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Iran has nothing to do with the attack on the Mercer Street tanker in the Indian Ocean, such accusations are groundless, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Sunday.

Servicemen of the Indian armed Forces have arrived in Volgograd to participate in the Russian-Indian ground forces exercise "Indra-2021", Vadim Astafyev, head of the press service of the Southern Military District, told reporters.

An Israeli oil tanker was attacked in the Arabian Sea, near the coast of Oman. The attack was carried out by a drone of unknown origin, which struck the ship twice.

Iran is responsible for the attack on the Mercer Street tanker in the Indian Ocean, Israeli intelligence has evidence of this, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday.

Iran is most likely the culprit of the attack on the Mercer Street tanker, such actions are not permissible, British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said in a statement released on Sunday.

The head of the Northern Command of the US Armed Forces, General Glen Van Herk, announced the intention of the US military to deploy a new generation of anti-missiles in Alaska. His words are transmitted by RIA Novosti.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not announce the imposition of sanctions against India for the country's possible purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia.

The British aircraft carrier strike group (AUG), led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, could be defeated in the Mediterranean by the Russian ship strike group (KUG), supported by the missile cruiser "Moscow", predicts in the "Military-Industrial Courier" Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov.

152-mm 2S3 "Acacia" are the most powerful self-propelled artillery units of the Syrian government forces. Recently, several such self-propelled guns were seen during their transfer to the province of Daraa, where terrorists have become more active.

Kiev has begun monitoring the gas production platforms of the Crimea. For the first time, the Ukrainian military launched Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones on duty in the Black Sea.

Turkey tried to use its Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle to launch attacks on the positions of the Syrian military, however, the drone was successfully shot down.

The remaining differences between Russia and the United States in the discussion of space can be overcome. This was announced on July 29 by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

Russia has transferred Su-25 attack aircraft located in Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan, where the aircraft will take part in exercises near the border with Afghanistan. On Thursday, July 29, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Central Military District (CVO).

The Kremlin said that it is closely monitoring the NATO exercises in Georgia and is ready to take appropriate countermeasures.

Russia and China will hold joint exercises "Interaction – 2021" in mid-August with the participation of about 10 thousand people, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the laws "On the foundations of national Resistance" and on increasing the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

He did this during a trip to the Zhytomyr region at a ceremony congratulating the military on the day of Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

American General John Hyten called for accelerating the modernization of the armed forces after the failure of an operation simulating military operations.

Unprecedented exercises of the Russian National Guard troops have been completed at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov Region. The course of the maneuvers was observed by the commander-in-chief of the Rosgvardiya, Army General Viktor Zolotov.

In 2020, the United States intercepted a record number of Russian military aircraft in the areas of Alaska since the Cold War. This was announced on Tuesday, July 27, by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, General Clinton Heinout, at the round table of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, the topic of which is the Arctic strategy of the US Air Ministry.

The head of the Russian Defense Ministry accepted an invitation to participate in maneuvers on the territory of the People's Republic of China

Russia and China have found new forms of interaction in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.