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Two more large landing craft (BDK) Russian Navy - "Kaliningrad" and "Korolev" on Saturday, passing the Bosphorus, entered the Black Sea, said Istanbul sites that publish photos of their passage through the Strait.

The ships of the British Fleet will enter the Black Sea. We are talking about a frigate and a destroyer of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, the TV channel "Izvestia"reports.

The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that the United States will continue to provide assistance to Ukraine so that it is capable of self-defense. We are talking about the continuation of the supply of certain types of weapons and the sending of American military instructors to the country.

In the process of preparing for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, announced by President Joe Biden, the United States did not try to paint a rosy picture of the situation in this country, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

During Georgia's participation in the mission in Afghanistan, 32 Georgian soldiers were killed, the Georgian Defense Ministry said in a statement released on Thursday night in connection with the NATO decision to complete the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan by September this year.

Stoltenberg believes that peace in Afghanistan can only be ensured by the Afghans themselves

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has acknowledged that the peace process in Afghanistan is not guaranteed to succeed.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Iran needs to "cool down" after the recent operation at the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, allegedly committed by Israel.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation conducted an exercise on the use of electronic warfare units (EW) in the Arctic zone, the press service of the fleet reported on Thursday.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk in Berlin called on Western countries to think about returning his country's nuclear status. He said this on the radio station Deutschlandfunk.

The United States made the right decision if it really changed its mind about sending two missile destroyers to the Black Sea, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, retired Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, told Interfax on Thursday.

The fact that the United States stopped its destroyers with URO on the way to the Black Sea will not lead to a detente at this stage of the escalation of the situation around Ukraine. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

A new column of Ukrainian armored vehicles has been spotted near Mariupol.

Interestingly, most of the samples in it were previously intended for export, but after the events of 2014, they appeared in the units of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Ukraine renounced its status as a nuclear power after the collapse of the USSR. Earlier, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the rejection of nuclear weapons is a big mistake, but it is wrong to seek to return the nuclear status. But the infamous Ukrainian ambassador to Germany does not agree with the Ukrainian leader.

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) called Washington's statements about the service's involvement in the cyberattack on SolarWinds nonsense.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong protest in connection with the announcement of the Russian Federation on the closure of part of the Black Sea waters in the direction of the Kerch Strait from next week until October 2021 for warships and state vessels of other countries under the pretext of military exercises, and demands to immediately cancel the decision on the illegal closure of certain waters of the Black Sea.

Formations of the 58th Combined-arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of diverse tactical ones at the Opuk combined-arms training ground in the Crimea, the press service of the SE.

The US military command will transfer to Germany, among other things, intelligence officers, gunners, specialists in cyber operations and electronic warfare (EW), said on Tuesday the representative of the US contingents in Europe and Africa, Colonel Joe Scrocca.

The Northern Fleet is capable of effectively countering Russia's existing challenges and threats in the Arctic, " Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on April 13.

According to him, the overall situation in this region remains difficult. Competition for access to the resources of the Arctic Ocean and transport communications is increasing among the leading countries of the world.

Twenty-seven US Senate Democrats support US President Joe Biden's efforts to return to the Iran nuclear deal.