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It turns out that to spy on foreign military bases, you do not need to sit in a secret bunker and study images from military satellites with a magnifying glass.

The US authorities are planning to build a special intelligence base to monitor the actions of Russia and China in space. This became known to Sky News.

The EU is ready, if necessary, to assist Azerbaijan and Armenia in carrying out the delimitation of the state border, European Council President Charles Michel said.

The United States is leaving Afghanistan

The other day, my old friend, a colleague from the Israeli special forces unit "Duvdevan" wrote to me and asked: how do I feel about the fact of the planned withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan?

Facebook on Thursday announced that it had taken measures against a group of Iranian hackers who used the platform of this social network to conduct operations aimed at American military personnel and defense companies.

On July 16, the Russian command had to lift the duty fighters into the sky twice. Their crews tracked the actions of foreign aircraft first over the Bering Sea, and then over the Pacific Ocean near the coast of Kamchatka.

There is no question of sending the US military to Haiti yet, the US intends to send Marines to the country to protect its embassy, US President Joe Biden said.

The Taliban claim the destruction of a helicopter of government forces at the Kunduz airport

The United States has provided Afghanistan with seven new combat helicopters with the ability to accurately target and intercept day and night, the press service of the 209 Shokhin Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) reported on Friday.

The exercises will be held from September 11 to 25

More than 4 thousand military personnel of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be involved in the joint anti-terrorist command and staff exercises "Peace Mission - 2021", which will be held in Orenburg in September. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

There were no violations in the operability of the software and technical infrastructure of the department's website. The website of the Russian Defense Ministry was subjected to a DDoS attack from abroad, the ministry said on Friday.

The Ukrainian Navy received the first Bayraktar TB2 unmanned strike system from Turkey. On July 15, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported this.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not know that his article about Ukraine has become mandatory for studying in the army. This was stated at a briefing on July 16 by the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

Up to 10 aircraft and ships of the NATO Navies were constantly present in the area of the exercises

Submariners of the Northern Fleet have completed a two-week exercise on weapons testing in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, the press service of the fleet reported.

The Russian military has completed tests of weapons of submarines in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, they were monitored daily by NATO ships. This was announced on July 16 by the press service of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation.

The US missile destroyer USS Ross left the Black Sea on Friday after a 20-day stay, the US 6th Operational Fleet said.

The gamer posted a secret document on the network with the characteristics of the British Challenger 2 tank. This is written by the UK Defense Journal.

The international advisory group, which includes the European Union, NATO and the United States, called on Kiev to adopt the reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) without delay. This is reported in the Twitter account of the EU Embassy in Ukraine.

The United States is unlikely to narrow the gap in the field of hypersonic weapons with Russia and China in the coming years, which may lead to potential risks for the former in the future, writes the American magazine The National Interest, citing a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service.

A warship with the outlines of the British destroyer Defender is shown as the first "target" of the new Russian fighter. The presentation of a promising aircraft with a single engine will take place at the MAKS-2021 international Air Show.

In the Murmansk region, during the operational and strategic exercise of the Rosgvardiya "Zaslon 2021", military personnel and employees of the department worked out the neutralization of participants of an illegal armed formation who seized a strategic object.