According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the drills will involve 26 warships from the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea Fleets and the Caspian Flotilla, including two submarines, and 34 long-distance, military transport and naval aircraft. The Northern Fleet's Slava-class Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser will lead the naval task force participating in the drills.
The exercises will also involve Tu-160 strategic bombers, Tu-142 and Il-38 anti-submarine warfare planes, as well as Su-33 and Su-30SM fighter jets, according to Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Korolev.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the US, UK and France of preparing to conduct an attack on Syria under the pretext of the use of chemical weapons planned by militants in Idlib.
For his part, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on August 30 that the White Helmets had kidnapped 44 children to stage an incident with chemical weapons in Syria's Idlib.
The United States' Nuclear Posture Review, released in January 2018, indicated that "great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security," US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a speech introducing the document, Reuters reported. He indicated specifically Russia and China as adversaries, which he called "revisionist powers" that "seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models."
"Objectively the purpose of the large military drills by China and Russia is self-evident. Some hegemonic powers target China and Russia as their biggest threats, giving heavy blows to the two countries in political, economic and military areas. Such actions have severely threatened regional and even global peace and stability. Therefore, China-Russia alliance is a reasonable stance against the hegemonic impulse and for safeguarding peace and stability of the region and the world."
This coming October, Norway, on Russia's western border, is scheduled to host the largest NATO drills in decades, Sputnik reported. From October 25 to November 7, 35,000 NATO soldiers will carry out the Trident Juncture exercises.
China's Xian H-6K bombers, which have been patrolling the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, will participate in the International Army Games on July 28 in southern Russia and parts of the Caucasus for the first time, according to a spokesman from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force on Thursday. China will join Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Iran in the war games.
"The landing of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft in April will end our obligations under the contract with NASA related to the transportation of American astronauts to the ISS and return from the station," Borisov said in the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation at the opening of a meeting on prospects of manned spaceflights.
Earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense warned that the so-called White Helmets had delivered a large shipment of toxic substances to local armed militant groups that have been plotting to stage a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib.
The US Navy's Los Angeles-class submarine USS Newport News armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles has entered the port of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar Chronicle reported.
To that end, the destroyer USS The Sullivans armed with 56 cruise missiles arrived in the Persian Gulf a couple of days ago, while a US ?-1? bomber carrying 24 air-to-surface AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles had been deployed to Al Udeid air base in Qatar, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
Last Sunday, Konashenkov warned that militants from the Tahrir al-Sham group were preparing to stage a provocation in Idlib province in order to accuse Syrian government forces of using chemical weapons against civilians.
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The exercises will also involve Tu-160 strategic bombers, Tu-142 and Il-38 anti-submarine warfare planes, as well as Su-33 and Su-30SM fighter jets, according to Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Korolev.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the US, UK and France of preparing to conduct an attack on Syria under the pretext of the use of chemical weapons planned by militants in Idlib.
For his part, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on August 30 that the White Helmets had kidnapped 44 children to stage an incident with chemical weapons in Syria's Idlib.
The United States' Nuclear Posture Review, released in January 2018, indicated that "great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security," US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a speech introducing the document, Reuters reported. He indicated specifically Russia and China as adversaries, which he called "revisionist powers" that "seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models."
"Objectively the purpose of the large military drills by China and Russia is self-evident. Some hegemonic powers target China and Russia as their biggest threats, giving heavy blows to the two countries in political, economic and military areas. Such actions have severely threatened regional and even global peace and stability. Therefore, China-Russia alliance is a reasonable stance against the hegemonic impulse and for safeguarding peace and stability of the region and the world."
This coming October, Norway, on Russia's western border, is scheduled to host the largest NATO drills in decades, Sputnik reported. From October 25 to November 7, 35,000 NATO soldiers will carry out the Trident Juncture exercises.
China's Xian H-6K bombers, which have been patrolling the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, will participate in the International Army Games on July 28 in southern Russia and parts of the Caucasus for the first time, according to a spokesman from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force on Thursday. China will join Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Iran in the war games.
"The landing of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft in April will end our obligations under the contract with NASA related to the transportation of American astronauts to the ISS and return from the station," Borisov said in the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation at the opening of a meeting on prospects of manned spaceflights.
Earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense warned that the so-called White Helmets had delivered a large shipment of toxic substances to local armed militant groups that have been plotting to stage a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib.
The US Navy's Los Angeles-class submarine USS Newport News armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles has entered the port of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar Chronicle reported.
To that end, the destroyer USS The Sullivans armed with 56 cruise missiles arrived in the Persian Gulf a couple of days ago, while a US ?-1? bomber carrying 24 air-to-surface AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles had been deployed to Al Udeid air base in Qatar, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
Last Sunday, Konashenkov warned that militants from the Tahrir al-Sham group were preparing to stage a provocation in Idlib province in order to accuse Syrian government forces of using chemical weapons against civilians.