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Shipments of international technical assistance from the United States arrived at Kiev's Boryspil airport on Sunday, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.

Also, the press secretary of the service, Valeria Reshetnikova, reported that military-technical cooperation with Afghanistan is not being carried out at the moment

The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation is not engaged in copying any American equipment, including those left by US forces in Afghanistan. This was announced to TASS on Sunday by the press secretary of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) of Russia, Valeria Reshetnikova.

The Polish consortium Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) has signed an agreement for the development and supply of a short-range anti-aircraft missile system codenamed Narew. According to Breaking Defense, almost all of its components will be Polish, with the exception of interceptors and launchers. Poles will buy them from a foreign partner, whom they have not yet chosen.

On Wednesday, October 6, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his generals summed up the results of the largest Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "WEST-2021" this year. According to Shoigu, the maneuvers demonstrated the increased training of troops, the ability of the created interspecific groups of the two states to effectively carry out tasks to ensure regional security. "I consider the objectives of the exercise to have been achieved, the training issues have been worked out in full," the Defense Minister concluded.

The joint exercises of Russia and Belarus "WEST-2021" have officially ended, leaving behind the "main question" to the Russian army, Breaking Defense writes.

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said that Georgia should always be ready to join NATO and believes that a political decision on Georgia's accession to the alliance will mature in NATO very soon.

Special forces of Russia and Pakistan seized buildings held by a conditional enemy during the joint exercises "Friendship-2021" in the Kuban. This was reported on Thursday, October 7, by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The UN member states are implementing a policy of deploying weapons in outer space, building up the potential of forceful influence (both kinetic and non-kinetic) on space objects, the Foreign Ministry stressed.

The NATO leadership has stripped the accreditation of 8 members of the Russian mission, accusing them of espionage, writes Le Figaro.

And it will be impossible to appoint new people to these posts, so only 10 people remain to represent Russia at the alliance.

NATO's decision to reduce the Russian mission almost completely undermines the prospects for normalization of relations between Russia and the alliance, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

Ukraine stated that the energy security of this country is an integral component of the protection of the Euro-Atlantic region from the notorious "Russian hybrid threat". In particular, the head of the Ukrainian GTS Operator called on NATO to get Moscow to maintain gas transit through the "Nezalezhnaya" in the amount of at least 45 billion cubic meters per year.

The decision to reduce the size of the Russian mission to NATO is not related to any specific cases, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that he discussed security issues in the Black Sea at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, and the countries will cooperate to achieve this goal.

Over 4.5 thousand tactical exercises have been conducted in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation since December last year

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the plans for combat training of the Armed Forces for 2021 have been fully implemented.

The oldest defense organization of Russia and the All-Russian Cossack Society (VSCO) have signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed by the chairman of the DOSAAF of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Kolmakov and the ataman of the VSKO Nikolai Doluda.

Russia and China believe that the military-biological activities of the United States and its allies pose a threat to their national security, the Russian and Chinese Foreign ministers said in a joint statement.

US military instructors have been conducting secret activities in Taiwan for more than a year in order to strengthen its defense capabilities. This was reported on Thursday, October 7, by The Wall Street Journal.

The US Marine Corps (KMP) is equipped with its own aircraft and armored forces, which causes a wide arsenal of weapons of this kind of troops. The author of the publication 19FortyFive compiled a list and named the deadliest weapons samples of the USMC.

Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben-Zvi denied the presence of the military of the Jewish state in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, calling the reports about this fantasy and great stupidity.

Ukraine and Georgia will join NATO, but this is not a matter of tomorrow, while the alliance should increase support for Kiev and Tbilisi, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.