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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.

The strategic command and staff military exercises of a defensive nature "United Efforts-2021" will be held from September 22 to 30 at all the main military training grounds of Ukraine, as well as in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery Zaluzhny said.

NATO is closely monitoring the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercises "West-2021" and calls on Moscow and Minsk to act transparently and predictably.

This is stated in a statement by the official representative of the alliance, Oana Lungescu, for the German media group Funke.

Combat crews of the S-400 and Pantsir-S complexes repelled a massive air strike by a simulated enemy in the Nizhny Novgorod Region as part of the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise Zapad-2021, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

Poland has launched large-scale military exercises simultaneously with the Belarusian - Russian exercises "West-2021". The official start of the "Lynx 21" exercises was given on Friday at the training ground in Novaya Demba in the east of the country by Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a meeting of the UN General Assembly called for a high-level "summit of the future"to develop a new agenda on peace and global security.

The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, which are the longest-range air defense systems among those in service with Russia, were able to fully confirm the previously stated characteristics about the possibility of intercepting hypersonic targets.

The United States is ready to participate in the Normandy format, and in the parallel process of normalizing the situation in eastern Ukraine, said US Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland.

The airstrike carried out by the US military forces on August 29 in Kabul really helped to prevent the imminent threat of a second attack on the airport. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the Pentagon on Saturday, September 11. Thus, the US Defense Ministry commented on the publications that appeared in the media that an airstrike could have killed, allegedly, not a terrorist, but a humanitarian worker working for America.

An NGO employee who sought asylum in the United States could have mistakenly turned out to be a target that was attacked by the United States in Kabul at the end of August. Such information on Friday, September 10, is cited by The New York Times, referring to information from relatives and colleagues of the deceased as a result of the American attack.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has handed over a batch of combat reconnaissance vehicles (BRDM) to the armed forces of Tajikistan, the Russian military department reported on Saturday.

The area of the missile firing was previously closed to civilian shipping and aviation flights

Calculations of the coastal missile systems (DBK) "Bal" and the destroyer "Fyodor Ushakov" destroyed groups of ships of the conditional enemy at a distance of more than 100 km from the coast in the Barents Sea during exercises in the Arctic. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

All the companies that develop the Smart Voting application and website are associated with the Pentagon, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday, September 11.

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet escorted a Norwegian Air Force plane over the Barents Sea. This was reported on September 11 at the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.

Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov says that the Russian side is ready to resume a bilateral dialogue with the United States on anti-terrorism.

The exercises involve the Orel missile cruiser and the Verkhoturye strategic nuclear submarine missile cruiser

The nuclear submarine missile cruiser "Eagle" and the nuclear submarine strategic missile cruiser "Verkhoturye" went to the Barents Sea for Arctic exercises.

A pair of duty fighters were lifted into the air from the Chkalovsk airfield at the command of the air defense forces on duty

The crews of Su-27 fighters of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation destroyed cruise missiles of a conditional enemy at the joint exercises of Russia and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Baltic Fleet.

The crews of the army aviation of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense used the technique of destroying armored vehicles of a conditional enemy from ambushes during the regrouping of troops at the Luzhsky training ground in the Leningrad region as part of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus "West-2021".