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The situation in Afghanistan poses a threat to Russia's national security, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov said on Tuesday.

The United States intends to significantly increase its air defense capabilities. October 11, portal defensenews.com He announced that full-scale production of the promising IBCS air defense system could begin as early as 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with the heads of the special services of the CIS countries in the format of a videoconference, the Kremlin's press service reports.

Four Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian KANT airbase in Kyrgyzstan will take part in the CSTO "Interaction-2021" maneuvers in Tajikistan near the Afghan border, the press service of the Central Military District reports.

NATO exercises "Iron Wolf - 2021 II" begin at a training ground in the Lithuanian city of Pabrad near the border with Belarus, they will last about two weeks, Sputnik Lithuania reports with reference to the press service of the army of the republic.

The exercises will last until October 16

Joint Russian-Serbian crews of Mi-35 combat helicopters performed their first flights at the Lajevci airfield (Serbia) during the BARS-2021 tactical flight exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

At the exhibition "Self-Defense-2021", North Korea demonstrated the innovations of its military-industrial complex. Among them is a tank visually similar to the Russian T-14 based on the ARMATA tracked platform. Another important novelty was the hWasong-8 hypersonic weapon system, tested in September.

Units of the Barnaul Division of the Strategic Missile Forces stationed in the Altai Territory brought mobile ground-based YARS missile systems to combat patrol routes.

This opinion was voiced by the former Pentagon director of software. The United States has already lost the battle in the field of artificial intelligence to China, which is moving towards global domination, using advances in new cyber capabilities.

This was announced by the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev on the eve of the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021"

Cooperation between Russia and Serbia in the military-technical sphere tends to grow. This was announced on the eve of the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021", which will be held from October 11 to 14, 2021 in Belgrade (Serbia), by the Director General of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of ROSTEC State Corporation) Alexander Mikheev.

For 7 years, Ukraine has received military support from the United States totaling more than $ 2 billion.

As part of the implementation of the provision of additional security assistance from the United States Government to the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of the agreements reached during the recent visit of President Vladimir Zelensky to the United States, shipments of international technical assistance have arrived in Ukraine.

An American military plane delivered a batch of military aid to Ukraine. Kiev received, in particular, medical equipment, weapons and ammunition. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Defense. It is noted that the goods arrive in batches. Since 2014, Ukraine has received logistical support from the United States totaling more than two billion dollars.

Pentagon employee Jonathan Toeby, who tried to sell information about American nuclear submarines, passed secret data to a fake foreign agent in sandwiches. This became known on Monday, October 11.

The Russian-made Pantsir-S missile defense system, which is in service with the Syrian air defense forces, destroyed eight Israeli missiles. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit.

Ukraine's hopes for membership in NATO and the EU are ephemeral, Medvedev said

The US authorities use Ukraine only for confrontation with Russia, one day this alliance will crumble to dust, according to Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Six Syrian soldiers were wounded as a result of a strike by six Israeli F-16 fighter jets on the T-4 airfield in the province of Homs (Syria). This was reported by the Russian military.

They will last until October 16

The Russian-Serbian tactical flight exercises "BARS-2021" have begun in Serbia. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Russian energy companies continue to use foreign software and hardware, which makes them vulnerable from the point of view of cybersecurity. Such conclusions were made following the results of the next meeting of the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council of Russia on information security.

A detachment of ships of the Northern Fleet consisting of the large anti-submarine ship "Vice Admiral Kulakov", the medium sea tanker "Academician Pashin" and the rescue tugboat "Altai" under the flag of the commander of the anti-submarine ships, Captain 1st rank Stanislav Varik, ensures the safety of navigation in the Gulf of Guinea.

In addition to the strategic nuclear submarine USS Tennessee, the US Navy currently has the submarine USS Alaska, which is also equipped with one or two ballistic missiles with new low-power nuclear warheads W76-2, follows from the data of the Federation of American Scientists.