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Large-scale exercises have started in the Arctic, in which about 8 thousand military personnel, 800 units of combat and special equipment, as well as up to 50 ships and vessels will take part.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of land and coastal troops, as well as air defense troops of the Northern Fleet moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region as part of an exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group.

The Northern Fleet has begun large-scale exercises in the Arctic zone, its press service told reporters. The maneuvers will take place in the waters of the Barents and Kara Seas, the Laptev Sea, in the area of the Novosibirsk Islands and the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun exercises in the Arctic zone, at one of the stages the defense of the Northern Sea Route will be worked out, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia and Belarus are preparing for a guerrilla war with the North Atlantic Alliance at the Zapad-2021 exercises. This is written by the columnist of the American edition of the National Interest, Mark Episcopos.

The US position on the need to include non-strategic nuclear weapons in future agreements with Russia is unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Russia is superior to the United States in some aspects of weapons. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

In Kamchatka, the division of the coastal anti-ship missile complex "Bal", which is part of the missile connection of troops and forces in the North-East of Russia, was alerted as part of a tactical exercise that has begun, said on Wednesday the head of the information support department of the press service of the VVO for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3 rank Ilya Kolesnikov.

Large-caliber NSV machine guns have entered service at the Russian military base in Tajikistan. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the Central Military District (CVO).

More than 500 Russian servicemen, tanks and artillery are involved in the exercise, which began on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Wednesday.

The EU countries should actively work on creating their own military unit. This was first stated by the European People's Party — the largest supranational political association of the European Union.

Negotiations with the regime in Afghanistan, except for contacts through the Russian Embassy in this country, are not yet planned, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

Russian-Indian consultations on security issues were held on Wednesday in the capital of India. Representatives of a number of Russian and Indian ministries and departments took part in the consultations. The Russian delegation was headed by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, who arrived in New Delhi at the invitation of the Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, Ajit Dowal.

South Korea has become the eighth country in the world to be armed with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. On September 8, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Defense Development Agency (ADD) of the Republic of Korea announced the successful launch of the SLBM.

The information published by CNN that the CIA helped Ukraine organize a special operation to detain 33 Russians in Belarus last year is confirmed. The FSB of Russia called such data "reliable and objective".

Within five days, the foreign military will be familiarized with the training sites, will conduct a sighting of weapons and military equipment

Military contingents from seven countries arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to participate in the strategic exercises "West-2021". This was reported to journalists in the press service of the Western Military District.

In the course of the exercise, the issues of interaction between the parties when performing tasks to defeat pre-set and suddenly emerging targets on the territory of the republic were worked out

TASS, September 7. A joint exercise of Syrian and Russian helicopter pilots took place in the desert in the Syrian Arab Republic. It was the first in the history of interaction between the two states, the chief of aviation of the Russian Federation's troops in Syria, Andrey Ermakov, told reporters.

About 400 military personnel will take part in the training

Paratroopers from Russia and Belarus will conduct joint tactical exercises on the basis of the Ivanovo Guards Airborne Unit, during which the actions of the combined unit will be worked out when performing special and counter-terrorist tasks. About 400 military personnel will take part in the exercises, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The gathering of participants of the joint exercise of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CSF) of the Central Asian Collective Security Region (CAR) of the CSTO "Rubezh-2021 "was held at the Edelweiss training ground in the Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Tuesday.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called the agreements of the Presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Vladimir Zelensky and Joe Biden, on increasing Washington's military assistance to Kiev a signal for Russia.

Before the combat use, the calculations of the anti-aircraft missile brigade relocated from the Altai Territory to the Astrakhan Region

Combat crews of the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Central Military District, after re-equipping with new Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems, performed combat missile launches with 100% accuracy during the first exercises at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the district.