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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".

Alexander Fomin also noted the high level of organization of the event

The holding of competitions of the International Army Games in Algeria will further strengthen the bilateral military cooperation between the two countries.

Military-economic cooperation was discussed in Belgrade at a meeting of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova and Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

About 300 Russian military personnel and more than 60 pieces of equipment have been transferred to Kyrgyzstan for the CSTO "Rubezh-2021" maneuvers, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

This was stated by Ivan Ozhgikhin, Senior Managing Director of RUSNANO Management Company, Chairman of the Management Board of the Medical Equipment Consortium, at the Innomed forum. Currently, up to 30% of the volume of medical products purchased at the expense of the budget is already produced in Russia.

Roscosmos has already shared the first details about the Russian space station ROSS, which is planned to be launched after the completion of the ISS operation. Now new details have become known. 

The American company Astra launched the Rocket 3 light rocket for the third time, but again unsuccessfully: during the launch, one of the five engines of the first stage failed, so the flight began on a horizontal trajectory.

The threat to American forces in Afghanistan from the IG (the terrorist group "Islamic State", banned in the Russian Federation) is real, Washington is ready for new attacks. This was stated by the head of the US central command, General Kenneth Mackenzie.

The phase of the CIS exercises "Caspian-Antiterrorism-2021" has started in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, the press service of the National Security Committee of the republic reported.

Servicemen of the fifth naval construction battalion of the US Navy (NMCB-5) began to build copies of military equipment from wood. The military erected plywood copies of Humvee cars. The models are designed to equip the 17th combat logistics regiment during the exercises, writes the Defense Blog portal.

Against the background of the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold maneuvers in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan this autumn with the participation of several thousand military personnel, a CSTO representative said.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu called for building an effective defense against anti-Russian propaganda coming from abroad. The military commander made such a statement at the conference " Army and Society. Psychological defense" within the framework of the ongoing international military-technical forum "Army-2021". According to him, at present, "deep work is being carried out against us gradually, step by step."

Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan received a delegation headed by First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Hassan Kaloev, in Yerevan on Friday, the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reports.