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The Armed Forces of Ukraine used the Javelin anti-tank missile system for the first time during the fighting in the Donbas. This was reported in an article for the Military Times by its editor-in-chief Howard Altman. According to him, he received this information from the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov thanked the United States for its assistance in the military sphere. He stated this during a meeting with the US Senate delegation at the Halifax International Security Forum on November 21.

From Monday to December 4, the annual international military exercises "Winter Shield 2021" will be held at the Adage training ground in Latvia, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic told the BNS news agency.

Kyrgyzstan aims at the earliest possible registration of undescribed sites on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said on Monday following talks between the head of the department Ruslan Kazakbayev and his Tajik counterpart Sirodjiddin Mukhriddin.

The actions of the United Kingdom, which sent its military to help the Polish border guards, suggests that London is again trying to get involved in the confrontation with Russia. This opinion was expressed by Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski.

The training on the detection, classification and destruction of air targets took place with calculations of S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile systems deployed on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.

Combat crews of anti-aircraft complexes conducted exercises in the Crimea to destroy cruise missiles of a simulated enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reports.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, on Sunday, November 21, in an interview with Military Times, reported on the first use of the American Javelin anti-tank missile system (ATGM) in the Donbass.

The S-550 mobile missile defense system being developed in Russia will be able to shoot down American X-37 orbital UAVs capable of carrying nuclear charges, RIA Novosti reports, citing sources in the defense industry.

The United States expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the uncontrolled movement of Russian warships in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

If earlier Washington expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the Russian navy almost completely controls the situation in the eastern Mediterranean, then after the joint maneuvers of the Algerian Navy and the Russian Navy, the United States literally flew into a rage.

The Russian Federation has handed over to Lebanon satellite images taken on the day of the explosion in the port of Beirut. This was stated on November 22 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bu Habib.

Reports about the allegedly impending military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine can serve as a screen for Kiev's aggressive aspirations to solve the Donbass problem by force, according to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The Kremlin said it did not comment on the version of the Kursk submarine's death related to the alleged collision with a NATO submarine.

The general of the US space forces admitted that the US lagging behind Moscow and Beijing is potentially dangerous for national security, the author of the Washington newspaper The Hill reports. The Congressional Research Service claims that a significant part of American hypersonic weapons cannot be used with a nuclear warhead.

Business Insider columnist Konstantin Atlamazoglu in his article assessed the balance of power between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance in the Black Sea.

The command of the Special Forces (Özel Kuvvetler Komutanlığı, ÖKK) of Turkey, designed to conduct unconventional combat operations, secret cross-border operations, sabotage and intelligence activities, appointed special advisers to work with the army of Ukraine and began training the Ukrainian military under a multi-year plan. This is reported by the Nordic Monitor organization with reference to a 2016 document allegedly representing a secret note addressed to the Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.

A representative of the Pentagon press service noted that "there is nothing to provide on this issue"

The US Department of Defense on Monday did not comment on information according to which the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk allegedly could have sunk in 2000 as a result of a collision with a NATO submarine.

The situation in Ukraine at the moment is similar to that observed in Georgia before the events of 2008, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said.

There are reports of the concentration of forces and means of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the border with the Russian Federation and Belarus

Information about the concentration of forces on the territory of Russia for a military invasion of Ukraine is "absolutely false," the SVR of the Russian Federation said.

The Soviet-designed AN-124-100 Ruslan aircraft was used to transport helicopters to the United States. Maximus Air Cargo aircraft transported Mi-17 helicopters of the former Afghan Air Force to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. This is reported by The Drive.