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The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is ahead of schedule, the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said on May 27 during a hearing in the US Congress on military spending for the 2022 fiscal year.

The company "Stankoprom", which is under the management of "RT-Capital" of the State Corporation Rostec, and the German manufacturer TRAWEMA GMBH signed an agreement on the localization of production of mobile turning and milling complexes that have no analogues in Russia. 

Moscow calls on the United Kingdom to stop destructive and destabilizing activities near the Russian borders, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on May 26.

Earlier, the draft document proposed to take into account the opinion of the Federation Council

The director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia and his deputies will be appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Minister of Defense, not the Prime Minister.

NtechLab, one of the world leaders in the field of biometric technologies and a technology partner of the State Corporation Rostec, won the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) competition of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the US Department of Commerce (NIST).

The United Engine Corporation of Rostec is expanding the use of robotic technological complexes in the production of parts for aircraft gas turbine engines. Five robotic lines are included in the production chain of PJSC UEC-Saturn, and two more robotics projects are included in the investment program for 2021-2023. 

For the first time in Russian history, the United Engine Corporation Rostec designed the VK-1600V helicopter engine only using 3D modeling. All design documentation of the power plant demonstrator created at UEC-Klimov has been released in electronic form.

An explosion occurred at an air base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near Tehran, the portal Disclose reported on May 25.tv on your Twitter.

The United States reaffirmed its commitment to dialogue with Russia to reduce the risks of incidents on the high seas and in the airspace above it, the US Navy said following bilateral consultations.

The United States does not yet consider it possible to withdraw its military from Syria, as they continue to carry out the main mission - the fight against ISIL (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), Pentagon press Secretary John Kirby told reporters.

The Chinese side three times refused to accept a phone call from the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, who, in violation of protocol, requested a conversation not with the Minister of Defense, but with a higher-ranking official. This was reported on May 26 by the South China Morning Post, citing military sources.

Press Secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov noted that May 26 is the Day of Russian Entrepreneurship

On May 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a videoconference meeting on economic issues and a regular defense-related meeting dedicated to the state defense order in Sochi. This was reported to journalists by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratified the agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan on military cooperation, which was signed in Nur-Sultan on October 16, 2020.

The head of the Belarusian Defense Ministry, Viktor Khrenin, said on Wednesday, May 26, that NATO's activity near the borders of the republic looks like measures of early preparation for military operations.

Five joint exercises will be held this fall by the military contingents of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the CSTO Joint Staff (OSH) said on Tuesday.

They plan to involve about 250 military personnel of the Indian Armed Forces and about 250 military personnel of the Southern Military District

International joint Russian-Indian tactical exercises "Indra-2021" will be held from August 1 to 15, 2021 at the Prudboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

The President of the Russian Federation noted a qualitative increase in the level of training of the command staff

The vast majority of commanders of formations and regiments of the Russian Armed Forces have passed through Syria and rely on this combat experience in the training of units and divisions. This was stated on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a series of defense meetings in Sochi.

At the Russian military base of the Southern Military District (SE) in Abkhazia, the number of people wishing to enter military service under a contract has increased.

In 2017, the defense agency DARPA sponsored the University of Michigan for $3.6 million to work on the "Morpheus"computer processor project. Three years later, it was ready and large-scale tests began with the involvement of accredited hackers and information security specialists. Of the 525 participants, none managed to crack the chip because it changed its architecture every 0.1 seconds.

The 16th round of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security issues was held in Moscow.

They were conducted by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the head of the office of the CPC Central Committee Commission on Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi.