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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.

The US military plans to carry out three test launches of ground-based hypersonic missiles under development in the coming 18 months before putting them into service in 2023, said Lieutenant General Neil Thurgood, head of the US Army Hypersonic Development Department.

About 100 servicemen of the Novorossiysk Guards Amphibious Assault Mountain Unit, six BMD-2 amphibious assault vehicles and four Il-76MD military transport aircraft will be involved in the exercises from Russia.

A Russian fighter jet took off to escort an American bomber over the Sea of Japan, according to the National Defense Control Center.

Tehran is currently choosing the most suitable model for conducting further negotiations on returning to the atom agreement, IRNA news agency reports with reference to the representative of the Presidium of the Parliament, Nezmoddin Mousavi.

Photos of the Admiral Tributs BOD, taken from the exiled US destroyer, appeared

Photos of the Admiral Tributs BOD, taken from the Chafee destroyer at the time of the incident in the Sea of Japan, appeared on the Network. Recall that it occurred on October 15.

Tehran will return to the negotiating table next week with world powers on the restoration of the JCPOA, they will be held in Brussels, Western and Iranian media report, citing Mejlis deputy Ahmad Alirezabeigui.

The head of the US Defense Department, Lloyd Austin, during a visit to Georgia and Ukraine next week, will call on these countries to carry out the transformations necessary to qualify for NATO membership, the Pentagon reports.

The US army should give priority to Russia, not China, writes the American edition of Breaking Defense.

Pentagon officials will discuss in October the possibility of deploying counter-terrorism forces in Uzbekistan for potential strikes against extremist positions in Afghanistan. This was reported on Wednesday, October 13, by Politico, citing sources.

The creation of the AUKUS bloc (Australia, the USA and the UK) undermines regional stability, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Israeli Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the State Department reports. "The Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister discussed a number of issues, including Iran, Syria and the People's Republic of China," the statement said.

On October 14, Jeffrey Eberhardt, the Special Representative of the US President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, demanded that Russia remove the missiles that are allegedly stationed there from Europe, as this goes against the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF).

More than 2 thousand special forces troops will be relocated to the Crimea for exercises

As part of the command and staff exercise, in which about 8 thousand servicemen take part, formations and military units of the Southern Military District (SE) have been alerted to work out elements of bringing them to the highest levels of readiness, the press service of the district reported on Thursday.

The Russian-Chinese exercises "Maritime Cooperation – 2021" have started in the Sea of Japan, which will last until October 17. This was announced on October 14 by the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) for the Pacific Fleet (TOF).

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the superiority of Russian developments over hypersonic weapons of the United States. He stated this during a speech at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum, Interfax reports.

More than two thousand servicemen of the Krasnodar Territory have begun to be transferred to the Crimea, where part of the program of large-scale command and staff exercises of the Southern Military District troops will be held at the Opuk military training ground. This was reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.

Moscow and the Central Industrial Region of Russia are now covered by the latest anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). On October 13, the TASS news agency reported that the first brigade set of the S-500 Prometheus air defense system entered service with the 15th Special Forces Army of the Russian Federation.