Global security news

The phase of the CIS exercises "Caspian-Antiterrorism-2021" has started in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, the press service of the National Security Committee of the republic reported.

Against the background of the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold maneuvers in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan this autumn with the participation of several thousand military personnel, a CSTO representative said.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu called for building an effective defense against anti-Russian propaganda coming from abroad. The military commander made such a statement at the conference " Army and Society. Psychological defense" within the framework of the ongoing international military-technical forum "Army-2021". According to him, at present, "deep work is being carried out against us gradually, step by step."

The signing of the first contract for the supply of hypersonic missiles "Zircon" to the Russian armed forces so worried some American journalists that they called it bad news. The article with the corresponding title was prepared for The National Interest by columnist Mark Episkopos.

Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan received a delegation headed by First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Hassan Kaloev, in Yerevan on Friday, the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reports.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky spoke in favor of the presence of the NATO bloc in the Black Sea. "Ukraine consistently supports the presence of NATO in the Black Sea," he said at a briefing in Chisinau after a quadripartite meeting with the presidents of Moldova, Poland and Romania.

The training sessions were held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region

Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Army General Dmitry Bulgakov checked the logistics support group (MTO) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during special training that took place in preparation for the West-2021 maneuvers, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Friday.

The Pentagon has banned American military bases in Europe from entering into contracts for the purchase of Russian energy resources. The US Department of Defense posted a notification about this in the so-called Federal Register of Official Documents of the US government.

The Turkish authorities have agreed to help with the management of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera TV channel reports, citing a source in the Taliban movement*. Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara had received a request from the new Afghan authorities to manage the capital's air harbor.

Lieutenant General of the US Air Force Thomas Boussier predicted the superiority of China over Russia in the capabilities of nuclear weapons. His words during an online forum on nuclear deterrence are reported by RIA Novosti.

A member of the US House of Representatives, a former US Navy reservist, Jim Banks, said that the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) seized American military equipment worth $ 85 billion. His words are quoted by The Independent.

The passage of two US warships through the Taiwan Strait is a provocation, said Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei. This is stated on Saturday, August 28, in a message on the website of the Chinese military department.

Russian servicemen are using exoskeletons in Syria, which increase the combat potential of units. This was told to RIA Novosti in Rostec.

During the maneuvers, the preparation for conducting a strategic operation is practiced

The evacuation and repair of equipment damaged in battle with the help of a special train were worked out by specialists of logistics support units (MTO) at exercises in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the United States "acted shamelessly" in the situation with the nuclear negotiations, and that the current administration of President Joe Biden in this matter is no different from the previous one under Donald Trump.

The Minister of Defense noted that the situation in the country is fraught with the transition of militants to the CSTO countries

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called the warning actions of the CSTO countries against the threat from Afghanistan correct and called for further development of military cooperation within the organization, the Russian ministry reported on Saturday.

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has offered the European Union to finance the creation of an air defense system in the country to protect against the "Russian threat".

The Russian military does not have data that the COVID-19 virus is man-made, said the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov of the Russian Armed Forces.

Russia is relatively comfortable with the coming to power in Afghanistan of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), said the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, director of the second Department of Asia of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov.

The United States during a special operation in Afghanistan, as a result, destroyed two militants of the radical group IS (the terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in the Russian Federation). This was announced on Saturday, August 28, by American General Hank Taylor during his press briefing.