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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched the military parade held in Pyongyang last night, but did not make a speech, KCNA reports.

The CSTO is ready to repel any possible threats coming from Afghanistan, Anatoly Sidorov, the head of the Joint Staff of the organization, said on Thursday in response to a question from RIA Novosti.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov believes that the cooling of relations between Moscow and Washington does not mean that the countries have been working in the field of counterterrorism for the last 20 years in vain.

For the first time, Russia has deployed five submarines in the Mediterranean Sea, known as "black holes" and serving as carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles, TASS reports, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The joint strategic exercise Zapad-2021, which started on Thursday, is of a defensive nature, the Russian Defense Ministry says. "The opening ceremony of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus" West-2021 "was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Region," the Russian military department reported.

The Russian servicemen used the calculation of the Tachyon drone, which helped to control the capture groups and fire cover, which made it possible to neutralize the conditional saboteurs at the captured checkpoint in the shortest possible time.

The Fifth Fleet of the US Navy, based in the Middle East, said that it will deploy a new task force in the region, which will include air, surface and underwater unmanned vehicles.

The military of the CSTO countries conducted a training counter-terrorist operation, worked out the coordination and joint destruction of illegal armed groups that invaded from outside.

"Today, the final stage of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region of Collective Security of the CSTO" Rubezh-2021 "took place in Kyrgyzstan at the Edelweiss training ground, during which more than 30 introductory exercises were worked out," the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff reported.

The heads of state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will sign an agreement on equipping the collective forces with modern weapons and equipment at a meeting in Dushanbe on September 16, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

Representatives of the armed forces of China, Vietnam and Myanmar are invited to the exercises as observers

Foreign observers are invited to the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021". This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the Western Military District.

Russia is against the transformation of Syria into an arena of confrontation between third countries, the military of the Russian Federation and Israel will continue contacts on Syrian issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The exercises will involve up to 200 thousand personnel, about 80 aircraft and helicopters, up to 760 units of military equipment, including 290 tanks, 240 guns, multiple rocket launchers and mortars, as well as up to 15 ships.

Minsk believes that the creation of a combat training center will "strengthen the practical component of the unified regional air defense system of the Union State"

Belarusian and Russian Air Force and air defense units have taken up combat duty in Belarus as part of the joint training training center. This was reported on Thursday by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

The forces of the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (PFOT) operating against the troops of the Ethiopian Federal Government lost a T-72B tank. The combat vehicle is completely disabled.

As a result of an internal explosion of ammunition, the tower separated from the hull, several support rollers broke off from each side, the engine turned into debris.

Large-scale exercises have started in the Arctic, in which about 8 thousand military personnel, 800 units of combat and special equipment, as well as up to 50 ships and vessels will take part.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of land and coastal troops, as well as air defense troops of the Northern Fleet moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region as part of an exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group.

The Northern Fleet has begun large-scale exercises in the Arctic zone, its press service told reporters. The maneuvers will take place in the waters of the Barents and Kara Seas, the Laptev Sea, in the area of the Novosibirsk Islands and the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun exercises in the Arctic zone, at one of the stages the defense of the Northern Sea Route will be worked out, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia and Belarus are preparing for a guerrilla war with the North Atlantic Alliance at the Zapad-2021 exercises. This is written by the columnist of the American edition of the National Interest, Mark Episcopos.

The US position on the need to include non-strategic nuclear weapons in future agreements with Russia is unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Russia is superior to the United States in some aspects of weapons. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.