Kaliningrad. Photo provided by the state agency TASS January 30, 2015 year showing the exercises of the Northern Fleet, utilizing ground-air missiles S-300 , photo:
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Vladimir Putin ordered the combat readiness check the western and northern clusters of Russian troops. Alarm announced schooling among for the Northern Fleet.
As specifies RIA Novosti, polygons marching orders received 38,000 soldiers. Derived from the barracks will be more than 3000 units of heavy military equipment. The sea will come out 41 one ships, 15 submarines, and airports will be raised by 110 aircraft.
At the moment we do not know what tasks they have to perform branches for which the alarm was announced schooling, or how long it will last maneuvers.
Similar exercises Vladimir Putin announced a year ago. They then took part about 150,000 soldiers.
In the current tense international situation controversial Russian exercises among neighboring countries. Moscow does not respond to criticism, and Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu reiterates that Russia on its territory has the right when he wants and how he wants to train the army. According to the press service of the Ministry of Defence, during the year on the Russian training grounds there are about 3.5 thousand different kinds of exercises.
Parallel maneuvers
Exercise different types of forces were and are conducted recently in many regions of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of last week in Stavropol Krai in southern Russia began artillery drills (in the south of the country, near the borders of Ukraine)
Until April 10 to take maneuvers, involving more than 2 thousand. air defense forces soldiers Southern Military District. In late February, airborne exercise involving approx. 2 thousand. soldiers and 500 units of combat equipment were carried out in borders with Estonia and Latvia circuit Pskov. Earlier in 20 regions of Russia sustained exercise Strategic Missile Forces.
These are just some of the exercises, held or held recently.
Some observers noted that for some time we have in Russia to deal with a significant intensification of practice exercises on a large scale.
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