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The United States expressed concern about the aggravation of the situation near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and called for efforts aimed at preventing an escalation of tension.

The United States is concerned about the possible consequences of the scattering of satellite debris shot down by the Russian military, but so far there have been no contacts about this that could be said, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia, unlike the United States, did not start an arms race. According to the minister, an attempt to start a confrontation in orbit is a challenge from the Pentagon, the Izvestia TV channel reports. He also noted that the work of the Russian Federation in space is not related to the monopolization of near-Earth space.

The indignation on the part of the United States about the tests of the anti-satellite system by Russia is quite cynical, since they themselves shot down their satellite back in 2008, and then the Pentagon itself did not respond to objections from the Russian Federation and China. This was told by military historian Boris Yulin on Wednesday, November 17.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia opposes an arms race in outer space. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense successfully tested an anti-satellite system, the Izvestia TV channel reports. As a result, the inactive device "Tselina-D" was struck. The US State Department accused Russia of creating a threat.

The S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems purchased from Russia will be used "in the right place and at the right time." This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the Turkish Defense Ministry, Hulusi Akar.

Afghanistan faces a catastrophe and a new civil war if the new authorities fail to normalize the situation, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.

Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist has announced his readiness to send Swedish servicemen to Ukraine as part of an EU-led training mission, Sveriges Radio reports.

Today, biological risks are caused by events primarily related to human activity. This was stated at a meeting of the secretaries of the CIS Security Councils in Moscow by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev. According to him, these risks in particular include dangerous experiments with viruses and pathogens on potentially dangerous biological objects. As well as the development of genetic engineering, including synthetic biology, which allows the genome to be played for criminal purposes.

Fighters of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan killed about 20 Taliban (banned in Russia) during regular clashes in Panjshir province.

There was one less inactive satellite in Earth orbit and one and a half thousand more debris. On November 16, the TASS news agency, referring to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, reported on tests during which an inactive Soviet spacecraft was successfully hit.

The Russian military will complete the formation of a new airborne assault regiment in Crimea by the beginning of December.

The Deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General John Hyten, spoke about the tests of a hypersonic missile in China. In an interview with CBS, he noted the accuracy of the Chinese missile, Interfax reports.

The Polish army continues to transfer troops to the Belarusian border. The official telegram channel of the Belarusian Telegraph Agency published a video about the relocation of military equipment, presumably belonging to the eighth air defense regiment of the twelfth mechanized division.

The head of the delegation on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, stressed that "we are talking about planned planned exercises"

Russia has conducted planned strategic aviation exercises in the skies over Belarus, which are not directed against third countries and are not related to the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border. This was stated on Wednesday by Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, to the participants of the OSCE Forum on Security Cooperation.

There are American reconnaissance aircraft operating near Belarus, which can be used to assess the situation in the areas bordering Poland, writes The Drive.

The agreement between the UK and Ukraine on a loan for military purposes has become another proof of the build-up of British military activity near the borders of Russia. This was stated on Wednesday, November 17, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

The Russian S-550 missile defense system probably works on the principle of kinetic interception of targets, which will eliminate the formation of "nuclear ash" over the heads of Russian residents when intercepting enemy missiles, for example, the United States. This is what TASS military columnist Dmitry Litovkin writes about.

Russia and the United States are preparing contacts at the highest level, as part of their preparation, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Jacob Sullivan had a telephone conversation, the press service of the Security Council of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday.

The United States and its allies in Europe are considering the option of new sanctions against Russia in the event of an aggravation of the situation around Ukraine. This was reported by Bloomberg on Monday, November 15, referring to American officials.