Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that she had discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a possible upcoming visit to Indonesia by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“During the talks, we discussed a possible upcoming visit of Vladimir Putin to Indonesia,” Marsudi said.
Recall that the visit of the President of the Russian Federation to Jakarta was planned for 2020, but did not take place due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was assumed that the presidents would sign a declaration on strategic partnership.
Earlier, Sergey Lavrov reported that he and his colleague are “finalizing the declaration on strategic partnership” between the countries, which will be signed later by the heads of state.
The lights suddenly went out all over the base, and a C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft of the US Air Force rose into the sky. So, on the night of July 2, the last American military left the Bagram air Base. Just as suddenly and without notifying Kabul, as they appeared here 20 years ago.
There was no transfer ceremony. Looters immediately appeared at the base, followed by local security forces. Up to 100 thousand soldiers were at the air base during the peak years of the operation against the Taliban.
The Pentagon has left more than 1,000 vehicles at the facility, including dozens of armored vehicles.
In fact, the best hospital in the whole country, according to the telegram channel “Military Observer”, he also remained at the base. Expensive medical equipment, according to local officials, will function.
Radar systems and communications equipment for monitoring the air situation were put back into operation by local specialists. Now the largest military facility in Afghanistan is under the control of government forces, who do not have a clear plan for using the base.
A photo of a French ship appeared near the eastern borders of Russia. The forces and means of the Eastern Military District control the actions of the Dupuy de Lome (A759) electronic intelligence ship of the French Navy in the waters of the Sea of Japan.
The ship was spotted the day before in the port of Hakodate in Japan. This is written by the Telegram channel “Military Observer”.
On June 23, 2006, the French Navy commissioned a new reconnaissance vessel, the Dupuy-de-Lom, named after an outstanding French shipbuilder Dupuy de Loma. Unlike its two predecessors, this vessel is specially designed to accommodate MINREM equipment (French: Moyen Interarmées Naval de Recherche ElectroMagnétique). Its mission is to intercept and analyze all types of signals, including those received using satellites. Minister of DefenseIn this regard, he stressed: “This vessel will carry out strategic interception from satellites, which will allow us to be one step ahead in the fight against terrorism. “The crew of the Dupuy-de-Lom has been reduced to 30 people, about 80 DRM and/or DGSE specialists work on the ship. For the first time in the history of the French navy, this ship was designed and built specifically for conducting electronic intelligence in the interests of DRM and became the successor of the Bougainville.
The radio-electronic equipment of Dupuy-de-Lom includes two navigation radars DRBN-38A, stations of satellite communication systems Syracuse and Inmarsat, a radar radiation warning and identification station of the ARBR-21 radar, radio and radio intelligence complexes. The latter make it possible to detect, locate and conduct technical analysis of radiation from various radars in the frequency range from 300 MHz to 90In addition, it can intercept, track and listen to signals from communication systems (including satellite) in the frequency range from 30 kHz to 100 GHz. The ship’s equipment is capable of intercepting the most modern types of transmissions, including e-mail messages and conversations on mobile phones.
In April 2014, shortly after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, “Dupuy-de-Lom” was present in the Black Sea.
According to the newspaper Rakyat Merdeka, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with Indonesian journalists, said that all unfriendly actions against the Russian side will not remain unanswered, and, moreover, quite tough.
“The result in all directions is possible only through finding a mutually acceptable balance of interests strictly on a parity basis… Attempts to conduct a dialogue with Russia from a position of strength are doomed to failure: we will respond harshly and decisively to unfriendly actions,” the minister said.
Sergey Lavrov also suggested that Washington move to honest interaction if they really want “stable and predictable relations” there.
At the same time, he noted with regret that after the inspiring meeting of US and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva, the White House took up the previous “notations” with a vengeance.
According to the Jerusalem Post, in Iran, as a result of large-scale power outages, the timer counting down the time until the destruction of Israel has stopped.
& quot; The entire territory from Jordan to Pakistan is suffering from extreme heat and power outages”, – the message says.
It is specified that power outages have already provoked protests by local residents.
Washington knows about the decision of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to block the border with Ukraine, seeing this as an attempt by Minsk to distract attention from the violation of democratic values. This was stated by a senior representative of the White House.
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“The Lukashenka regime is again trying to divert attention from its campaign of repression against its people. We will continue to stand on the side of the Belarusian people and hold the regime accountable, ” he told Reuters.
At the same time, White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not report on Washington’s reaction to the closure of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, but recalled the package of US sanctions against Minsk.On July 2, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko announced his decision to close the border with Ukraine, because, according to him, a large number of weapons are coming from the Ukrainian territory to the republic.
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, during a speech on the LDPR-TV youtube channel, did not rule out that in a few years the retirement age will have to be raised to 70 years.
“By 2030, we will come to a situation in the world where men and women alike will retire at the age of 70,” he noted.
Zhirinovsky also noted that the LDPR proposed to lower the retirement age in Russia, but the government reacted negatively to this initiative.
The Kremlin’s press service reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, with whom he discussed issues in the context of the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan.
They also discussed issues on the bilateral agenda, during which they highly appreciated the development of Russian-Uzbek relations.
The British destroyer D36 Defender and the Dutch frigate F805 Evertsen, which staged provocations near the Russian borders last week, left the Black Sea on July 2.
Photo: a frame from the video
According to websites that track the passage of ships through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits, both NATO ships proceeded to the Mediterranean Sea.
A British Navy destroyer violated the Russian maritime border off the coast of Crimea on June 23. President Putin during the” direct line ” called this incident a complex provocation, in which, in addition to the UK, the United States participated. He noted that if the intruder had been sunk, it is unlikely that the Third World War would have started because of this.
On June 24, a Dutch frigate almost staged a provocation at the Crimean Bridge, to which it was heading. The aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces forced him to change course.
Russia’s strengthening in the Black Sea after the annexation of Crimea left NATO no chance of a quick and convincing victory in the event of a hypothetical military conflict. This opinion was expressed by columnist Mark Episkopos in the magazine The National Interest.
The journalist commented on the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin previously said that the third World War would not have started even if Russian ships had sunk the destroyer Defender off the coast of Crimea.
“Putin’s confidence may be quite appropriate,” the author of the publication believes.
Episkopos noted that the status of Crimea is at the heart of the current instability in the Black Sea. Ukraine, together with several Western countries, is taking steps to assert its territorial integrity, and the Kremlin is reacting more and more harshly to them.
The journalist noted that after the annexation of the Crimea, Russia is steadily increasing its fleet in the Black Sea. In particular, there are now three modernized missile frigates “Admiral Grigorovich” and diesel-electric submarines “Project 636 “Varshavyanka”. Also, concerns may be caused by the hypersonic cruise missile “Zircon” and the X-47M2 ballistic missile “Dagger”.
The journalist believes that NATO has no support in the region. For example, Turkey, despite its membership in the alliance, is constantly striving for closer ties with Russia. As for Ukraine, Georgia and Romania, they do not have the necessary naval capabilities to make a significant contribution, the author concluded.
Episkopos believes that Russia has the means to conduct an effective campaign against the allied forces in the Black Sea.
