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The US Department of Defense is monitoring the "unusual" activity of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine. This was announced on Friday, November 5, by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.

The purpose of the visit of CIA Director William Burns to Moscow was to understand Russia's intentions towards Ukraine and warn about the attention that Washington pays to the movements of Russian wax near the Ukrainian border, CNN reported.

US President Joe Biden's promise to limit the role of nuclear weapons in the country's strategic concept has faced resistance from the Pentagon, which wants to maintain the status quo in the face of an arms buildup in China and Russia, Politico reported, citing its own sources.

Two members of the US House of Representatives, Republicans Mike Rogers (Alabama) and Mike Turner (Ohio), addressed a letter to the President of the United States Joe Biden, urging him to continue arming Ukraine and deploy the US military presence in the Black Sea. This was reported on Friday, November 5, by the Defense News publication.

Andrei Belousov noted that Western opponents in criticizing Russian approaches to preventing an arms race do not say anything new and "cling to arguments that have long been refuted"

Western countries do not support Russian initiatives in the UN on outer space for political reasons and are trying to bring their projects to the fore at their expense.

An exercise to repel an attack by an illegal armed group (IAF) on the objects of the 201st Russian military base took place in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Saturday.

Russia's military activity in Crimea does not exceed its defensive needs, moreover, it works for stability in the region, Deputy head of the Russian delegation to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly Andrei Belousov told reporters.

The Pacific Fleet headquarters summed up the results of combat training in the past academic year. It, we recall, in the Armed Forces begins in December, and ends in October.

It is reported that the largest event at the Pacific Fleet was an operational exercise in the Central Pacific Ocean - the first in the recent history of the fleet. There, the command involved more than 20 warships, submarines and vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation. In two months, the detachment of ships overcame more than 20 thousand nautical miles and performed about fifty combat exercises.

A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy consisting of the corvette "Gremyashchy", the submarines "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", performing the transition from the Baltic to the place of permanent deployment to the Pacific Fleet, passed the Singapore Strait, the Alert 5 Twitter account, which publishes photos of the ships, reported.

A control check with live firing of tanks of the Vistula Motorized Rifle Division has been completed in the Voronezh Region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.

US President Joe Biden's promise to limit the role of nuclear weapons in the country's strategic concept has faced resistance from the Pentagon.

The military wants to maintain the status quo in the face of an arms buildup in China and Russia, Politico reported, citing its own sources. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian discussed the situation around the JCPOA and the prospects for resuming the negotiation process in Vienna by phone on Saturday.

The American vessel HOS Red Rock, which is used by the US Navy as a carrier of the SURTASS-E experimental sonar reconnaissance system, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, follows from the data of the international ship tracking system (AIS).

Deputy Director of the Moscow Radio Engineering Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Igor Esakov said "Газете.ги "what weapons are capable of defeating the Turkish Bayraktar combat unmanned drones. According to him, a microwave cannon can effectively neutralize the electronics of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Berlin. November 6th. INTERFAX - The German government plans to change relations with the current government of Afghanistan and will send diplomat Markus Potzel to the country in the coming days to clarify the situation on the ground, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reports.

The composition of the air defense forces on duty in Belarus has been strengthened in response to the situation that is developing around the air borders of the countries.This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

The Uzbek military suspended the transfer of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in the Batken region of the Kyrgyz Republic.

This is reported by Radio Azattyk with reference to the head of the Batken district Uchkunbek Zhorobayev.

On Sunday, the press service of the Central Military District reported that military contingents of six states of the Organization arrived in Tatarstan for the joint exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood -2021" of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO.

During the assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi on Sunday morning, three drones were involved, local media reported with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.

Mikhail Sheremet, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region, said that the United States should not "mess around" and test Russia's strength by passing its ships through territorial waters off the coast of Crimea.