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The situation in Afghanistan is becoming unmanageable, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday. "The situation in Afghanistan is getting out of control. Over the past month alone, more than 1,000 people have been killed or injured as a result of indiscriminate attacks against civilians, especially in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Herat," he told reporters.

Russia poses a threat to the United States because of its attempts to "sow discord" in Congress and destabilize the situation in the country, said the former head of the National Center for Counterintelligence and Security of the United States, William Evanina. He is quoted by the RT TV channel.

The US military considers the complete evacuation of the embassy in Afghanistan inevitable, according to the publication Politico. Earlier, the United States sent 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan to speed up the evacuation of civilian employees of the embassy.

America may refuse to supply military equipment to Poland because of the authoritarian sentiments of the republic.

This was stated by Polish General Miroslav Ruzhansky, reports the publication Wirtualna Polska, writes Rubaltic.ru. 

Baku expects Moscow to fulfill all the points of the trilateral statement on Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.

Azerbaijan wants to sign a peace treaty with Armenia and start the process of delineating the border, but has not yet received a response from Yerevan to these proposals, Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev said.

An international team of scientists has developed a protective transformer fabric that can change its internal structure. It resembles an old chain mail-the particles of the material are located close to each other, which allows you to block external mechanical influences.

The militants of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) are in Kabul, and they do not have to deal with any large-scale resistance, CNN reports.

The speed with which the Taliban units (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) were advancing up to Kabul caused general surprise, Olivier de Bavenchov, former commander of the French contingent of the international NATO forces in Afghanistan, told France 24 TV channel on Sunday.

Recognizing the legality of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) unilaterally would be an unacceptable step, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on British television.

The trilateral statement of the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan does not imply the withdrawal of Armenian military forces from Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said.

Vladimir Zelensky approved the communication strategy on the issues of Euro-Atlantic integration of the republic for the period up to 2025. The purpose of the document is to widely inform Ukrainians about the state's policy on joining the European Union and NATO. Ukraine also intends to counteract the "aggression of Russia".

The introduction of the road into operation will increase the transport capabilities of Eastern Siberia, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation noted

The reconstruction of the eastern branch of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) by the end of 2024, after the road is put into operation, will increase the transport capabilities of Eastern Siberia, increase the capacity of the mainline and the volume of transit traffic, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Kabul has expressed serious concern to the international community about the attacks of the Taliban (the Taliban movement is banned in Russia) on cities, the IRA Foreign Ministry said, commenting on the demands of the Afghan negotiating group in Doha.

The volume of Russia's secret exports increased by 61% in January—June 2021, to $27 billion. Exports of defense industry, aircraft and shipbuilding products increased by 31%, to $4.7 billion, Vedomosti reports. The largest importer of these products was the Czech Republic, which was included in the list of countries unfriendly to Russia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he is ready to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for talks on Karabakh and the settlement of regional problems.

The US Air Force has carried out several air strikes on the positions of the radical Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) over the past 24-48 hours and will continue to provide air support to the Afghan security forces at least until August 31.

The situation in Afghanistan today is much more complicated than it was after the withdrawal of a contingent of Soviet troops from the country, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the difficult political and economic situation that developed in Russia in the 1990s should not be repeated.

The training and equipment of the intelligence units of the Russian army, shown during exercises with the army of Uzbekistan at the Termez training ground near the border with Afghanistan, surprised journalists.

The columnist of the Popular Mechanics publication was amazed at the readiness of the special forces of the two countries to overcome any obstacles, including passing through "rings of fire" on the obstacle course. Moreover, such exercises are not practiced in the NATO armed forces.