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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Washington and exchanged views on the Iranian nuclear program and international negotiations on this issue, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to Georgia, Ukraine and Romania next week as part of a European tour. Details of the visit to the former Soviet republics are not given. Perhaps after this visit, Ukraine will be able to count on an increase in the supply of weapons, the author wonders.

The ex-Interior Minister of Ukraine, who calls himself a "Russian-speaking Ukrainian nationalist," made another aggressive militaristic statement, calling on local authorities to develop a scenario for an armed invasion of Crimea and Donbass. It seems that Avakov's statements reflect the mood of the Kiev elite.

A promising anti-space defense complex "Aerostat" is being developed in Russia. In the United States, they told about the Russian long-range missile defense system, which will be able to intercept targets in space. The assumption was made by analyst Bart Hendricks (Bart Hendrickx) in a material for the portal The Space Review.

The Ivan Papanin-type Arctic transport refrigerator will be able to carry missile weapons. To install the Kalibr-K mobile complex on a Russian ship, standard cargo containers will be required. This is reported by TASS with reference to the curator of the project, a member of the board of directors of the company "Yugreftransflot" Viktor Kot.

The US Army and the US military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin have tested the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), reports The Drive.

In the NATO armies, during combat training, the use of mock-ups of Russian military equipment acting as an enemy continues. For example, the British ground forces use fake BMP-3.

A US destroyer attempted to violate the state border of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Japan, a large anti-submarine ship of the Pacific Fleet "Admiral Tributs" stopped the violation, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Russia and Venezuela are jointly developing a secure messenger. This was announced by the deputy head of Rostec, Alexander Nazarov, whose words are quoted on Friday, October 15, on the website of the state corporation.

The Ministry of Defense has published a video of the operation to displace the American destroyer Chafee in neutral waters far from Vladivostok.

The crew of the USS Chafee has grossly violated international rules by attempting to cross the Russian border in the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The pilots performed combat maneuvers, including U-turns, climbing in an ascending spiral with a decrease in flight speed and subsequent designation of the target attack, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

Joint Russian-Serbian crews of MiG-29 fighter jets have practiced intercepting low-flying drones in Serbia. This was reported on Friday by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Pentagon declined to comment on the incident in the Black Sea with the American destroyer Chafee, which almost violated the state border of Russia in the Sea of Japan.

Russia and the United States again found themselves on the verge of an armed conflict due to an incident near the territorial waters of Russia. This time the incident occurred in The Sea of Japan. An American tried to enter our waters under the pretext of lifting a helicopter. But this number didn't work out for him. However, the ships got closer to the most dangerous distance of 60 meters.

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has approved the country's information security strategy, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.

One of the targets shown was an unmanned helicopter, which was eventually hit by a burst from a cannon

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published a video of the destruction of drones by the forces of calculations of the Pantsir air defense systems during the Slavic Shield - 2021 exercises in Serbia. The video was provided by the Russian military department.

The defense plan of Ukraine approved by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) is a secret document and will be implemented in the event of war, the secretary of the department Alexey Danilov said.

The new Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida allowed the possibility of pre-emptive strikes on enemy bases as part of the revision of the national defense strategy aimed at developing the potential of Japanese troops. He made such a statement in an interview with the largest Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.

Estonian Defense Minister Kalle Laanet, in an interview with the editor of the Polish edition of Defence24, Juliusz Sabak, said that the USSR "occupied" the Baltic state represented by him, and called Moscow the main threat to independence for Tallinn.

Uzbek-Afghan trade and economic cooperation, border security and transport and communication projects were discussed during talks on Saturday in Termez (an Uzbek city on the border with Afghanistan) by the delegations of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Uzbek Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup Kabulzhanov said.