The deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus will begin as soon as adaptation work at the relevant storage facilities is completed, around the first week of July.

- Russian President informed his Belarusian counterpart on Friday.

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Belgium will give Kyiv 105-mm artillery shells for 32.4 million euros

Ammunition is planned to be purchased from the Belgian industry and delivered to Ukraine in a short time.

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CHINA – PLA troops with shields and spears practicing the Bahubali defense posture on the Indo-Tibetan border region.

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The Indian Navy’s two carriers operating together for the first time.

Days after the Indian Navy’s two aircraft carriers INS Vikramaditya and the indigenous INS Vikrant were spotted by satellite imagery experts sailing together in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Navy today unveiled that the mission was part of a multi-carrier operations demonstration involving both carrier groups, including more than 35 aircraft off India’s eastern seaboard.

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Taiwan: The next global crisis is already here

The end of the war in Ukraine is not in sight, but the world is already deep in the next potential crisis: a conflict in Taiwan. Kissinger, who celebrated his 100th birthday in May, estimates, in an interview with The Economist, that the conduct of the powers around Taiwan will determine whether they manage to avoid a third world war.

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The Indian Army is the world's second-largest military force, with 1.3 million active personnel in its ranks.

On Saturday it shared a video of its soldiers honing their combat engineering skills in the mountainous terrain of the Jammu and Kashmir region.

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BREAKING – Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces during his today's visit in Kyiv, Canada will send 76 Roshel Senator armored vehicles to Ukraine.

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Germany is advancing plans to purchase Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system for some 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion), the Reuters news agency reported Saturday.

According to the report, citing German finance ministry procurement documents, German lawmakers will be asked to release advance payments of up to 560 million euros ($600 million) next week in order to secure a government-to-government deal with Israel of the Arrow 3 system at the end of the year.

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Map of activity of armed groups in Eastern Congo in 2023

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RARE – France: Airbus Tiger flyover at Le Mans race today.

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ISRAEL –IDF has set up a new intelligence unit for Iran's war preparation.

The new Israeli unit works with the army's Space Intelligence Unit 9900 and focuses on studying Iranian combat techniques and compiling a long list of targets for bombing.

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UKRAINE – The Russians in the trenches say that they are in the Zaporizhzhia region forever, behind them is Tokmak, everything is great with them, and at this moment, a greeting from the Armed Forces flew nearby.

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UPDATE – Israeli Air Force simulated strikes on 5,000 targets in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza during large war drill this month.

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Ukraine's accession to NATO is currently supported by 20 member countries of the alliance. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ihor Zhovkva.

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The U.S. Army has named its first new combat vehicle in nearly four decades the M10 Booker after two soldiers killed in action, one in the Iraq War and the other in World War II.

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Captured patches of Russian servicemen in the Zaporizhzhia direction after the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had begun.

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Vietnam in talks to buy Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from India

Vietnam is looking to buy between 3 to 5 batteries of Brahmos. This deal could grow upto 625 million USD.

Vietnam's defence minister is visiting India on June 19th & Brahmos will likely be discussed.

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UKRAINE – Destruction of Russian ammunition depots in the direction of Taurian.

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The Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, Lieutenant-General Viktor Khrenin, visited the anti-aircraft missile unit, where the latest S-400 anti-aircraft missile system was put into service.

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