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Three long-range Tu-22m3 bombers have flown to the Russian Hmeimim air base in the Syrian Arab Republic, and this type of aircraft is being based at the Hmeimim airfield for the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Five joint exercises will be held this fall by the military contingents of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the CSTO Joint Staff (OSH) said on Tuesday.

They plan to involve about 250 military personnel of the Indian Armed Forces and about 250 military personnel of the Southern Military District

International joint Russian-Indian tactical exercises "Indra-2021" will be held from August 1 to 15, 2021 at the Prudboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

The Yemeni Houthis have destroyed the second Saudi intelligence-strike drone in a short time. On May 20, Wing Loong II was hit. Three days later, a Chinese-made CH-4B was shot down over the Yemeni province of Al-Jawf.

The President of the Russian Federation noted a qualitative increase in the level of training of the command staff

The vast majority of commanders of formations and regiments of the Russian Armed Forces have passed through Syria and rely on this combat experience in the training of units and divisions. This was stated on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a series of defense meetings in Sochi.

The exercise was attended by the units of the SBU, the State Border Service, the National Police, the State Emergency Service, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the Maritime Search and Rescue Service, the Administration of Seaports of Ukraine and the Odessa Port Plant, as well as representatives of local authorities.

The 16th round of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security issues was held in Moscow.

They were conducted by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the head of the office of the CPC Central Committee Commission on Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi.

Servicemen of the engineering troops of the Russian Armed Forces arrived in Serbia to participate in joint exercises. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, during the training, the Russian and Serbian military will work out issues of interaction when performing engineering support tasks.

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are not interested in deploying American troops withdrawn from Afghanistan on their territory, this opinion was expressed by the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, Director of the Second Department of Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Zamir Kabulov in an interview published on Monday in the Izvestia newspaper.

As the United States reduces its military presence in the Middle East, Russia and China will seek to expand their influence in the region, according to the commander of the US Central Command, General Frank McKenzie.

In recent years, there have been more crimes committed using information and telecommunications technologies. And the detection rate of such crimes is still at a low level - no more than 25 percent. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. Specific figures have also been released. Last year, a sharp increase in such attacks was recorded - 510 thousand, which is 73 percent more than in 2019.

The operation in Syria has helped to test many types of Russian weapons in real war conditions. At the same time, the identified shortcomings in some types of IVT should not be dramatized, since this is a natural process.

The Belarusian airspace is not safe for all participants of air traffic, Lithuania will work with other countries to close it for international flights. This is stated in the message of the Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Shimonite, published on Monday, May 24, on the website of the government of the country.

Readers of The Telegraph condemned the statement of the British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, who called Russia the number one threat.

The Houthis released a video of the downed Wing Loong II reconnaissance and strike drone manufactured by the People's Republic of China.

This drone, which was in service with the Saudi Air Force, crashed near the Yemeni province of Saada.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law that, in the event of threats to national security, gives the authorities the right to restrict the operation of telecommunications networks in the republic, the National Legal Internet Portal reported on Monday.

The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has begun its first operational deployment. On 23 May, the Royal Navy press service reported that the carrier group left the naval base in Portsmouth and set off on a 28-week journey.

Russia will support Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the long-term settlement of the border conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry published data on the total number of strategic offensive weapons in Russia and the United States under the START Treaty, extended at the end of January this year for five years.

The United States must act more flexibly to increase its influence in Central Asia and find allies in the region. About how the country is preparing to "knock out" Russia from the region, according to the material of the publication The National Interest.