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The Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline is a contribution to ensuring the energy security of Europe, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

The short range of the F-18 Super Hornet fighters complicates their use in the fight against Russia and China and makes US aircraft carriers vulnerable to long-range attacks. This is reported by the publication Military Watch.

The United States Department of Defense does not exclude the possibility of coordinating actions with the radical Taliban movement (banned in Russia) in order to combat the offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) in Afghanistan. This was announced on Wednesday, September 1, at a press conference in the Pentagon, the chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces (AF) of the United States, General Mark Milli.

The United States and Ukraine will continue to oppose the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, which they see as a threat to Europe's energy security. This is stated in a joint statement by the leaders of the countries Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky, posted on the website of the President of Ukraine.

The UK Ministry of Defense is considering the possibility of deploying its submarines with a nuclear arsenal on US or French military bases in the event of Scotland gaining independence. This was reported on September 1 by the Financial Times newspaper.

The Taliban (the Taliban group is banned in the Russian Federation) fulfill all security guarantees for Russian diplomats, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov,

Popular Mechanics compared the characteristics of two advanced nuclear attack submarines: the Russian Yasen-M and the American Virginia. The conclusion: who is who, is ambiguous. The American submarine carries more missiles, but the Russian one has "more tricks".

The exercises of the air defense forces of the CIS countries "Combat Commonwealth-2021" will be transferred to the territory of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan from September 3, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Russia and the United States, following the talks of the heads of state in Geneva, launched a process of consultations on arms control, as well as on cybersecurity, but there are also issues that have not budged, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The NATO ships and planes that were closely watching the Russian submarines lost them again.

The NATO military, which began tracking three Russian diesel-electric submarines in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea, again failed to cope with its task of establishing the current position of Russian submarines.

The United States urges its allies to avoid major deals with Russia in the defense sphere, a State Department representative told RIA Novosti, commenting on the signing of an agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The UK has prepared an action plan for the transfer of its submarines from bases in Scotland in case the autonomy leaves the kingdom.

The militants of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia ) could get weapons and military equipment delivered to Afghanistan from the Czech Republic. We are talking about D-30 howitzers, Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters transferred for the needs of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan. This probability was allowed by the newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

The Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Committee on Air Defense Issues under the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries, Colonel-General Yuri Grekhov, noted that the goals were quite complex

The S-400, S-300 and Pantsir-S missile systems destroyed more than 20 targets simulating low-altitude drones and ballistic missiles during the exercises of the air defense forces of the CIS countries "Combat Commonwealth-2021" at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region.

A joint statement on the strategic partnership of the United States and Ukraine was published on the websites of the Office of the President of Ukraine and the White House. Despite the announcements of the Ukrainian side, there were no promises to stop the Nord Stream — 2 in the final release. The United States also supported Ukraine's course in NATO, but refused to prescribe the terms of possible accession. "The country" highlights the main thing from the statements of Biden and Zelensky.

The Taliban celebrate the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan as a historic victory. In two weeks, they managed to establish control over all but one of the provinces. In honor of this, victory parades were held throughout the country, during which the Taliban demonstrated American-made weapons.

A container with a nuclear reactor of the K-19 submarine was found in the Abrosimov Bay in the Kara Sea off the coast of Russia. This was announced on Thursday, September 2, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the state central airmobile detachment "Centrospas" of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Yevgeny Linitsev.

The Kremlin considers Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic aspirations dangerous and warns that they will be forced to take countermeasures if they are implemented.

The Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan will prepare for negative scenarios in connection with the situation in Afghanistan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Republic Serik Burambayev said.

At the educational marathon "New Knowledge", the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the management of the armed forces on the territory of Russia and abroad takes place in the NCSUO

Several dozen aircraft of the Russian military department are in the air every hour, their movements, as well as the situation in Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and other regions of the world are monitored by the National Defense Control Center (NCMS). This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.