🇺🇸⚔🇺🇦 According to U.S. officials to NBC, U.S. & NATO alliance members are working together to arrange the delivery of Stinger shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine. A new U.S. package of military aid to Ukraine has also been prepared.

If Russia seizes more territory in Ukraine, the U.S. will lend support to Ukrainian resistance fighters and expand NATO military presence in Eastern Europe.

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Russia continues to strengthen its Black Sea Fleet:

Sredne-Nevsky built, ВМФ Project12700 ЧФ BSF 68th Coastal Defense Ship Brigade, 150th Tactical Group’s Aleksandrit-class mine countermeasures vessel Georgiy Kurbatov was towed thru Bosphorus for the first time towards BlackSea.

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URGENT – DEVELOPING: Kazakhstan National Security Committee says its former head Karim Massimov is detained on suspicion of treason.

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🇷🇺🇰🇿 The main forces of the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forces are being transferred to Kazakhstan from airfields in the Moscow region (video 1), Ulyanovsk and Ivanovsk regions (2), according to the Russian Ministry of Defense

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🇺🇦 Interesting revelations from Ukrainian commandos on the front line in Donbas: Russia's Orlan-10 UAV has been upgraded to operate at an altitude of up to 6.5 km, making the drone invulnerable to the current Ukrainian EW in the zone.

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US Selected Albania as Special Operations Forces forward headquarters.

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Only a handful number of Su-24MK2 strike bombers are left operational in service of #Syria Arab Air Force including this one with 3515 serial number. They are all based in T4/Tiyas AB. They are still a nightmare for the #Turkey backed terror groups. (Credit: Fighter Bomber)

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The U.S. Army has reported that its new artillery system, developed under the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) program, has broken the record for firing highest velocity.

According to a press release issued Thursday by service, in early August the ERCA weapon system made history by firing at the highest velocity on record with this program at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG).

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BREAKING – Pakistan officially deploys Turkish BAYRAKTAR TB-2 DRONE, according to Turkish and Pakistani media

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See what the #Pakistani media says

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Belarus troops at Zhetigen AB in #Kazakhstan

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China's research vessel Shi Yan 6 and USNS Effective are sailing close to each other. What are they trying to search?

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🇺🇸 US military commercial transport convoy of 🇸🇾 Syrian stolen crude oil heading to Al-Waleed border crossing, #Iraq. 🇮🇶

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BREAKING – Yemeni media: Saudi warplanes carry out some ‎60 airstrikes across Yemen in past 24 hours.

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KAZAKHSTAN – Russian "peacekeepers" are using Orlan-10 drones to monitor the surroundings of the Alma-Ata airport, RIA Novosti reports.

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SYRIA – Turkish military attacks and destroys Syrian terrorist army bases in Aleppo.

TAIWAN – The parliament passed an additional spending bill of nearly 9.59 billion euros in its latest attempt to bolster defense capabilities against an increasingly bellicose China.

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