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President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of the Zircon hypersonic system. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political scientist Alexander Perendzhiev commented on this event.

The Russian Ministry of Defense showed a video recording of the destruction of an oil refinery of militants in Syria with the help of barrage ammunition.

Two Borey-A missile submarines will be laid down at Sevmash in 2023

In Russia, two strategic missile submarines of Project 955A ("Borey-A") will be laid down at the Sevmash enterprise in 2023, a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS.

RIA Novosti: Russian Orion UAVs have carried out over 40 sorties to strike terrorists in Syria

Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Orion took off more than 40 times to strike terrorists in Syria, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an informed source. Since 2019, the Russian military has used two such unmanned aircraft.

The military exercises conducted by Iran this week in the Persian Gulf were a warning to Israel, said Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, amid fears that Tel Aviv may be hatching plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.

New ways of conducting combat with tanks, artillery and helicopters were demonstrated during exercises in the Voronezh region, the press service of the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

The Pentagon is developing a plan to provide Ukraine with intelligence regarding a possible Russian invasion, The New York Times reported with links to American officials.

The Russian military held a gathering of the command staff of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) in Crimea with exercises of ships and marines, the navy said on Saturday.

Russian Orion unmanned aerial vehicles have already carried out more than 40 sorties in Syria, they have attacked terrorists, an informed source said.

Two newest vessels in August of this year, which became part of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, passed the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea. This was announced by the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexey Rulev.

The government of Mali has denied information according to which mercenaries from the Wagner PMCs arrived on its territory, French media reported on Saturday.

The Drive: the military aviation of Ukraine can hardly compare with the Russian

In a hypothetical air battle with each other, Ukraine and Russia can use many identical aircraft models, but in completely different quantities. A comparison of the military aviation of the two countries was carried out by the American edition of The Drive.

The author's Program of Alexander Rogatkin published on VGTRK on its YouTube channel posted footage of the rescue of Konstantin Murakhtin, the navigator of a Russian Su-24M bomber shot down by a Turkish fighter on November 24, 2015 in Syria.

Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, the commander-in-chief of the Navy, called the fourth-generation nuclear-powered submarines the focus of military and scientific power, which one after another enter the Russian fleet, are being built rhythmically and are being tested.

Attempts to resolve the conflict in Donbass by force will have the most serious consequences

The Kremlin called rumors about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine an empty and groundless escalation of tension, but did not rule out various provocations to justify such statements.

The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, decided to convene the Russia-NATO Council on January 12, 2022, the DPA news agency reported with reference to the NATO press service.

The National Interest: the missile-carrying cruiser "Prince Oleg" is capable of destroying cities

The underwater missile-carrying cruiser "Prince Oleg" is capable of turning entire cities into ruins. This fear was expressed by journalist Peter Suciu in an article for The National Interest magazine.

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warned that Russia dominates the Sea of Azov

Currently, the Sea of Azov has already become an area of possible armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, according to The Washington Post.

The American media appreciated the power of the Russian nuclear submarine of the fourth generation. We are talking about a new strategic missile submarine "Prince Oleg".

According to The National Interest, the main purpose of the Borei-class submarines, to which the Prince Oleg belongs, is the destruction of enemy cities. Moreover, the submarine will be able to deliver such crushing blows even if other nuclear forces are destroyed. The same task, by the way, is facing submarines armed with ballistic missiles that other countries have.

Russia's response to the further expansion of NATO to the east may be "very different," President Vladimir Putin said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.