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The US military does not consider the actions of its reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea risky, because of which the Russian civil aircraft was forced to change course, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

The representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, said on Monday that Washington considers the policy of "open doors" within NATO to be true, since countries have the right to self-determine their foreign policy.

The American side is actively in contact with allies about the presence of Russian troops near Ukraine, but each country will eventually decide for itself how to react in the event of a conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Monday.

Russian troops in Tajikistan have been operating far from the most modern tanks for a long time. For example, the old versions of the "seventy-second" served there for a relatively long time without dynamic protection.

The British Army has announced that it has adopted a new Sky Sabre air defense system to repel threats that allegedly come from Russian fighters. This is reported by the Times newspaper, citing sources in the UK Ministry of Defense.

In Western reports, the indicators of Russian arms exports are falling, while China's indicators are rising, said Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

The volumes of arms exports of Russia and China in the reports of Western analytical agencies, such as the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), are distorted not intentionally, but because of the increasing secrecy in both countries. This opinion was expressed by TASS Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies Ruslan Pukhov.

The large anti-submarine ship Admiral Panteleev of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) has begun the transition from Indonesia to Vladivostok after participating in the ARNEX-2021 exercise, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov in November appealed to the head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin with a request in case of an alleged possible "invasion of Russia" to expand the supply of weapons to Kiev, Foreign Policy reported.

The radical Taliban movement (banned in the OF), which seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August, was able to return several planes and helicopters hijacked by Afghan pilots to neighboring countries.

The United States should be prepared for a limited war with China to protect Taiwan in order to prevent China's dominance in Asia, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Sunday, citing former deputy assistant to the head of the Pentagon, Elbridge Colby.

The far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour wants the country to stop being a member of NATO.

The tank battalion of the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan has been re-equipped with modern T-72B3M. On Monday, the press service of the Central Military District reported that 30 combat vehicles with improved characteristics entered the fleet of the compound. It is said that this will increase the combat capabilities of tankers due to the improved maneuverability of the tank and the special armor protection of its crew.

Amid increasing tensions in diplomatic and military relations between Russia and the West, the launch of the Zircon hypersonic missile system into mass production has put the United States in a hopeless position. The Iranian newspaper Kayhan writes about this on December 6.

On December 8, a meeting of the Military Committee on the Development of Military Cooperation of the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held. This was reported in the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff.

Amid increasing tensions in diplomatic and military relations between Russia and the West, the launch of the Zircon hypersonic missile system into mass production has put the United States in a hopeless position.

Russia has expressed concern to India about the activities of the United States to create closed military structures in the Asia-Pacific region (APR). This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The state corporation explained that all calculations are given in dollars, but the main volume of domestic defense industry products is the state defense order, where calculations are made in rubles

Conclusions of experts from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) The decline in sales of Russian weapons on the world market cannot serve as an objective source of information.

According to Dmitry Shugaev, the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research uses only open data that is not complete

The methodology of the analysis of the global arms market used by the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI) does not reflect the real situation. Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told reporters about this, commenting on the SIPRI report released on Monday, according to which sales volumes of Russian arms manufacturers are falling.

Ukraine should act cautiously and diplomatically, and an increase in the number of troops on the territory of the country will irritate Russia. This opinion was expressed on Monday, December 6, by the Chief of the Canadian Defense Staff Wayne Airy.

The data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on the decline in Russian arms sales are not true. On Monday, December 6, military expert Andrei Frolov told Izvestia.