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The overwhelming majority of Russians (83%) believe that Russia needs to have nuclear weapons, among fellow citizens aged 60 years and older, 88% of respondents think so, according to a VTsIOM survey received by Interfax on Monday.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that during a meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in Washington, he said that Ukraine should be in NATO, but it depends not only on the US president. Zelensky said this during an interview with Farid Zakaria on CNN.

The main stage of the joint exercises of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021" started on September 13 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

According to Sergey Savelyev, Deputy General Director of the state corporation, during the implementation of international projects, it is necessary to find a balance between competition and cooperation, between national benefits and world progress.

As the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation noted, Moscow stands for constructive and equal cooperation in the space sphere

Russia calls for the launch of negotiations on the development of an international instrument prohibiting the deployment of any types of weapons in outer space.

The issue of the possibility of deploying Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in Belarus will be decided from the point of view of expediency within the framework of ensuring the security of the two countries. This was announced on September 13 at a briefing by the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

The topic of military-technical cooperation is constantly present in the course of Russian-Belarusian contacts at the highest level, the Kremlin representative noted

Russia and Belarus will continue to develop military-technical cooperation (MTC) and the practice of conducting joint military exercises, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Monday.

For the first time, the T-80UE-1 conducts joint training operations with the BMD-4M at the Zapad-2021 strategic exercises.

The paratroopers have their own T-72B3, but it was decided to work out tasks with gas turbine main battle tanks during these maneuvers.

The Russian military for the first time used the Uran-9 and Nerekhta reconnaissance and fire support robots in the combat formations of combined-arms units, the Defense Ministry reported.

The heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is designed for fire support of infantry and tanks, destruction of enemy manpower. The complex "Agriculture" is built on the principle of multiple launch rocket systems.

The calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical complexes from the starting positions located 50 kilometers from the Mulino training ground at the Zapad-2021 exercises carried out a group missile strike on the command post and other critical objects of the imaginary enemy, the Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday.

The Terminator tank support combat vehicles and the Pacer and Outpost attack drones at the Zapad-2021 exercises supported the offensive of the motorized rifle division and tank brigade of Russia and units of Armenia and Belarus with fire and air strikes.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, reported on the progress of the strategic exercises "West-2021" to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Iran may join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the beginning of the procedure for including the country in the organization will be announced at the upcoming SCO summit, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

The ministry accused Russia and Belarus of insufficient transparency in conducting strategic exercises

The Estonian Defense Ministry has accused Russia and Belarus of insufficient transparency during the West-2021 strategic exercises.

According to Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, at the moment life in Karabakh is in full swing, problematic issues are gradually being resolved

The former commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, positively assessed the work of Russian peacekeepers in this region. He said this to TASS at a meeting with participants of the All-Russian patriotic action "Watch of Heroes of the Fatherland" in Makhachkala.

At the Baranovichi airfield in the Brest region of Belarus, as part of the creation of a training and combat center for joint training of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Belarusian Air Force and air defense forces, the crews of Russian Su-30SM fighters took up joint combat duty to protect the air borders of the Union State. This was announced on Friday, September 10, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In the Astrakhan region, the military personnel of the Southern Military District trained in repelling air raids and unmanned aerial vehicles of a conditional enemy. Special attention was paid to the fight against attack drones and kamikaze barraging drones.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that Kiev has not received a direct position from Washington on the country's accession to NATO, but Ukraine can rely on the United States.

The Kremlin took with regret the words of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky about the possibility of a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine, said the press secretary of the head of the Russian state Dmitry Peskov.