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The US Department of Defense is considering deploying a permanent naval task force in the Pacific to counter China. This was announced on Tuesday, June 15, according to the newspaper Politico, citing sources in the Pentagon.

Two of the three tests of the combined US missile defense system ended in failure, according to a report by the US government Accountability Office.

The Russian Defense Ministry noted that following the meeting, the heads of delegations adopted a joint statement of the defense ministers of the ASEAN member countries and the dialogue partners

Deputy Defense Minister-Head of the Main Military-Political Department of the Russian Armed Forces Andrey Kartapolov outlined Russia's positions on security issues in the Asia-Pacific region (APR).

The Ministry stressed that all flights of aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces were carried out and are carried out in strict accordance with the international rules for the use of airspace over neutral waters

Two Su-35 aircraft performed a planned flight over the Baltic Sea, without deviating from the approved route, the flights were carried out in strict accordance with international rules. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Relations between Russia and China are developing, threatening to turn into a semblance of an alliance, and Washington is concerned about such a development, Politico reported on Monday, citing an unnamed senior White House official.

FAR EAST - The international Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021" will take place at one of the training grounds in the Primorsky Territory - the military personnel of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) will take part in it.

The Russian Pacific Fleet conducted large-scale exercises on the high seas. The event was attended by various types of troops, including naval aviation.

The majority of Russian citizens (86%) expressed confidence in the ability of the Russian army to ensure the security of the country. This is evidenced by the data obtained during the survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), provided on Tuesday, June 15.

According to the head of Roscosmos, planetary protection is one of the most important tasks for cosmonautics

No country can independently create a system capable of changing the trajectory of celestial bodies threatening the Earth.

Intensive flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces and naval aviation near Alaska are ruining American combat aviation. To counter it, it is necessary to constantly maintain F-22 Raptor fighters in combat readiness and send them into the sky for a long time, which costs the US Air Force very expensive, the US military complained.

Kiev expects to receive an action plan for NATO membership in 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said. He said that Kiev has carried out enough reforms to get an action plan for NATO membership, the main obstacle to getting it is " unwillingness to send such a signal to the Russian Federation."

The USS Ronald Reagan entered the South China Sea on June 14 as part of a strike group, according to the US 7th Fleet.

Under the auspices of the UN, the development of a comprehensive convention on combating information crime has begun. The creation of the basic document will take approximately 2.5 years. This was stated by Dmitry Bukin, Deputy Director of the Department of International Information Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaking at the 12th International IT forum with the participation of representatives of the BRICS and SCO countries.

Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers conducted a patrol over the Baltic Sea. This was reported on Tuesday, June 15, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Italian, Danish and Swedish fighter jets took to the air due to the eight-hour flight of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, hopes that the NATO member states will find a consensus on Ukraine's entry into the Alliance as soon as possible and emphasizes that the Ukrainian state is currently in danger and needs help.

NATO will continue to build up its military capabilities and use a "broad combination of different tools" to counter "Russian aggression," alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with CNBC.

The deployment of operational-tactical complexes "Iskander-M" and the destruction of the command post of the imaginary enemy will be worked out by the Russian military during an exercise in the Kaliningrad region, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The ships of the naval forces of Great Britain and the Netherlands entered the Black Sea. This is reported on June 14 by the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that following the summit in Brussels, there are no plans to announce the date of entry of new countries into the alliance.