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The tasks of engineering support in the preparation of combat operations are worked out at a joint tactical exercise by units of the armed forces of Belarus and Russia. It began on Tuesday at the 230th combined arms training ground Obuz-Lesnovsky, seventeen kilometers from Baranovichi, the military department of the Republic of Belarus informs.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that a critical situation is developing in Afghanistan. "The situation in this country is critical. People are trying to escape from there even at the cost of their own lives," Shoigu said on a conference call on Tuesday.

About 300 units of military equipment were involved

Tactical exercises with the participation of more than 1.5 thousand servicemen of the motorized rifle and tank regiments of the army corps of the Baltic Fleet were held in the Kaliningrad region at one of the military training grounds, the press service of the fleet reported on Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it is unacceptable to turn Afghanistan into a territory of flourishing terrorism and drug trafficking after the withdrawal of American troops from there.

Son of the founder of the terrorist movement "Taliban "(banned in Russia) Mullah Yakub Akhund has been appointed as the Minister of Defense of Afghanistan. This was reported on August 31 by an informed source.

The first pictures of abandoned American planes that were inherited by representatives of the Taliban appeared (movement is prohibited in Russia). Business Insider published photos of cargo planes of the Afghan Air Force at the Kabul airport on Tuesday, August 31.

About 8 thousand people have already visited mobile selection points for military service under the contract within the framework of the "Army International Games-2021" (ArMI) and the "Army" forum, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Tuesday.

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, who is on a working visit to Moscow, discussed at a meeting with the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zasem the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Armenian Foreign Ministry reports.

The militants of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) will not be able to use for military purposes the abandoned American military equipment at the Kabul airport, said Pentagon press Secretary John Kirby.

The Japanese surface robot developed by Japan Marine United has been put to the test. According to Naval News, it will be placed on a new generation frigate of the Mogami class. The device will work in tandem with the OZZ-5 underwater robot and neutralize mines.

The fears of citizens of the CSTO member states about the possible sending of soldiers to Afghanistan are groundless, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said on the air of the STV TV channel on Sunday.

Military-technical cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia may be a blow to the United States, writes the Polish edition of Defence24.

France will maintain its military presence in Iraq even if the United States completely leaves the country. This was announced on Sunday, August 29, by French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with TF1 TV channel.

The environmental division of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) of Kamchatka has started carrying out garbage collection in the Arctic, the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet reported on Monday.

The Russian Armed Forces have completed special exercises on the types of support for the actions of troops (forces), the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Russian peacekeepers conducted a training session to prevent possible violations with the use of unmanned aircraft of a simulated enemy and to ensure security at observation posts in the Lachin corridor of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a planned combat training session. This was announced by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Monday, August 30.

It was created on the basis of a separate repair and restoration battalion of the Baltic Fleet.

The idea of creating such a park was born a year ago. The sectors united by a single concept include a platform for displaying equipment, an alley of cars, an exhibition of weapons samples and a battalion club.

After the failure of the United States in Afghanistan and the sudden withdrawal of troops from Kabul, the eyes of the whole world are focused on Mali, writes Le Figaro.

France has announced that its foreign operation in the Sahel zone is over. Experts and local authorities are worried about whether the same scenario will happen there as in Afghanistan, and how to avoid it.

The exercises of the National Armed Forces Namejs 2021, which will be held jointly with NATO countries, will start in Latvia, the local Defense Ministry reports.

Maneuvers with the participation of more than 9 thousand military personnel will be held throughout the country until October 3. One of the official tasks of the training is the implementation of tactical operations in hybrid and conventional conflicts.

The Russian Defense Minister said that 320 samples were tested

Almost all samples of modern Russian weapons were tested during the counter-terrorist operation in Syria. This was announced by the head of the Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu in an exclusive interview for the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live".