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Hundreds Of Russian Paratroopers To Stay In Belarus For About A Month

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Hundreds Of Russian Paratroopers To Stay In Belarus For About A Month

The Air Defense Forces of Russia and Belarus will conduct a large-scale mutual tactical training during a month.

The paratroopers of Russia and Belarus will hold two large-scale mutual tactical trainings involving insertion and actual firing, informs ria.ru with a reference to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. The maneuvers will be held at the territories of both countries. In total, there will be over 1,2 thousand people of manpower and 100 units of military and special equipment.

Both trainings will be conducted in compliance with the plan of the international activity of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for 2016.

Representatives of Russia’s Ministry of Defense have informed that, during the trainings, the paratroopers of both countries will work on practical issues of protecting the borders of the “union state”, struggle against illegal armed formations and various tactical missions.

In 2016, compared to the previous year, the number of mutual trainings of the Russian paratroopers and the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus has grown by a third – up to 38, they told in the military institution of the Russian Federation.

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