Global security news

The personnel of the special forces goes over to Tigray's side.

Almost the entire north of Ethiopia came under the control of the Oromo Liberation Army. This is now the name of the former forces of liberation of Tigray.

ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" anti-aircraft self-propelled guns during the maneuvers of the ground forces of the Jordanian army covered the units involved in training battles armed with Al-Hussein tanks and Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles.

A detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet led by the large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Vice Admiral Kulakov" made a business call at the port of Praia - the capital of the island republic of Cape Verde, which is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

China is protesting to the United States for inflating the "Chinese threat" and unjustified criticism about the build-up of nuclear power, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China Wu Qian on Friday.

The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported the exposure of a colonel of the country's armed forces, the commander of one of the units. The man is suspected of illegally collecting secret military documents, the press service of the SBU reported on November 5.

The US Navy ships that entered the Black Sea conducted joint exercises with the Bulgarian frigate "Gordi", the 6th Operational Fleet of the United States reported.

Statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia plans to actively develop weapons using artificial intelligence technologies have alarmed the Pentagon.

The US Department of Defense is monitoring the "unusual" activity of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine. This was announced on Friday, November 5, by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.

The purpose of the visit of CIA Director William Burns to Moscow was to understand Russia's intentions towards Ukraine and warn about the attention that Washington pays to the movements of Russian wax near the Ukrainian border, CNN reported.

US President Joe Biden's promise to limit the role of nuclear weapons in the country's strategic concept has faced resistance from the Pentagon, which wants to maintain the status quo in the face of an arms buildup in China and Russia, Politico reported, citing its own sources.

Two members of the US House of Representatives, Republicans Mike Rogers (Alabama) and Mike Turner (Ohio), addressed a letter to the President of the United States Joe Biden, urging him to continue arming Ukraine and deploy the US military presence in the Black Sea. This was reported on Friday, November 5, by the Defense News publication.

Andrei Belousov noted that Western opponents in criticizing Russian approaches to preventing an arms race do not say anything new and "cling to arguments that have long been refuted"

Western countries do not support Russian initiatives in the UN on outer space for political reasons and are trying to bring their projects to the fore at their expense.

An exercise to repel an attack by an illegal armed group (IAF) on the objects of the 201st Russian military base took place in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Saturday.

Russia's military activity in Crimea does not exceed its defensive needs, moreover, it works for stability in the region, Deputy head of the Russian delegation to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly Andrei Belousov told reporters.

The Pacific Fleet headquarters summed up the results of combat training in the past academic year. It, we recall, in the Armed Forces begins in December, and ends in October.

It is reported that the largest event at the Pacific Fleet was an operational exercise in the Central Pacific Ocean - the first in the recent history of the fleet. There, the command involved more than 20 warships, submarines and vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation. In two months, the detachment of ships overcame more than 20 thousand nautical miles and performed about fifty combat exercises.

A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy consisting of the corvette "Gremyashchy", the submarines "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", performing the transition from the Baltic to the place of permanent deployment to the Pacific Fleet, passed the Singapore Strait, the Alert 5 Twitter account, which publishes photos of the ships, reported.

A control check with live firing of tanks of the Vistula Motorized Rifle Division has been completed in the Voronezh Region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.

US President Joe Biden's promise to limit the role of nuclear weapons in the country's strategic concept has faced resistance from the Pentagon.

The military wants to maintain the status quo in the face of an arms buildup in China and Russia, Politico reported, citing its own sources. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian discussed the situation around the JCPOA and the prospects for resuming the negotiation process in Vienna by phone on Saturday.

The American vessel HOS Red Rock, which is used by the US Navy as a carrier of the SURTASS-E experimental sonar reconnaissance system, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, follows from the data of the international ship tracking system (AIS).