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The United States condemns the Houthi missile strike on Saudi Arabia, which injured two children, the State Department said.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths promised that the world organization will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, said the representative of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) Suheil Shaheen.

Units manned by reservists have been transferred to the Kaliningrad Region, where the Zapad-2021 exercises will soon take place, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to increase the number of reservists in the army. This was reported on Monday, September 6, by the press service of the defense ministry.

The gunners of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, against the background of the situation in Afghanistan, conducted a live-firing exercise at the Sambuli mountain range (Tajikistan), the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

The US authorities will be forced to increase cooperation with Russia, China and Pakistan in collecting intelligence data concerning what is happening in Afghanistan and possible terrorist threats.

The small combat radius of the F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters sharply reduced the effectiveness of American aircraft carriers. This was acceptable after the end of the cold War, but it is a wake-up call now, against the background of the growing capabilities of Russia and China, writes MilitaryWatch.

More than four thousand military motorized rifle and tank regiments of the South of Russia have started exercises in the Rostov region.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the marines of the Northern Fleet will conduct maneuvers in the Baltic Sea in preparation for the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

Chinese aviation continues to "probe" the Taiwanese air defense. On September 5, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan reported a massive violation of the Taiwanese air borders by Chinese Air Force aircraft. Chinese aviation flights were recorded in the control zone of Taiwan's air defense systems located on the Pratas Islands

Washington continues to seek dialogue or interaction with China on the topic of arms control and is looking for opportunities to do so, despite the fact that it does not see a similar desire in Beijing, US Deputy Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins said on Monday.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

Chinese VT-4 tanks, which are in service with Pakistan, may become a threat to the Russian T-90 of the Indian armed forces. The ammunition of Chinese vehicles will be able to fight with Russian tanks. A similar opinion was expressed by the authors of the portal The Military Watch.

The crews of a detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea took part in an exercise to ensure the safety of objects of economic activity of the Russian Federation and to resolve crisis situations in case of their occurrence. The combat training event was held in the area of the frost-resistant ice stationary platform "Prirazlomnaya" in the Barents Sea.

In Afghanistan, old Soviet-made tanks were used in the past battles in the area of the northern Panjshir province.

We have already written about the T-62M seen here, which clearly previously belonged to the 40th Army of a Limited contingent of Soviet Troops and was transferred to the troops of Mohammad Najibullah. For more than three decades, it has repeatedly changed owners.

The Polish edition of Tygodnik TVP published an article about the Belarusian-Russian strategic exercises "West-2021" and stated the need to speak with Moscow "in the language of force".

This is the first peacekeeping exercise organized by China

International peacekeeping exercises Shared Destiny 2021 ("A common destiny-2021") with the participation of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA), as well as the armed forces of Mongolia, Pakistan and Thailand began on Monday in the Chinese province of Henan. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

The American magazine Popular Mechanics, referring to the analysis conducted by Naval News, compared the latest nuclear submarines (submarines), which are available to the US Navy (Navy) and the Russian Navy (Navy).

When asked about the possibility of supporting the opponents of the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) in the civil strife of Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby replied that the US military mission in this country has been completed.

The US Department of Defense has denied reports about the reduction of the American contingent in Syria. "It's not like that. The parameters of our mission in Syria remain the same. We called this morning to make sure of this, " RIA Novosti quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying.