RUSSIA – The Kremlin warned on Monday that any expansion of NATO military infrastructure in Ukraine would cross one of President Vladimir Putin's "red lines", and Belarus said it had agreed to take action with Moscow to counter growing NATO activity.

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🇹🇼 TAIWAN – 6 Chinese PLA aircraft entered Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on September 27, 2021.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian soldier participates in "Rapid Trident-2021" Exercise, which continues this week with over 6,200 personnel from NATO Allies and partners to support joint interoperability.

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🇺🇸 700 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters delivered to customers... 🌐

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JUST IN – Greece to buy three frigates from France as part of a deeper "strategic partnership" between the two countries to defend their shared interests in the Mediterranean, French President Macron announced Tuesday.

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Russian military inspectors are visiting an unspecified British military facility today in accordance with the Vienna Document of 2011 on Confidence and Security-Building Measures, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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RUSSIA – Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft and Ka-29 helicopters of the Pacific Fleet conducted exercises in Kamchatka.

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🇽🇰 KOSOVO – Combat art from the Kosovo Armed Forces

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🇩🇪 Germany has contracted five Boeing P-8A Poseidon base patrol aircraft, with the first aircraft to be delivered starting in 2024. Germany became the eighth customer of this aircraft.

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🇹🇼 TAIWAN – The government signed a contract with the United States worth US$50.48 million to maintain and repair ground facilities for its Patriot PAC-3 missiles, according to reports.

The deal came as China has been sending fighter jets to Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) almost daily for more than a year, while modernizing its air force, navy and missiles.

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A British warship has video and photographic evidence of possible North Korea sanctions violations:

-HMS Richmond gathered intel in the East China Sea
-Tracked ships not previously known to the U.N.
-U.K. defense ministry did not reveal specific details

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🇯🇵 JAPAN – 🇨🇵⚓French Navy reconnaissance ship Dupuy de Lome docks at Sasebo, Sep. 27.

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JUST IN – After the completion of the large-scale exercise Zapad-2021, the last echelon with the Russian military and equipment allegedly left the territory of Belarus.

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RUSSIA – The opening ceremony of the joint Russian-Pakistani military exercise "Friendship-2021"

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RUSSIA – Joint actions of Russian and Mongolian units in the exercise "Selenga-2021"

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CHINA –Demonstration flight of the main Chinese attack UAV Wing Loong 2 at the exhibition in Zhuhai.

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⚠️ URGENT – Syria: Clashes between pro-Turkish militants took place in the Syrian city of Azaz today.

The reason was the detention of two women with forged documents. One of the groups ordered to release them. The "police" refused to do so.

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