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The head of the Defense Ministry noted that the Russian Federation is particularly concerned about the situation in this country in connection with the decision to withdraw NATO military contingents from there

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu suggested discussing issues related to the situation in Afghanistan, from where NATO forces are being withdrawn, with colleagues from the CSTO and border states in the near future.

In the West, the militarization of space and cyber warfare on the Internet are coming to the fore when developing new weapons. The NATO command also pays close attention to the development of hypersonic weapons and combat robots.

The US Department of Defense did not comment on the incident in the Black Sea with the British Navy destroyer Defender. Media requests were forwarded to the UK Ministry of Defense.

The militants, together with the" White Helmets", are preparing a provocation using toxic chemical substances in the Idlib de-escalation zone, said Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria.

Many countries are interested in developing electromagnetic weapons, which are called "invisible killer". With its help, you can instantly disable radars, computers and other electronic equipment, paralyzing the entire control system. Many countries are interested in this type of weapon, and Russia is no exception.

The government of Afghanistan may be defeated in six months after the withdrawal of all US military personnel from the country, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing data from the US intelligence community.

Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin, speaking at the Armed Forces Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, said that when preparing proposals for the US defense budget, the possibilities of new wars were taken into account.

Russian long-range Tu-22M3 bombers as part of the exercises of the ship group of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) in the Pacific Ocean have worked out the destruction of aircraft carriers of a conditional enemy, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday.

The British destroyer Defender should not have entered Russian territorial waters, and the military sailors of the United Kingdom should stay away from the coast of Crimea. This opinion was expressed by readers of the German publication Der Spiegel.

Japan has sent a protest to Russia in connection with the large-scale military exercises that began yesterday in the waters of the Sea of Japan, on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, Secretary General of the Japanese government Katsunobu Kato told reporters.

Foreign combat aircraft operated in the area of the Pacific Fleet exercises, Russian ships trained to disguise themselves from it, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday, June 24.

The border incident off the coast of Crimea was removed from the Defender.

There was a report by the BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale, who was on board the destroyer Defender during yesterday's incident off the coast of Crimea.

More than 120 thousand cyber attacks on Russia's critical infrastructure were committed in 2020, most of them came from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Army General Nikolai Patrushev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it is necessary to strengthen the mechanisms that ensure a ban on the development and proliferation of biological weapons.

Anti-Russian NATO exercises increase tensions in the Black Sea and Baltic regions

The recent NATO summit was anti-Russian, the course taken by Russia to build up its defense capability is without alternative, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

The world has witnessed the biggest escalation in relations between Russia and the UK since the Skripal case. So The Spectator columnist Tim Ogden commented on the recent incident with the British ship Defender.

The violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender near the Crimean Peninsula was shown from space. The corresponding image obtained by the European Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellite was demonstrated on Twitter by the user Gerjon_.

The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation is working out new ways of fighting during large-scale exercises 4 thousand kilometers from the coast, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

Russia is already used to being the object of attacks from the West, but it has developed a reliable response to external pressure - consolidating society, strengthening its defense potential, strengthening economic, financial and technological self-sufficiency, said Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

An American-made Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force was shot down by militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray. It is reported that the winged vehicle was carrying personnel and ammunition.