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The Pentagon's military was "caught off guard" in July when China conducted test launches of hypersonic weapons, as it used technologies unknown to the US. This became known to the Financial Times.

The first-ever naval exercises of Russia and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be held on December 1-3 in the area of North Sumatra in Indonesia. This was stated on November 23 by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to ASEAN, Alexander Ivanov.

The possibility of the United States and other NATO countries sending military advisers and weapons to Ukraine is not excluded, it already takes place. This was announced to journalists on November 23 by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the CNN publication that the administration of US President Joe Biden is considering sending weapons and military advisers to Ukraine.

Russia is not going to attack anyone

The Kremlin once again stated that Russia does not have any plans to attack anyone, while saying that provocations by the Ukrainian armed forces and Kiev's preparations for a possible military solution to the Donbass problem are of deep concern.

John Denis, a professor at the Institute for Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, spoke in a column for Defense News about the likely actions of NATO in the event of Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine.

Kiev should remember the fate of Afghanistan in the light of reports about the possible sending of weapons and advisers to Ukraine by the United States, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrei Kartapolov said.

The main attention was paid to informing about the modern structure of the VKS and the tasks solved by the type of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation held a briefing for foreign military attaches, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Tuesday.

The new 2021-2022 academic year has been declared the year of combat training in the Armed Forces of Belarus.

And taking into account the difficult military-political situation and the "migration crisis" created by Western countries, the process of preparing the Armed Forces has been significantly adjusted, said the chief of the Belarusian General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister, Major General Viktor Gulevich.

Former senator and MEP from Poland Bogdan Penk, in an interview with Polskie Radio, speculated about ways to "intimidate Russia."

The head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov on Tuesday, November 23, in an interview with Izvestia, reacted to data on the possible dispatch of US military advisers and weapons to Ukraine.

Russia and China are increasing the intensity of joint combat training, the military of the two countries interact on land, at sea and in the air, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, calling joint maritime patrols in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, flights of combat aircraft of the two countries over the Japanese and East China Seas important events.

Sergei Shoigu and Wei Fenghe simultaneously signed their copies of the document

The roadmap for the development of military cooperation between the Russian Federation and China for 2021-2025 was approved on Tuesday by Russian Defense Ministers Sergei Shoigu and China's Wei Fenghe.

The Defense Minister noted that the military of Russia and China "interact on land, at sea and in the air"

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called the joint maritime patrol with China in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the flights of combat aircraft of the two countries over the Japanese and East China Seas important events.

The crew of the Russian submarine Veliky Novgorod carried out the laying of mines as part of tactical exercises in the Black Sea, writes Argumenti.ru with reference to the press service of the Southern Military District.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milli, previously discussed with the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, the security situation in Eastern Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma for ratification an agreement with Tajikistan on the creation of a joint regional air defense system of the two countries.

Spacecraft will also be used to monitor possible natural disasters, the newspaper notes

The Japanese government plans to launch three small satellites in the middle of this decade that will be able to track the enemy's hypersonic gliding warheads. This was reported by the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday, citing sources.

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.