During the drills,
paratroopers practiced special operations to set up and employ a coalition
tactical group to accomplish peacekeeping and counter-terror missions.
KRASNODAR, June 28.
/TASS/. The Russian-Belarusian-Serbian drills dubbed Slavic Broterthood-2018
and held at the Rayevsky practice range near Novorossiysk in the southern
Krasnodar Region on June 18-28 have been successfully concluded, the press
office of Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
"The drills have
been held successfully. The missions assigned to the Russian-Belarusian-Serbian
tactical group have been accomplished in full. The command of the contingents
of the participating countries, and also military attaches from 42 countries
invited as observers to the concluding stage of the maneuvers highly assessed
the level of the group’s operations against simulated terrorists," the
Defense Ministry spokesman said.
During the drills,
paratroopers from the three countries practiced special operations to set up
and employ a coalition tactical group to accomplish peacekeeping and
counter-terror missions. It was reported earlier that the drills practiced
eliminating terrorists who had seized border territories and liberating
hostages.
As the Russian
Defense Ministry noted, for the first time ever, the Slavic Brotherhood drills
were carried out on a scale of regiment maneuvers that became the largest
international military exercises of Russia’s Airborne Forces in 2018.
During the drills,
Russia was represented by the reinforced battalion of the Kuban Cossack air
assault regiment of the Airborne Force (700 paratroopers). Belarus involved
over 250 servicemen of the Special Operations Forces while Serbia’s Special
Brigade was represented by about 50 paratroopers.
Also, Russia’s forces
in the drills involved units of frontline and army aviation of the Air Force
and Air Defense troops of the Southern Military District and Il-76MD military
and transport planes of Russia’s Aerospace Force.
For the first time
ever, Russia involved the latest military hardware in the drills: BMD-4M
airborne assault vehicles, Rakushka air-droppable armored personnel carriers,
Rys armored vehicles, T-72B tanks and Infauna electronic warfare vehicles
operational in Russia’s Airborne Force, and also Aistyonok radar stations.
Source: ITAR-TASS
29-06-2018
