Shoigu: attracted to the teachings of 160,000 soldiers

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160,000 military personnel are involved in the sudden check combat readiness of the Central and Eastern military districts. To combat missions used about a thousand tanks and armored vehicles, 130 long-range aircraft, military transport, fighter, bomber and the Army Air Corps, as well as up to 70 ships of the Navy. This was announced today by the Minister of Defence Gen. Sergei Shoigu, ITAR-TASS reported.

Spot check carried out on the orders of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. The head of state announced it last night at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Checking the readiness of the Eastern Military District began at 8 am local time (01:00 Moscow time). In the district headquarters in Khabarovsk Admiral Konstantin Sidenko revealed confidential folder with the tasks for the troops. At the same moment all the fighting units went to the places of exercise. Ground forces have started many kilometers forced marches to remote areas, where they will hold bilateral tactical exercises with live fire. The role will be to carry out a simulated enemy forces of the Central Military District.

East military district has not seen such large-scale exercises since 1991.

 

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Surprise drills snap up 160,000 Russian service members

MOSCOW, July 13 (UPI) -- As many as 160,000 Russian service members are now involved in "snap drills," double the number of only a day ago, the defense ministry said Saturday.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 81,000 soldiers were taking part in the drills in eastern Russia Friday, RIA Novosti reported.

President Vladimir Putin ordered the surprise checks of combat readiness Friday night, the third such drill since January.

About 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles, as well as 130 aircraft and 70 warships from the Pacific Fleet, also are involved in the drills.

The drills were instituted after the Russian military establishment was shaken by a series of corruption scandals.

Read more: Number of Russian forces called to snap drills double overnight - UPI.com

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Over the past two days, the grouping of troops on the ranges of the Far East and Siberia increased to 5,000 tanks and armored fighting vehicles.
MOSCOW, July 15 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will oversee the final phase of an extensive snap check of combat readiness in the country’s Far East, the Kremlin said Monday.
The exercise, which has involved about 160,000 servicemen, 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles, 130 aircraft and 70 Pacific Fleet warships, was ordered by the Russian leader on Friday to start later that evening.
Putin, who as president is supreme commander-in-chief of Russia’s Armed Forces, will visit the Uspenskoye military testing site on Tuesday and then the Tsugol site on Wednesday, the presidential press service said.
Later on Wednesday, the president will conduct a regional development meeting in the far-eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the press service said.
The military exercise is the latest in a series of random combat-readiness checks that began in February. The Defense Ministry has said snap checks are to be conducted on a regular basis to ensure constant combat readiness.