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The Orthodox Church is in second place, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted

TASS, August 10. The level of trust in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in society ranges from 79 to 86%, this is the highest indicator. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu at a panel discussion at the youth forum "Territory of Meanings".

Joint military exercises with Russia are being held in China. On August 9, the Xinhua news Agency reported that the West exercise began at the PLA training base in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Interaction-2021".

Despite the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, a peace agreement between the Afghan parties has not been reached, a senior EU official told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday on condition of anonymity.

Specialists of all branches of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation and ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) and the Caspian Flotilla (CFL) are starting a week of large-scale battalion tactical exercises in the South of Russia, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The Russian Northern Fleet is expected to send a detachment of ships to the Arctic on Monday. "From the main base of the Severomorsk fleet, an exit to the Arctic campaign will take place as part of the implementation of a set of measures aimed at ensuring the protection of the interests of the Russian Federation in the Arctic," the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The shooting was conducted at targets simulating artillery guns and armored objects of a simulated enemy at various distances

Russian servicemen conducted firing from tanks and armored vehicles of the ground forces of the People's Liberation Army of China in preparation for joint exercises.

Ukraine has forgotten how to build warships. Several countries will build a modest coastal fleet for Ukraine at once. Marine Sergeant Taras Chmut believes that corvettes will not save Ukraine from Russia, as long as there are no SAMs, anti-ship and sonar systems, as well as torpedo tubes in the Ukrainian fleet.

At the main stage of the exercises, the pilots will perform tasks to search for disguised bases of a conditional enemy, to launch rocket and bomb attacks on targets that simulate the accumulation of manpower and equipment.

During the joint strategic exercise "SIBU/INTERACTION-2021", servicemen of the Russian military contingent and the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) will use unmanned aerial vehicles.

Calculations of coastal anti-ship missile systems "Bastion" of the Coastal Troops of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF) in Kamchatka during the exercises destroyed a conditional group of ships in one of the naval ranges of the fleet, the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Fleet reported on Monday.

On August 6, the crews of high-altitude MiG-31BM interceptor fighters of the Central Military District Aviation Division intercepted a conditional intruder of the airspace boundaries in the stratosphere during a tactical flight exercise in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The Varshavyanka submarines remained unnoticed by the British carrier strike group for 96 hours.

The Russian inconspicuous submarines of the Varshavyanka project have fully justified their combat capabilities.

Units of the Armed Forces of Laos have arrived in the Primorsky Territory to participate in the joint Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021", the Eastern Military District (VVO) announced on Monday.

The fighting will continue until the Taliban and the Afghan government start negotiations

The special representatives of the" extended troika " for Afghanistan (Russia, the United States, Pakistan, China) will discuss the ongoing offensive of the Taliban (members of the Taliban group banned in the Russian Federation - IF) at the upcoming meeting in Doha on August 11, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, director of the second Asia department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Interfax on Monday.

In 2019, China overtook the United States in the number of warships. Despite this, there are no competitors to the American fleet in terms of total tonnage and combat capabilities yet.

It is too early for Belarus and Russia to create a union ministry of defense, since the parties are not ready for this, first they need to adopt the constitution of the Union State, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday.

The Russian Navy will receive three nuclear submarines at once this year, a source in the shipbuilding industry said. On the air of Sputnik radio, captain of the 1st rank Igor Kurdin stressed that the Russian navy is restoring the necessary and sufficient number of nuclear submarines.

"Typhoon-K", BTR-82 and Mi-35M were involved in the joint exercises "South-2021" of the military of Uzbekistan and Russia in the area of the border with Afghanistan.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the joint group has worked out a special operation to prevent the possible crossing of the state border by illegal armed groups.

The ship grouping of the Northern Fleet carried out a complex of artillery firing at sea target positions in the area of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. She played an episode on the organization of the defense of the island territories of Russia. The command and staff training was led by the commander of the SF, Admiral Hero of Russia Alexander Moiseev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes to create a special structure within the UN on the problems of combating maritime crime in different regions.