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Israeli fighter jets attacked targets in southern Lebanon early on Thursday morning, The Jerusalem Post reports.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin may this week request permission from US President Joe Biden to oblige all military personnel on active duty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, CNN reports.

Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will develop common approaches and work out new ways of conducting combat operations at the exercises near the border with Afghanistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The government of Afghanistan and the Taliban militants (banned in the Russian Federation) are still far from reaching a peace agreement, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said.

The United States will continue to support the armed and security forces of Afghanistan and carry out air strikes against the Taliban to demonstrate this. This was stated on Tuesday by Pentagon press Secretary John Kirby.

A lockdown in Russia in the spring of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic threatened to disrupt the supply of weapons and military equipment under the state defense order and for export in the amount of several trillion rubles, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.

With the arrival of Vladimir Lepin as general director of the Kalashnikov Concern, the export potential of the enterprise will be fully realized, Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The appointment of a new head of the Group of Companies will be considered at a meeting of the Board of Directors on August 10

The former head of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) Dmitry Tarasov left his post in connection with the transition to another job. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In the largest weapons concern Kalashnikov, the general director will be replaced, the name of the new head is Vladimir Lepin.

Now he is acting as CEO instead of Dmitry Tarasov, who left at his own request, who headed the concern since September 2019. A purely formal decision on the change of management will be made at a meeting of the board of directors on August 10.

The opening ceremony of the international exercise "Indra-2021" was held at the Prudoboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the head of the press service of the Southern Military District Vadim Astafyev told reporters.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that under the leadership of Vladimir Lepin, the heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 and the remote mining engineering system "Agriculture"were started and brought to state tests.

Iran will be able to achieve a breakthrough in the development of nuclear weapons in 10 weeks, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said at a meeting with diplomats of states that are members of the UN Security Council.

According to the results of working out several scenarios of war games in order to check the combat readiness of the US army units by the Pentagon in October last year, the latter suffered a crushing defeat.

The commander of the Second Fleet of the US Navy, Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, told RIA Novosti that he assesses cooperation with the Russian military as "adequate" and considers its development possible.

Also, on August 27-29, more than 15 units of military equipment will be presented at the forum site

The events of the military-technical forum of the Southern Military District "Army" in Kaspiysk (Republic of Dagestan) will include a demonstration of the combat capabilities of the ship group of the Caspian Flotilla. More than 30 crews of ships, vessels and boats will be involved in the demonstration, the press service of the military district told reporters on Tuesday.

Canada condemns Iran's attack on the Mercer Street tanker and demands that Tehran be held accountable, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Twitter.

Among the applicants-girls to the Krasnodar flight School-12 people per place, to the Military Medical Academy-more than 20. Suvorov students and cadets were children from Tajikistan, Syria, Mongolia, South Ossetia and for the first time - from Laos.

NATO condemned the attack on the tanker MV Mercer Street, "is concerned about Iran's destabilizing actions in the region," the alliance said in a statement.

Military railway workers during the reconstruction of the Baikal-Amur mainline must hand over 19 objects in 3.5 years. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

According to preliminary data, about 1.5 thousand enterprises will take part in the event

To date, representatives of military departments from 81 countries have expressed a desire to attend the International military-technical forum, which will be held at the end of August in the Moscow region. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a conference call.