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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar discussed issues related to ensuring the security of the Kabul airport after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.

The Russian-American dialogue on strategic stability should take into account the US program for launching strike weapons into space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, speaking on July 8 at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with a lecture on "Russia's international activities for the development of Russian regions".

As part of a tactical flight exercise with a military transport aviation regiment taking place in the Pskov Region, more than 1.2 thousand servicemen of the Pskov Guards Amphibious Assault Unit were landed at the Kislovo landing site.

Teams of military engineers of the armed forces of India, Venezuela, Tajikistan, Laos and Afghanistan will take part for the first time in the international stage of the "Safe Route" competition ArMI-2021, which will be held in the Tyumen Region at the Andreevsky training ground at the end of August this year.

The US Special Operations Command has announced its readiness to begin clinical trials of "anti-aging pills" on its employees as soon as funding for the next 2022 is approved. Preclinical tests have already been conducted, no negative effects have been detected. In addition, this is not a drug, but a nutraceutical, the use of which is not controlled by the authorities, and therefore experiments on special forces can be carried out on a large scale.

It became known about the beginning of construction in one of the remote areas of China of a secret facility, which, according to some experts, may become the Chinese equivalent of the notorious American "Zone 51" in the Nevada desert.

The South Korean company Hyundai Rotem has handed over two multi-purpose ground wheeled robots to the army for testing. According to Aju Business Daily, these are the first unmanned vehicles that will be used in the South Korean army. The military tests will last six months.

Currently, experimental molds and rods are being created on a 3D printer for casting parts for promising samples of equipment as part of the diversification of production. The device provides high-speed printing of sand molds of various sizes. So, the creation of the product takes only about 16 hours. All printed forms have sufficient strength, high accuracy of execution and quality.

The South Korean company SK Innovation aims to become one of the three industry leaders by 2022: it will invest $ 26 billion in the production of batteries for electric vehicles to increase it five times.

An operational group headed by the chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, is working out measures to reduce tension on the Tajik-Afghan border, one of the sections of this border has been flown.

The delegation of the Taliban movement * met with the special representative of the President of Russia for Afghanistan, director of the second Department of Asia of the Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov, according to a statement by the political secretary of the movement, which was made available to RIA Novosti.

Tajikistan keeps its border "on a fairly good lock"

There is no need to increase the number of contingents on the Tajik-Afghan border at the expense of personnel from the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, so far Tajikistan only needs material and technical assistance, said Colonel - General Anatoly Sidorov, head of the CSTO Joint Staff.

US President Joe Biden, explaining the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, said that he does not intend to send more and more soldiers there without good reasons.

The Russian military, conducting exercises on Tuesday, did not interfere with the Sea Breeze exercise, which involves ships of NATO countries and their partners, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.

Russia is ready to use the capabilities of the 201st military base in Tajikistan to protect its allies in connection with the situation in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Laos, RIA Novosti reports.

Military instructors of the 201st military base of the Russian Federation are conducting intensive training of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, a total of 1 thousand servicemen of the republic will be trained this year, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Wednesday.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the UPVS-5 installation for obtaining water in the Arctic is being developed.

During the land phase of the Sea Breeze 2021 exercise, the multinational tactical group worked out actions in conditions when the routes of movement of troops are blocked by the local population.

The active phase has begun in the coastal component of the Sea Breeze exercise, which will end with the development of joint actions to eliminate "illegal armed groups". The trainings are planned so that the conditions are as close as possible to the combat ones.

Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi described the military situation in the country as critical.