabilities and use a "broad combination of different tools" to counter "Russian aggression," alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with CNBC.

The deployment of operational-tactical complexes "Iskander-M" and the destruction of the command post of the imaginary enemy will be worked out by the Russian military during an exercise in the Kaliningrad region, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The ships of the naval forces of Great Britain and the Netherlands entered the Black Sea. This is reported on June 14 by the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that following the summit in Brussels, there are no plans to announce the date of entry of new countries into the alliance.

Russia's policy is not in line with US expectations and represents a "new challenge," US President Joe Biden said at the NATO summit on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the active actions of the United States and NATO member countries in cyberspace cause concern to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC noted that the exercises of NATO and the United States are held in close proximity to the Russian borders, asking what would happen if Russia did the same.

The Russian navy has begun tracking the actions of warships of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which entered the Black Sea on Monday, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called inhumane the actions of Western partners who refuse to lift restrictions on the supply of even medical equipment and drugs to Syria in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.