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Former US President Donald Trump said that the problems that America faced when withdrawing troops from Afghanistan were caused by the incompetence of President Joe Biden.

The International military-technical Forum "Army-2021" is held from August 22 to 28

A delegation of the Armenian Defense Ministry headed by Minister Arshak Karapetyan will travel to the Russian Federation to participate in the opening ceremonies of the Army-2021 military-industrial exhibition and the International Army Games. This was reported on Sunday by the press service of the department.

According to the ministry, one of the most significant events will be the congress " Diversification of the Defense Industry. Transformation of the production base"

The scientific and business program of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", which started on Sunday, will allow determining priority areas for the development of the military-industrial complex, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

According to the results of 2021, all military personnel will receive a one-time payment of 15 thousand rubles, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The President stressed that the military are the same citizens of the Russian Federation, but it is still a "special detachment"

Russian President Vladimir Putin assured the servicemen that the authorities will continue to provide them with comprehensive support.

The Taliban Resistance Movement (an organization banned in the Russian Federation), which controls the Panjshir province, expresses its readiness for both a coalition with the Taliban and a war.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that Kiev continues to count on the supply of weapons from Germany. "We have applied to the German government regarding the supply of weapons (to Ukraine - IF) and received refusals in one form or another, because I would really like to, and we are really working - within the framework of exercises, within the framework of NATO exercises," Zelensky said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry takes an active offensive position, the potential of the domestic diplomatic service works very pragmatically, precisely in the national interests of Russia, President Vladimir Putin said.

A new type of war - mental-is becoming today the most important tool of interstate confrontation, adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Andrey Ilnitsky said at a conference on Sunday.

The evacuation of civilians carried out by the United States at the Kabul airport is likely to become the second largest operation of its kind in American history, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces Mark Milley said on Wednesday.

There are no prerequisites for the entry of the Russian military contingent into Afghanistan, Russia will focus on political and diplomatic efforts, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

US President Joe Biden said that the agreement of his predecessor Donald Trump with representatives of the Taliban movement (recognized as a terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation) helped to avoid attacks on the US military in Afghanistan.

US intelligence allowed the fall of the Afghan government towards the end of this year, but there was no consensus on this. At the same time, no one foresaw that the army of this country would collapse so soon, US President Joe Biden said in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, August 18.

The United States can maintain its military contingent in Afghanistan even after August 31, if by that time it will not be possible to evacuate all its citizens from the Islamic Republic, said the head of the White House Joe Biden.

A 3D environment of the training ground and a model of the upcoming battle were created on the interactive screen

Servicemen of the Eastern Military District at the Russian-Lao exercises "Laros-2021" in Primorye simulated a battle with an illegal armed group using interactive equipment with artificial intelligence. This was reported on Thursday by the press service of the district.

It would not be difficult for the special purpose unit of the Soviet foreign intelligence "Vimpel" to carry out tasks on the territory of the United States unnoticed, Valery Popov, president of the Vimpel Veterans Association, told RIA Novosti in an interview.

The administration of US President Donald Trump never planned to completely withdraw the American contingent from Afghanistan. On August 18, the Defense One edition writes about this, citing the words of the former acting US Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.

Opponents of the Taliban (the Taliban is a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) have asked the United States and the West to supply weapons and equipment to fight against the Taliban movement that has seized power in the country.

The resistance fighters of the Panjshir province, which is not controlled by the Taliban, have asked Western countries to help them with weapons. This is stated in a statement by their leader Ahmad Masood, published on August 18 in The Washington Post.

The reaction time and decision-making is much faster, but the machine itself does not yet know how to think, said Mikhail Osyko, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia

The current level of development of artificial intelligence in the Russian Federation allows it to be used for target recognition and assistance in piloting. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS on the eve of the international forum "Army-2021" by Mikhail Osyko, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of the Russian Federation.