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The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has approved the country's information security strategy, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.

The defense plan of Ukraine approved by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) is a secret document and will be implemented in the event of war, the secretary of the department Alexey Danilov said.

The new Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida allowed the possibility of pre-emptive strikes on enemy bases as part of the revision of the national defense strategy aimed at developing the potential of Japanese troops. He made such a statement in an interview with the largest Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.

Estonian Defense Minister Kalle Laanet, in an interview with the editor of the Polish edition of Defence24, Juliusz Sabak, said that the USSR "occupied" the Baltic state represented by him, and called Moscow the main threat to independence for Tallinn.

Uzbek-Afghan trade and economic cooperation, border security and transport and communication projects were discussed during talks on Saturday in Termez (an Uzbek city on the border with Afghanistan) by the delegations of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Uzbek Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup Kabulzhanov said.

About 100 servicemen of the Novorossiysk Guards Amphibious Assault Mountain Unit, six BMD-2 amphibious assault vehicles and four Il-76MD military transport aircraft will be involved in the exercises from Russia.

The head of the US Defense Department, Lloyd Austin, during a visit to Georgia and Ukraine next week, will call on these countries to carry out the transformations necessary to qualify for NATO membership, the Pentagon reports.

On September 28, a representative of Mitsubishi Corporation sent a letter to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in which Mitsubishi confirms the absence of any plans to restart the Mitsubishi SpaceJet regional aircraft program. The text of the FAA and Mitsubishi correspondence is posted on the page of official documents of the US government.

The US army should give priority to Russia, not China, writes the American edition of Breaking Defense.

Pentagon officials will discuss in October the possibility of deploying counter-terrorism forces in Uzbekistan for potential strikes against extremist positions in Afghanistan. This was reported on Wednesday, October 13, by Politico, citing sources.

The creation of the AUKUS bloc (Australia, the USA and the UK) undermines regional stability, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Israeli Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the State Department reports. "The Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister discussed a number of issues, including Iran, Syria and the People's Republic of China," the statement said.

More than 2 thousand special forces troops will be relocated to the Crimea for exercises

As part of the command and staff exercise, in which about 8 thousand servicemen take part, formations and military units of the Southern Military District (SE) have been alerted to work out elements of bringing them to the highest levels of readiness, the press service of the district reported on Thursday.

More than two thousand servicemen of the Krasnodar Territory have begun to be transferred to the Crimea, where part of the program of large-scale command and staff exercises of the Southern Military District troops will be held at the Opuk military training ground. This was reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.

The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.

The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with President of the Republic of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania discussed issues of alliance and security in Transcaucasia.

China has already defeated the United States in an arms race using cyber capabilities, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), The Drive reports a statement by former Pentagon software director Nicholas Chaillan.

The strengthening of NATO and the United States leads to the preservation of a high level of tension in Eastern Europe, said Anatoly Sidorov, chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatiana Moskalkova, stated the need to create a single database of people affected by military conflicts.

The deadline for the readiness of the country's first military commissariat, modernized as part of a large-scale project of the Russian Defense Ministry, has become known.

It is planned to open in the Tver region by the beginning of the spring draft-2022. This was announced by the governor of the region Igor Rudenya. "The new digital military enlistment office should become a flagship, exemplary facility as part of the further development of the network of military enlistment offices of the Russian Federation," he said after a meeting in Moscow with Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov.