RUSSIA – "The Adopted NATO strategy towards the Russian Federation shows the correctness of Moscow's decisions to end the official dialogue."

"NATO is leading the way to turn the Black Sea into an arena of confrontation, this is a very dangerous path - Kremlin spokesperson Peskov

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🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy USS Carl Vinson and her escorts as seen from the deck of 🇬🇧⚓ HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Philippine Sea.

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China's survey ship Haiyang Dizhi 10 leaves Indonesian waters again. Looks like it is going to take a break during the ASEAN summit.

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SYRIA – Combat patrol by a pair of Mi-25 helicopters of the Syrian Air Force.

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⚓ A lone minesweeper MSC-689 Aoshima of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces and a joint detachment of PLA and Russian Navy ships in the Sangar Strait (Tsugaru) separating the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. October 18, 2021.

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🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy video showing the USS Charleston (LCS 18) rotating in the US 7th Fleet area of ​​operations.

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🇬🇧⚓ UK Navy chief Tony Radakin arrives in India on three-day visit Radakin met Indian Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh 

Radakin will also embark on aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth , flagship of the UK's Carrier Strike Group 21 , which is at the Mumbai coast currently for joint exercises with the Indian Navy.

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⚓ INDIAN NAVY – New aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on sea trials. October 24, 2021.

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An-225 Mriya's take off from the Tianjin Binhai International Airport in northeastern China. October 25, 2021.

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Pakistani and Turkish Air Force exercises ACES Meet 2021-2 have begun in Pakistan. Representatives of Uzbekistan and Great Britain invited as observers.

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SYRIA – In response to increased attacks on them by Russia and Assad's forces, Erdogan-backed/Turkey-funded islamists have began shelling Syrian civilian areas, including this school, while retreating towards Turkey.

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👀 WATCH – 🇺🇦⚡For the first time, the Ukrainian army admitted the fact of combat use of the Bayraktar TB2 UAV in Donbass

The artillery position of the DPR people's militia was attacked, apparently, one D-30 gun was destroyed.

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China launched today the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F reconnaissance satellite into orbit using a Kuaizhou-1A launch vehicle launched from a mobile launcher.

The launch took place at 14:19 local time (09:19 Moscow time) from the Jiuquan cosmodrome (Gansu province, Northwest China).

This launch was the 12th launch for the Kuaizhou-1A series launch vehicles.

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🚨 BREAKING – Ukraine: The Ukrainian Army has launched a massive mortar attack on the settlement of Smeloe, which is under the control of Russian troops.

More than three dozen 120-mm mines have been reported to have dropped.

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SYRIA – This entire morning Turkey sent scores of Turkish troops and military convoys as reinforcements to besieged Erdogan-backed islamists in Idlib.

The area is now infested with Turks.

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SYRIA – Aware of Turkish troops flooding into Idlib to reinforce the besieged jihadists, Russia, Iran and Assad's forces continue to relentlessly shell the positions where the Erdogan-backed jihadists are held up, in an attempt to completely finish them off.

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