Russian Combat Aircrafts Are To Block Highway Next To Minsk

During the landing on the highway, Russian aviation will pump Belarusian oil directly from the pipeline.

During the final stage of joint special exercises, the military of the Russian Federation and Belarus will land a military aircraft on the road near Minsk, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, General Dmitry Bulgakov, has reported.

Russian and Belarusian logistics and technical support units will deploy an air commandant's office on the M-1 highway near Vorsha and the Barysauski range, – Bulgakov informs.

"According to the plan of the exercises, combat aircrafts Su-27, Su-25, Yak-130 and military transport aircraft An-26 will land, refuel with fuel, mount the ammunition and take off," – he adds.

He notes that the planes, which are going to land on the highway, will fill up the tanks out of an oil pipeline in the territory of Belarus.

"The pipeline units of the Russian army together with Transneft experts will tie-in to the pipeline to provide the combat units of the Ground Forces and the Air and Space Forces of Russia and the Belarusian Air Force, acting in the Belarusian territory, with petrol oil," – the Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation says.

We remind that yesterday Russian combat aircraft carried out a maneuver of landing on the Mahiliou highway.